Aimee's Birthday Flowers

The flowers we bought to celebrate Aimee's birthday were pretty quick to wilt, especially the spray roses. (they seemed to wilt from the first evening of heat!), somehow a day or two later, they were pas their prime, but looked just pretty enough that I couldn't resist taking a couple photos of how they looked in the evening light.

Happy Birthday Rachel!

We had fun making a lemon poppyseed cake with cardamom and ginger and a raspberry whipped cream filling.

The sheer height of the cake was ridiculous and the individual pieces were "surprisingly" big!

Happy 25th, Rachel!

Beautiful Themed Bridal Shower

From Design Sponge - This is absolutely gorgeous, a bridal shower event based on "A Midsummer Nights' Dream". This definitely puts the bridal shower I planned to shame.

Bathroom Remodeling

When we first moved in there was brown paint. We installed wainscoting, new fixtures and went with a bright yellow color to complement the black and white. Now the bathroom is a retro-dessert-diner pink, black and white.

This last weekend I painted our bathroom. It occured to me after painting that the pink I chose is reminiscent of the Illy espresso machine pink color. (I don't believe they make it in this color any longer). Below are photos of our bathroom project.

Espresso cup design

I love how these Illy espresso cups are incredibly simple, yet use the mirror images from the ink illustrations on the saucers. So clever! Makes me wish I had unlimited space for storing and using such things.

I love these photos, especially the first interior. Lovely combination of warm lavenders, patterns, textures and subtle white shades. This is borrowed from desiretoinspire.net - photos by Toronto photographer Angus Fergusson.