Sunday Inspiration

 Ok, I just wrote, and abandoned, a post moaning about it being halfway through the holidays, feeling unspecifically frazzled, and generally getting all glass half empty, so instead there's going to be some Lovely Pictures.

I was looking at this magazine on the train and just gawped at this photo

The colours, the stuff, the dark grey, the white mirror...

Love old tile patterns. Even though this one's decided to be the wrong way round

Opera wallpaper, Cole & Son 

We're getting a bit of a purple'n'blue theme going on here.

Purple tumbler by Evitavonni.

It's only £82.21...

And I'd quite like the stairs too

 Hayworth sofa, John Lewis

And this velvet one

Ackroyd sofa for Marks and Spencer by Conran

I'm going to have to make do with a velvet cushion I have in this colour

It was from Woolworths...

 Another variation on the Royal stamps theme

By Annie Little

And I love this light fitting

RGB pendant lamp, Fredrik Mattson at InForm

Very naughtily working out how to make a tribute version...

I sort of like this table-bench idea

Very space-saving

So much that I've been wasting a bit too much time 

working out if I could do something like it

Now these two images are for Kim and her Eiffel Towers

Have a look at her fabulous European kitchen here:

http://kimmy-randomness.blogspot.com/

Conran Shop

Kate Thornton Design - "We Love Paris"*

And these are just because they are sooooo cute...

No one would notice if I sneaked them into my kitchen, right?

All images from September's Living etc, except for *

What To Do On A Monday, Part 107

What I Should Be Doing:

• sorting out the unspent tescos restaurant tokens from last week - how badly did I overestimate the boys' appetite for pizza? we only used them ONCE!!!
• sorting out sending vital financial gubbins to some woman in a dark, windowless office several miles away so that the 13 year old will get a bus pass by the start of term
• ordering school uniform so said 13 year old will have the right clobber, also by the same deadline
• throwing away last year's scraps of paper from school. obvs books and other testimony to the 12 year old's achievements will be archived in a box under the bed...
• mending a collapsed billy bookcase so that the books on the floor can go back onto it
• taking old books and STUFF from their rooms to the charity shop

....umm, so thats pretty much all the boring not-done things that were on my pre-holiday list.....

What I Am Doing:

• slowly realising that the urge to Get A Medium-Sized Dog is the same urge we get every holiday, seeing so many cute dogs at the seaside. It is Not Practical and must be denied....*
• realising that it is Not Big and It Is Not Clever to reveal on here how last week I showed the kids you can eat Tunnocks Tea Cakes by putting stuffing one whole one into your mouth. To avoid dropping choccie bits on the carpet of our rented flat, y'see...
• craving some metal old-school style reading lamps. Now then, white or red? Or both?
• wondering how on earth I let myself get talked into going to see Cars 2 tomorrow - it was meant to be the 12 year old and his mate, having a bit of independence. My friend, aka the mate's mum, wants to come too... perhaps its not too late to persuade her we should just go for a nice long coffee while they get blasted by 3D cartoon nonsense...
• spending ALL morning so far catching up on posts I didn't get time to read last week. It has now been over 2 hours....

Oh well, at least the fidgetty, restless mood I was in yesterday has subsided. I had NO concentration span all day yesterday, and couldn't settle down to do anything. Apart from 2 boring loads of laundry...

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* The To Get A Dog Or Not Get A Dog issue may be decided by your voting yes or no.

I'd sort of like people to say yes.....