Looking Up

We STILL don't have internet and won't until the 23rd. Our place is a complete mess! We've unpacked all the boxes, but there's still stuff everywhere. I'm just not sure where to put it all, and I feel like I just keep moving piles around. We also ordered some big things from Ikea, like the Ektorp sofa, but one of the parts is wrong so it's in a huge pile in the living room until we get the right part. Poop. The weather's been very nice though so I've been spending some time out back. I like to watch the sun go down as planes fly above. It's nice looking up outdoors, and I think things will start to look up indoors as well.

No Internet!

We've moved into our new little place but don't have internet acess yet and won't have it for 1 - 2 more weeks! Ugh. When the cable / internet guy said that yesterday I was like WHAT?!! I have withdrawls. Haha. (Though I have internet on my phone, it's not the same.) So I'm blogging from my phone, using an app I just downloaded. Hopefully this post will come out looking ok. Here's a picture of our place before it was filled with boxes. Hopefully it will be enough to keep you hanging on for a bit!

Refreshed

I changed all the icon pictures of the shops I've visited just for a fresher look. I was thinking they were starting to look a bit stale. Time to pull back the curtains and do a little spring cleaning. I still want to have a 3 column blog and larger pictures, but this is a start. I really want to get into some new shops as well. For a while I had a goal of visiting 1 shop a week and posting about them, but obviously that hasn't happened! Maybe once we unpack and get settled I'll get more in the swing of it.

Country Living British Style

Soon we'll be unpacking our things--I hope so anyway! We've secured the little row house with the garden that I mentioned before, and now all we have to do is find out when the movers can deliver our things. I'm so excited to have a place finally! And it is soooo cute. I love the back patio garden and will post some pictures after we move in. Of course I've been looking at magazines, getting inspired to decorate our little place. We have all the same stuff, but it will be nice to see it in a different arrangement in a new place. Here are a few eye candy pages of the most recent two issues of Country Living (the British version).

V&A Museum

On Saturday we went to the V&A Museum. This museum has something for everyone. It was really great--very impressive. Some of their collections include painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, furniture, textiles, photography (and so much more, whew), but a few of my favorite exhibits were the theatre and performance exhibit and the 20th century design exhibit. Not a museum to be missed if you come to London. Here are a few pictures. The very stunning Dale Chihuly blown glass sculpture above is the first thing you see when you enter.

Lighting from the 20th century design exhibit. 

Costume design in the theatre and performance exhibit. 

A picture of Twiggy from the fashion exhibit. 

Cool band and theatre posters. 

Set design models.  

Paintings. 

The textile library.  There were rows and rows of these cabinets.  A fabric / textile lover's dream.