Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 August 2009

Cox & Cox Birds - thank you!

Thanks so much to Huma at http://herlittleplace.blogspot.com/ who ran a competition to win a few pairs of friendship birds from Cox & Cox. How cute are they?



I've got one in our bedroom, and I intend to give one to my mum whose birthday is in a couple of weeks.

Whilst we're on the subject of birds I finally snapped this cool pigeon that I'd been looking at every morning on my way to work! Maybe I'll print it out and frame it.



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Monday, 3 August 2009

A collection of birds

Sorry for the long absence! We had a lovely holiday, and were then away this weekend as well, and as a result I'm very behind with lots of chores, and also haven't written a blog post for far too long!

We've had people staying in our home recently, to look after Millie the kitten (who's not so much of a kitten any more), and it's always interesting what people notice. A friend commented that we had quite a lot of birds cropping up throughout our home, which made me have a good look around at everything, and I realised that she's definitely right!

I don't know why I sound surprised, it's definitely me (and not the boy) who has sourced and placed all these little creatures around and about the place. I decided that to complement our fabulous Laura Ashley Summer Palace wallpaper (my boyfriend was incredulous that we had to share our bedroom with an entire flock of pink birds) we should have a gallery of bird images. I bought a few cards gradually, and then just framed them in Ikea‘s ribba frames. Lovely, cheap and yet very attractive art work I think. I’ve tried to hang the pictures in a casual-yet-perfectly-spaced way!


I liked the effect so much, that I did something similar in the bigger bedroom. I might change these though, as I think the pictures are a little lost on the larger wall.

We've also got a few little bird ornaments cropping up about the place...

Finding a bit of a theme (and creating your own pictures of course) can be a good, budget way of getting continuity throughout your home, and accessorising whilst you're at it!



Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Transforming some drawers...

I was looking at meggetscrafty earlier today and I was mightily impressed by Meg's AMAZING transformation of a chest of drawers. Who'd have thought that something from Ikea or Argos could look so thoroughly stylish and fabulous?! A perfect example of breathing new life into an old piece of furniture, and being very creative about it. I was amazed that Meg managed to hand paint the swallows too, but I'm sure that for the less steady-handed amongst us you could use a stencil or even bird stickers (there are some great ones at www.rocketstgeorge.co.uk).

http://meggetscrafty.blogspot.com/2009/06/drawers-before-and-after.html


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