Elle Sweden (Aug 2008)

My heart must have skipped 2 beats when I saw these lovely shots taken for for Elle Sweden at Lace & Tea. It has all the dreamy opulent details that make my knees weak. For more, click here.

Loving this

I love this image I found from the web. Anyone knows where it is from? From the font at the bottom left corner, it looks like it was from a Japanese magazine.

DIY Pallet Beds

This gorgeous reading bed assembled by photographer Ashley Ann for her child's nursery from storage pallets is another good example how you don't need to spend lots of money to have something functional and beautiful at the same time. I just love how the space between the pallets function as a natural storage shelf for books and magazines.

Click here to view and be inspired by how the whole thing was out together.

The rest of the nursery is ABSOLUTELY gorgeous too...Click here to view more!

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Anna Aden

I found out about Anna Aden photography through Maquette today and fell in love instantly with the gorgeous soft hues of her images. My absolute favourites has got to be these images from her lily of the valley series. They are like straight out from the pages of a fairytale.

Screen Prints by Claire Nereim

This Seasonal Fruits poster by Claire Nereim featured in The Kitchn, an Apartment Therapy sister site, is a one page poster/forever calendar (no dates) with a fruit drawing for each month. Hand screenprinted in 10 colors on roughly recycled cream cover-stock paper. Each print is unique. A lovely way to brighten up any kitchen space.

I also love the print above composed of seasonally blooming native California wildflowers.

Calligraphy work by Edzayi Mazarura Design

Unique calligraphy work by Edzayi Mazarura Design. You can contact them to obtain a quote for your specific needs.

Get the Hint Stickies

These adhesive labels are so cool. Makes me want to stick it all over the place.

Recycled Money Bags

These money bags get a second life as a cushion cover and wallet.

Sliced bread note books

These notebooks designed by collaboraters Burak Kaynak and Cem Has are the best inventions since sliced bread. There are 12 notebooks in one pack and each one is numbered so you can assign one book per month. How fun is this?

It is amazing how much clever packaging can do to a product.

Portland General Store

Etsy store owner of Portland General Store, Lisa Brodar, makes a wide range of body care products ranging from skin creams to fragrances for men and women and designs the gorgeous packaging labels herself.

I am intrigued by the product above - a cigar box filled with old-fashioned goodies which includes one sample of aftershave splash, one sample of shaving jelly, one sample size of TABAC soap in a jar, one sample of WOOD ultra thick body creme, and two samples of eau de toilette.

This will definitely make a lovely and unique Father's Day Gift.

Alarm clock with electronic bird

I need an alarm clock and this might be it!

Secret doors and such

Specializing in building secret doors and passageways in your home, Creative Home Engineering is the perfect solution to creating that hidden Narnian/ Ann Frank world in your own home. The music in their website completes the picture. Wonder if it is difficult to DIY this.

Orla Kiely for Target

The previous post got me curious about Target so I checked into their online store today and found out that Orla Kiely now designs for Target! You can now get her gorgeous designs on housewares at the most affordable prices. You cannot believe how tempted I am to get these mugs for $11.99 for a set of 2 from Target right now.

And the serving tray above is going for $14.99 (in stores only). Gasp!

And the Orla Kiely Orange Flower Collection above is selling for $11.99!

Give me one good reason right now why I shouldn't get these, apart from the fact that I have no more space at home.

Stitching Sweatshirts

I can't believe Pam Garrison turned this budget Target sweatshirt into such a gorgeous work of art. This has me inspired and itching to start stitching bits of my old clothing away to give it a new lease of life.

Who Made It

Gorgeous one-of-a-kind jewellery catcher made from hand picked new and antique dishes by Etsy shop Who Made It . This unique handmade shop is run by two lovely sisters, Wendy and Andrea Ho. (image via Seven Eight)

Their mom runs a handmade paper shop (image above taken from her etsy shop). Talk about creativity running in the family!

Laissezfaire featured in Home & Decor

Thank you Home & Decor for choosing me as the blogger of the month! I am deeply honoured to have Laissezfaire featured in your June issue! (click on image above to enlarge)

A Love Affair with Coffee Filters

I simply love the romantic vintage hues of these garlands put together by Pam Garrison. Who would have thought these were made from coffee filters, sewing pattern paper, tissue paper and string! I am so inspired by these to make one and string in some pearls. She also made some gorgeous pom poms (below), also from coffee filters.

Kari Herer

I simply love the ephemeral quality of these magnolias placed on insect illustrations by Kari Herer. I think Magnolia is now my favourite flower, after Peonies in white cream.

Eastern Bluebird

Please please please restock this!

Oilcloth Lunchbags

Turn a cheap kitchy oil cloth you use to cover your kitchen table into these gorgeous lunch bags by following this tutorial by Martha Stewart.

twentywentyone

Love the colours of these plush chairs by twentywentyone.

Hair Salon in Paris

Welcome to La Nouvelle Athenes. Who would have guessed this would be a place to have your hair done? Stepping to this stunning hair salon is almost like stepping into someone's home. I love how the unassuming seats are placed to face a massive wall with a small mirror. Only in Paris...

Jessica Hische

What a lovely typography by Jessica Hische, a designer/illustrator based in Brooklyn who spends her days "drawing type and designing pretty things and her late nights working on everything from editorial illustration to hand-lettering for romance novel covers." Sounds like so much fun! (via ffffound)

Make it happen

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Aktipis Flower shop in Greece

I am drawn by the details of this flower shop designed by Athens studio Point Supreme Architects in Patras, Greece. Particularly the ornate iron grill entrance and display tables clad in white tiles which occupy the centre of the shop.

The tables are all different in proportions and sizes to relate to specific kinds and sizes of plants. You can rearrnge the modular tables in various ways to change the layout of the display. A simple and beautiful solution to a limited budget. And I simply love the plans, sections, elevation and even a model they did of this space. Magical!

I love that this shop appears to blur the boundary between what is inside and outside by including details such as a garden chair inside and sound of birds from speakers (nice!). It is like a box containing all that is beautiful about being outside. A part of the façade is also set back to offer a display space outside the shop. (via)

Everything I have

"Everything I have" by Simon Evans. I will never be able to fit all my things into a sheet of paper like this. (via Debi Van Zyl via Black Eiffel)