Vintage Coral Art

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My front room is starting to come together piece by piece. 

The images above the couch are the latest additions. I found the prints on vintage printable, played around with them a bit in picnik and then printed them out on my regular home printer.

Originally I was going to hang two rows of four prints and include some red/coral images. But as I started to frame the pictures I decided to keep it a bit more simple.

I really like how it's looking so far.

Next up I want to try my hand at building a piece of furniture to go in the other corner (not shown in this photo). I'm thinking about giving this one a shot.

It will be my first time building anything, so it may end up being a disaster.... 

Regardless I'll definitely be blogging about the attempt!'

Tell me, have you ever built anything? How did it turn out? Advice is much appreciated!

Getting My Green On

For just about ever I have been wanting to plant some succulents or grow a terrarium.

I have been drooling over photos like these, but have never actually bitten the bullet and planted my own.

(photos from here)

I don't know why I've never gotten around to it. It's not like it's super hard or super expensive to plant some sweet little succulents.

My original ideas was to have two or three potted succulents sitting under a bell jar or glass cloche (like the Young House Love photo above). I hit up the homewares and thift stores in my local area, but couldn't find anything I liked (at a price I could afford). So I moved to plan B.

I used a couple of small ceramic and glass containers that I had at home, bought some plants and tiny rocks from Bunnings. And here we are, adorable planted succulents!


I wanted a little cake stand to display them on, but again couldn't find anything nice, in the right size and at a decent price. So I made one (again from things I had at home). I hot glued a white egg cup to the bottom of a square serving plate. I really like how the whole thing turned out.


There's nothing like a bit of nature inside the house!

I Heart Fairy Lights

I have a serious thing for fairy lights. I love, love, love them. Every year after Christmas I cry a little on the inside when it's time to take them down. So for a while now I have been trying to think of a way to use fairy lights in my decor (without looking like I was just to lazy to take the Christmas lights down).

I was really inspired by a photo (that I can't find anywhere now, sorry) of a jar full of fairy lights sitting on a bedside table. I recreated it in our living room using an old Moccona jar and my Christmas tree lights.

It thought it looked ok, but not awesome. It had a few major things going against it... 1. there was about 10 metres of lights jammed into the jar and it would get really hot after being on for about an hour. 2. it really only looked good when it was turned on. The killer blow was when my bff Erin was visiting and she saw it from across the room and asked 'how come you have a jar of shredded paper over there?'. Three strikes and that jar of lights was out.


I wasn't ready to give up on the jar though, so I hunted around for some more attractive lights to go in it. When I was up in Hervey Bay the other day I found the sweetest little star shaped wire lights in Pandanus. They were adorable and nice and about two metres long. Perfect for my jar.


Once again though, they really only looked good when they were turned on and even then it wasn't everything I had hoped it would be. Sad face.

Then I stumbled across this picture on Pinterest. It combined two of my great loves, birds and fairy lights. Perfection!!

I had a birdcage in my sitting room that I had planned on painting white for ages. I took it out back and gave it about a billion coats of matte white paint. (I probably should've sanded it or primed it or something first, it took sooooo many coats to cover up the 'fake' rust.)

After I was happy with the paint job and it was completely dry I brought it back inside, weaved the fairy lights through it, turned it on and fell in love! It was exactly what I hoped it would look like and more!!

I took one of these photos with a flash and one without. The one without a flash give a better idea of how it looks in the sitting room at night. They also show the adorable way the lights twinkle a pattern onto the wall behind the cage.


I'm glad I persevered with the fairy lights because I love the way the make the room feel.