Up and away!

I just saw the most exciting thing... you remember the PIXAR movie, UP? Where Carl meets Ellie, they spend the best days of their life together, Ellie passes away leaving poor Carl on his own and he pursues their dream of visiting Paradise Falls... in a house carried by hundreds and hundreds of balloons?

Remember?

The balloon-transported house from PIXAR's 2009 movie, UP.

Well... the awesome team at Pinterest sent me an e-mail this week telling me about a group of scientists, engineers and balloon pilots who re-created the iconic house from Pixar's UP. Setting a new world record for the largest balloon cluster (and the house flew for more than an hour)!

It is quite something to see... let me show you-

So just how difficult can it be to get a house to fly?

Quite tough... apparently...

To read more about this amazing experiment visit the National Geographic Page here and to see something a bit more fun and whimsical... go here.

A-door-able

While browsing some of our favourite blogs we stumbled across this beautiful picture (see below) taken at a wedding in Iceland, which was featured on 100 Layer Cake.

How amazingly gorgeous is that red door...(for more mind blowing magnificence, you have to check out the rest of this wedding!)? Doesn't it make you want to go out and buy a huge can of red paint and just paint your front door... maybe your fence/gate too? This might just be our newest obsession... right up there with ruffles, designer handbags, gorgeous boots, pretty dresses and macaroons.

We had to put together a collection of the cutest red doors we could find and share it with you. What do you think? Seen anything better? Send us the pics :)

How fantastic does that Robin's Egg Blue look with that bright red door? Loving the facebrick steps too.




















A little bit of foliage goes a long way, contrasting with the bright red and giving the front of these homes a more earthy, country feel. Almost a bit like arriving at a really vibrant and stylish country manor house.


How hauntingly beautiful is this photo of this cathedral door taken from Trevor Morris Photographics. The door is located near the back of the Christ Church Cathedral in Canada.