Chalkboard Piano

Sorry for the light posting this week, but I've been swamped with real work duties. Not fun, but necessary to pay the bills. Do you know what is fun?! This chalkboard painted piano created by Heather from The Modern Hive. I discovered the neat idea from My Happy Little Life where Kelly recommended using the chalkboard area to write song assignments and keep track of practice times. Functional and fun...now all I need is a piano!

Link - The Modern Hive

Quirky Vintage

Hello, hello! Today I'm diving into the quirky vintage finds available at Wooden Donkey, a London based online shop run by Emma Gladding. Each colorful piece is another story waiting to unfold in your home!

On a side note, my trip to visit my sister was wonderful - thanks for all your good travel vibes! Now time to play catch up...

Link - Wooden Donkey

Weekend

I know it's been quiet this week on Please Sir, but it was one of those busy (and stomach flu induced) kind of weeks. Luckily I am well and the weekend is finally here! Bonus...I'm heading up to Connecticut for my sister's baby shower - woo hoo Baby Laura! Unfortunately the snow-hurricane delayed today's flight (insert curses at snow), but our re-scheduled morning flight should make it. I'm desperately trying to be optimistic because this trip means so much to me and my sister. Cross your fingers! Here's to safe travels this weekend...

Link - Photograph by { OOoozzZZ } Sean Yeh via These are a few of my favourite things...

Masculine Details

Masculine touches done well can make a great statement. Maybe it's because we don't see them that often? To find or create an appealing guy room without a pimped out bachelor feel can be a challenge. I'd replace the stark modern look with a cozy, artsy vibe filled with dark wood, rich velvets, rustic furniture and a touch of ethnic or vintage detail. The bathroom-turned-closet is a little much, but doesn't it make you do a double take? Now, if only I could find where he hid the over-sized flat screen television...

Link - Roland Bello Photography

100percent

100percent is a "Functional Art" store filled with vintage goods like clocks, aprons, salt and pepper shakers and other decorative pieces. Have a little fun, get a little color and surround yourself in happiness!

Link - 100percent

Forgotten Memories of Summer

Today I'm enjoying the Forgotten Memories of Summer photograph series by Amanda D'Arcy. In order to create these ethereal and faded photographs she uses only the infra-red light to make the image in the camera. Warm summer days and a sweet escape to a dreamy, wild forest sounds pretty good right about now. Here's to a peaceful weekend ahead...

Link - Amanda D'Arcy

Photo and Thread

Jane Waggoner Deschner is a talented visual artist whose medium is found, vernacular photographs. Using digital technology and the "age-old art of needle-in-hand" she "explores new ways of perceiving these ubiquitous, but often overlooked, products of mass culture." Deschner's artist statement explains, "We all snap photos of people and things we love and times we want to remember. In a studio, we hire a professional to immortalize us looking our best. When I alter a photograph’s original intent and appearance, the viewer is invited to deduce, speculate and fantasize. There are many ways to appreciate ourselves in the common photograph—even those of people, places and times we never knew."

Deschner reminds us to acknowledge the past from old photographs and to learn in the present through famous words. Together her pieces create a connection to our history and provide a promising future to look forward to.

Link - Jane Waggoner Deschner found via Junkculture & Accidental Mysteries