This past weekend my husband and I had a treat. The grandparents came up to hang out with the Poppet (by which I mean fawn over the poppet) and we went for a late breakfast and movie in Yarraville.
I decided to be a nice wife and let Digger chose the movie (opps), naturally he chose a baseball movie. But I got a great payoff, while we were browsing in The Sun Bookstore before the movie I spotted Lotta Jansdotter's book "Handmade Living" and since Ryan got to choose the movie I got to choose a book to come home with me...Hoorah!!!!
So not only did I get to eat a real breakfast with coffee whilst it was still hot and yummy, I also got to look at Brad Pitt for a few hours and take a pretty new book home.
And the day got even better. By the time we got home Poppy was soo tired from all the adoration and playing that she had a really really big nap. So I got to sit down with a big cup of tea and read my new book cover to cover... and what a book I loved it!!!
This book has everything I adore. Wonderfully creative handmade pieces, practical and pretty storage solutions, lots of textiles, an adorable child, and recipe cards. But what I thought was most awesome about this book is that it's not written by someone with a gargantuan disposable income who has furnished their home with items I could only ever dream of one day putting on my wishlist. This book is full of practical accessible and beautiful items, some from flea markets and garage sales, some hand crafted by the author or her local designer friends and amongst all of this, items from Ikea.
It's a wonderful book and I could say soo many nice things about it but I think I have covered the main points and I don't want to spoil it for you if you decide to have a look yourself, which I thoroughly recommend you do.
I cant wait to break out some of the recipes to make myself, the apple jam one sounds especially tasty.
Happy Weekend everyone
xxx
....sounds great!!!! Might have to borrow it once you are done. Hooray for new books!
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