Creative Monsoon

Plants from scraps

On - Saturday, 22 February 2014

The next step in the great garden conversion - plants. Kitting out such a big space with herbs and vegetables will be pretty pricey so I've been looking into growing plants from scraps. Above is my mutant capsicum grown in just a week from a few seeds saved from a store bought capsicum. And below the spring onions and leek have started to...

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Vegi garden

On - Tuesday, 18 February 2014

It's time for a new diy project around the house. Last year we had two big designs - the kitchen and nursery, well three if you count the baby too! So now we need a big new project to get stuck into and I've decided to create a vegi garden. We're going to use the big space down the side of the house....

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nursery done

On - Saturday, 23 November 2013

Yay! The nursery is done. Except for a few more pictures and obviously lots more baby "stuff" - poor little guy doesn't really have anything except furniture and clothes at the moment. But Im sure that will change and we have plenty of storage space ready for it. There were quite a few little DIY projects which might explain why I feel so...

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Nico Krijno

On - Saturday, 16 November 2013

Pattern, pattern, pattern. Love this image by Cape Town based photographer Nico Krijno ...

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loving this week...

On - Tuesday, 12 November 2013

...this. But it sadly doesn't seem to have a home. :( ...this. But it sadly doesn't seem to have a home. :( ...

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interior design

finally the kitchen done

On - Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Who doesn't love a good before and after pic?! So here we go - the kitchen is finally finished. Looks amazing and is SO easy to work in. We removed the wall between the old kitchen and the 'sun room' which was a big waste of space just storing the fridge which was too big for the kitchen. We removed the wall...

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linda arthurs

On - Wednesday, 2 October 2013

The work of Linda Arthurs caught my eye this week. Big on my to do list has been the idea of mixed media or pen drawn interiors, just full of pattern, and Linda has a few pieces that remind me of this. ...