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Sunday night feeling
Good evening friends, how are you? I don’t know about you but I’m definitely in the mood for a summer holiday. Although it’s been a bit rainy today, the sun has shone through and we are looking forward to even warmer days this week. Just in time for the strawberries and Pimms of Wimbledon season.…
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Three tips for achieving your goals
I’m a planner. Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll be able to tell you that I have a particular weakness for stationary which enables me to write lists, to-do notes or plan my time. So it may seem a natural progression when I confess that as well as planning my time, I also like…
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Celebrate Interiors: The home of Emily Henderson
As an interior designer, stylist and HGTV host, one would expect the home of Emily Henderson to be well curated, beautiful and inspiring. It is. A white base creates a sophisticated backdrop on which to house feature accents of navy, textured wood and gold. Interesting visual points are created with asymmetric ceiling mobiles and rather…
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Sunday night feeling
Good evening friends, how are you? After saying that I was looking forward to a quieter week at work, last week turned out to be really busy! However, I managed to check off some important writing deadlines which was good (I’m currently doing some academic research), but it did mean that I wasn’t able to…
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Sunday night feeling
Good evening, how was your weekend? Mine was lovely as I got to see this amazing couple get married. How stunning is my friend H? Her husband’s speech was one of the most heart felt and funny groom’s speeches I’ve ever heard. It was a privilege to be there. In other news, I’ve taken a…
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Friday links
Here’s some links from around the web that I’ve found interesting and useful recently: 5 fitness apps via Career Girl Daily (I’m continuing with my running training and am only a few weeks away from my first park run now 🙂 ) How to style your kitchen shelves via The Decorista. Hand coloured photographs via…
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Today I’m inspired by…
a stylist who is new to me but certainly not the interiors and food styling world. Her name is Rebecca Newport and I discovered some of her styling work for the first time yesterday over on Pinterest. I’m now following all of her boards and perhaps you can see why. I like Rebecca’s use of…
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Monday morning feeling
Hello there, how are you? I hope you had a good weekend. We had an extremely fun packed and busy weekend looking after my nephews and niece. It was great to have them come and stay for the weekend and I had thought that I would be able to post my usual ‘Sunday night feeling’ entry…
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Summer garden essentials: Outdoor fire pit
Earlier on in the week I shared some simple lighting ideas that you can use in absolutely any garden to create atmosphere during the (hopefully coming soon) summer evenings. Today I want to share another idea for a garden feature with you. Outdoor fire pits. Toby and I started investigating fire pits last summer but…
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Garden inspiration for summer evenings
This post is a hopeful, ‘wishful thinking’ post. The weather in London has been crazy over the past few days, with cold temperatures, drizzling rain and high winds. In June. Still, us Brits are used to such weather and I’m feeling more hopeful today as it’s possible to actually see the sun. Plus the weather…
Claire Parkin Interior Design 