Cool Links

 

This place shot onto my radar this weekend via some very cool links from Apartment Therapy. The artwork above the dining table featured in the same post.  I really loved the neutral B + W scheme matched with a solid dose of timber and the light smattering of vintage throughout the home.

 

Oh, and I'd seriously love that bedhead and martini sign in my place. Such a great look.

 

And thanks again A.T!

 

Images from apartment therapy

Splendiforous

Some people are blessed with many talents aren't they? These amazing works by Matthew Cusick clearly demonstrate one such person.

Apart from his artistic creativity, imagination and skill - how about the patience of a saint! Again, a talent I'm severely lacking. The hours that have gone into these works must be staggering, but what a pay off. {click on the images to view in detail}

I hope you're all having a splendiforous weekend, and thanks heaps for dropping in this week!

Happy Mothers Day to all the mums out there, hope it's a lovely day.

Super special thanks this week go these awesome people...

Kate @ Apartment Therapy

Adri @ Dream Book Design

and

Olga @ Mes Caprices Belges

  

Images by Matthew Cusick via designboom

Follow The Sun

Good morning, good morning. Slow start here this Sunday morning, but I guess that's what they're really for.

Last night it rained and rained and then rained some more. I was expecting it, you know, seeing how it's autumn here and all, but it was a little sad. No more summer, no more swimming.

So this little clip, the latest song by the brilliant Xavier Rudd, struck a chord this morning.

Hope everyone is having a brilliant weekend and thanks so much, as always, for your support of the Project this week.

And special thanks goes to the lovely....

Jenny @ Aubrey Road 

Down With

{I cant get it quite as big as I'd like, you'll just have to click on it}

Hope everyone is having a relaxing weekend with a mag or two. That's exactly what I was doing when blow me down with a feather, if Jo from Desire to Inspire had only gone and mentioned The Diversion Project in an interview in the current copy of Real Living.

Thoroughly stoked.

Thanks so much Jo!

And many thanks to one and all for calling in and taking a look around this week, I'm always so happy that you do!

Images from Real Living  and via Desire to Inspire

Colourful Life

I've been over at 20 x 200 checking out the latest and greatest. And some of the really cool things I found there were these prints from the photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

Back in his time Muybridge was renowned for his experimental photography that pushed the typical boundaries of the day. Today, I think his images still have a magical quality. The photographer was a genius of his time, but also led a very colourful life. 

How's life with you? Hope there's plenty of colour this weekend. Thanks so much for a lovely week of visits and treats, and extra special thanks to this lovely...

Roséline @ {this is glamorous}

Images via 20 x 200

An Elixer

It's so sad that sweet sundays are swiftly replaced by manic mondays isn't it? I really need to learn to not have that thought until at least 7pm on Sundays, it's creeping into my mind closer to 7am these days, and it's distracting me.

Perhaps if we installed an elixer filled fountain like this one in the office, I'd be justified at wanting to head in early tomorrow.

Hope you get to hold on to your weekend with both hands, and keep monday-itis at bay for long enough to unwind and kick back.

Thanks for kicking back around here this week, it's been a pleasure to have you!

and special thanks to these lovely people...

Jenny @ Aubrey Road

Melis @ Melissa Loves

Sarah @ Haute Design

Comfortable Home Design

Image via AnOther

Satisfyingly Does

Well the weekend has rolled around once again, as it satisfyingly does. Hope you're all finding something Diverting to do, or something totally Zen to do, which ever takes your fancy.

No rhyme or reason behind this image, just thought it was gorgeous. That's OK, right?

Thanks so much for all the fun and games this week, hope you found one or two things that blipped your radar. And extra special thanks to these kids....

RamonaRode Home

and

Kerry @ A Tranquil Townhouse

Image from sass&bide blog

But For Now

How's the weekend going thus far? Hope it is sensational and you're getting to do everything you've been waiting all week for. This weekend at the Splendour mostly involves a few little must do's, and hopefully one or two would like to do's too.

