One of my loyal followers - (thanks Mum) - just kidding, jeez have some faith. Anyway, like I was saying, one of my millions of followers asked me to add music to my blog because I have made her a few mix cds in the past and she is always needing suggestions for some new tuuuuuunes. That, and obviously my taste in music is amazing.
So just a quickie here, I’ve got three songs/artists to share that I have recently heard and loved (and then three that I've stolen from elsewhere).
Firstly, my friend Josh has formed a band called TheBlackWhite (below). Have a look at their facebook page here and have a listen here.
Second up is this guy called Jake Bugg. My friend played a song of his to me the other day and I lurved it. He’s sort of folksy, country, almost a bit rockabilly. He played the BBC introducing stage at Glastonbury in 2011 and is only 18. Wowzers. He sounds like he should be from another decade, his voice is awesome, sort of Johnny Cash, just brill. Anyway have a listen.
Lastly is David Greenep. Here he is singing Song to the Siren by Tim Buckley. He’s actually a part of a band called Six Toes but I think his voice is in particular is beautiful hence a video just of him.
Now to the songs that I have stolen directly from GOOP - Gwyneth Paltrow's blog which I actually really like (she gets a lot of stick for it for posting about ridiculous things only the super rich could do/afford). Anyway, she has really good taste in music. Her latest post included these three songs which I think are all great so I'm taking directly from her...
The ever present IKEA visited our new apartment in Amsterdam recently as we had no storage. After the obligatory two visits to the shop and one breakdown we now have some Pax wardrobes and a Hemnes chest of drawers. One thing we have now learnt that takes some of the stress out of IKEA, is to get the dudes to come and build it all for you. Yes, you pay more, but what they did in less than two hours would have taken us probably a week and put a strain on our marriage. (We actually know someone who spent 3 whole days putting up their Pax wardrobe, point proven).
So in a tiny bit of IKEA renovation I added some door knobs to the Hemnes instead of it’s original black ones. I started with these Rushville knobs from Zara Home but had to take them back as although I thought they were blue, and they say they are blue, they are actually liars as they are purple so got vetoed by the husband. They looked like this...
So instead of the above, we ended up with these babies, the Winchester Knob (snigger) which are obviously a lot more manly and less purple and actually half the cost so win win. Our Hemnes now looks a little less IKEA and a little more original, like ... this...
Im also tempted to put glass on top too...hmmm...anyway, I digress.
The above is IKEA amendment for dummies - but the reason I wanted to add this post is because I had totally forgotten about this awesome site IKEA HACKERS (which I recently revisted after reading this post on Laura’s lovely littlemisshomes blog). The site has some very cool stuff and some examples of really creative people who see past the showroom appeal of the IKEA products and can turn even the most boring thing into something that, well, basically looks like it doesn't come from IKEA.
