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Monday, July 11, 2011

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside...

Oh dear, ...

... summer time blogging is perhaps...

... a little optimistic...

Particularly if...

... one is meant to stick to interior decorating or garden themes...

...when all one wants to do is dip one's toe in the gorgeous waters in Cornwall!

Well, technically, we are not on holiday yet. The boys are still in school for another two weeks, but a sunny weekend not long ago, we said goodbye to our lovely-but-oh-so-inland town and enjoyed the sweet little Cornish coastal town of Padstow, with its STUNNING beach and marine spirit. The boys loved playing on the beach, even if the first photo above reveals that the water temperature was perhaps not as Mediterranean as the "azure" colours of the water... It is no surprise painters flock to Cornwall: the colours, the views, the LIGHT!

Well, as I am very fond of the New England nautical theme, and as this is still attempting to be an interior decorating blog, here is a reprisal of some images from my older son's room, where there is a mixed theme of sea and space. The boat-shaped shelves on the wall were found in a charity shop for a few pounds, and with a lick of paint and a couple of bent plastic pipes (for "blast-off purposes"..), they were quickly turned into space rockets.

The nautical theme is easily achieved with a few stars here and there, and rejected old jeans offer the perfect material for a denim star appliquéd onto a cushion. The marine inspired star picture below was made with some rough pieces of wood, which on purpose were allowed to "separate" a little, in order to give them a slightly weathered look. A painted star with stars and then, the final touch: a tiny piece of thin wood with a printed sign glued on (with transparent decoupage glue), indicating - rather falsely, I confess - that our little town boasts a marina...

You can find more images from this room here.