Ela Cindoruk

Delicate jewellery by Turkish designer Ela Cindoruk. Her work ticks 3 boxes of things I love; pierced work, red on white and paper jewellery.

Liz, I've posted this one for you :0) I've had her work sitting on my hard drive but forgot to blog about her. I was having a Turkish dream (as I often do) and remembered her. Back to bed now, I've only had 4hrs sleep and have a bit of a sneeze and sniffle so I mustn't get sucked into blogging just now. But oh, the temptation!

Helen Nodding - Moss Graffiti

I let someone local (!) know about my blog. Regular readers will have gleaned that I don't tell friends about this, although I had alluded in the past to the existence of 'something' I hadn't actually told her details. So anyway, I outed myself on Thursday when I visited her (and took this moss photo outside her flat) and it felt ok. Scary, but ok.

Today sent me a link that is worth a quick blog. It's for a post on Supernaturale which I'd not visited for a while. It features Helen Nodding who has a recipe* for growing moss and is using it to create natural live graffiti! This is definitely up there in my list of approved vandalism like guerrilla gardening. Helen also does other wok like miniature architecture - I though Ulla would like this one.

* Moss Recipe - makes several small pieces or 1 large piece of graffiti

1 can of beer , 1/2 teaspoon sugar
Several clumps garden moss, cleaned of dirt and rocks

You will also need a plastic container (with lid), a blender and a paintbrush

To begin the recipe, first of all gather together several clumps of moss (moss can usually be found in moist, shady places) and crumble them into a blender. Then add the beer and sugar and blend just long enough to create a smooth, creamy consistency. Now pour the mixture into a plastic container.

Find a suitable damp and shady wall on to which you can apply your moss milkshake. Paint your chosen design onto the wall (either free-hand or using a stencil). If possible try to return to the area over the following weeks to ensure that the mixture is kept moist. Soon the bits of blended moss should begin to re-couperate into a whole rooted plant – maintaining your chosen design before eventually colonising the whole area.

Recipe courtesy of Helen Nodding via Supernaturale.

winter roses

A lot of people have a few roses still in bloom, in the snow. I suddenly remembered I had these roses. I still can't see my blog properly, usually one pic is missing, but this one is only meant to show two anyway.

Lush colour

Is this not just the most cheerful thing you've seen today!
I'm rather liking all the muted winter colour we have here just now but this pomegranite photo by Handmaid is like having the sun shine straight into your senses.

Also loving this No.3, my favourite number on a shade of my favourite colour taken by LeoL30.

Blue Stove

Saw this utterly perfect stove by Annica Svensson over on Karin's blog, she's got a great post on her adventure's at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.

Not that I don't love my pellet stove, it's great in lots of ways. But it's not beautiful, and I SO much wanted beautiful. It's past it's warranty period now so I can paint it ivory now, I just don't have the cash to splash at this moment on expensive heat resisitant paint. It will be so much nicer when it's whiter.

winter windows

The neighbours windows. It has just started to snow again. Tired day after much busyness yesterday and lots of official form filling today. I'm good with other people's forms but not with my own.

boat fence shed

I love this, someone up the road has a little boat! Doesn't it look great in this mornings snow.

Wish they lived next to me then it would help give the right feeling when my mobile home finally gets it's beach hut transformation... or will it be more of a tree house look. Depends what I find in the skip to make with!

fab fruit

More of the 'fruits' of my early morning. Breakfast of quinoa with banana and physalis. Not just physalis, FREE physalis- the girl at the checkout couldn't get all the reduction stickers off the pack!

I popped one down on a page of my book (photo by Martyn Thompson - see previous post) and loved the way it looked. I often take photo's of my 'things' on books but never thought to show them before. Took another on a different page because you know how I love those colours together... one day that will be my kitchen.

Last photo is snow on the bramble branches in front of the abandoned shed next door, you've no idea how much I want to just help myself to that shed.

a little snow, a little sunshine

Oh what a beautiful morning. Although I'd only had 3 hours sleep I had to get up early and take some photo's before the sun melted our thin dusting of snow. More of these to follow but I need to run and walk Marley before visiting a friend I've not seen in ages.

Till then here's another bit of a draft post that I forgot to actually publish...
I'm a sucker for beautifully styled Interiors books, especially the square ones by Ryland Peters & Small, I just love them and have a nice selection I got dirt cheap in Costco over the years. TKMaxx sometimes has pretty great prices on interiors books too, like the red satiny covered 'home is where the heart is?' by Ilse Crawford that I got for £6 last year cause the cover had been messed up.

I was looking through it yesterday when I needed a visual escape from the horrors of my house (it looks like the storm got in there, though it didn't). My eyes fell on the white funeral feast on pages 62-63. The accompanying text is so true...'The love we put into making a meal becomes a part of it and changes it's nature.'

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And beside that white feast are some cupcakes from page 66 that would brighten any day. The lovely photography in this book is by Martyn Thompson, d'you think it was him that nibbled that cupcake? Nah, that's bite is too tiny. Martyn also did the photography in another of my coveted books 'The Sensual Home'.

Beautiful photography

photos by felix baumsteiger.


photos by caroline allison.

My love of certain blues is so deep it sometimes makes my heart ache with pleasure to see them. I think they speak to the part of me that wanted to be a mermaid, all those water tones, it feels like home to me.

I found these two via Simply Photo the beautiful blog of photographer Jennifer Causey which I can see becoming a favourite for me with so much beautiful work like this to see. And the sweetly illustrated book she bought shown in this post. I'd love to own that book, especailly bearing in mind how I feel about water and blues (and cute but thoughtful illustrations).