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It’s no secret that I love children books a lot. On my spare time (which rarely ever happened these days), I often go to the library and browse around their children book collection. I was on Flickr the other day and stumbled upon vintage children book collection by trywhistlingthis. She also did a marvelous job of keeping track of the author and illustrator names. What a delight!

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I feel so bad for having neglected my blog for quite a while. Sorry! I have no reason other than being swamped in school and work. It’s Spring Break now, though, so I’m back to blogging.

We don’t own a house just yet, but when we have one, we knew we want to decorate it around the theme of nautical elements and the sea life. We both just love beach and sea creatures so much. Hub’s number one hobby is fishing and although fishing is not always super fun for me, I love to tag along most of the time, just like what we did last weekend.

That’s right. Spring has finally sprung in Dallas. Hooray for lovely weather from now on (hopefully)!

Back to the sea life theme, when I found these sea life and nautical collections by Thomas Paul, I was screaming, “Perfect!”. They are in a perfect color palette we intended our future house to be and the overall design style can’t be more suitable. Just love it.

Here are the melamine plates, which would look lovely on the wall (what?!). Yes, on the wall like these.

We don’t currently use coasters, but certainly will especially with coasters as lovely as these.

Perfect coral rugs.

Vintage nautical beauties.

And other non-coastal items by Thomas Paul also made me swoon. The doily plates and the wood pillow are my two favorites!

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