light sources

Some things in our living area brightening up this grey day: a beeswax candle brought back from Poland by Tom (I daresay we are becoming more Norwegian by the day- we buy tealight candles in bulk with our groceries now...)

These two gocco prints that I decided to frame as a pair- I like them together so much. I loved being part of the recent gocco swap and now we have new prints in every room of the house, thanks to my swap partners. In this frame, the top print is by Erin and the bottom one by Leya (both seriously good blogs, by the way).

A curtain I made using that special fabric- to separate the children's room from our living room, and create a bit more darkness in there for them. I made the basic curtain from plain linen, then sewed the patterned panel just under the top casing, so it's double-layered.

And speaking of light sources- have you heard about Earth Hour? Sorry for blogging about it so late. Join us in turning off all our lights for an hour at 8pm, 29th March. Lucky we have all those tealights.

Comments

[Taryn]

Everything is so wonderful! I love the yellows and I love the curtains!

I've recently been trying to turn the lights off earlier in the evening in attempts to accustom my body to an earlier bedtime (I rarely get to bed before 1am!), so the 8pm lights off tomorrow will be easy as pie!

[kirsten]

i LOVE your curtain! the shorter top panel is awesome. the prints look great framed, too!

[Trisha Findlay]

Your cutain looks lovely. I made curtains the other day and each lot was too short .... must have been measuring with my eye's closed!!!

[kimberlee]

what can I say, such pretty everything!

especially that candle against the wall. I will check out that link now

xoxoxox

[Sally Anne]

Hi Melissa! Tamsin here (At mums house) -
wonderful to see your cool, house and the curtains - Beautiful! What a good idea too with Arlo. Please give A,K and T our love!We will turn off our lights with you on the 29th. What a good idea! We miss you heaps.

Did you get the parcel?

[Lies]

Love those special gocco prints. Same yellow hues as the candle. Lovely combo eh. Yeh that curtain is wonderful, gosh I miss 'that' store hee hee.
X lies

[emily]

the gocco prints look so good framed together like that. the colors, they're perfect.

[Kirsten]

I love the gold color of the candles and the gocco prints. Lights out tomorrow sounds like a great idea!

[Emma]

Grey and yellow do go well together, and I have heard of Earth Hour

[Steph]

I *must* get a gocco one day, along with enough creativity to use it!
I almost forgot about Earth Hour, it starts in 15 mins, thanks for the reminder.

[caireen]

really like that curtain and the shoes from yesterday. Wish I could get over my inertia to make somethings like this for the house! cx

[Ravenhill]

Melissa, your house looks ever so pretty with the lovely handmade touches made by you and your good friends!

[Helen]

Your prints look great together - it looks so intentional. like the artists meant for them to be together.

x H

[Guendalina]

I love your blog!!! You are sooo talented!
I will come back soon. Come visit my new blog if you'd like. I just started it.
Greetings from Texas, US.

[cloth.paper.string]

such fun to see the gocco prints together. they go so well!

[amisha]

smiling at the idea of the bulk tealight purchases :) it must be so pretty in the evening! e was telling me about stockholm in the winter, and how all the shops were full of candles... it sounded so lovely. i think that is something i could definitely get used to!
xox