Jun
19
it’s just peachy |moodboard|
peachy moodboard | interiors and style that is just peachy |
Loving the soft touches of peach with more to be inspired by on style.life.home
pinterest
Simone
♥ x o
♥ inspirations for your style.life.home.
Jun
13
30 day yoga challenge | week 2 |
Are you joining in on the 30 day yoga challenge? How are you feeling? I’m starting the feel great.
I think for me it is all about drinking more water, reducing coffee to only 1 a day, adding yoga into
my routine every morning and eating clean every meal. I can see little body changes inside and out,
my stomach is not as bloated and I feel more energised as I wizz through the day.
Bodie and Fou are still full steam ahead with this 30 day challenge and follow her story’s here.
With the feeling of more energy I want to eat better each meal, so I have been finding
some yummy recipes.
Breakfast
freshly squeezed lemon in warm water
gluten free bread with avocado
Lunch
mixed salad – my favorite this week is this Spring Salad, I love the dressing.
Dinner
Soups – with two of my favorites being the Hearty Winter Veg Soup & Roasted Cauliflower Soup
Snacks
almonds & apples
6-8 glasses of water with fresh squeezed lemon
Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram
Happy day
Simone
♥ x o
|image pinned onto style.life.home board |
Jun
12
down that little lane
One of the leaders of Australia’s online interior websites, with stunning brands to fill your home is Down That Little Lane, created by the talented Tessa White a former model that has an eye for style and quality. In 2011, Down That Little Lane was created even with 2 small children running around | a super mum |. Being one of the leaders of the pack, Down That Little Lane has products all from amazing creators for your home, garden, stationary, furniture, art, clothing and so much more. Plus the fantastic element of a wedding wish list, Tessa has thought of everything!
* What inspired you to create DTLL?
I suppose it could be seen as a selfish need.. The inspiration was my love of unique and handmade items and a desire to be able to find them all in one place without having to keep searching through all my bookmarks. It really is my place to share the delightful things
* Describe your day at the DTLL office?
No two days are EVER the same. I have two children and only one at school so my days still involve swim classes and school pick ups with co ordinating two days of 5 that I have my little chap the whole day. After school drop off there is always an hour or two of exercise before work starts. EVERY work day involves a few emails with my team in between Melbourne, Bondi, Paddington and Prague (yes Prague.. we have our tech developers there).
Between Magazines, Stylists and our gorgeous sellers you can throw in another 2-3 hrs of emails and then weekly I meet our Creative Team to go through our future developments for the site and chat about design work, catch up with my PR Company to discuss opportunities that have been offered to us, meet new stores to see their products and I try my best to catch up with the women I have connected with through business over the last 3 years and brainstorm at least once a fortnight
* Your ‘wish list’ from DTLL
What a looney question.. honestly I have at least 1000 items I could just rattle off but I will give you me current top 4 
A gorgeous piece of luxury Lingerie from a stunning designer La Lilouche
* What is your interior style?
French Provincial with lots of Modern Industrial mixed in.. Lots of Natural Colours and Textures with as much duck egg, grey and minty green as I can get away with
* 3 words that best describe you.
oohh I should so ask hubby his 3 after I answer mine.. Me : determined, competitive and loyal Hubby : Passionate, stubborn and thoughtful . That’s funny possibly the same traits in different wording
* Your favourite colours
Grey, White, Duck Egg Blue and Khaki
* Tell us a little more about your family
We are a very close family. Hubby and I are total homebodies and we hang out a lot as a 4. My kids are 4.5 and nearly 6 so the past few years have been a whirlwind but it is bundles of fun
* Favorite blogs/ websites to visit for inspiration
TDF| The Red Thread |The Sunday Collector |The Painted Hive |
* Your dream travel destination
Seychelles
With over 23,000 likers on Down That Little lanes face book , 12,000 followers on Pinterest and 13,000 instagram followers all including myself, you can see why so many people are just in love with Down That Little Lane |DTLL|
See for yourself HERE
Enjoy
Simone
♥ x o
|all images are from Down that Little Lane |
Jun
11
kitchen | sharing 5 different styles |
Being totally obsessed with PINTEREST, and my constant ‘pinning’ is an addiction to find different styles of all interiors from living rooms to bathrooms. I love the thrill of seeing what catches my eye. Also the kindness of being inspired by wonderful words and quotes.
Today, I wanted to share my top 5 kitchens I have pinned into the Kitchen board for you to be inspired… what ever your Interior Style.
vintage touches, black painted floors, open shelves, square white tiles plus the bench seat!
perfect
concrete floors, industrial bench, exposed brick and timber wall feature
loving the look!
adding a splash of colour, red smeg fridge & chair, black board on the wall
on the way out of the door! Could never forget anything.
personally plus, every piece of furniture is individual from the gold mirror, table and
kitchen cupboard. Loving the white smeg
Clean lines, minimal accessories, built in stoves and wine fridge. Total entertainer
ok, so I lied… here is 6! But what a great pantry style I just had to share.
Enjoy
Simone
♥ x o
| all images from style.life.home pinterest |
Jun
10
The Quintessential Magazine | edition 4 |
From the every first Edition of The Quintessential Magazine, the pages have been an extraordinary experience , from the creative images, attention to details and the talented people you meet. The incredible mind behind this magazine creation is Leanne Carter-Taylor, a fabulous creator with a history of design, retail and marketing plus the passion to never take ‘no’ as an answer! | Love her |
This Edition 4 will not let you down, The Quintessential Magazine is larger than life, interest your creative mind with images on every page, meeting George Glasgow Jr the bespoke English shoemaker in the UK and have you enjoy the weird and odd of objects that once where treasures from the past on page 10.
