A Beautiful Life

A week and two days ago, Lee and I made the big move to our little home and boy was it a move of EPIC proportions! So here are a few peeks at our place which I have been [very] slow at uploading - Sorry!

The beautiful sunset on our first night at home - a welcome end to a VERY long day of moving!

Beautiful Roses as a gift from Lee's family, gracing our foyer with the promise of good things to come in 2013!

Our kitchen and balcony view - glorious afternoon sunshine.

A special gift from Lee after his insistence that I grow a garden - on the balcony!?

Another view from the balcony, this time of the ridge, during the day.

Welcome home! [Lee looks less than impressed]

The Passageway. AFTER my floor cleaning escapades!

My currently messy dresser - more organization must still take place.

The one side of our bathroom - a weird set-up, don't ask!

Man oh man!
If we were ever wondering when our beloved South African Summer was going to properly arrive, we aren't wondering anymore! It's been blisteringly hot the past few days leading up to yesterday. I had this brilliant idea and my skin which goes immediately brown is a lovely shade of pink today in all the most awkward places...

Regardless of the weather we've had an amazing weekend!

Why? We went to go see our place properly for the first time AND there's only 12 days left until we move there! The kitchen and lounge are [A LOT] smaller than we thought they would be, but the spacious balcony and beautiful entertainment facilities more than make up for it. 
Excitement. To. The. Max!

So now, the final two weeks of packing and moving are here and then comes the UNpacking and moving in. I think I've moved too many times for me to even be excited about it. But then again, who gets excited about packing and moving?!

More good news is that I've finally tallied all my classes' marks and now the final steps towards ending the year off can begin. This is a big win. I've needed this weekend for us to relax and chill out and gain a little end-of-year perspective.

I am also officially naming and shaming LEERON because he's promised to post after his exams and has NOT done so as yet :)

That's all for now!

wends x

Hello friends! 
It's been a [very] hectic week and weekend with all sorts of drama in the form of burglaries at work, studying [lots of it] at home and truckloads of work in preparation for the end of the year. But nonetheless this weekend has almost come to a close and after tomorrow some of the stress will be lifted when Lee finishes two BIG exams! We simply can't wait!

In the meantime whilst Mister has been studying, I've been doing everything EXCEPT the buttload of work I brought home to finish over the weekend...which means I've been on Pinterest [again!] slaving away at finding image inspiration and dreaming of all the home decor that I will: 1. never afford 2. never have the energy to attempt.

Anyhoooo....I did find some nice images to share with you [again] - this time of living spaces as well as some definitive items that I'll be scouting for over the next few weeks as we count the tedious countdown to the move [19 days!!!] and then move and THEN...decor-ate. We're getting there. 

*Random fact - I'm listening to Julio Iglesias' Moonlight Lady whilst listening to this so I'm feeling very odd, old and eccentric and like I should be swaying my hips instead of lying on my stomach typing like a spider monkey.

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Friends!

It's been a little while, but I promise I've been working on a post in the meantime! Maybe I'm useless at browsing the web or maybe I'm just picky, but trying to find pictures that accurately depict my taste as far as home decor goes has been a mission indeed! I thought to quickly browse the net for some inspirational images the other afternoon and what I thought would be a simple 30 minutes of relaxation and fun turned out being a folder called 'blog', created on my laptop for 'if' and 'when' I actually find pictures of things I like...

This afternoon I started wracking my brain for web domains that I -knew- existed and took my fancy instead of starting from scratch with a few keywords and a Google search. Needless to say I remembered my love of Country Road and Etsy which proved to be a great help for both things I liked and confirmation of the things I really, really don't like!

I have never felt (or had) the need to decorate a space pro-actively, so this is a big thing for me...prepare to see lots of decor-orientated posts in the future! But this fact has created an even-bigger problem that I never really needed to face before. I have always been decisive when it comes to style choices. I know what colours, clothes, shoes, jewelry, make-up works best with my body, complexion and taste, but to decide what colours and styles to incorporate in our home has been a challenge (of epic proportions) of it's own.

I would like to interject for just a moment and mention that if I ever doubted that Leeron was a man, I am now sure he is. This was reiterated by his response to my question of what colour scheme we should adopt when we walked into a home store recently. 

"Does it really matter? It's just plates and bowls!?"

Horror of horrors.

Ofcourse I rebuked him for his insensitivity and reminded him that these would be items that we would keep (G-d-forbid one of our kids breaks something!) for the rest of our lives. At this point he walked off towards the steak knives section. A girl can try.

I do however come with glad tidings! I have decided on navy blue. It's my favourite colour and I will concede to Lee taking all the credit for this genius suggestion. But all is not well in the land of mixing bowls and coffee mugs, Friends! Because - navy blue is not as popular and frequently found as we like to think.

Have you ever noticed that when you start paying attention to a certain new car model (hint to Lee) or a new fashion trend or colours that have come into style, you start to see it in places where you never did before? No...not only in your desirable dreams, but out and about in your daily doings. Well...I am hoping by all hopes that I start to somehow see navy blue accent items for the kitchen 'cos I'm not too keen on starting this whole deliberation process from scratch!

I've decided that the style I would like to channel throughout the home is modern elegance with vintage accents. I'm not a fan of the harsh lines of modern decor or frilly lace collectibles, but I do love it when a perfect balance is struck between the two. How gratifying to finally name it!

So without further a due and much less babbling, here are some wonderful images that have sent me on a journey of inspiration and long lists of promised decorating. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!