2013: pantone color of the year

You are finally allowed to see my whole dining room. Here's what WE have done since the wedding.

1. ) MB sanded the table. Thank you MB. It'll get stained dark, haven't picked it yet.

2. ) We bought a set of 6 chairs at Seaboard Studio 123. Awesome.

3. ) We bought an antique Chinoiserie chandelier from Hunt & Gather. It has yet to be painted, I'm waiting until we paint the room. Unsure of the color.

4. ) Decluttering took place and it's now taking place in the red armoir. Sneaky.

I've decorated for Christmas on a budget. See boxwood wreath on mirror and bowl of bulbs from fried Christmas lights. That's all I've done so far in preparation for Christmas! More pictures to come as I get crafty with "found objects".  

The before: 

Stick em up

I use Pinterest as my inspiration board. I had an office in my previous abode, new office is now a multitasker - guest room, closet, storage, dog parlor. So, wall space is limited and I don't want to scare people that come to stay. My virtual musings will just have to stay that way for now. But, if I could build a wall for my ideas to stick to...

It'd be as big as Jenna Lyons of J. Crew.

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From Mark Sikes pin-board of Carolina Herrera's real-life pin board. Multi-level pinning going on.
I think I just bent time.

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a calm mood-board.

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a busy mood-board.

And, this is how my e-mood board is looking as of 3 minutes ago. You've got Christmas present ideas, hair-dos, funnies, dogs, lamps, kitchens, and ha! a mood board - see it with the tape?

Hope y'all had a fabulous Thanksgiving, and happy monday.

I love fur. Dog fur. My pets are my babies. Growing up we always had animals and being an only child, they were my siblings. A neighbor came over one day to find me playing hide and go seek with our golden retriever Buddy. I was hiding. Now that free time is playing hide and go seek with me, I really want to find it and get back to painting. I have painted a few dog portraits in the past and have been studying on how to capture the texture, variations in shade and color of one's beloved pet. A few of mine followed by a few that point and laugh at mine because they're so good.

-  above this line are mine, below this line are others' -

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handmadeartists.com

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Kathryn Wronski

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and another

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Sandi Devenny

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Rachel Rossman

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fairysomnia

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Jacqueline Cross
 

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Iain McDonald

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Joe Vivilecchia

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Collecting my thoughts

My ADD is set to hyper-mode, I've burnt three bagels this morning trying to make breakfast. Ever feel like you're going in 9 million directions, I literally am going in that many at this moment. The need to organize and straighten comes over me when I feel like my life is too hectic. My house is currently in a state of disarray, so I will show you what I wish it looked like.

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trays harness junk, it's their job. I use trays in the kitchen to bring together needs - olive oil, vinegar, s&p, sugar a few herbs, maybe a jar filled with most often used utensils.

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this is not my tray, I wish it was, I'd probably smell dreamy all the time. But I do have a jewelry/perfume/receipts/spare buttons tray on my dresser. For some reason throwing everything onto a single, liftable surface is more organized than not. A place for everything and everything in its place?

My kitchen tray. Utensils, flowers, salt and pepper, seashells, a tiny blue boat, you know the necessities.

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I've got 14 to-do lists going at the moment. What do I do? I go out and buy a jar of Mod Podge and try to make a tray. Priorities.

I had a wallpaper sample from Schumacher, so I slapped it on a tray. Next time, I'll read the instructions on how to decopage? I think that's what I was doing.

 

The white globs are the un-dry Mod Podge. First try, C - for not painting the underside of the wallpaper sample. 

So, you guessed it, I'm back from the 'moon! Here's to house renos, to-do lists and more posts! Cheers!

sadie + stella

Lindsay of Sadie + Stella invited me to be on her blog for the favorite room feature, go check. I wrote it last week and totally dated myself, the wedding is THIS weekend. Wish me luck!

Here's a peak of my favorite room.

revamping a sorority house

Years and years and years ago, I was in a sorority. Years and years later, they asked me to revamp the same sorority house that I lived in when I was in college. I'm not that old, I haven't received any social security checks yet, but it was almost a decade ago. So, to say it was a little dated might be a slight understatement.

After paint and trim work.

After grasscloth.

 

Dining Room.

Sorry, blurry. (*this was pre-paint, pre-trim, pre-carpet)

Lookin sharp.

And I put a little skirt on the sink. The revampage is complete. New post coming up tomorrow, but after that I'll be wedding-ing through the weekend and then off to the 'moon. When I return it's back to normal, aaaahhhh.