Where?

I've (almost) finished decorating my room! A few posts back I was explaining my colour choices - I've gone for a pale yellow, well 'Orchid White' - and on Pinterest I've been constantly pinning my interior inspiration. What to put up on the wall above my bed has been the most recent quandary, but I'm pretty stuck on a map. I love maps. My great aunt Joan used to go on a lot of walking holidays so we have inherited her collection of maps. The front covers, let alone the maps themselves, are beautiful. After a good old rummage I have found the one for me. It's has basically fallen apart from much use, but it's of my home county, Surrey, and it will soon have pride of place on my wall.

Hand Made

I love the bursts of colour in an otherwise simple and natural interior. It's Ashley Helvey's Seattle apartment at Design*Sponge and the furniture is handmade.

Tonight we're having Fisherman's Pie for dinner! And soon I'll be time to make some of this...

Images from Design*Sponge via Lena Corwin

One day I will live in a...

More detail here!

New York Living

I have always loved reading the magazines you get at the weekend in the Telegraph and even now that I'm at uni, my mum collects them up for me so I can have a major reading fest when I get home. The interviews, fashion, interiors and architecture, the photography... I just have to read them from cover to cover.
When Rita Konig wrote a column in the Telegraph Magazine years ago, I read it every week without fail. And then one day it finished, cause she was moving to New York.Then a couple of years later this article was in the Sunday Telegraph mag about her flat in New York... and it is beeeaaautiful! I adore the way it's decorated, the colours and patterns and her car is great too! One day when I have a flat of my own, I'll definitely be taking some tips and inspiration from hers.Researching her name there are lots of places on the internet where her articles are: here and here.So having gone through my box of magazine cuttings and seeing this again, it makes me more than ever want to live in New York, just for a while!