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

How good do these hearty seasonal one-pot dishes look from Delicious Magazine??? Click through their titles to get the easy peasy recipes.

Spiced Lamb with Chickpeas and Pot au Feu.

Meatballs with soupy tomato risotto and Spiced smoked haddock.

Cider chicken with creamy onions and one-pot sausage and beans.

Flicking through an interiors magazine or browsing a blog, your eyes scan over perfect homes and effortlessly styled pages, everything is stunning, everything is aspirational.

Every so often, however, do you find you will look twice at an image, however fantastical the space and however far removed from your life it is, and see an instant or a moment within that image where it feels like home? As though you can see yourself standing over that sink staring up into the street through the foliage. Or you are walking across that floor on a still summers day when the wind blows back the curtain.

Of course this is subjective, my ideas of home are not the same as yours, but I just wanted to share a few images from Marie Claire Maison that spoke to me. Maybe its the extreme stillness of these particular images. Almost as though the room wasn’t aware it was being photographed at that moment.

Oh, such very melancholy illustrations from Spanish artist Depeapa. Why so sad? But curiously enough they do make me smile!

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I spotted Clare Pardoe’s work at Origin earlier this month and was drawn like a Magpie to a her gleaming wares. Clare, a silversmith and jewellery maker, revealed some of her more everyday objects at the Origin Fair.

Using a method of spinning and hand raising metals, slowly striking them with a hammer, Clare forms divine elements like twin salt and pepper vessels, and glowing dishes that fit lusciously into the palms of your hand. Not forgetting her exquisite organic jewellery which take on the forms of the jewels of nature, like broken eggs and lovely empty husks. Visit Clare’s site Phioro for more information on prices.

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