My Belgian find

Say hello to my 1930's Belgian oak coffee table.
I found him looking dusty and lonely at Collectors Corner in Salisbury and now he's polished and looking quite the gentleman in my dining room.
I don't know why I've decided it's a 'him' but he definitely is!

Vogue Living House

I pretty much love everything about this house. It belongs to Nellie Tilley in Sydney and it might possibly be perfect.

I'm definitely going to get one of the antique sunburst mirrors if I can only find one....

T

Antique (window) shopping

Yesterday I had a whole 5 hours to myself. No kids, no husband. Just me. And now that Eoin is in Kindy I'll have 5 hours to myself every second Wednesday. I'm revelling in the possibilities.

Yesterday I decided to indulge in some antique shopping. Well, technically window shopping as I didn't buy anything - yet.

I headed to Wallrocks Antiques where the lovely and very patient Jessica showed this antique newbie around. They'd just received a new container of goodies so the showroom was a jumbled, musty, treasure trove.

Due to budgetary constraints I was only looking at small tables and there were some beauties.

I loved this 19th century French walnut jardienere. Jessica suggested a marble top which I think would look wonderful.

The other table I really coveted was this Louis XV occasional table. The carving detail was absolutely beautiful but unfortunately a bit out of my league.

Tina
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French Cafe Chairs- Je vous aime!

I have developed a huge and hopefully soon to be fulfilled desire for French cafe chairs.
I love to see them contrasted with a more formal table for that interesting juxtaposition.
Tomorrow Tracey from Porchlight Interiors is coming over to show me her ideas for the dining room and I'm pretty confident there'll be a cafe chair in there somewhere.

T
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Bali Blues

I suppose you've all heard about Air Australia. Well, we were some of the unlucky customers. We'd booked flights for a family holiday with friends to Bali in September to celebrate my birthday. I've been talking to the credit card company and hopefully we'll get some of our money back either through them or our travel insurance. But in the meantime we are out of pocket a few grand and now have to book new tickets. That are much more expensive. So do I hold my nerve and wait for a special or just bite the bullet and book now?

To contribute to my bad morning I went to the Magnolia Interiors sale and the inlay telephone table I longed for had just been sold. Devastated.... I knew exactly where I wanted to put it - at the top of the steps with a plant on it.

On a brighter note I took the boys to get their hair cut. Can you guess which one is the joker?

Flo and Kate

I'm in love with the most divine pair of Kate Spade canvas flats in the Florence Broadhurst Japanese Floral print. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to buy them from Australia so I might have to console myself with the crossbody bag that's available from Nordstrom's.

I still want those shoes though.....

Dining Heaven

This dining room has the perfect mix of formality/informality. It's bright and airy and blue!

 The pictures are from Miss Mustard Seed and I love the mix of vintage and modern.

The curtains are lovely and the rug is fantastic!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone.

T