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Love this Sydney home. Oh, what a gift, to have space.
These Birdball peanut feeders are beautiful. Sleek, modern - and made in the UK. They're designed to be accessibly to the small birds, but deter the big thugs, and those pesky squirrels. I'd love to have a few in different colours (they produce a nesting ball, too), but failing that several in white would just look great in the garden, all year round. I'm also hoping that having a white 'target' to point out will make them easier to spot than the traditional camouflaged variety for little ones.
It's a never-ending battle to limit the amount of injection moulded plastic that comes into a home since after a child. I know that Ikea furniture is hardly built to last, but at least these hacks feel so much more personal - and therefore more likely to be handed-down to cousins or younger siblings than your standard mass-produced fare. If I were to make one, I'd need to find a way to incorporate a washing machine - the kid is obsessed.
Fairy tale play kitchen
More play kitchens
Vintage style play kitchen
Billy and Traby play kitchens
So much good stuff here.
I just adore this. I love that it is so colourful without veering off into nursery school territory.
You know, after years of trying to rid my life of metal hangers, replacing them with wooden hangers, I've backtracked. The reason? Thinner hangers mean more clothes fit on your wardrobe rails.
And oops, another project just snuck onto my 'someday (soon)' list. Fabric covered hangers at DesignSponge.
Can't wait til the kid is old enough to appreciate this. Cardboard airplane (plus dens, rockets, forts and building bricks) from Paperpod.
Wow. Now I'm really feeling wanty. Mirrored staircase showcased at http://etc-alltherest.blogspot.com/2009/08/30.html.
Esther Coombs is an illustrator based here in London and I love her work reusing old glass and china. She finds glassware and crockery at car boots and charity shops, and draws over top of them - in a gorgeous 'doodly' style - to create really beautiful, unusual pieces. I especially love the piece above, the 'My Garden' cake stand, which uses floral patterned china and illustrations of Esther's own garden.
See it, and loads more, in her Etsy shop.
Decor inspiration from Laura Normandin at Design Sponge.
If you're going the whole hog and redecorating a whole room rather than, you know, clearing out a drawer and calling it the crib, there's a fantastic resource here at Coochicoos.
So pretty, so delicate, RubyRecycled's butterfly cut-out note cards look like they might just fly away.
My own kid is still too little to get the idea of thank you notes, but if yours is a bit bigger, these personalised stationery sets might just make the difference between it being a chore and a pleasure.
I came across this back in July and my immediate thoughts were that this was yet another ploy (although one with adorable publicity pictures) to part parents from their money. The same night, we had our first experience sleeping - or, more accurately, trying to sleep - in a tent with our toddler. Sunrise around 5.15am. Yeh, I rethought my position on Downtime Baby Hat pretty fast.
I have a big event coming up in November, and if something amazing happens to my bank account before then, I'll be wearing this beautiful piece from Thread Social's Resort 09 collection. If not, I'll be dreaming about it.
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