Lust : Gorgeous handmade furniture from SlowWood

I'm back!
Yes finally I have the mood to blog, mainly spurred by the Pin-fest I had the other day. I went back to view my favourite home and design blogs and the Better Homes and Gardens webbie. And I got sooo inspired! I pinned like a whole lot of gorgeous pics and got re-pinned a lot too, hehe.

Check out my board here. For our Future Nest

Anyway the photos I couldn't stop thinking about are the ones i found on decor8.

Source: slowwood.nl via Angeline on Pinterest

Don't you just love this table?? This is from SlowWood, designed and handmade in the Netherlands. They use natural finishes and mineral paint so it's all very earth-friendly!

Source: slowwood.nl via Angeline on Pinterest

This is my favourite piece. Love the simplicity of it and I know it'll look fantastic in a corner of our living room as a small desk for mail and bills. But it's soooo expensive. I'll just drool over them until The Hubs magically gets super talented with the hammer and saw and make me one.

Love: Table Centerpieces and Number Inspiration

Tomorrow's gonna be a fun and exciting day wedding-wise!!
I'm meeting my florist to discuss our ballroom's decor in the afternoon and then collecting our wedding bands in the evening. Can't wait!

I can't believe our bands are ready so soon, it's been only a month! Really really can't wait to see them. :)

To prepare for our meeting with the florist tomorrow, I've been searching for inspiration on trusty old Pinterest.

Centerpieces Inspiration

Source: None via Katie on Pinterest

Nice and simple

Read more after the jump!

Blog Love : How to make an Inspiration Board from The Crafty DiY Bride

I chanced upon this great post on The Crafty DiY Bride today, which is dead useful for any bride to be.

How to make an Inspiration Board

Inspiration boards are an important tool when you need to visualise and plan the look for your wedding. You've probably started saving images from websites, bookmarking links or cutting pages from magazines. What you need next is an area to organise all your material. This helps you to see your ideas in a cohesive manner and it will also be helpful when you need to show your planners or gown designers.

I've always held off showing my inspiration boards here mainly because it is too tiring to do them in Photoshop or other design software. Thanks to Mel from The Crafty DiY Bride, now there's a selection of various websites and tools we can easily create boards with!!

I tried the one from Dessy and it's really handy!
Here's a sample board I did.

It's a little last minute so it's not very good ;p.
You can use your own images or their own library of resources.

What I love best is that it's tied up with PANTONE colour swatches so no more 'light, soft pink' but 'PANTONE Rose Water' and instead of trying to describe the green as 'mossy', it's 'PANTONE Pistachio'. No one will ever get your colours wrong again!

Only flaw is that I couldn't save it as an image and had to print screen in order to post it here.

There's also a ton of other resources like bridesmaid dresses and invites and men's accessories.

Check out Dessy now and not forgetting the other recommendations by Mel.

Etsy Love : Love me

If you get there before I do

don't give up on me

I'll meet you when my chores are through

I don't know how long I'll be

but I'm not gonna let you down

darling wait and see

and between now and then

'til I see you again

I'll be lovin' you

love, me

If you get there before I do - Colin Raye

Check out my Etsy treasury lists here

Vintage Suitcase turned Giftwrapping station

from Better Homes and Garden via Atypical Type A

aaahhhhh! aaahhhhh! aaahhhhhhh!

how cute is this vintage suitcase turned gift wrapping station???
got to get me one of them vintage suitcases now!

Home dream : Neëst - Scandinavian and Japanese loveliness

Neëst - a shop filled with everything lovely of Scandinavian and Japanese design.

Scandinavian and Japanese??? How did the two of them get mixed up together, you say?? It might seem like a weird combination but trust me these two works perfectly together. It is also my ideal decorating style for our future nest.

Both styles are famous for their simplistic design and clean lines, with a strong emphasis on natural looks and style of life. When they come together, magic happens.

And Neëst is the epitome of this ideal.

1. Cara cup
2. Kakudo wall clock
3. Small maple bowl
4. Lotus tea serveur

1. Milk Jug

2. Panier baby
3. Brush "Duck"
4. Mini glass vase

Aren't they just lovely? I would love to have all these in my home.

Be sure to check out their blog too!

Etsy Love: i heart you

i heart you.

simple as that.

Love: Pretty packaging inspiration

Totally loving this to-die-for packaging from oh hello friend, one of my favourite blogs. 

It's exactly what I want to do for my invites.

images from here

I'm designing my invites to resemble vintage postcards. There'll be 3 pages to be tied up with twine and I'll put them into kraft paper bags stamped with our monogram. Included in the package will also be a handmade cherry blossom themed magnet in a vellum mini envelope, so that our guests can immediately put up our invite up on the fridge or memo board. Glee!

My obstacles now would be to find a reasonably priced printer and also affordable supplies for printing our invites and secondly I'm praying that my in-laws would be ok with my ideas. It's very different from the traditional red invites or those with double happiness embossed all over. I'm not very fond of that. Your invites are the first impression your guests gets of what your wedding would be like and I want them to reflect our style and be fun and unique. I am very afraid they might not like this at all and insist on the traditional ones instead. *crosses fingers*

Cute find from the web: Hearty eggs

How cute is this??

Fun heart-shaped eggs idea from laruhh

Sweet Paul: Spring 2011

I can't believe I'm so slow!
I keep forgetting to introduce you all to this amazing online magazine from Sweet Paul!

Yes Sweet Paul's Spring 2011 - Special Kid's issue is out!!

Check out the cover, the strawberry milkshake with marshmellows looks so yummy. Slurp!

Sweet Paul is a food and prop stylist and an amazing crafter too! He has been coming up with these gorgeous e-mags for sometime now and I loved his Holiday 2010 issue. It gave me a lot of inspiration for my holiday crafts. His blog is also a haven of recipes and easy yet really pretty crafts. 

The Spring 2011 issue is really adorable and full of fun tips, crafts and recipes to enjoy with your children. Oh wait, did I mention it's all free??! That's right! You can view the e-mag online and download it as a PDF file for FREE!! God bless you Sweet Paul!

Don't forget to check it all out here!

Inspiration: Invites from Minted

I've been working on designing our wedding invites recently and couldn't come up with anything I love yet. So I have been looking to the web for inspirations and ideas.

Minted is a online source for lovely paper goods like wedding invitations, greeting cards and stationery. But what is really unique about Minted is that they are not a design firm or company selling printing services. They are actually a online community of designers. They have a monthly design challenge where anyone can enter and they select the best designs to include into the Minted collection. Winners also get cash prizes and commissions when their designs are sold. They also use quality papers and ink. This is such a good platform for budding or amateur designers to have a chance to produce their works professionally. I think this is a great idea and I am so impressed with the designs in the collection! If I were a designer, I would love to have this opportunity to have my works printed with such quality.

I am definitely very inspired by this loveliness!! Drool time!

 A Faraway Destination by bumble ink

 Fall Carving by Amanda Joy

 HEART PRINT by sweet street gals

 Journey Together by Susan Schneider

 just married by three kisses studio

 Love Birds by jana volfova

 Love Grade by lehan paper design

 Love Struck by the social type

 Nestled by design lotus

 Our Wedding Day by sweet street gals

 pear nouveau by emily ranneby

 Scooter wedding by chocomoccacino

 Wedding by Numbers by ana gonzales

Air Mail by annie clark

If only I can produce invites as gorgeous as these!!