Keeping It Simple

After my gargantuan posts yesterday, I'm going to keep things simple today. 7 Things I'm Loving...on this sunny, decidedly un-wintery day. But hey, at least it's Friday!

1. The only thing better than gorgeous flowers...is gorgeous flowers that somehow bring back childhood memories. Apparently smell is one of our most powerful senses for triggering memories, and even the thought of these lovely pansies had me back in my childhood garden, chasing lizards and exploring the "wilderness" with my trusty canine companion.

2. Speaking of the smell of memories, it's pretty impossible to compete with the scent of old books. I'm not sure if this will come as any surprise, but I was something of a bookworm back in my mini-me days. It's been a while since I read any of the classics, so perhaps it's time for a long overdue return to bookworm-dom. Any suggestions?

3. One more memory! This photo took me straight back to childhood holidays on Fraser Island off the coast of Queensland. I spent endless hours at what may still be my most favourite place in the world, playing in the rock pools full of Finding Nemo characters, setting up my mermaid digs in the perfectly Kit-sized indentations of the massive rock wall, and sitting on the highest vantage spot on the point, watching dolphins, whales and sharks swim by...I never realised what a truly miraculous childhood I lead! I haven't been back in well over a decade, but this year I might just change that, and I can't wait. What's your favourite place in the world?

4. Back to the present...I LOVE flying downhill on my little bicycle, there's nothing quite like it. This weekend I'm going to pack up a little picnic, coax Mr. Unreliable onto his bicycle and take us to one of our favourite spots on the harbour...weather permitting!

5. Even though various insects are doing their best to devour every single last one of my plants, I absolutely adore gardening. My tiny potted orange tree is literally packed to the brim full of fruit that will hopefully be ready for the picking soon, and I might even be able to get a glass of orange juice out of the affair! My lemon and lime trees are a little further behind, but I'm not going to complain about fresh fruit year round! Are you the greenthumb type? Do you grow your own food?

6. Yes, I still love white on white interiors, but can you blame me? As sterile as the colour scheme might sound in theory, the range of warm, rustic white on white interiors that are currently doing the blog rounds is proof enough that white is not a dirty word (or a super-sterile bland word either!) I dream of the day I can move into a naturally lit apartment with white floorboards. In fact...my current apartment has the former, but I wonder if my landlord would be terribly adverse to replacing the most boring beige carpet in the world with floorboards...surely not?!

7. Realistically though, I'm not sure I'd ever be disciplined enough to stick to a strictly white-on-white theme, mainly because I love colour so much! Even my attempts to theme areas of my apartment into defined colour schemes seem destined to fail...other colours slowly but surely invade and take over. So although I'll endlessly lust over bright white lofts and rustic white farmhouses, I'll be embracing colour and bringing it into my apartment at every opportunity. Are you a colour junkie or a white fiend...or just an anything goes kinda person?

It's so nice to keep things simple every now and then, especially for manic-over-complicating types like myself (did someone say ADD?!) I think I'm going to carry on the simplicity into my weekend, with a little wine, a lot of pastry (like that's anything new!) and relaxing time with loved ones. What do you have planned?


[Image Credits - 1. via .v, 2. via the nonist, 3. via Lolitas Blog, 4. Olivia Bee via design is mine, 5. via Cannelle et Vanille, 6. via Bliss, 7. via Popkraft]

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