Autumn Tea Party

Look at these darling lamps from Laura Ashley. I don't know whether it's the Johnny Depp/ Alice in Wonderland influence, or just coincidence that these have also come out in 2010, but I am totally smitten.



Now all I need is to bake some little cup cakes, don a blue dress, stick a playing card in my top hat and invite the Cheshire Cat around for a cuppa.

Teapot Lamp £50 & Tea Time (cups and saucers) Lamp £100.

Abbey Road scribbles

Architecture on Oxford Street

Just where you least expect something like this, so Fifth Element. I guess something positive did come out of The Blitz after all...

Advice from Ghandi on the Tube

Dwelling on the macabre

Wandering down Tottenham Court Road today some sparkle caught my eye. Now there is nothing this little Magpie likes more than the slightly sinister fused with glitz. This black diamante skull had me pressing my nose and slightly grubby mitts against the glass.
I also spotted this dangerously glam silver scorpion. He's enough to take the girlie edge of any bachelorette pad whilst contrasting nicely with the Cath Kidston.

Lego block storage

So there seems to be a theme in this blog. Perhaps I just don't want to grow up, but it seems that interiors inspired by kids really catch my eye. Strange how it takes writing it all down in one place to realise a link...

Anyhow, I spotted these giant Lego-shaped storage boxes. They fit together just like in the olden days, but on a mammoth scale. So they can be used to store toys, clothes etc and be hidden under the bed, or can be used to make a towering feature in the kids room... or yours.

From £17 at http://www.aplaceforeverything.co.uk/

Fishing tackle shop window display

Made me smile! There is so much movement in something so inanimate!