The Beat That My Heart Skipped – A blog dedicated to daily design inspirations. By Rohini Wahi.

I absolutely love the huge range of cheery designs at online tea-towel retailer To-Dry For.

With luscious illustrated full-colour designs of anything from giant foil wrapped tea-cakes, and childhood ice-lollies, to pastel scenes of English Summer fetes and tongue in cheek slogans like ‘If You Want Breakfast in Bed, Sleep in the Kitchen’, if anything takes the edge off doing the washing up, this is it!

Their new spring range includes all these bright and bold designs of fruit and veg and summer dreams that fill me with sunshine. I just want to chomp on that giant juicy strawberry!

Wow, how lovely are these vessels from Andrea Walsh? The bottom of each one looks alive and glistening with the slopping about of luscious wet paint, but in fact what we see is glass.

Andrea works with bone china clay combined with paper to create vessels containing glass which is cast directly inside the piece, emulating liquid contained within the form. The glass is meant to resemble water in its stillness and calm. My favourite are the paper cones which look like they are about to ooze out the glass/liquid any second – such a unique concept!

The idea of this leaves me panicked yet exhilarated! Dinner in the Sky is a concept from Stephan Kerkhofs, where a mobile communal dining table is suspended at a height of 50 metres from a crane to host breakfast in the sky above Istanbul, lunch in the sky above Budapest, cocktails above Capetown or a meeting over London!

Designed to conform with rigorous German safety standards, the table accommodates a staff of up to five people at its centre and can be booked for up to eight hours anywhere with a ground surface area of 500 metres… think castle estate, golf course, vineyard. Caterers in the sky have served everything from lobsters and sushi to tapas and hosted wine tastings.

Sometimes I miss my old personal blog which used to detail the quiet and inspirational moments of my daily life. Also, cecause of the professional design-led nature of this new blog, I also don’t post large articles on the mere inspirational value of other blogs unless they are relevant to an artist or creator.

However, due to the lack of A Day With feature today I thought we could break from the norm and enjoy a look at the sweet blog, Nestled In. Nestled In is a blog that gives us a peek into the gentle lives of Finnish couple Katja and Minna who moved in together in December 2007 and blog about decorating their own home.

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Since receiving my new source of interiors inspiration ‘Eat Out, Restaurant Design and Food Experiences’, I have been dipping into it constantly whisking myself off to faraway gastronomic lands. In the next few months I will slowly share my favourites from the book and other new favourites that have emerged because of it.

One of these is Bella Italia Weine, a wine shop and restaurant in in Stuttgart that was originally run for years by a Sicilian owner out of an intimate living-room like space. Re-designed by the Ippolito Flietz Group, the familial, homely atmosphere of the original restaurant was retained by using objects and accessories that rested in tradition such as looking, glasses, lathe-turned dining chairs, and a variety of domestic looking pendant lights.

My favourite detail of course is the ceiling, where more than 90 gilt frame mirrors found at rummage sales are mounted [it's also a great way to peek at what others are eating without appearing rude!].