Even with Leanne’s busy schedule, she has taken time to answer 5 questions below. | The time starts now with Leanne’s Fast & Five |
* What inspired you to create The Quintessential Magazine?
I have been asked on many occasions to write a book, to document my travels and how I find the industrial & antique objects for our retail store, quintessential duckeggBLUE, so it sort of started from that request…..
Didn’t really have the time to write a book (in hindsight I think a one off book would have been a whole lot easier than creating the bi monthly online magazine, THE quintessential MAGAZINE, it seems to consume my life on a daily basis!), so instead thought I would create an online magazine, not a blog…..wow, what an immense project this turned out to be…..but in a way seems much more relevant in todays world….
* Describe your day at the TQM office?
It starts early…..my office is often in my bed at home at 3am when I can’t sleep….work often keeps me awake, so I log into instagram, Facebook, Google, to see what is going on the other side of the world….
6am and I’m back on the emails to see what needs actioning…..in the office usually by 9am, again emails, emails, followed by creative, editing and curating the next edition of the magazine. I hold weekly meetings with Tracy Lines, where we strategically plan for future editions (we are currently working on the Christmas edition in June – very organised) and also review current editions, look at each other’s ideas and agree layouts for all feature stories…..
Meetings, followed by phone calls (I prefer email to be honest) and maybe a little more creative……Creative is good!
* Having such a creative team to bring TQM to life, where do you get your inspirations from?
The love of the old, patinas, history, originality, design and interiors…….that my thing, and its reflected well throughout my industrial & antique retail store, quintessential duckeggBLUE, and from there into THE quintessential MAGAZINE……
I am beyond grateful and very humbled to have all the highly talented creative collaborators on board with this project…..how could you not be inspired by their work…..I think we all share the same desire for celebrating all that is original & emotive throughout our work, whether it is through the visual photography & styling or whether it is the crafted written word…..it is not hard to write briefs for each edition when everything we produce is both beautiful, tactile and well edited.
* What is your signature interior style?
I think my style at home and at work perfectly reflects my contrasting passion for traditional ‘finds’, but set again clean lines, light and dark, clean lines juxtaposed with all the re-claimed and salvaged objects that find on my travels as a decorative salvage dealer. I have a huge passion for original, including, leather club chairs…..can’t live without these in my home…
* Your dream travel destination
I try to travel to Tahiti once a year for a break from the world….usually for 2 weeks if I’m lucky…..over-water bungalows in Tahiti should never be underestimated!
The Quintessential Magazine Edition 4 is live click HERE
Enjoy
Simone
♥ x o
|thank you to TQM for sharing all of the images on this post, truly a styling inspiration |
Jun
07
♥ x o
Inspiring words today ♥ x o
Adding this to my Happiness Project dreams and goals!
bright and cheery wise words that I have collected on STYLE.LIFE.HOME
pinterest board, need more motivational quotes today? Click HeRe
Quick question before you go, are you still following and on your journey
of the Happiness Project? Love to know.
Simone
♥ x o
Jun
06
knock, knock | colour feast in this home |
Keeping with the colour theme this week, I have found this amazing
home of a interiors photographer Debbi Treloar on her blog called
Double Exposure and instantly fell in love with all of her wonders
through her home, even her bathroom has a whimsical style. Having
a visual feast with her portfolio I just had to share Debbi’s fabulous
style with you. Plus my favorite is the neon pink chair, easy DIY with
a huge colour ‘POP’. Let’s see inside! Knock, Knock
Loving her home too?
Have a great day
Simone
♥ x o
|all images above are from Double Exposure blog, click here to view more |
Jun
05
join us | 30day yoga challenge
Being the beginning of our Australian winter months, I already feel like I am eating more, drinking more
coffee, and less out doors to exercise. I know this is my little excuse to do all the above but I am
feeling very unfit and lazy.
When only 2 days ago I made a commitment to start a 30day Yoga challenge with Bodie and Fou
on instagram, | you can follow me on instagram Here and Bodie and Fou Here |
It is a 30 day challenge is to eat clean and healthy and to add Yoga into the day.
For me personally it is to have less coffee and carbs and increase my yoga program to 30mins or
more daily.
Like Bodie and Fou, I have taken measurements of my body |super scary for me| and will continue once
a week to see my progress. I love doing power yoga and will increase to 6-7 days a week, I feel power
yoga suits my body and has more powerful movements than a ‘zen’ session.
Sharing my healthy eating over the past few days has looked something like this :-
Breakfast
Warm water with freshly squeezed lemon & lime juice from my fruit trees2 slices of gluten free
bread with avocado
small cup of coffee
Lunch
Salad with feta cheese and butter beans
Afternoon tea
apple | while waiting in the car at school pick up |
Dinner
Vegetable bake with organic quinoa and rice
6 glasses of lemon/lime water
I would love for you to join in this challenge with other women all around the world. And over the next month
I will share my journey with you.
Also see Bodie and Fou 30day Yoga challenge and join in her journey with some yummy recipes to get inspired.
Let’s do this challenge together, start today with us.
Simone
♥ x o
Jun
04
little splash of pink
Being a lover of white, black and grey interiors sometimes
adding a little element of colour is fun and in winter can
lift your spirits. Looking around my home I have captured
little splashes of pink that might get you inspired.
Would you add pink into your home?
I’m loving all shades of pink from the Neon to the pastels and when
teamed with the right space can create a little splash of fun.
Enjoy
Simone
♥ x o
| above images are styled and photographed by Simone Barter |
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