i ♥

Luna Light by Acorn Studio

Luna on Indiegogo

LED Cloud Lights

String Light Fire

[Currently on replay: I Was Made For Loving You by Tori Kelly & Ed Sheeran]

10 from my Favourite Listening List for this season: 

• See You Again - Cover by Boyce Avenue, featuring Beatrice Miller
• Heart Attack - Cover by Madilyn Bailey
• Wildest Dreams - Cover by Madilyn Bailey
• Human - Cover by Madilyn Bailey
• Chains - Cover by Sam Tsui & Kina Grannis
• Hello - Adele (Does anyone else think of the Lionel Richie song?)
• Stitches - Shawn Mendes
• Little Do You Know - Alex & Sierra
• Do You Remember - Jarryd James
• One Last Time - Ariana Grande

i ♥

Barrspinnare Pouffe by IKEA - Limited True Blue Collection in Dublin

Juju Hat

Mini Lucy P by Vanilla & Lace

This Collection of Stuff

Currently listening to:

• 'You Can Close Your Eyes' by Brooke Fraser (featuring William Fitzsimmons)
• 'I Don't Feel It Anymore' by William Fitzsimmons (featuring Brooke Fraser & Loane)
• 'Safe and Sound' by Taylor Swift (featuring The Civil Wars)

i ♥

From Sfgirlbybay

Pinterest - Loft Living

Homelife.com.au

The thought of building a reading nook

♥ the idea of Bunting for a kid's room and/or party decoration

Geek Sugar  - love the polkadot and chevron cases

Pretty blogs - The Paper Mama, Rifle Paper, Dear Whimsy, One Little Minute and Oh So Lovely Vintage

i ♥

♥ ♥ ♥ this gorgeous floral dress (ok, so it's actually a nightie) by Lazybones 

IKEA Family Magazine

Homelife.com.au

• Home ideas from IKEA, Homelife, and a trillion other blogs and magazines and lovely sources like that
• The idea of dwelling in a barn
• Cool freebies by Pugly Pixel (like the Rum Raisin Blog Design with the photo of a giant jam donut)
• Pretty colours
• A free photo-editing tutorial by Wishwishwish (and another)
• Creating an Art Journal with an E-course by A Beautiful Mess
• Instagram and Instagrid (Entries by Simplesong)

Source: La La Land

"Nothing happens until we first dream" - Kikki-k Stationery Website

i ♥ in the letter 'C'

Clouds

The Notebook Doodles

Creativity and Craft to Capture memories

 Rainbow Pastels

Homelife

Cool Comfort - floral shoes and old doors for a bedhead

i ♥

Wallpaper from Kikki-K

This apartment on Sacramento Street and gorgeous photos like the ones on that site

Browsing interior design blogs like Belle Maison and French by Design

Looking at food blogs and food posts

French pastry like this passion fruit meringue my college friend had for her birthday this week (oh goodness, I want to eat everything from their store...the tiramisu looks so good...I die)

The practice of being genuinely thankful for something every single day so we don't lose perspective but can keep a sweet spirit - Thxthxthx (Seen on Enhance Magazine) - Today, I am grateful for my family.

Inspiration 

Beautiful flowers - roses, lisianthus, hydrangea, peonies...

Cute moving images like this one of glow worms

i ♥

The Magic Pudding store, Tamworth NSW
It's crazy how much a person can sell a wooden & sign for

Nice Kitchens - Homelife.com.au

Always wanted to have the experience of living
in a place with a view like this - Homelife.com.au

Or with a view like this (secluded section of a beach)

Makes me feel like getting creative & planning garden parties
Design Sponge website

Teacup pendant lights
Photo above from the T2 Tea Blog; Featured here

Am inspired by this story on Homelife - there's a link to photos towards the bottom of the article. 

These are the stuff my day dreams are made of. Wanting to be financially free to live a colourful, creative life with family. In beautiful spaces, making beautiful things to keep, play with or sell. I want a stationery shop filled with cute and pretty items (an example here).

Not a chain store or a franchise but a unique boutique where like-minded people come to browse, have cakes/pastry with wooden cutlery, drink frothy vanilla chai lattes or coffees in winter or delicious cool drinks (like fruit teas and young coconut juice with pineapple and mint on crushed ice) in summer, and buy something that adds to their joy and adventures. A place for people who love and respect these things so they flip through the pages carefully, stay for hours, chat with me, and are happy in their heart when in the store. 

But can I have all of this without feeling guilty? Without being reminded of the suffering others are enduring? What if the store was able to fund projects that helped women and children? Would that make it alright? Would the life I dream of be allowed? Could I ever find the drive and talent to be the people I read about on blogs and magazines and see in their own wonderful cafe-shops? People like Sally J Shim, Yui, and Katie...

LaLaLand Card - I like owls

LaLaLand Card Belle bought me
A Wonderland feeling...

And would love to be able to wear beautiful clothes like these, and have beautiful hair and not look like an oompa-loompa (Fab sang me the song today and I was thinking, "It's one thing to be cute and cuddly but I'd rather not be short and stocky")

I'm thinking I should try writing story books for children...

i ♥

Homelife.com.au

"I have collected these recipes over the years.
This is food for families, for young people, for old people,
for children, for the child in all ... for life.
Some are recipes I remember from my own childhood,
others are the food I want to cook now for my family" ~ Tessa Kiros

i ♥

 

Images from Real Living Magazine and {this is glamourous}

i ♥

Love fresh open spaces with lots of natural lighting and materials...warm interiors, inviting outdoor settings...happy sigh* (Photos from Notebook Magazine, discontinued publication)

i ♥

All photos from Notebook Magazine (discontinued publication)

i ♥

From 'Nesting Place'

Was just thinking that I want to stop putting off getting creative with our home as it may just be the release I need in the daily grind of activities for work and church and house chores and whatever else have you in between. Looked at a couple of pictures and thought I might start with our bedroom. Would love to get a head board (actually would love to get our walls painted but I can live without that being done. A head board will certainly suffice), new linen (something white, fresh, almost country looking), some throw cushions, maybe wicker baskets to put books in or something...I just want to create a more cosy, homely and romantic feel. I keep hesitating because of the cost involved as well but it is somewhat an investment. I mean I will be using these things for a long time. 

I was just deliberating over my wants again when I came across this article "More Than Enough". I admit I am easily satisfied yet easily discontented as well. I am an idealist and a perfectionist and can be rather critical of myself and others. There are some things that just don't bother me or I am willing to overlook but other little things that crawl under my skin for some strange reason. Anyway, in essence, I realise that I have yet to make God my everything. To really be convicted of the fact that He is more than enough for me and everything else is a major bonus. He has blessed me tremendously and continues to do so. I need to learn to be fulfilled in Him and stop thinking about that dress I saw the other day or the ridiculously priced lounge set at Freedom Furniture or even the vase I spotted at a friend's house.

i ♥

Real Living Magazine