Posts Tagged ‘design’

The Spring Cure 2010 – Week 1

Saturday, March 20th, 2010


Week One – Show  & Tell

I’ve signed up to Apartment Therapy’s Spring Cure 2010 and very excited about it! You can follow everyones progress on Flickr too!

I plan to concentrate on my hallway (image tray pic above) & kitchen.

Might keep adding mydifferent style trays / mood boards. I love making them up. You can probubly guess I’m pretty keen on pattern. I love to sit different patterns next to each other to see what works. I am undecided as yet to whether I want to continue with a cute country look in apple white and flowery patterns or edge more towards a funky finish with a mix of high design accents. Oh the choice!


Those vegetable mugs are a must however and will have to work with whatever I decide.

So this is a brief overview of whats in order for this week:

I’m going to follow the still Deep Treatment tasks (although applies to your entire pad) but concentrate on the One Room Remedy, it will get me organised even if I don’t tackle everything.

You can check out everyone’s photos and how their doing in the Apartment Therapy Flickr Group, post your own or add comments. Its a fabulous community of interior design enthusiasts making their homes that every bit better one manageable task at a time.

Deep Treatment
- Make a complete list of repairs and solutions.
- Vacuum and mop the floors.
- Remove one item from your apartment and put it outside.
- Buy fresh flowers.
- Sit for ten minutes in a part of your home that you never sit in.
- Look into earth-friendly cleaning products.

One-Room Remedy
- Choose one room.
- Gather pictures of rooms you love.
- Start a style tray.
- Visit your favourite home store.
- Set your budget.

Decisions must be made but for now I s’pose I’m just a lil bit country… a little bit rock n roll… and a whole lotta kitsch! Hit it Donny n Marie!

My Flickr – www.flickr.com/photos/extinctdesign/

Summer – I hear you!!

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Things to make n do:
I found this gorgeous vintage vogue pattern and thought I’d try and make myself a swimsuit this year!

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The little darling, Spring,

Has run away;

The sunshine grew too hot for her to stay.

She kissed her sister Summer,

And she said

“When I am gone, you must be queen instead.”

Now reigns the Lady Summer,

Round whose feet

A thousand faires flock with blossoms sweet.

Cicely Mary Barker

Get Some Spine!

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

What do you buy the boy who wants nothing?  He certainly doesn’t have much and  certainly doesn’t want it either….Hmmm a conundrum.

I’ve recently bought my beloved G a suit for all his important meetings (he usually can be found wearing an old Guinness t-shirt or Def Leppard whilst servicing your computer under a dusty desk somewhere, so has very little need for any Sunday Best clothes…) But wait – what do we have here? Only some rather fetching ties by Toybreaker!

I love the back bone and tongue tied the best – I love to see beautiful designs with some spine!

Feast your eyes!

I love you Etsy!

Windowdressing at Jacobs

Monday, December 1st, 2008
window shopping

window shopping

Spent a lovely night over at my friends fair-trade coffee shop, window dressing with some lovely new items and Christmas decorations from extinct. We had the help of little Jacob (elf in training) who was overseeing all important artistic decisions from which colour pegs to use to what sweets to stuff in the nordic cones!! Yum!

Jacob’s Ladder Coffee shop can be found in the pretty Cathedral city of St. Asaph, North Wales, possibly one of the smallest cities in the world, I’m just starting my extinct take-over one city at a time!

New Gift Wrap, New Notebooks – entire New Section!

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Recycled Paper Notebooks

New paper goods at Extinct Design

It always seems to get to this time of year where I allow myself to dare to think about a new diary, perhaps a notebook, those cute notelets I dreamed of….yikes – I’m all of a quiver!

If you’re completly mad on stationery and all the pleasure it brings, you will be happy to learn the new Extinct Design category – Papyrus- now carries some of the best 100% uncoated recycled papers, notebooks and cards!!

This is something that will be added to over the coming months…. feast your eyes little ones

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