found photos, and a bit more pink

Here is the item in question, though between my camera work and the peach walls behind it you wouldn’t know it was pink from this pic. Pipework left in as an Ensuite tribute.

pink dresser

Above it I’ve put – rather ineptly it has to be said, I couldn’t be arsed measuring – some framed photos I found in markets in France. Here they are in close up.

black and white postcard

French women postcard

How about the woman in the centre for someone working a boho badass look? I plan to adopt a similar style myself once I hit 40.

For more on found – and in this case properly found – photos for the home check out Camilla Engman’s blog, and this site, Fotosencontradas, dedicated to photos found on the streets of Buenos Aires. While we’ve got a page full of ladies, let’s add one of theirs.

Buenos Aires photos



Barbara Cartland

Tickled pink

Today’s post is about my fleeting obsession with pink. Not the singer. After weeks of pondering I finally bought an elegant little set of drawers on legs from the local junk pusher. Delightfully, having got it home (that’s another story) I found that what, in the gloom of the junk-a-teria, I thought was off-white, turns […]

boule set

Boules rules

A few last pictures from France, this time documenting the mighty boulodrome in the village. It is here that people from the village congregate at around tea time, and sometimes are joined by folks from the next village along. Getting to play is just the best bit of the holiday – language barriers fall away […]

zodiac cushion

No matter what sign you are…

you’re gonna be mine, you are. Diana Ross song, that starts with her intoning ‘Aquarius… Sagittarius’ in a wobbly voice. Anyway, that’s what I first thought of when I saw these goofy and cool Needlepoint Zodiac  cushions by Jonathan Adler for Supernice. I don’t have a good picture of the Cancer one, but I think […]