Rasberry

Redecorate the cubby with pretty curtains, butterfly mobile and twinkly lights

This is what I have been up too all weekend.... redecorating the cubby house.  Why you ask?  Emily (our third) is turning 4 years old.  So we thought as a birthday surprise we would do a little revamp of the cubby.  Slowly but surely the revamp has turned into a significant project.  Materials have been purchased, the sewing machine got pulled out of the cupboard and a weekend was dedicated to the "redecorating of 
cubby house" project.  We could have named it "Operation Cubby Delight".  I thought I would share some images of our cubby renovations!

Pretty curtains to decorate our cubby windows are a must.  I found this gorgeous fabric at Patchwork On Central Park (I will chat more about the curtains and Patchwork on Central Park tomorrow.

 

Open the doors and come inside - we decided to cover the bench and shelf in the cubby with "oil cloth".  The bench was rather destroyed from sand and water games played by previous tenants (i.e older brother and sister).  We had a small piece of carpet that was left over from when we carpeted our house some time back and after a little trim fitted perfectly inside. 

 

A butterfly mobile strung across the roof of the cubby - I used a variety of fabrics and felt to cutout butterfly shapes and attached them to a white rik rak which we then strung up.  We had purchased these star shaped lights a couple of years ago during a post-christmas sale.  They are perfect as they are battery-operated.  I will do a blog on the butterfly mobile and how to create one tomorrow. 

 

A pretty little apron for the maiden of the cubby - or in our case "princess lollycake" as she likes to be known as.

 

 

Fine bone china butterflies, balloon shaped mirrors and fabulous pecan tart

Went perusing through Fitzroy yesterday.  Scrumptious day with warm autumn sun and lovely cool breeze.  The perfect day to be perusing. 

Stopped of at Lightly’s new showroom.  Absolutely in love with the ornamental butterflies made from recycled fine bone china saucers. 

 

 Here’s an image I took of the butterflies used to decorate the walls of the newly established Lightly showroom on Glasshouse Road in Fitzroy. 

 

 
I also love the Acrylic Mirrors particularly the balloons.  The floating ribbons gave them a nice touch.  

 

 

 

As we were walking along Gertrude Street – my nose went into overdrive at the whiff of coffee in the air – the kind that you follow and it draws you towards it….We followed and ended up De Clieu – a fabulous café by Seven Seeds (who also have Brother Baba Buden expresso café in Lt Bourke Street and of course Seven Seeds in Carlton).  We stopped for lunch but even before I sat down I could not help myself – I placed an order for the pecan tart on the cake stand.  Ok so who said there was a rule against pecan tart and coffee before lunch?  It was delish…..

 Stopped in at Dean’s Art on Gertrude Street – they need some inspirational papers – it was all looking a little life-less – in need of some fresh inspiration (this from the girl who has a business that sells paper) so will give them a call this week to chat with about seeing if they are interested in stocking Rasberry – what do you think?