Everyone is in full-on Christmas mode and I've come across quite a few lovely ideas for homemade decorations.  Does that mean I'll be attempting many myself? Hmmm. Well, let's say, I have managed to do just one which is about as simple as it gets but finding time for...

In my post about gorgeously decorated tables, I discussed how much inspiration I've had from some of the beautiful settings in blogland.  Strange as it may seem, I've never been one to go crazy trying to create beautiful table settings.  I guess because nice table...

I bought a really awesome bar cart recently.  Now, I've been wanting one for ages and I've been scouring eBay and one fateful day, I saw my ugly duckling. Well, actually, it was a swan.  Just not quite the swan I imagined. This particular swan, well, it had siblings. ...

(OR THE BIG FAUX BAMBOO BARGAIN REVEAL!) This is the thing, see. I read a lot of American blogs. Well, ya know, there's a lot of them out there, right?  And there's so much CHOICE in the States in terms of the trends and styles that I find myself longing for on a...

This is going to be just a big mess of a post because there's a bunch of stuff going on at the moment in my dining room in terms of little changes here and there so bear with the rambling post! My favourite shot! I was looking at some old pictures of when we first...

So we had a bit of a 'knees up' over the past weekend to celebrate the anniversary of my arrival here from the US to the UK a full 10 years ago.  It was a good excuse for a party, if only for the reason that we'd not really had a big one in our home since we'd moved...

I came across this bizarre wallpaper at B&Q.  It's by French designer Lutece Jean-Charles De Castelbajac and depicts a manga comic strip where the characters are speaking in French. I told you it was bizarre. They allow you to take free samples at B&Q being...

I got my Graham & Green catalogue a little while ago but came across it again the other day whilst going through post that seems to collect on our console table in the dining room. Now if you have been reading my blog for any length of time, you'll know I have a...

I meant to post this sooner but my week has been ultra busy - well, busy for me I should say, seeing that I do most of my blogging in the evening.   Thursday night we went to the cinema with friends to see Paul (big Simon Pegg fans in the Swoon Worthy household -...

Or:  HOW TO F*CK UP A TRAY IN 3 EASY STEPS. As this is a blog that I intend to share both successes and failures, it's time for a failure post.  Ya know, those times when all your intentions are pure, when you think you have followed every step to the letter and yet,...

I was a busy bee this weekend...   Oh yes, indeed, my sideboard makeover is almost finished! I have a bit of touching up to do but let me tell ya... I can hardly stand it, I love it so much already.  The room finally feels like it's starting to come together. I...

Well, I said I would attempt to make a skirt for my console table using this picture as inspiration from Domino: The Book of Decorating: There's something wonderfully therapeutic about sewing even though I don't do it anywhere near often enough. That initial cut in a...

You may remember from this post that I scored this sexy number from eBay for a mere £50 on Christmas Day.  What? You don't surf eBay on Christmas Day?  Just me then? Ok, that's not entirely true, it just happened to be the date the auction ended and so I'd kept one...

When you take everything out of your house in order to make way for Christmas decorations, it always seems to me rather stale to put the same things out in the same exact place they were before Christmas.  I guess in the excitement of a new year ahead, I like...

I've finally found it.  The perfect sideboard for my dining room.  I was gutted when I was outbid in the last 30 seconds for this one and have been searching for something I was equally excited about for weeks now. My perfect sideboard had to meet some specific...

Ok, I think that sounded better in my head. Nevermind, at last it's starting to look like Christmas in the Swoon Worthy household... Unfortunately, my camera is not too happy with evening shots so I did my best but please forgive the quality of the photos... I just...