It started like this...I saw Simone's Beach Vintage post about making skirts for the fairy lights for her lucky daughter's bedroom...here they are...v.pretty
pic from Beach Vintage

...and I thought, there's an idea (must 

stop doing that...I'm sure it's just a way to procrastinate even further about finishing painting the pergola!)...anyway, just what I need to jazz up my fairy light basket 'lamp' I said to myself (no-one else being around). Here it is unplugged...a bit of a shamozzle I'm sure you'd agree!

And here it is lit up...quite pretty in a thrown together, diy, budget light fixture kind of way.

But (there's almost always a 'but' isn't there) I was worried about how naked it looked during the day and concerned for its modesty (ok, not really...I'm not quite that mad)

So I thought I would take Simone's idea and give my fairy lights some of their own little tu-tu's. But I wasn't content with white...my living room is kind of colourful, so I made some out of red, purple, and yellow...as well as white.

Over the top? Me? Course not.

It took quite a bit longer than I thought! Here they are unlit...

I'm not 100% sure about them like this to be honest...I don't think they look anywhere near as good as Simone's...perhaps because of the plain edges...perhaps because tulle twirling is not a skill I've mastered...perhaps because it wasn't a good idea to start with! But here is my 'lamp' lit up at night. And that, I do quite like.

What do you think?  Should I leave my lights to their multi-coloured madness or should I just forget about it altogether and pack it away in a cupboard!?!

Yesterday, I blogged about a beautiful house in West Sussex in the UK. One of the things I loved in that house was this...

I thought that parrot was so fabulous...and it is...I love it to bits and I would really like to own it, but alas I don't!

Now lovely people, I spend a lot of time at the desk in my study

(note to self, get better lighting or a better camera and paint those walls white...but which white??)...where was I? Oh yes, I'm here either working on my real work when I can manage to work from home, or blogging, or devouring other people's blogs (which I'm afraid to say is bordering on the obsessive!)...so when I saw these babies in the Canberra Centre's version of the two dollar shop yesterday...I'm sorry...they had to come home with me.

So call the design police (although I'd rather you called a lighting specialist)...I don't care. I love them, and you know what...they make me smile...and when you're working, what could be better than that!

It's been an awfully long time since this decanter has seen any alcohol...not because I don't drink mind you...just because decanting isn't really my thing...I'm a from the bottle straight to the glass kind of girl. But I love its shape so much I had to have it on display.  I quite like feathers too...and had these lying around...so decanter plus feathers equals...

Think I might try peacock feathers though...when I work out how to get these ones out that is!!

image by me