What is your favorite online Magazine?

There is more and more amazing online magazines! Here are some of my favorites:

Lonny Mag is about lifestyle and home decor,

(for the new issue press in the pic)

Adore Mag also on lifestyle and home decor,


Lovely decor mag from the By Fryd blog

Gifted Magazine from lovely Creature Comforts,

And then there is the amazing foooood Magazinesssss!!!! Like the Sweet Paul Mag


what can I say... super yummy eye candy!!


The new mag from the lovely food blog What Katie Ate,

Then there is the gorgeous magazines on weddings! From the amazing the Style me Pretty blog,

There is also the delightful mag from Utterly Engaged,

What is your favorite online magazine? :)

Anthropologie Stores

Their stores are pretty impressive in terms of decor. I while go I had the opportunity to visit the London store in which they have an impressive garden wall!

While in NYC and Washington DC a stop in an Antropologie store was mandatory!

the shop of Antropologie in George Town in DC. Some pictures from the Rockefeller center NYC Antropologie shop,

the decor details are impressive!

in my to get list! the amazing Penguin Classics with the covers made by Coralie Bickford-Smith

Now is also possible to order their clothes at http://www.anthropologie.eu/ and pay in euros which is handy :)

It was one year ago!

Yep! Time does sure fly! It was on a Friday evening one year ago that I thought I love so much reading other peoples blogs, being able to see life from their eyes, visit new places see new things... Why not create my own blog to share the nice things I come across ?

and that is how Sweet Visual Aids was started!

What can I say about me! I'm a Portuguese girl from Lisbon living in Brussels for almost 4 years with my partner in crime. I came to Brussels due to a great working opportunity and since then it was been a wonderful ride so far! I've meet a lot of nice people and had the chance to explore in more detail Belgium but also all the neighboring countries ;)

If you are wondering about the super cool paper cups! I've bought them at a really nice store called Papermash. They are designed by IaM Designs. You can really get creative with them,




:)

Super Lovely Purl Shop in Soho

For everyone that loves knitting, patchwork, crochet etc! This is a delightful shop to visit!


I loved this super cute bunny finger puppets! Which I found out in their blog they have a tutorial on how to make them!


I'm just a beginner in the crafting world! but it was a true delight to go through the different yarns, fabrics etc!


Amazing patchwork!


start up fabrics for a quilt :)


an explosion of color!


fabriccccccccccc madnesss!!


Different knitting patterns!


They also have a really inspiring blog called the purl bee, in which the show cool craft projects!

Lovely bottles design

Its already a habit every time we visit a new place we always end up browsing through supermarkets! It is an interesting experience as you discover new products.

This time in London we found a lovely supermarket chain called Waitrose. The soft drinks section was a total perdition! So many lovely bottle packages I could not resist!

This brand BottleGreen has some really lovely bottle designs,


I simply love their new party bottle!


Another brand that has a nice bottling is Belvoir.


The calligraphy is simply beautiful,


Both Bottle Green and Belvoir are cordial drinks an extremely sweet non-alcoholic fruit flavored drink concentrate that is diluted with water.

The bottling of This Water is simple but very lovely,


All those three brands are originally from UK.

Anthropologie in London, Shop Tour

When following bloggers in US we soon get familiar with the delightful brand Antropologie.
Recently they've open their first European shop in London at Regent Street.

I had the opportunity to visit it this weekend and I was very impressed by the selection of clothes and home decor items. The shop it self is full of vibrant colors and very organic.

The flowers in the image below were made of plastic bottles, what a nice DIY idea :)








What is simply delightful is their attention to details in the decoration of the shop,


How cool is this garden wall ??


Super cute book case,


The decoration is simply a feast to the eye, there is so many small details. Like the one below, it looks like some kind of patterns for ribbon making.


I would love to have a bed like this one !





In the household appliances section, full of vibrant colors.





I cannot resist to these colors!!!


A very interesting decor idea, to add some drawings as the background paper of the closet,


I was very impressed indeed with this shop! what a great concept! I would describe it as very ethnic, colorful and organic shop :)
I'm looking forward to seeing this shop in New York next month! ;)

Dille & Kamille, a gorgeous store

Some time ago I already had made a post about Dille & Kamille a delightful household appliances store. The last time I've visited this store I had my camera with me! so here are some pics !




They have everything from kitchen to garden supplies!



Its incredible all the amount of supplies they have! some I had never seen before in my life.


I was so focus taking the pictures, that now I realized where the bakers twine spool was stored! in the above picture in the left top corner! Well I will get it in the next trip! :P

Some nice jam,


my little obsession... baking books!!! this ones have some really attractive covers :)




Some traditional sweets,




Simple delightful!!!