http://www.nestledin.net Our home blog: decorating, furnishing, crafting, cooking, window shopping. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:24:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love the first weeks of autumn when new lovely colors start appearing in nature. This is how the Rowan looked like at the beginning of the summer, this (above and below) is how it looks like now. See more pictures here. http://www.nestledin.net/2008/08/rowan/ Receiving a postcard in the mail can brighten up even the most cloudy day. It's nice to know that someone has thought of you and taken the time to write a personal note and send it the old fashioned way, not by email or text message. And framing postcards is ... http://www.nestledin.net/2008/08/postcards-from-etsy/ We've been looking for a nice coffee table ever since we moved in but hadn't found the right one yet. So when my grandparents offered us an old table they had sitting in the storage we decided to take it. It wasn't perfect - not exactly what we were looking ... http://www.nestledin.net/2008/08/coffee-table-diy/ Being a fan of artist Camilla Engman's beautiful work I was delighted to find out about these transfers from Third Drawer Down. You can rub down these transfers to almost any surface (paper, wood, metal, ceramic...) and have a tiny piece of Camilla Engman's art in your home. How cute ... http://www.nestledin.net/2008/08/camilla-engman/ We bought this beautiful Blonde Redhead gig poster from The Small Stakes months ago but had trouble finding a frame for it. Last night we decided to forget the frame alltogether and we hung it on the bedroom wall with a paper clip. The colors in the poster go really ... http://www.nestledin.net/2008/08/blonde-redhead-poster/ Here is what we brought home from our impulse trip to Ikea today. The succulent, a white Kapa plant pot (close up above) and a Jorun cushion cover (below). These days our livingroom is very green+white, my favorite color combination. But I just realized now looking at this picture that this ... http://www.nestledin.net/2008/08/green-and-white/ I've had kitchens on my mind lately. Here are some great inspiration pictures from Domino Magazine if you're thinking of planning a new kitchen or re-doing your old one. Or maybe you're just dreaming about planning a new kitchen like I am! (All images from Domino Magazine) http://www.nestledin.net/2008/08/kitchen-inspiration-from-domino/ Here is beautiful lifestyle photography by Petrina Tinslay. I'm loving all the shades of white in these. I also love love love that white cupboard above. (All images from 2c management) http://www.nestledin.net/2008/08/petrina-tinslay/ I found photographer James Merrell's beautiful work via fellow Finnish blogger Ripaus Inkivääriä. Here are my favorite images from him, all very inspiring. I hope you enjoy them too! (All images from James Merrell) http://www.nestledin.net/2008/08/james-merrell/ August is always such a weird month - at one hand you're trying to savor every last bit of summer and enjoy the sun and the summer feeling but at the same time your thoughts wander into the upcoming autumn and all that it has to offer. But I'm trying ... http://www.nestledin.net/2008/08/summer-colors/