I actually wanted to order absolutely everything from the Greengate catalogue but had to restrain myself!!  I am in the process of adding the new Greengate products to the online shop – lovely cushions, beach mats, table runner, cake plates, luggage tags, stoneware jugs, pretty napkins ……

Just looking at them makes it seem like a beautiful summer day.  Click here to see all the latest Greengate arrivals.

I almost forgot that it is Wednesday!

Yukari sent me this photo this morning of her gorgeous Manor House Damask Wallpaper.  In keeping with the Japanese tradition of working with the seasons, each colourway is named after a different season and this one is Spring and has been really popular lately.

Featuring elegant candleabras and chandeliers, it really is whimsical and exquisite and of course, you can purchase it here at Garrendenny Lane!

And there is now a cushion available in a matching fabric. Isn’t it gorgeous.

60 cm x 40 cm €82 and available here.

I love these co-ordinates.  While I like florals, I would find a multitude of them rather overpowering personally.  But I love the combination of floral wallpaper, soft checked headboard, plain pillow with a ruffled edge and that cushion at the front – simply divine.  A lovely collection from Jab’s Four Seasons – I think it is my favourite collection this season,

Jab's Four Seasons Volume 7

I love winter in many ways – especially if I am sitting in front of the open fire while it is lashing rain outside, not so much when I have to go out in it!  I have memories of reading Enid Blyton books, Hardy boys, Roahl Dahl, playing cards, drawing, playing scrabble in front of the fire protected from the elements.  These woollen furnishing fabrics from Abraham Moon look so cosy and inviting especially in their cushions and throws that I thought I would share some with you, especially as wools are so fashionable this year.

Moon’s CD of images at Decorex was encased in a novel CD case that grabbed my attention – easy, simple, yet very effective – it was simply a square of the woollen fabric that neatly held the CD – really tactile too and makes people like me who love fabric, really remember it.

The other nice thing about an Irish winter is that if we do unexpectedly get a nice sunny day, it’s a lovely surprise and we all talk about it all day long saying to everyone we meet ‘Isn’t it a lovely day’, ‘Long may it last’, ’sure it will be raining again tomorrow’ will be said numerous times across the country.  Compared to our summers, when a nice sunny spell is met with certainty that it will last and then huge disappointment when it only lasts for 3 days at most.  I’m not sure what planet I’m on but I put it down to being eternally optimistic but I never carry an umbrella (and often get wet!).  Let’s hope we have nice crisp frosty mornings followed by sunny days – the best winter days of all

Favourite fabrics this Friday are Designers Guild’s Manhattan Central Park and Greenwich Village.

Above are Central Park and Delancey cushions and below are Greenwich Village and Central Park.

Fab greens with the pinks – great for apartments, modern living, children’s bedrooms – my bedroom!!