Delightfully vile

There’s nothing I love more than a good four letter word. If you’ve ever spent more than 10 minutes with me, you’ll quickly find out the extent to how many four letter words I like. But for the sake of remaining lady-like in today’s post, I’ll refrain from listing off my favourite ones. 

One of my favourite bloggers is Anna Dorfman of Door Sixteen. She has been a huge source of inspiration for me over the years, has influenced my style and encouraged me to make our home sleeker, simpler and bolder. If you haven’t already checked out her site, you better get on it. 

In recent months, Anna opened her own society6 shop, K is for Black. It’s full of all kinds of amazing designs. One thing I think is very nifty about society6 is that each graphic {as seen above} is available as a print, mug, canvas, rug, iPhone case, pillow, canvas bag, you name it. I had my eye on Anna’s vile collection for some time, specifically in pillow form, but, shipping. Living in Ireland always means shipping makes me make an ugly crying face. 

But not all was lost. One day Anna tweeted that her society6 shop had reduced prices {from $20 to $15}, AND free worldwide shipping {which is still happening!}. So I ordered the vile pillow case, it arrived, I tore open all of the packaging, and it now sits with pride of place in our living room. A perfect punch of black, white, and a paint smear of baby pink {let’s face it, I tend to like messy paint. Have you seen my website header?} for our living room. It’s lovely. 
Let’s pretend the below picture is a lot nicer than it actually is. It does zero justice to new pilly-willow. 

Hydrangea Girl nominated for a BOP!

PLEASE NOTE VOTING FOR THE BOP AWARDS IS NOW CLOSED. 

I got quite the unexpected email the other day to say I was nominated for a Blog and Online Publishing award from PR Slides in association with Littlewoods Ireland. I was quite taken aback, silly excited, quickly followed by a pang in the pit of my stomach. I really don’t like asking people to vote on stuff. The moment the word competition is uttered I’m usually the first to back out. But I thought, hey, it’s Friday so let’s work on being less of an introvert and step out a little. You can’t see it, but on the inside I’m cringing. 

I’ll knit you a cardigan out of cat hair if you vote for me. Now that I’ve got your attention, you can cast your vote here {scroll to the bottom, I’m in the last category – Best Lifestyle & Family Read}. Alls it asks for is your email address to cast your vote at the end, and as far as I know, you shouldn’t be on the receiving end of spam. And if you’re super bored, you can vote multiple times using all your friends and families email addresses without them knowing. 
Thank you for your vote of confidence friends, and happy Friday! 😉 xx A

Instagram roundup – March

Today I’m a bit fuzzy as the clocks went forward an hour yesterday in this part of the world, so I feel completely and utterly robbed of an hour of sleep this morning and NOT COOL. I love my sleep and even though I went to bed really early last night {before 10pm. Yep, I’m totally an old lady}, I am still not able to make good sentence today. Who wants to publish polished and well written blog posts all the time? That’s boring. 

Oh yeah, Instagram roundup. I like taking pictures and sometimes weird and / or interesting ones and then send them out to the Instagram universe. That first picture of the Bill Murray mask, that I am excited about and I’ll {hopefully} be able to share more of that this week!

So yeah. You can follow me on Instagram if you want. Or not! No worries. It’s cool. Spring forward sucks, but it does mean it’s brighter in the evenings for longer, so maybe I’ll appreciate that tomorrow. But for today, nope. 


p.s. How could I forget to include one of my favourite Instavideos from March? Oh right. Lack of sleep on Monday. So here’s a sneaky video I took of husband trying to teach Toshi how to play with the Purina Go-Cat Cat Fishing game on our tablet. Enjoy! 😉