Kylie Stillman

Kylie Stillman uses a scalpel to carve trees and birds out of books. There is plenty more over on her website.

A Wee Outing.

Yesterday, after the rain died down, we went for a little walk in search of somewhere for lunch.

We got some soup, sandwiches and a coffee at the Hidden Lane Tearoom - a nice little café 'hidden' in a nice little cobbled victorian mews just off the ever-busy Argyle Street in the west end of Glasgow.

The mews is a lovely little place - full of brightly coloured converted coach houses and small industrial units. They are mainly inhabited by craftsmen such as picture framers and guitar makers.

There are some really nice hand painted signs hiding around the place too - I'm a sucker for a good old hand-painted sign.

Windows and Doors.

While away in Torridon we stumbled across this derelict house. it makes me sad to see old buildings abandoned like this and especially as we would have loved to have owned this one. No amount of danger keep out or wobbly ladders was going to keep me from exploring the inside - however sad this was i still find the decaying process incredibly beautiful.

On a side note I have big plans to go back for those lovely yellow drawers. 

Torridon Adventures

Sorry, its taken a little bit of time to pull this post together. I hope all our British readers had a great long weekend? (thanks Will and Kate!) We had a great time with friends up in Torridon in the north-west of Scotland.

We meandered up the west coast stopping every now again to admire the views/castles/deer.
  

And this is the lovely house we were staying in. It was like a treasure-trove full of quaint things inside.

I loved all the wood paneling.

Oh, and this was the view we woke up to every morning from our bedroom window - pretty good huh?

It also gave us a pretty speculator view of the wildfires sweeping across the mountains.

We went on some lovely walks during our stay, however we spent most of the weekend basking in the sun by the side of a stream, a waterfall, a loch (i even went for a swim!) or by the sea on our doorstep.

We ventured out a couple of times to a nice little seaside village called Sheidaig where we ate lunch in the village pub and perused round 'Nanny's' - the village shop. Sally twisted my arm to buy a little souvenir…

What a great weekend.

Us. (wedding polaroids)

Royals.

Someone please buy me a Kate and Wills mug for some Rosemary.

The Queen is growing Mint and prince Charles is doing an excellent job with the Coriander.

Human Spirogragh

This work by Tony Orrico is really interesting.

Check out the video above to see his method - its hypnotising!

via swissmiss

What Katie Ate

What Katie Ate today or yesterday announced she is publishing a book! i will have to wait until some time next year to get my hands on it but am heaps excited even just to see more of her lovely collection of vintage kitchenware.

Photos all by her i think and found on her blog. follow the link above.

Michael Johansson

This is one of my favorites - great installations by Michael Johansson. You can see loads more on his website.