Pinboard Love {via the Everygirl}

Happy Friday!

There has been some seriously good pin board action happening over on The Everygirl lately.

You know how much i enjoy a good pinboard - I think its my love of organised clutter :)

Inspiring me - The Everygirl

Now that 'the wedding' is over its time for me to focus on my business (& put a bit more time into the blog too i think!) In the last week ive come across a few things that ive found super inspiring. One of which is The Everygirl. Its kind of like all the best bits from your fav blogs & womens magazines rolled into a regularly updated website!

The creation of Alaina from Live Creating Yourself 

& Danielle from Breakfast at Toast

There are sections on Finance, Health, Career, Living & Travel with great little articles & gorgeous images in each!

In the career section I enjoyed this little column on networking for new small business owners

The health section had this article with 10 Tips for a healthy life  

(see what i mean by the great images?)

I enjoyed this interview with Ashlina Kaposta from The Decorista 

(great blog & she recently packed her bags & moved to NYC - inspiring much?!)

In the finance section there was this informative read on budgets (a must read girls!)

I Enjoyed the tour of Sarah from Where the Sidewalk Begins Chicago apartment

This cute article on kitchen essentials 

(Not sure where to start when setting up your kitchen? Check it out!)

And, one thing we should all check out, as im sure we have all attempted this (or wanted to)!

A guide on how to repaint old furniture! Cool Huh!

 Feeling inspired yet?! Ill let you go explore the rest yourself!

New Blog (& giveaway) Space Healer

A lovely freind of mine & extremely talented interior designer Bron from Complete Pad & Touch Interiors (you may have seen her work in Belle & Adore!) has just launched her blog Space Healer. She's only just getting started but im loving what im seeing so far - if this womans style is anything to go by it is going to be a fabulaous blog! To celebrate her new blog Bron is giving away one of these amazing Tree Of Life artworks! Go become a follower & enter - you've got fairly good odds! Tell her i sent you :)

Meeting Pam from Red Ticking!

So, the day after i got out of hospital i had a great 'bloggy' moment! Last time i was in Seattle 2 years ago, my mother-in-law to be & i went into this great little homewares shop called Red Ticking (think amazing rustic french antiques & piles & piles of amazing fabrics) almost every day on our way for a morning coffee. Then a few months after getting home i started this blog....then a few weeks later someone called Pam commented on a post - i looked at her profile....and what do you know, she was the owner of Red Ticking (& blog of the same name!!) What are the chances! I emailed her to tell her to tell her about the 6 degree's of separation & we became bloggy friends! So of course this time on my visit to Seattle we had to meet! Here are some piccys! Pam is so so gorgeous (as is her DIVINE shop!), how lucky i am to be able to have met such great people through this little blog! Thanks for all the restaurant recommendations too Pam :)

If you are ever in Seattle go check out Red Ticking at 2802 East Madison...and go have a Crepe at La Cote across the road after, thanks for the tip Pam!

Cool new blog - Peepmystyles!

Claudia is the 'owner' of cool new blog on the block 'Peepmystyles'

I only discovered this yesterday - and also discovered we went to school together! Small world. A relationships councilor with aspirations of being an interior stylist this girl has serious style! Check out these photos of her own apartment! Love!

LOVE this shot! Super stylish!

Savvy Home - My Guest Post!

I was honoured to be asked by Gab from Savvy Home to put together a post for her while she was away holidaying in France (lucky thing!!!). I themed it my 'ultimate dinner party decor'....it looks so amazing after Gab put it all together i want it all even more! Although we were lucky enough to be given those amazing 'Loop' candelabras as an engagement present!! Head over to Savvy Home to see the full post & links!

6 Degrees of separation

Well less actually! The funniest thing happened last night....this is kind of a long story so settle in.....

Back when i started my blog last year, someone else had the done same only a few weeks before; Sonja of Tied with A Bouw...

i really enjoyed her blog & we started commenting on each others blogs, which soon turned into emails, then facebook friends & now you could say quite good friends who are in contact almost daily (awww how nice is the bloggy world! Though weird we have never met we both agree!). Sonja & her husband Matt are Melbourne-ites living in Malaysia & Dubai before that for his work....

