Anthropologie...and a grumpy old man

I hope everyone is doing well, and I hope you all remembered to enter the giveaway.

Today was a fun day for me. My good friend Miranda and I went for lunch to discuss our future career plans and look at snazzy business cards online. After sushi (yummy) we headed to a cafe that was wi-fi enabled. More fun ensues via the photo booth on her MAC...until some strange man sitting next to us says: "Do you think you can keep it down, I really am trying to focus on what I am writing and I can hear your entire conversation!"

Well excuse me but I thought cafe's were for coffee and conversation, if buddy needed to concentrate in silence then maybe he should have gone to a library and not a coffee shop! Just sayin'.

After "the incident" yes I will call it this from now on, we strolled the streets of the Danforth , picked up some aromatic tea over at Dash Kitchen and then headed over to Don Mills Centre for some shopping.

Here in Toronto the first Anthropologie store has opened so my uber talented and lovely friend Miranda and I headed over to check it out. We had lots of silly fun, Miranda took tons of great pics...I still can't seem to get my camera to work the way she can, she takes such great pics, when I take pics they look like crapola, I need a tutorial pronto chica!

Anyway here's what I got:
-2 black and white knobs
-2 blue and bronze knobs
-another Cavallini stamp set called "Birds & Nests"
-And a monogrammed mug with the letter "E"

Overall it was a lovely day.

My mug

The stamp kit

Anchors aweigh

Love the large bird

hand painted plates

bird seed

Colouring books

lots of lamps

jewellery

me looking around

tons of unique hardware

Giveaway

To show my appreciation for all of the lovely comments and all of my fellow bloggers who take the time to visit WALLPAPER, I wanted to do my first annual giveaway.

Here it is a lovely "pepper pot" large photo album. It holds 200 photos, has acid-free pages and space for captions.

It's simple... first in order to enter you must be a "follower" of this blog, you can do so by finding the follow button on the left side of your screen, second as a way to get to know my readers better, tell me a little bit of what you did this summer in the comments section below. The contest closes on Tuesday September 15th, at 10 pm EST. A lot of blog friends have used random.org to select their giveaway winners and this method seems to work well, so I will do the same here. The winner will be announced next Wednesday. Good Luck to you all !

the inside pages

The back cover

A detail shot

Front cover

1,2 buckle my shoe...

Hey everyone, this is just a little fun project that I did today with some mason jars I had around the house and a glass paint pen. I was inspired by Arren Williams who has a cute set of similar jars, what do you think, cute no?

The reveal of the shed

Here it is all done... the shed...I added a door knob, painted the door, added some shutters painted those to match the door and then I added a small flower box below the window. It's all done, except I still need to add some light sconces on either side of the door, only I haven't decided if they should be with regular bulbs or solar powered. I hope you all like it, I love sitting in the backyard it's so peaceful. Until next post, ciao

Stay tuned

Hey everyone I will be posting the finished/completed garden shed tomorrow!! I've been hard at work, so stay tuned :)