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Monday Obsessions

I am in LOVE with Scandanavian artistry and style!!! Get ready for A BUNCH of pictures... One day I was browsing around and I found

 

All are products found Here. My favorite Scandinavian inspiration store:) They also have a blog thankfully!!!

Also very Scandinavian is the designer Jane Foster.

I can totally see using these ADORABLE pieces in a baby's room, or in my inspiration craft room...if I ever get one:)

Do you have any ethnic inspirations??

Last night browsing

So last night I stayed up later than usual (11:30) because I kept finding all these cute blogs to follow. Here are the ones I found last night and added to my RSS feed:

Eat Drink Chic

Freshly Picked

Jen Loves Kev

 

See how this addiction starts? You see one, and then you follow a link to another, and so on and on and on and you can't stop:)

A look into my inspiration

I love starring posts of things I love....here's a sneak peak to some of my inspirations...

I love this hutch:

See the before pictures here. I love Design Sponge for all their wonderful DIY showcases and ideas!! They also have a great question/answer section and you can even hire them as your interior designers!













Isn't this the cutest little girl's quilt?

Red Pepper Quilts is my quilting inspiration!!! She made this quilt entirely from scraps!!! I want to start quilting...















I find awesome party inspiration from:

Kenzie Poo is my baby nursery idea blog. She goes all over the world in her blog to give us beautiful nurseries like this one:

or this one

















Are you getting lost in these cute and awesome blogs? Because I certainly do...Keep posted because I will continue to divulge my secret stashes of creative inspirations!!!

Taking a new Turn...

I've been thinking that I need to take a new approach on this blog...maybe to draw some more readers and also to make it more interesting:) I probably spend a couple hours a day on other design blogs getting great ideas and I know that there are people out there who would love to see and find all the AWESOME blogs that I find!! So I decided I am going to get you all in on the action and post some of the great and interesting things I find!
Here goes for the first post...EMBROIDERY

I was going through my reader Inbox and this lovely dove caught my eye:

One Flew Over








I love the beautiful hand embroidery, something that I've been practicing (like from my post here and here). I love the cute little french knots:) I've actually been working on our Christmas stockings all 8 of them. I decided to make a ton so when we actually have kids I will only have to add the names to them. Here they are:

How did they turn out???

more giveaways

Rachel from Pistachio Press is hosting a calendar giveaway on her blog this week; one winner will receive the full 12-month calendar and a second winner will receive the tear-away calendar. Both are letterpress printed and the imagery is inspired by vintage china patterns. Visit Pistachio Press's blog for more info. And Five Trees has been busy finishing adorable embroidery pieces including her latest craze, brightly coloured or monochromatic snails. Click here to read more.

Shabby Apple Dare to Design Lawn Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!

Shabby Apple Dare to Design Lawn Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!