Join The Room Debate!

Morning all! I’m sooo busy at the moment life has become rather blink and you’ll miss it… but at least it means our lovely Friday discussions come around quickly!

So today’s spring-like bedroom ticks a lot of boxes if trends are all that matter: pastels, ombre, silk lampshades. But the real question is, does it float your boat? Have a good look and leave a comment with your answers to these two questions:

One thing I like most about this room is…

One thing I like least about this room is…

{House to Home}

I’m really looking forward to hearing what you think!

Have a lovely weekend.

DN x

The Room Debate is back!

It’s the first week of the year is over and due to popular demand, The Room Debate is making a comeback!

As a London-dweller, the size and layout of this living room are typical of flats my friends and I are likely to live in, so I thought it would be interesting to chat about a room that might feel familiar to some of us.

{David Giles / The Guardian}

Made your mind up? Here’s our Graham with a quick reminder…

Joining The Room Debate is easy peasy. Just have a good look at the room photo above then leave a comment with your answers to these two questions:

One thing I like most about this room is…

One thing I like least about this room is…

Ready? Steady? GO!

Free printable! 16 illustrated Christmas gift tags

It’s been brilliant having you all read my blog over the past year – it feels like last Christmas was only moments ago but so much has happened over the past year and 2013 is going to be the most exciting yet for Decorator’s Notebook. So to say thank you for reading I’ve been hard at work drawing a little present just for you!

{© Decorator’s Notebook / Photographs Joe John}

There are 16 different hand-drawn Christmas gift tag designs to print on any card you like. The PDF is free to download by clicking the link below… in return, please share an image and link via Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest by hitting one of the buttons at the bottom of the post. If you have your own blog please feel free to share it there too, but please post a link to Decorator’s Notebook rather than the PDF itself.

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Y is for Yellow

I love yellow. I wear it all the time and I often think of introducing a golden accent to my predominantly grey and white home. I think the penultimate Pinterest A-Z might be just the push I need to introduce some sunshine into my life!

Y is for Yellow

{West Elm via my Pinterest boards}

{via Left My Heart In Paris via my Pinterest boards}

{via Le Voyage Créatif via my Pinterest boards}

{via Decorno via my Pinterest boards}

I love how such a little colour can go such a long way. Do you have any yellow in your home?

If you’re visiting or exhibiting at Top Drawer I’ll be there this Sunday… send me a tweet via @DecoratorsNotes and say hello!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

DIY luggage tag business cards

Ill be at the Papermash craft and shopping evening tomorrow (21st June) so thought I should make a few blog business cards to give to lovely new people I might meet. Here’s how they turned out…

{all Decorator’s Notebook}

Materials-wise, I used a mixture of these white and manilla luggage labels and this rather nice black and white baker’s twine. The text is done with my trusty Dormy letter stamp and I was over the moon to find “my” dragonfly rubber stamp on Etsy. Mix them all together and a couple of hours later… 100-ish homemade business cards!

If you can make it to Clapham on Thursday evening it would be lovely to meet you at Lynne’s event – I’ll be helping on the jam jar crafting table for part of the night so please come and say hi! If you’d like to come you can find out more here and please rsvp here.