Beautiful. Wild. Calming. Ann Marie (from the gorgeous blog age old tree)’s  recent photos have once again captured my imagination and whisked me away to a far off land. Click here to see her video of wedding rock, in california. And I love that her last beach wander was with this lovely one.

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…that I cherish, from le voyage créatif. Find marte marie’s shop here, and her beautiful blog here.

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…this plum tree and this recipe for plum oatmeal bread, from saipua.

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…jennifer causey’s new online portfolio.

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…oh so west coast canada, portfolio of Jennilee Marigomen, found via vic (who just got back from paris, check out her beautiful paris pics here).

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I’m distracted by all of the above this morning, and some, so I thought I’d distract you too.

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Tales of a Junkaholic is one of the blogs in the spotlight this week (check out the others in the sidebar, they’re all so goooood), and its author, Artemis Russell, has the dreamiest backyard in South London, complete with her very own working shed where she sews up a storm. She posted this photo the other day and I just love it. If you are not already reading artemis’ blog, then click here to be whisked away to her world where you will no doubt become as enamored by her creations, life, and home as much as I am.

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Bonsoir mes amis, I hope you had a fab weekend. I have lots to share with you this week! But first some inspiration. Above is a wall sculpture by federico uribe made from 200 second-hand books. Brilliant. I love it when people turn everyday items into extraordinary pieces of art. (found via mandy at 16 house, who found it via visual i.d.)…

…and this stunning photograph by roland bello. (via abundance).

Right now I can smell chili con carne… someone has been cooking up a storm in the kitchen, and that someone is not me. Truth is, I haven’t cooked a meal in what seems like forever.  I have said numerous times that I will get back to cooking meals sometime in the future when my workload subsides, but there is no sign of it subsiding. Meanwhile, I’m getting a bit too used to being catered for.

I’ll be back in the (blog)house tomorrow with lots of updates and info about what has been going on in my life (just in case there are those of you out there still interested in that stuff!).

Enjoy your evening.

xx

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…Jan from poppytalk has started a fab new flickr group called collecting nature. Above are some of my favourites from the group thus far. If you have a flickr account and are an avid nature collector like so many of us are, then get in amongst it! I think it’s such a beautiful idea for summer.

emptied pockets by lindaolo

Read more about Jan’s inspiration for starting the flickr group here, and see more fab nature collections here. Nice one Jan! Can’t wait to see what you might create with some of your own found treasures in the fall.

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katarina krizanovicova’s mum’s garden (I quietly discovered Katarina’s beautiful work via her recent comment, thank you katarina).

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and twilight in sammy and glenn’s garden. Thanks for the quiet inspiration as always.

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Have a wonderful weekend mes amis.

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…the home of Valentin Loellmann in Maastricht (as photographed by his brother Jonas Loellmann, featured on Bloesem’s lets get personal column).

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…pacific north west, as captured by jennifer from field & sea (which is also a quiet space I love to visit regularly).

…watermelons, in the larder room, on a hot day. yes, please. (photo from this post).

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…tattes bakery as captured by nadia from la porte rouge. dreamy.

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Lately I’m craving quiet spaces, quiet moments, quiet thoughts.

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…nikole’s gorgeous home recently featured on design*sponge (you already know how much I adore nikole’s blog and her spoons, I can never get enough of her beautiful work)…

… marie’s stunning necklaces – which she is kindly offering one as a giveaway on her blog, le voyage créatif! Make sure you write a comment on her giveaway post here.

…and fanny’s inspiring world, complete with pissenlits, poisson d’avril, and voiles d’été. Her blog, les contours du silence is one of my “blogs in the spotlight” this past week.

Enjoy!

xx

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