i heart your art: olga seriojina

This morning a colourful piece of art popped up on my Pinterest feed and I clicked through to see who it was by. It took me to a Tumbler blog, which I must admit I HATE because you can so rarely find the original source for anything. It drives me nuts. Fortunately I didn't just give up, because when I tracked it all the way back I was rewarded with the work of an incredible artist whose beautiful creations I'd never seen before. 

Introducing Olga Seriojina, who is from Moscow and is apparently only thirty years old. Pretty damn impressive. I think her work is incredible:

It kind of fits in with yellow week because every one of my favourites has some in it, from a teeny tiny smidge to virtually the entire canvas. That counts right?

Also, she's kind of ridiculously adorable. 

Just sayin'. 

To see more of Olga's work, visit her (equally amazing) website, or check out her Flickr.

Be back soon with more yellow love! Although at this point I may be the only one who hasn't had enough...

yellow love week: pops of happy

Ever since I got my new rug, the little bits of yellow in it have gotten me obsessed with bringing more of the sunshine shade into my life. I had bought pink dye to give some colour to the pendant light above my table, but now I'm thinking a golden yellow would be waaaay better. I may even paint one or both of the chairs a golden yellow too, à-la this chair from Anthropologie:

Be still my heart. 

I think yellow is one of the absolute hardest colours to get right. Most of the time it just ends up looking like a jarring bumblebee of a country-kitchen-style hot mess. But when yellow is done right - with just the right shade and just the right balance of daring and restraint - it really is like nothing else. 

Examples? Don't mind if I do! 

Tommy Smythe has pops of yellow down to an art:

Yellow headboards make me weak in the knees:

I want to eat the Scalamandre wallpaper on the right with a spoon:

Yellow chandeliers are fun, unexpected, and easy to achieve with a can of spray paint - the best combo!

And finally, my favourite of all favourite dining/living rooms in the history of all time (I'm actually not kidding):

Every SINGLE time pictures of this space pop up on my Pinterest feed I end up pinning it, because I forget that I've pinned it a million times before and my eyes go straight to it. I can't help it, it's like interior design crack for me. I want it I want it I want it. 

My yellow love isn't stopping at rooms though - I'm lusting after yellow maxi skirts, yellow jewellery, yellow shoes, yellow fabric, even yellow iphone cases...pretty much just can't get the shade out of my head! 

So I'm officially declaring this yellow week, and will be back with more luscious sunshine in the coming days. 

What do you think? Are you a fan? Do you agree that yellow can go so so wrong?

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

i have issues

So the styled shoot post has been delayed by general life. Sorry about that. In the meantime, I was making lunch today (aka throwing soup in a pot) when I noticed how hilarious the current state of my kitchen counter is. Mostly because the only time my counter doesn't look something like this is when I know I have company coming over. 

Two different homemade stencils, the sharp blade I used to make them, the spray bottle I used to make my vase pendant light, a paint fan deck (I'm thinking a grey purple in here), two bottles of fabric dye and an old piece of fabric I'm using to experiment with them. In the background is my toolbox and my laptop sitting on top of this month's Style at Home magazine. 

This picture pretty much defines my life.