~light & bright swedish loveliness~

hello there friends!

well, I'm back from my little vacation~

bet you thought I was never coming back, huh?

I don't know about you, but I was just

needing a major vacation from everything

and really really enjoyed it!!

To lighten & brighten your mid winter

{ok, so not exactly mid-winter......I'm an optimist :) }

life....I thought you would enjoy

these beautiful photos of

a darling swedish home....

This darling Swedish home is light & bright inside
and out!  Look at all the beautiful snow.....

I know all you mid-westerners are probably rolling
your eyes & saying "yeah right!" but in the NW we
rarely get snow & look forward to it on occasion.....

2 years ago we actually got 18 inches right during Christmas!
it was so wonderful!

of course everything around here closes down & all

the news stations preempt all tv programming if

we get any more than an inch!!

I am really loving the white table with the natural wood

chairs......I've seen a lot of tables similar to this, in blogland, and I really like the style.

I've wondered about the nordic style of decorating....

you know they use so much white & it snows so much there

.....I wonder if it just makes their homes so much brighter??

anyone out there from Sweden can shed some "light" on the

subject?? hee hee.

I do love it though!

I'm actually trying to redo this post....

I just posted it & went back to check it &

blogger erased all but the very first paragraph!

fabulous.  I'm sure if I had anything witty & cute to say the first time ~ it'll be long gone for the second time around!! ;)

so you'll simply have to suffer through & just look

at the pictures.....;)

when I blog I feel like I'm sitting on the sofa

thumbing through a fabulous magazine with a friend.

showing you pictures & commenting on what I love.

Ok...so love the wood & the wicker baskets mixed with

the white.  The dog is pretty darn cute too....

loving this room too.  the vintage fabrics mixed all around

with the pale wood is so gorgeous......yummy.

love the little splash of color in the painting as well.

more yummy linens....

purrrrrrrrrrr.......

I think I was going on about how I would love

to paint our downstairs a yummy white but

making myself wait.......to    s   t   a   r   t

another project until I   f   i   n   i   s   h   

current projects......

then I was saying something like

"how mature I must be getting to make such a decision &

wondering about how long that kind of thing might last...."

so yeah, spilling my ADD beans again to you all &

droning on about it...;)

are you all feeling like your home is rather

bare now?  after Christmas?

it definitely feels that way here! 

are you all chomping at the bit to start on new

projects or are you holding back?

me, I'm in the "holding back" mode....

not   q   u   i   t   e    that motivated yet....

I'll work into it.  just need a little more time.

then I'll kick back into crazy mode & get after it.

For now I'll enjoy your projects :)

Ok....really hoping when I hit post it actually does something

& doesn't come back w/ nothin'  

wish me luck!

xoxoxo,

Shellagh

{all photos courtesy of skona hem}