*kitchen?*

{Isn't it great when your friends take fun pictures like this and you can swipe them from their blogs?! Thanks Becks!}

*one for the girls*

*the most glorious wall you've ever seen, non? Yeah...seriously, its a handmade wooden wall!

*she makes



*she bakes


{I am suffering from serious life-lust. I discovered brooklyn to west quite a while ago....get me....but this amazing lady's work has been showing up all over blog world lately and I felt I had to comment. This woman is my inspiration. I heart cakes and I heart carpentry and I heart making stuff. So this gal is definitely up there in my estimations with actual real-life friends of mine who can drive JCBs and cranes, who can grow delicious vegetables and who teach people to be happier, who can cut their own hair decently and make their own furniture, who can dance and swim underwater and give sound advice and make jewelry and dresses and knock em dead cocktails. It seems I am blessed with many outrageously talented women in my life and this post is for ya'll. I heart you}

*and i think to myself, what a wonderful world*

*handmade paper dresses from annex


{Dear readers, you are a wonderfully eclectic bunch aren't you..?! All you visitors from Scotland, Russia, Ukraine, Nigeria, US of A, Mexico, Bolivia, Norway and good old Blighty are all very welcome here! I love checking out my little Blogspot Statistics page and seeing where my hits come from. So friends, leave your woes at the door and enjoy some gorgeousness why don't you? xx}

*big, bold and beautiful*

*gawsh i love this blog, flygirls


{I have a friend, Moe, who teases me about my love of big, clunky jewels...this one's for you amigo!} 

*these are a few of my fave-or-ite things!*

*piccy via simple lovely....and it really is simply lovely 


{I'm just showing off now, but this gorgeously glistening green book of greatness sits proudly on my bookcase, care of Becky. Some of the recipes literally make you want to hop on the early morning Eurostar to Paris, rip up your British passport (it better be in that order, silly!) and start calling yourself Amelie. Check it out to see what I mean!}

*friendships*

*through all kinds of weather, even if the sky should fall, as long as we're together, it doesn't matter at all...so wrote judy blume. piccie via patterson maker 

*love this advice, thank you don*

*someone once told me this. its good advice, non?