Weekend Post

My weekend starts with breakfast at the Farmers Markets with friends, buying fresh flowers for home and spending the rest of the day re-arranging and sorting my cupboards (Long over due). Tonight is an easy night relaxing with my partner Paul with a good bottle of red, pate from the markets and a movie. Sunday the Manly girls are off Antique shopping at Paddington in pursuit of a bargain!

 If you have the Saturday Courier Mail turn to page 41 both myself and Anna Spiro (ABT) have been featured in our stores talking about the world of blogging. In all honestly I would have rather been mentioned for my amazing contribution to world peace or perhaps my charitable side, friendly good hearted personality or perhaps my great mothering skills Ha! Ha! but for me is all just a bit of light hearted fun, meeting like minded friends and having a laugh at myself xx p.s Thank you Paddy but I'm 41 not 37 but I'm forever grateful :)

Old world Charm

I love this photo of an old window placed on an aged wall no doubt in the country of France, a simple day bed understated but still very beautiful.

Our vintage crazed porcelain bowl with bronze dragonfly sits beautifully on a sideboard or bathroom. Back in time I can imagine an exotic tropical Island, shutters, mosquito net over a four poster bed, a marble bath, candles with an exquisite piece of french milled soap inside this beautiful dish available at lily-g.

Stationary Love...

As you have guessed I have gone stationary mad at Lily-g. I'm always using sticky notes to mark my photo's, recipes and notes at work so when I discovered these gorgeous assorted sticky notes I had to have them. The file organizers, note books, wrapping paper all compliment this botanical story and would brighten any day working in the office doing boring paper work!

Lot's of Green @ lily-g

Most of the glass candle holders are from $19 and make an inexpensive statement. Mix the candle holders with vases of flowers and the setting takes on a different effect. I have a small sideboard at home that I have clustered candles and vases together and at night it looks gorgeous with all the candles burning.

A letter to you

I am loving our new stationary range from Poppies and Grace, all handmade and beautifully presented. This range will be for sale via our on-line shop which should be up and running in the next 2 weeks. Their is nothing nicer than receiving a hand written note, thank you card or special message from a friend. The spotty paper with the bird is actually a posty note, how cute. I hope you all have a fabulous week-end and I'm looking forward to catching up on all your posts xx

Cooler Days

Thankfully the days are getting cooler and I'm looking forward to spending time in the garden. This season at lily-g I have gone gardening mad, buying all sorts of gorgeous gardening tools, pots from france for the herbs, vintage watering cans, old reels of string with scissors even Burberry looking rubber boots! I'm even going to try my luck buying potted hydrangea's for the shop and for my home, they add such a lovely burst of colour.

Chandeliers

The beauty of a Chandelier adds such a timeless appeal to your home, I have just installed the top chandelier in my lounge room and it looks amazing. This particular chandelier is a reproduction but with old crystals salvaged from Antique chandeliers. They look so authentic and its actually Artisans who create such beautiful impersonations of the real thing. The good news it's a lot more affordable. Our chandeliers and antique pieces are starting to arrive in store now.