So a few months ago when Sonja told me her husband Matt was being 'courted' by a recruiter for a job in Sydney we were quite excited & began emailing back & forward about different suburbs & living in Sydney and she would keep me updated on how this recruiter was interviewing matt etc. Turns out they have found a house they are very interested in & get this, its about 800m away from MY house! So on Wednesday night i met the real estate agent for them & did an inspection, got home & emailed them all the details.......Sonja & i proceed to get all excited about the prospect of being neighbors...

this is when it gets weirder.......

We were chatting about something & i said "you should go & have a look at this facebook album of mine so you can see the photos"...so off she went. About 2 mins later i get an email notification from facebook saying Sonja had commented on a photo of my mum & dad at his 60th birthday party (seems she got a bit sidetracked on her facebook stalk!) saying how hot my mum looked (which she does i might say, hope i look that good at 54!) .......

Almost instantly i get a text from my dad (who had also got the comment notification because he was tagged in the photo) saying "so tell me how you know Sonja Bouw, tell me its not the same one whos married to Matt Bouw & is living in Malaysia? If it is its a very small world"..... A flurry of facebook comments later......Turns out MY DAD is the recruiter who has been 'woo'ing' Matt & has sealed the deal that is brining them to Australia! He has even been talking to Sonja on email & had just been on the phone to Matt hours before!

We were gobsmacked......and then in Sonjas words "we proceeded to get a little giddy like one of those Lynsay Lohan-type movies where the sisters are separated at birth only to be reunited later in life by sheer fate" (ok so we got a bit carried away...there was even discussions of when we moved in together who would get the top bunk hahahaha). 

So there you go - how crazy is that! Not only will these two bloggy friends get to actually meet, but possibly live a block away from each other and it was my dad that made it happen! Ahhh the warm fuzzies! It was meant to be Sonja! Start packing & become my neighbour!!

Happy Friday Everyone!! 

xxxxxx

Sonja also posted about this today - read her version here!

The Beauty Department

Image: The Beauty Department

....and yes that is Lauren Conrad under that divine headpiece!

I have recently discovered her new blog The Beauty Department, looks gorgeous & has lots of daily hair & beauty tips! And just quietly how amazing would that fresh flower headpiece look on your wedding day head!

Cocoa + Hearts launches

I am so excited to see Jen Ramos has just opened
Cocoa + Hearts!! 

She has amazing eye for colour...no doubt they will sell out super fast! This is my favourite i think!!

Oh & this one...

actually any of them!

2 blogs to check out!

Ive been meaning to do this post for ages!

2 blogs i really enjoy that are relatively new or dont have a whole lot of followers that i reckon you should check out! First up is  Savvy Home - always full of gorgeous images like these....

And the owner of the blog, Gab's own house which i just love & am so looking forward to seeing more of the transformation!

And for something a bit different , not only my shoes -  that cracks me up on a daily basis. The author of this blog stays fairly anonymous...but ill let you in on the secret that i went to uni with her ;) check them out!

The gorgeous Sonja from 'Tied with a Bouw' in Adore Magazine!

I want all of you to imediately flip to page 36 of the lastest Adore Magazine & check out my gorgeous 'bloggy friend' Sonja from Tied with a Bouw's apartment and interview!

   Not only is she not an interior designer (you wouldnt belive it would you!), but she has just had a baby, the beautiful Allegra, last friday & you will go to heaven when you see the nursery!

I am going to put it out there & say its one of the nicest ive seen!
Absolutely beautiful Sonja - you should be very proud! x

Cool blog find! La Boom!

I seriously love it when i find a new blog i cant tear myself away from! My latest find is the tumblr blog La Boom! Here is a taste of what you can find over there...and just for fun i have picked all the pink'ish stuff!

All Images from La Boom