Goo Collection

Sisters Sally Davies, Lisa Nicol and their mum are the owners and makers of the gorgeous bedlinen, and baby wears company Goo Collection. The range of products features designs that are great for design-conscious mums. No longer fairytale characters and superheroes, this bedlinen features simple and stylish designs in soft colour palettes. Aren't they great!!

Lumberjack candle holder

Danish designer Simon Legald designed these candle holders after being inspired by the silhouette formed in a tree trunk as lumberjacks slowly chop away to a trees centre. Each set of the Lumberjack candle holders are created from a single cylindrical piece of solid wood. The collection is sold through 

Normann Copenhagen.

The Home-Journal

This week on The Home-Journal I share my top 10 cushions for the end of this year.

They are funky, fun and add so much to a space.

Here's the link.

Broste SS14

Danish Interior Company Broste new Spring/Summer 2014 catalogue has some amazing photographs of both the products for sale and incredible experimental pictures. Styled by wonder-woman Nathalie Schwer and photographed by Line T. Klien the end result in beautiful!

The Home-Journal

This week on The Home-Journal I share my top 10 go-to shops for furniture and homewares in Sydney. I hope it helps! Read it here.

Converted Hat Factory in Brussels

This beautiful loft in the centre of Brussels, Belgium has a history as an old industrial building which was home to a hat factory. Transformed by owners Fatti & Pierre, the loft is styled through the combination of Fatti's feminine touch and Pierre's amateur architecture. The home results in a beautiful airy home with vintage and modern pieces. 

Photos from here

The Home-Journal

This week on the Home-Journal I've written about the cutest and coolest cat house around. If you've ever struggled with finding something for your cat to play with in the house that doesn't take away from the rest of your decorating, then here's your solution!

Weylandts

South African Furniture and Lifestyle retailer Weylandts is coming to Australia. The family run store started in 1964 in Nambia and has for the past 25 years been under the care of Chris Weylandt. Known internationally for its curation of a mix of products sources from around the world that features raw materials, modern designs and sustainable techniques. 

CEO Chris Weylandt says of the new Melbourne store, due to open November 15,  'I have always known that Australia and South Africa share a similar appreciation for the home and good living, and in particular, Melbourne with its culture centred on design and the arts. I knew that it was the perfect location for the first Australian Weylandts store.' The Melbourne store will feature furniture, homewares, fashion and food. So keen to do a trip down and check it out!!

Let's Eat

Having worked at Kikki K while studying a few years ago, I have always been a fan by their marketing and especially the photography and styling. The Swedish brand displays their clean, simple and beautiful products in a way that is inspiring and makes you want their products.

This new Foodies Collection, Let's Eat is no exception. It is cute beyond belief and makes me long for an organised kitchen. 

Zakka Mart

I'm not normally one to care about Halloween and i'll admit I had to look up specifically what date Halloween actually falls (it's today)... but this year I stumbled across a few cute ideas for costumes. We don't really do Halloween parties here but where I go rock climbing at The Edge, there is an opportunity to dress up tonight to get free entry for climbing. Tempting... but I think i'd end up spending more on a costume then the actual entry fee!

Anyway, this little store Zakka Mart has the cutest collection of mugs to disguise your face and transform you into a pig, cat or moustached man. And they're so affordable!

Nendo 'Splinter'

Tokyo and Milan based design company Nendo designed this 'Splinter' collection for Conde House, a manufacturer based in Japan's famous Asahikawa wooden furniture region. Each piece of wood is splintered as though peel parts away. By approaching the wood gently and going with the grain the wood retains its original pliancy. Here are images of the mirrors within the collection which display simplicity at its best. The rest of the collection includes a chair, coatrack, clothes hanger and side table.

House Doctor

I've recently discovered Denmark based, family-run interior design business House Doctor through Swedish blog Husligheter. The latest catalogue 'Moments' is wonderfully photographed and super inspiring. I haven't figured out where the closest stockist is for us here in Australia, but i will keep researching! Watch this space...

Monocle Flat Lens

How cool is the modern wall light! Made of milled aluminium the LED light is rotatable in order to lighten your chosen angle. I think it's super pretty. 

Find it here.

7 Vignettes August

This past week you may have noticed that I have been uploading photos on Instagram a whole lot more frequently than ever before... I thought i'd explain why ive been hoarding your feeds... It's called 7vignettes... And it's been going on for ages (every month this year). I've been viewing each months entries but never got around to entering the full seven day competition, until now. 

So what is it? It is an instagram competition run by Jen Bishop of Interiors Addict the first seven days of each month. Jen will post the list of topics/themes for the months competition a week or so before it starts so you can starting planning and preparing. Each day you enter a vignette (a small cluster of objects or things that have meaning or resonate an emotion or memory) that follows the days theme and at the end you could win a prize. You can view all the other entries at #7vignettes. It's pretty fun actually... And it's really inspiring looking through everyone's entries and how they view each theme...

Here are my entries for this month... I'm not super pleased with some of them, but i'm happy that I created all seven and therefore completed 7vignettes! I find it hard styling things from home when you feel like you don't have much stuff to pick from... but I guess that's all part of the challenge!

Day 1: Tea/Coffee

Day 2: Bedside

(i got a bit excited and entered two options!)

Day 3: Window

Day 4: Elegant

Day 5: Monochrome

Day 6: Emotional

Day 7: Handmade

Here's my instagram feed if you're keen to see the rest of my album: @claire_wind

(& if you still don't get it click here to read the full instructions!)