Black on the inside...

   I can't help it I'm sorry. V day rant. What is with all this crap? How the hell has a stuffed bear become the symbolism of love? unless you hunted it with your bare hands and it saved us from starving to death I do not want anything in animal form. Chocolates really? They're one of my five a day. Dinner for two? yeah lets go and sit in a room full of other bored couples in complete silence because we know they feel they have to do something *special* on that day even though they have absolutely nothing to say to each other.

The only people to buy into this kind of crap are plebs who have no imagination and need to be told by cheap commercial wankers how to express and feel emotion. If you like that kinda tat fine. Good for you. Be happy. I think what I'm getting at is why have a single day in the year which has been promoted since mid January dictate, this is the time and place you have to really buy into someones heart. Ok done...

Well moving on with this particular cynical frame of mind. Get some black paint and go nuts. It may even look good.

 

 

 

Triumphant triangles...

   Tantalizing triplets shape this month. Put you're protractor away and look at these with a new angle.  Gorgeous geometric patterns have already been strongly featured in some recent past posts, so to get this kaleidoscopic obsession from my mind here's a grand selection of some great triangles in Art & Design.

 Gaurav Nanda,

Bend

 Aaron Moran

 Artist

Ross Didier

Geode Sofa

Future & Found

Trio Cushion

Nomilktoday

Jewellery

Sebastian Jansson

Habitus Stool

Beauty Spot...

   Not sure when this one cropped up and have no idea where it is. But if I did know. I would be an alcoholic. Because I dont think. I could ever leave. Sit and stare. Wallpaper. Hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours....

Green on her fingers, bells on her toes...

   Spring is around the corner, it'll be frolicking like a young gun up your road in no time. So lets fling open the front door and welcome the greenery!

House plants no longer have to have the fuddy duddy association of the preened to perfection rose,  half dead bonsai tree and the failed waterings of a fern. With the help of some of these ingenious designs they can provide quirky and quality spaces for plants to grow.

So your home is fresh as a daisy, plants look cool and contemporary, there's potential for providing your own herbs, fruit and veg, and a cleaner air quality. Bring on the compost.

Topsy turvey growing steez with Sky Planter

Not On The High Street

Plants don't have to be all fancy pants and exotic, good ol' moss does the job just fine and can even achieve arty farty featurness on your wall.

Moss Terrarium Bottle, Uncommon Goods

No need for old hosiery!

Ceramic Cressheads, Culturelabel

Hhmm dodecahedron terrarium...

and other beautiful glass planters from 

Old Faithful Shop

This looks like a cat with a facefull O' fruit. But it aint!

"...decoration, storage and cultivation for the kitchen window."

Cocoon designed by Mans Salomosen

This is smart.
A floating modern Eco island.
Benjamin Graindoarge

   As much as I appreciate all the clean lines and whiteness and glass and moderness  and all  its pretty pretty and clevery scientificness. I like the jars too...

Beauty Spot...

I don't want to say anything that would ruin this photograph. Enough said.

Koo Koo Viyaaa...

   Tweet twoo peek a boo the owls have come out to play. Let their big eyes and and freakishly flexible necks look out lovingly from pillows to posters. At least these ones wont crap out the bones of dead animal carcasses all over your floor.

 

Liberty

 

Ian Macarthur

 

Liberty

 

Culture Label

 

Culture Label

 

SCP

 

I feel Smug

Beauty Spot...

   I've decided to post up some regular jealousies of other peoples spectacular spaces so we can all look and be envious together, and possibly steal some ideas so we can do them ourselves...

Very pretty pretty, but love the haggard table and battered chairs, the glass bottles make simple center pieces and the flower adorned light drapes beautifully downwards. The strung flowers towards the back left also create a simple yet decorative division of space.

Yes...

 

That is all. 

Fan dabby dosie...

   So a brief frequent at my local watering hole yesterday, I happened to glance at one of the weekend supplements and within its cheaply glossed pages lay this series of rather pretty autumnal fashion spreads.

The aloof model carries off fluffy bag lady chic with the graceful air of a falling leaf. 
Mismatched prints, pleats and soft knits amongst warming colours of dark purples and reds with highlights of yellow and orange.

So which newspaper pray tell did this styling come from, by gum it was... The Sun. Really? Really Really? Cross my heart I swear by a tabloid. Gah! AND because The Sun is well The Sun I kid you not the majority of the pieces come in at 50 quid or under!

AND the styling and interiors are beaaayootifully done, I adore the rug in the first image along with the flowers and wallpaper in the second.

Fab Mag

Anahata...

   Anahata Katkin is just one of those people I wish I could be like, she makes beautiful artwork and has forged her practice into a brand, Papaya! her unique style and creativity has been applied to a whole host of goodies for your desk, home and lifestyle, check it out.