week 31 – photo a day

really is festival season in Edinburgh – first the local festival and then the start of the big festival season – I expect these will feature again over the next few weeks.  I love the energy in the city while the festivals are on and you never know what you’ll see just wandering around town

 

1. junior pipe band in local fancy dress parade

2. front of official parade – ‘honest lad’ has the flag

3. bridge to my parents’ house is finally crossable by car after 8 months

4. went to ‘pick your own fruit’ - yum

5. Dad’s garden has abundance for people (apples) and butterflies (stinging nettles)

6. enjoying a warm afternoon at my sister’s with no rain

7. jazz festival concert by Chris Barber band – great toe tapping

‘blackboards’

while looking for large wall decal I came across a number that are ‘blackboards’.  The inverted commas are because they now seem to be called ‘wet wipe’ boards and you can buy pens to use instead of chalk.

These two etsy shops caught my eye

 Signs by SJ has perpetual calendars and also labels for boxes etc

Bradens Grace has notice boards in various shapes as well as labels

I also love these dry erase boards

by Simple Shapes, and they do a perpetual calendar too

And my last word on decals {for now} I love these by Ellynelly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but they are not making any at the moment while they move to Australia.

I think I need more walls so that I can use all of these decals as well as having furniture and art against walls.

trees on the wall

Having shared the dandelion and urbanesque decals in my shortlist here are the trees that caught my eye to bring some oomph to my white bathroom.  All of them allow choice of colour.  [click image for link]

Decor Designs

Decor Designs

Decor Designs

Decor Designs

NouWall

NouWall

Nou Wall

Designed Designer

Stickerbrand

Way too many on this shortlist.  Next I need to map out what else will be on that wall and how each shape will fit in the space.  All of these have sizes in feet and inches which I can’t visualise so I also need to convert them to metric – all good brain gym.

looking at large wall decals

I’m realising that decorating the house means a lot of time scouring through brochures and websites looking for the thing that I want or that grabs me.

I’ve also realised that some aspects of house decoration leave me cold.  Really I cannot get excited about bathroom ‘furniture’ – as long as the basin, toilet and shower work then I’m happy.  Perhaps part of the problem is that it is all white and I just do not get excited by white.

So I decided to liven up the bathroom by putting a large decal on one of the empty walls.  Which meant several hours browsing various etsy shops and looking at an amazing range of ideas.

My favourites fall into three groups – trees; dandelion; urban [click image for link]

today I’m sharing the dandelions and the urban ones –

Decor Designs

Decor Designs

Chuck E Byrd

Lewa’s designs

Qinqin decal

Qiqin Decal

Decals Murals

hard enough choosing between these – wait til you see the trees in the next post!