I was surfing my regular design blog haunts today, when I stopped at this poppytalk post. I am totally digging that look.

I had seen neat little bucket stools just like those in London this summer at this great little chain diner they have all over there called Leon (I would eat out ALL the time if I had one of those around the corner from me here – and they were so cute and retro too) – such a great idea, such a great way to recycle both fabric scraps AND old paint or olive buckets.

Perhaps I’ll do something like this (with some waterproof oil cloth) on my new deck. They’d be great as additional seating when there’s company coming – totally a low rent, industrial version of the Moroccan “pouffes” I was talking about earlier in the fall. Plus they’re small and compact, easy to tuck away, and I bet you could store stuff in them too.

And all this reminded me that Liam posted a bunch of our pictures of England on flickr last week.

Sorry it took so long guys!