say what?

A groan grasps the peanut near the offending anthology.

Light sleepers...

In reference to the post on our light sleeper here and here, how's this idea for tip-toe-ing parents?! From here. Or make your own.

Happiness is...

... a new haircut. Today at one o'clock. I wonder what I will look like...? Better than now, for sure, my hair is falling off and I'm afraid I might have to go short. I've never had success with short hair, maybe now will be different? I'll put my hair in the hands of a genious and hope for the best!

Happiness is...

... a buquet of flowers from a three year old mummy's boy :)

Bob

I love the illustrations by Garance Doré, especially this one because it reminds me that if I just go and have a haircut I can stop having bad hairdays.

Heaven for little girls!

I cannot believe I didn't know about polyvore before!!! It's like playing with paper dolls with endless outfits and accessories, and way cool and I'm only beginning. I expect to have a lot of fun with this, and you can expect more of these sets. How do you like my first try? It's for a chilled out sunday morning in a café, maybe with a slight hangover.

Cool!

Is that the coolest bathroom ever or what!
From Apartment Therapy.

I like big butts!

I just got a new stash of reusable nappies (diapers). My boy will have the coolest bumbum in town! From montrassar.net

Vintage wedding dress

One day, Hubby and I will get married. We have been engaged for almost 3 years now, so you could say I've had plenty of time to plan the big day. So far, all I know is that I want to wear a vintage wedding dress, and what better place to start looking but at the Vintage Wedding Dress Company!

DEMAKERSVAN

The designs of dutch DEMAKERSVAN are so inspiring.

A great escape

I'm ignoring the mess in my house by keeping the lights off and staring straight into the tv, munching some chocolate thing I found at the back of the cupboard with the baking stuff. The kitchen smells of ketchup.

And that's me in the photo.

Wanted!

A skincare routine for a tired mum on a budget.


That's not me in the photo.

In the meantime, I'm trying to remember the recipie for a home-made face mask I made once. The base was thick porridge and then I mixed a few things in. A couple of crushed multi vitamin tablets for, well, vitamins. A bit of orange juice for gentle peeling. The contents of a green tea bag for anti oxidants I think. Perhaps there was some oil, I can't remember. And perhaps something else I've forgotten.
By the way, did you know that washing your hands with used coffee grounds not only cleans your hands incredibly well of paint and grease and such, but also leaves your hands silky smooth? The combination of scrubbing and the oils in the coffee I guess.
I also remember seeing a reicipie for a home-made foot soak at some point. I only remember that you were supposed to add lemon for whitening the nails and oil to smooth the skin. I guess you could scrub your feet with coffee grounds first, then soak them in warm water with lemon and oil.
Do you have any tips on cheap and cheerful products for tired looking skin? Something that counters the lack of sleep, stress, at times poor diet and age? Any recipies for home-made stuff? Please share :)

We're going on holiday!

I'm so excited! I managed to book us this little cottage in beautiful Snæfellsnes for a week in June. This is one of the most beautiful places in Iceland with the Snæfells glacier, beaches, little fishing villages, beautiful birdlife and all to be enjoyed around the 24 hour sunlight of summer solstice. I'm also very exited because believe it or not, my husband and I have never been on holiday together! Apart from visiting my parents over the holidays when we used to live in London. I'm seeing long walks and honest talks in the summer night, lots of time to read and listen to music, really having time for bonding with our little ones and just generally recharging our batteries.

Time saving tip No.1

Wear colourful socks! It's much quicker to pair them after laundering than if you have black socks that look almost the same but never quite (even if you buy exactly the same kind of socks always, they still end up looking different). And it's fun too :)

... and another one!

Here's another gorgeous one from Design*Sponge Sneak Peak into designer Barbara Rourke's home. I'm green with envy!

Starting small

I've been trying to figure out a way to start arranging a picture wall in our TV/family room but can't seem to decide on even the overall effect I want from it. But I did manage this little one above the changing table. In the white frame we put a card we got at the hospital with our son's footprint, the date and time of his birth, his weight and length and our names and the name of the midwife who delivered him. I found the 'S' block at a local charity shop (S is his initial) and the painting (by an artist called Hildur) was a present I got about 12 years ago from my dad's family when I graduated from architecture school. All are fixed with blue tac, which I hope will be strong enough when baby 'S' starts grabbing everything within reach! I'm going to add a Lack shelf for wipes, toys and perhaps a mobile above the pictures.

Surfin' on a Sunday

I wish I could knit

I've recently discovered cafe fashionista - a fun fashion blog.

If you haven't seen this yet, watch it now!

Icelandic designer Ingibjörg Hanna profiled. Check out her mirrors!

An inspirational photostream on flickr, all photos are taken on a normal point and shoot digital camera!

Image found in flickr group Secret life of toys.

Have babies, will flush!

Our older son was a really light sleeper and we got so desperate to get him to sleep well that we were sneaking around our own house, whispering to each other so that we wouldn't wake him up. It got so bad that sometimes if my husband had to leave the house in the evening, he would jump out the living room window (fortunately we lived on the ground floor), he frequently slept on the sofa in the living room and we were terrified of even flushing the toilet! After I put our younger son to bed yesterday I had to go to the bathroom, and as I reached to flush I had this huge flashback to those times and thought to myself... No way! I'm going to flush! And it made me feel like I was living on the edge, taking chances, rebel style. Oh the joys of parenthood!

Another fabulous one...

... pointed out to me by Viv.

It's from MadeByGirl Jennifer Ramos' home, also check out her house tour on ish and chi here.

Picture Wall

I'm still undecided on the look of our gallery wall. I know (I think) it's going to be a "family wall", with pictures of and by family and friends. I've been gathering some inspiration here and there:

Random display from Apartment Therapy. Good for frames of different shapes and sizes. Some discipline needed in placing the pictures so it looks as cool as this.

Straight up and across from Desire to Inspire. Will only work if all your frames are the same size. But the pictures could all be different shapes and sizes in one type of frames. Notice the wall light.

On shelves from moline. Good for also displaying little items with the pictures, and also good if you want to keep changing the display.

I could also just hang pictures, no frames no nothing? There could be a million stories there. From Desire to Inspire.

This one is brilliant. I didn't even notice the tv until I started looking at the pictures more closely. Also from Desire to Inspire, but found on Apartment Therapy Housetours.

This could be fun; get a big frame and put a few different pictures in it, maybe do a collage. From enourmous champion sneak peak at design*sponge.

The wall won't be complete just yet, we're planning to take the boys to a photographer in a couple of months time, until then, I'll have plenty of time to look for inspiration. Do tell if you know of any great examples.