3 Days & Counting...

With only 3 days to go till our big Black & Spiro grand re-opening, I must say I am getting extremely excited about opening the doors again. Although it's been great operating the business upstairs in our new design studio, the girls and I have missed seeing our regular customers popping in. After what's been a crazy week, I've had a bit of spare time this morning to catch up on a few of my favourite blogs. I loved this image which Megan posted over at Beach Bungalow 8 of Krista Ewart's work as featured in House Beautiful.

Check back later this week to see lots of photos of the new store...


image - krista ewart house beautiful via beachbungalow 8

Seeing Red

I seem to spotting lots of red and white being used around the place at the moment. I love these red images above. Sorry my posts are going to be a bit sporadic over the next week whilst we complete the finishing touches to the new store.

xx
Anna

image 1 via shelter blog, image 2 hgtv house via surroundings blog

Fabulous New Betsy Images

I'm sure this will be blogged about all over the blogosphere however, I absolutely loved seeing these new images of Betsy Burnham's work over at Decor Demon. She certainly is up there on my list of favourite Designers. Thanks must go to Ronda for finding this. Make sure you head over to Decor Demon to check out the rest of the images.

produced, written & directed by brian patrick flynn, styled by betsy burnham, photographed by sarah dorio

Almost There...

Two weeks today our new store will be open. It's been a very hectic couple of months but I must say the new store is looking amazing. I can't wait to open the doors again. I thought I'd share a little sneak peek above to get you excited!!

Beautiful

So fresh and so beautiful. I love this image!

Carolyn Quartermaine via Aged & Gilded

Welcome To The Street...

What a lovely welcome we've had from the neighbours in our new street!! After the container arriving on the front foot path last week, I wasn't sure we would be the most popular people in the street however, I was wrong. Over the weekend we found a lovely card in our mail box from the neighbours next door and to my huge excitement this morning, Joy from over the road arrived at our front door with a humongous bag of fresh limes which she had just picked from her lime tree. I immediately pulled out one of the baskets we will be selling in the new shop, threw the limes in it and placed it on our dining table. What a nice feeling it is to be living in such a lovely, quiet street with kind people all around us!!

The Ship Has Landed

The 40 foot container arriving at the front of our house earlier this week.

I don't think our new neighbours could believe their eyes seeing us unpacking the container in the front of our house!






Here are a few of the pieces which I had to place inside our house as our storage facility is overflowing!

We've had a very exciting week with the arrival of our beautiful Stuart Membery furniture from Bali. I first visited Stuart at his divine home in Bali late last year at which time we put together a stunning collection of his furniture for our store. We are so thrilled to be launching Stuart's furniture in Australia at Black & Spiro on our re-opening night in a couple of weeks time. The quality of the pieces is outstanding and I must admit I am going to find it very hard not to keep a few things for our new house!! Stuart will be making a very special trip down from Bali to be present at our re-opening night and will also be in the shop the next day to talk to our customers about his beautiful pieces we are now stocking. We have lots of work to do in the coming weeks. I'll be sure to keep you all up-to-date as everything unfolds.

xx

Anna

PS. Stuart's furniture will be available for purchase in our store from the 22nd July, 2010. For all enquiries, please call our office.