Gussying Up

To gussy up, to embellish. Here are some (cheap!) ways to gussy. I will teach you how to gussy.

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for those hollow doors (I have some in my house, might have to get out some masking tape this weekend)

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also a super easy trick, looks like paneling/trim treatment, but it's just paint, be sure to measure though - crooked fake trim is no good.

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mr. fancy pants himself on a painted deck.

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silver spray paint makes a maaaajor statement, always. case closed.

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gold paint on the corners of an ikea frame, turns the reba into a campaign beaut.

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you can even gussy up a jello shot.
Happy Thursday of this lovely little short week!

Throwbacks

I'm sensing a return to the traditional. As I've been scouring fabrics recently I've noticed a resurgence in toile, embroidery, flame stitch and moire (silks that look like they have wood grain pronounced moooowaaah rey).

However, they aren't in ho-hum reds, blacks, royal blues like your mother's, grandmother's, great great aunt's toile bedroom curtains, dust ruffle, table skirt - you know the room I'm talking about. They're in fresh colors that would be quite cool paired with trendier fabrics.

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robert allen.

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ditto.

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r.allen, much hotter pink in person.

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robert allen as well.

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my fav. eliza's garden in salem red.

Have a wonderfully patriotic Memorial Day Weekend!!

Sanity Fair

For my first post on the new blog, I'd like to introduce you to another blog - Sanity Fair - A Southern writer with all the charms I hope to possess. A friend pinned a picture of her home and that led me to her blog which led to me rearranging my house for the past 3 hours. She was able to style her 425 square foot apartment in D.C. like no other. Major applause. Please, take the tour...and drool.

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Notes to take: Arranging trays as anchors on tables, provides a base for the smaller things. The way she hangs pictures, grouping with similar frames and layering (appendix b: see mirror hung over Asian screen, acting as headboard, ridiculously good looking)

And you can take away from this lesson what you may, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope you do too! 

Attention Must Be Paid

to the new blog design! Fabulous K Creative is responsible for the new look, I love it!!

So, now that we're up and running... I'll be blogging back to normal. Sorry for the delay!