Hang up your tray

Hang up your tray, doesn´t it sound silly? But it´s not, the conterary it´s très chic!

That is what Eddie Ross did for the Window that he created for textile producer Carleton V.

I think I went back to his blog for a couple of times to look at this picture, and them I started

looking like a madwoman on ebay, searching for a similar to this brass tray, wich I didn´t find.

I remembered I had an Alessi fruit tray, that was given as a gift a few years ago.

It is an oddly shaped shiny tray that could do the trick.

I bought a strong glue (one that doesn´t harm your wall if you decide to remove it again)

and placed it above the fornasetti plate.

Picture taken with my iphone

I am happy with the result. Thanks to Eddie and Jaithan for their great ideas!

Beau lifestyle apartment

This is it, the painting is finally dry, and mounted on the wall.These are the images of our little apartment that I wanted to share with you. If you read my blog you might recognize the things in the apartment that I posted about. There are still things I want to undertake in our apartment, but for the moment it's done.

Please let me know what you think and I am happy to tell you where I found/ bought the things in our apartment. I would like to thank you, for being part of this wonderfull world called blogging. It has been a huge inspiration for me.

13-02-2012 update: Baby Matteo´s nursery

Fornasetti plates

I have seen them in boutiques and on the internet, always intrigued to see the silly faces, never knowing wich name they had untill I red about them on a other blog. Now I like them so much that I would like to own one, just one and I promise I will not start to collecting them....

More information about fornasetti:

Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988) is often described as a visionary. A Milan artist, Fornasetti was at the same time a painter, sculptor, designer, craftsman, and an engraver of art books. In his lifetime, he created more than 11,000 objects, decorative schemes, and items of furniture in the course of his unfailingly prolific career, including a large number of unique pieces.
Drawings on a powerful mix of Italian cultural tradition and surrealist invention, his ideas were expressed on every conceivable support, from glasses and plates to umbrellas, lamps, furniture, and screens. The result is a very unusual and highly poetic body of work.
Today his son, Barnaba Fornasetti, is keeping the family tradition alive by reviving Piero’s most popular pieces and creating new ones.
source: http://elsieeleanor.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html