Things are pretty slow during summer once the main requirements of the day are out of the way. Crazy plants that love the heat silently grow even crazier. Thongs are left by the back door and the house goes quiet, apart from the air conditioner.  All just waiting for the temperature and sun to drop just enough to head out to the pool.

A few things have evolved. Some new cushions just unpacked (still waiting for a proper home), a new light (mainly because it only requires a lampshade and not an electrician!), and a re-make of what was a weird office area off my bedroom which has been a dumping zone since we moved in. As I don't need a second office, and this room was en route to the en suite, I decided to turn it into a little dressing room space.

A chunk of time on the tools (yeah, just a screw driver really), and the most excruciatingly built in desk is gone. Making room to spread out some antique dressers in the space, and get excited about having a very girly spot in a very boy house. (Well, an all girl zone except for the little lamp with the yellow hat - funniest gift I've ever received!)

Hole filling and patch up painting and some more playing with things required - but for now I'm happy.

Speaking of happy - thanks so much to all the new people and the already loved (couldn't bear to call you old!) that have trotted through this week. It was a killer of a week. So glad to meet all the new peeps, and hope to see you round the joint regularly!

Super thanks goes to...

Jackie @ Apartment Therapy

for all the crazy goodness that the AT front page offers!

Elizabeth @ Modern 24/7

Jeanne @ Shop Sweet Things

Boo Hoo

I have severe bruising at the moment from kicking myself. Hard.

There I was Thursday lunch time scouring Gumtree for the last few minutes before I knuckled back down to it, and what should I find but this incredible original wall unit listed. Best bit, it was going for free. Yep, that's right FREE. And to put the icing on the cake, the owner had already disassembled it and had it neatly stacked ready for collection.

The ad was fresh, just listed. I was just about to pick up the phone and put dibs on it, when I had to head downstairs for a meeting. Damn it all to hell and back. And sadly an hour or two later, it was gone. Oh this would have been splendid in the Splendour. But I guess it was not to be. Boo hoo.

So how has your week been? Brilliant, I hope. And thanks a lot for making The Diversion Project part of it. As always, I'm very glad that you do!

And big thanks this week to....

Sofia @ Kreativ Inredning

Hello

Hello, how's everyone's weekend rolling? Smoothly I hope.

Thought I'd quickly show you a little project I ticked off the never ending list. With the temperatures here up in the 40's for days (to be clear, that is centigrade btw!!) I've been indoors without any excuse to walk past little jobs like this waiting to be done.

First achievement was packing away the remnants of Christmas - so the tonne of baubles that have been living in those three little thrifted parats have been put away for another year. I know, not really a biggy in the achievement stakes, but I had to talk it up to convince myself to do it!

But the main achievement was taking one of my under $10 thrift store picture frames and converting it into something worth showing. This big frame had a very 80's collection of maroon and orange tulips, which has now bit the recycling bin. I ordered this great print from Society6 a while ago as it was perfect for this frame, and an image I loved. So, new white mat and some gloss white paint on a hot day later, and there's a lovely big addition to the entry hall of the Splendour.

Now, taking things a little further and really styling the hall up would be good, but I don't want to be labelled an over-achiever now do I? I think it would be a good spot for another parat that I bought recently, from the v. cool Lived In Coogee, which I currently have in the fireplace. And a new coat of paint for the table that I inherited from my great aunt would be a good thing too - colour suggestions?

So, are you ticking anything off your list this weekend? A blog related "tick off" for me has been to figure out how to set up a facebook 'page'. I had a Diversion account before, but it wasn't a page, and I didnt realise I could convert my account to a page... (Yes, I am really am that IT limited). Anyway after all that faffing, I found out shortly later that Facebook now wont allow blogs to feed automatically to Pages. WTF is with that?! Dumb stuff. So now it seems that everyone that liked me then, now likes me twice, and I have a useless Page on my hands. Too hard!

Anyway, thanks for listening to my waffle and thanks for stopping in this week!

And huge thanks to these cool people for some Diversionary link love....

Linda @ Oeke Design Blog

Kim @ Desire To Inspire

Images by the diversion project

Bloody Oath

I'm tired. This time of year is relentless isn't it. Project deadlines, contracts to write, birthday parties, drinks with friends, lunches, presents. A lot to do. A lot of great stuff to do. And then the inane ephemera that really is boring, but always raises it's ugly head for attention, creeps in there too.

