current observations

Category: inspiration

  • A stuffed chair affair

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    I have an odd obsession with chairs and given the chance our house would be full of them. The cyclist is probably happy that I have not acted on that impulse. I pretty sure when I first laid my eyes on The Stamford chair from Squint Limited my first words were ‘Oh my!’. It’s amazing…

  • Seeing ampersands

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    Do you ever have a time when you become aware of a thing, or word or colour and then you start seeing it everywhere? Does the awareness mean that you’re just taking notice or is it really everywhere? For me this week it has been the ampersand – I have been seeing them all over…

  • Uppercase :: another reason I should be Canadian

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    With a tagline of ‘a magazine for the creative and curious’ it’s little wonder that I feel like Uppercase has been created just for me. This mag is a goldmine of stories and inspiration all focused around a loosely defined theme – bees for issue #9, which is reflected in the gorgeous use of honeycomb…

  • What do a sock monkey and a blowfish have in common?

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    Well these are just 2 of the quirky designs available from Blik – wall graphics for the commitment-phobic. I spend a lot of my time convinced that no one makes anything I want to buy these are definitely an exception (as were the red desert boots I bought yesterday but that’s another story). Aren’t these…

  • Inspired by :: kassia photography

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    I confess I’m not usually immediately drawn to imagery with people in it. I sometimes look at the human form as detracting from a landscape or texture and if you have read my blog a while I’m sure you would know that about me by the images I choose. In a flickr search I came…

  • Seeing the blues

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    I’m not a blue person – I think I’ve said that before. So it strikes even me as odd that this was my desktop wallpaper choice for January 2011. Have you seen these? They are courtesy of Smashing Magazine and I think I might submit my own design before the year is out but I…

  • Speaking of yellow…

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    I was so inspired by my yellow post yesterday I decided to do another one today. It’s slightly warm outside, I’ve just come back from the most amazing yoga class and I’ve discovered a single yellow freesia blooming in the garden. I dug out some pictures I took a few weeks ago when I started…

  • Dreaming of Paisley

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    These gorgeous handkerchiefs (yes really) and kitchen towels are by Danish company Bungalow. I have seen them mentioned a few times around the blogsphere but they have been slow to reach Australian stores. I love their use of traditional Indian woodblock printing to create these beautiful textiles. After stumbling upon these yesterday (can’t remember where)…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Dark Khaki

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    Wow these choices are a very loose interpretation of the happy colour this week but how could I resist. Firstly the colour search tools didn’t handle khaki very well at all and the keyword search is evidence that khaki is different for all of us! Having said all that and granting my artistic license, here’s…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Dark Red

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    I can fully understand why the spectrum of reds is the choice of so many artisans. It’s so rich and inviting and just a little bit solemn – or maybe that’s just my mood today. It was not too long ago that I couldn’t stand the colour red in any form. That had something to…