Just a few photos from our Royal Wedding Street party yesterday.
Here is the table before the guests arrived. We did a pot-luck style food arrangement where everyone brought a dish.
We cooked some Pie Minister Wills & Kate pies! They were yum.
We had Strawberries, lots of Strawberries!
And the children waved their flags like crazy.
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If you are in San Francisco Bay Area, please stop by the Creators For Japan fund-raising event this weekend, Saturday April 30th & Sunday May 1st at New People. There will be lots of beautiful and heartfelt handmade arts and crafts, as well as baked goods, with 100% of proceeds will be donated to Artists Help Japan Fund with Mercy Corps. Japan still needs our support, and Creators For Japans goal is to raise money through art and crafts sale for relief efforts to assist the victims of Japan’s catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear emissions. Yo
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I’ve gone a bit ‘pattern-crazy’ this year and decided to plant up all my beds in some kind of design. This bed is mostly salads and I’ve planted it in a sunburst design. I suppose I just got bored of planting in straight lines and thought I would do something different this year.
I planted a Box hedge along the bottom and a row of pot-grown Shallots along on the right-hand side to give it some structure. Then I laid some sticks down on the ground to make a sunburst pattern. At the head I’ve planted one Perpetual Spinach plant, which will eventually get quite big. Then arou
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… to newlyweds Erin and Chris who are on their honeymoon sunning it up in Mexico, where the sand is white and the water is turquoise (shocker). Congrats you two and thanks for inviting us to guest blog. For those of you who do not know us we are Ann and Hooper from Birds of a Feather. We are inspired by Erin’s daily dose of turquoise and thrilled to share a little bit of our own. We finished this dining room in January, complete with Erin’s favorite hue.
The room is a little bit Ann and a little bit Hooper and in a constant quest to blend our styles, we styled this table for a portfolio photo shoot. Full Article…
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According to the legends phoenix was a bird that could rise form its ashes sfter burning. This loft in France is marked by the fact that the first apartment burnt and then designers created a beautiful bright loft. The owners wanted to have a loft with a compound geometry of the walls. The interior is modern and laconic with some interesting details like heavy wooden beams in all the rooms, or interesting laminate floor. The light can be changed according to the mood. The colors chosen are white, grey and black. The accents in all rooms are made in red with a hint for the apartment rose like Phoenix from its ashes.
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