Well, I think it's time to relax. Bloody oath I do. And ephemera be warned, once I've decided to relax, nothing better get in my way.

Hope you're having a chance for a bit of relaxation this weekend, involving all of the best best of your fave things. Thanks so much for stopping in. Seriously, thank you.

And big huge thanks to the lovely...

roséline @ {this is glamorous}

Migrating

Guess what I've just ordered for the 60's Splendour???

Sadly no, not killer vintage steel chairs or a budgie smuggler wearing pool boy. Disappointing, I know.

But that swan had my name on it from the minute I saw it. Doubt she'll make it before Christmas, but you never know. I'm sure she's going to love migrating south.

Hope everyone is having a really lovely weekend, and many thanks to this lovely chick...

Kerry @ A Tranquil Townhouse

Image from design*sponge

What If

I use Nearmap as part of work quite a lot, and there's nothing I love more than when there is an update to their images. I really like looking at the projects I'm working on and seeing their progression. But I also love looking at the 60's Splendour. Seeing the big old pool in the yard, surrounded by turf and the bushland across the road.

I was thinking today while floating around the pool - "man, what if there was a satellite going over right now!" So when I came inside to do a little online wandering I was instantly attracted to these great aerial photos by Bernhard Lang.  The colours and the action he's captured is wonderful.

I hope you're all having a sensational weekend, and thanks heaps for dropping in this week.

Super special thanks go to these special folk....

Japanese Trash

Larie @ Eye Heart It

Images by bernhard lang via yatzer

I Wish I Was

Love these illustrations by Sophie Grotto - such energy. But mostly I just wish that I was that last chick, having coffee in my favourite city.

Wishing you all a seriously cool weekend, hope all you people in the States had a lovely Thanksgiving too.

And thanks goes to this very lovely chick...

Anne-Marie from 10 Rooms Design

Images by sophie griotto via trendland

Rolling

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. I'm struggling to keep the renovating roller coaster rolling. Haven't achieved a lot this weekend, except someone came to install air conditioning, which is about to come in very handy!

Thanks so much for popping in this week, it's a real treat that you do. And big thanks to these two lovely girls for always giving me a smile...

Kerry @ A Tranquil Townhouse

Deej @ Dustjacket

and one I almost missed, thanks so much -

Japanese Trash

Image from cote maison

Subject To Change

I wish this was me by my pool today, but we're up to our ears in rubble and bricks. The "slightly out of vertical" section of the retaining wall by the pool is now horizontal (with a bit of help!), and the whole section is being rebuilt.

Then comes the bituminous waterproofing to the back of it (which I'm doing myself) and after its dried and cured for a few fine days, the back fill goes in and then the girl is ready for paint. Because I'm only replacing a section of the wall, and the wall goes from one side of the property right over to the other side, I'll be re-painting the old sections and painting the new to tie it all together. Currently charcoal is the colour of choice, but you know, that's subject to change!

Thanks everyone for a really sweet week, and many thanks to these cool kids for spreading the Diversions around the ether...

Gabrielle @ Savvy Home

Deej @ Dustjacket

Japanese Trash

Image from refinery29

Graduated Greys

Well, I finally succumbed. Not only to tiredness, but to bedding sales. I bought myself this gorgeous Inka linen by Aura. The graduated greys got me in.

But then, so did the price. I found these on sale at Brands Exclusive (and no, this is not a sponsored post!!). Just spreading the word that there's some Aura bargains a-foot. And I mean Bar-gaaain. But I think this sale ends today or tomorrow, so if you've been eyeing off some Aura, better get a move on. (if you're not signed up to BE, and want some sales action, let me know and I'll send you an invitation).

Hope everyone gets a little sleep in this weekend in some sharp new bed linen. And thanks so much to everyone for hanging in there with me over the house move, I'm chuffed that you have. Back to normal posting this week, and promise to keep an eye out for the people to thank next weekend.

Image from aura via poppytalk