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The wedding invites went out...ekkkk!  No turning back now (not that I would ever want to turn back, I cant WAIT to marry my love) everything is falling into place and it's crunch time now.  It's time to get all the small details I've planned into place and made. 

While I'm still working on the escort cards I started to work on how I could mark chairs for the future hubby and me.  We are sitting in with all the guests, no head table or sweetheart table here and I didn't realize there are so many creative ideas out there for what are just basically reserved signs.

Weather I go with Mr. and Mrs., just and & sign, or Bride and Groom these are all super cute ideas

What does everyone think about this idea?  yeah or nay?

Wall Bling

I just love Osborne & Little's Asuka wallpaper.  You all know it, as it's been seen thousands of times in this Kate Spade ad

As I was searching through Mark Lund's photography portfolio I came across this image

It looks like it could almost be the same room- or maybe its just a bedroom with the same wallpaper and I'm just imagining things.

Either way, it made me love it all over again.

I guess lots of other people love it too.  In the words of Martha Stewart, It's a good thing.

Happy Friday everyone!

(photos from: Domino, Elle Decor photo by Roger Davies design by Shaun Jackson, husohem.se, Kate Spade, Mark Lund, Massucco Waraner Miller, Palmer Weiss, and via This is Glamorous)

Updated tie dye

Why didn't I think of this??

I opened BH&G and saw this GENIUS idea staring back at me!

dyed lamp shades!

An easy DIY project to do at home.  Take any plain white lamp shade, dunk it in a bath of Rit Dye

What an easy way to create a completely custom look!

Just look at all the different looks that can be created with just a simple colored lampshade.

I cant wait to head to Target to pick up some new white lamp shades and a few bottles of Rit Dye to try out this new project!

(Photos from: BH&G, Decorpad, Houzz, J.Savage Gibson Photography, Mark Lund Photography, Tobi Fairley, Tracery Interiors, House Beautiful, Miles Redd, Nate Berkus, S.R. Gambrel, and Elizabeth Dinkel)

sharp edges holder

A few weeks ago I walked into Anthro during a sale.  Of course I wanted everything on the sale table, but settled on a pretty candle that came in a wood box.  I think I just bought the candle BECAUSE of the box.  I knew I would have another project to keep me busy for a few afternoons.

The box is exactly like the one below, except it had a candle in it and not an address book thing.

I decided to try out another pattern, kinda like the tea box I made awhile ago.  After some playing around, I came up with this pattern

Just a few rectangles placed together till I found a shape I liked.  I left in the lines so you could see how I made it (but feel free to snag this pattern to use if you like)

After I painted the box green (guess I've been on a green kick lately) I traced my pattern out on all 4 sides and got to work filling it in

Oops paints at Home Depot are my favorite!

Be prepared to use ALOT of tape for this project.

After lots of tape, drying time between coats, a little sanding and I was left with this beauty

A coat or two of polycrylic gave me a protective shiny finish

It just happened to be the perfect place to keep my new and super sharp scissors that my Grandma gave me for my birthday

 She said Wiss are the best and would last me YEARS if i get them sharpened.

So now this new green box lives on my desk, and it holds some fabulous new scissors.

Now that I have new scissors, I think its time to put down the paint brush and get back into sewing.  (but don't hold me to that one, I've been working on a ton more painting projects, SOOOO there will be many more posts featuring some of my work)

Something Old, Something New...

You get the rest, Something Borrowed, Something Blue!

My months and months of wedding planning is starting to come together!  All the details that I've spent HOURS on are starting to fall into place and I can't tell you how happy it makes me.

Today I was focusing on what I will use as my Something old, new, borrowed and blue and thought I'd share some ideas

Something old- lets see, there has to be some piece of jewelry in your family or future husbands family you can use?  That can count as borrowed too- knock two things off the list with one item.

In most cases the dress is whats new, and if not maybe new shoes?  Something New seems to be an easy one since almost everything for the bride is new

Jewelry again?  See Something Old above for more ideas.  I think a piece of jewelry is the easiest to borrow- but are there any other ideas out there?

So many choices for Something Blue.  Shoes, garter, sapphires, nail polish?  At first I thought I wanted blue shoes, but figured if I was going to spend an arm and a leg on shoes I want something I can wear over and over again.  My something blue might be a sapphire ring my grandma gave me awhile ago.  Its old too, ancient really, double score for Something Old and Something Blue.

Any other ideas out there- what did you all do for your Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue?

I see the light

Do you ever go through your house and just want to start all over again?  Some days I love my apartment and other days I'd like to change it up.  I pretend that I have unlimited funds and go on crazy online shopping sprees.

Today its lighting.

I have two flush mount fixtures in my long hallway- they are standard apartment grade and not my favorite.  You don't know how many times I'd dreamed about ripping those suckers down and replacing them with something new.

Loving all the brass/gold colors lately.  I used to HATE it and think it was so 80's looking- but it is really growing on me

Back to the standard silver/chrome finishes but with a little more modern feel.  The anemone one is totally something that I never would have picked for myself, but it is really calling my name.


I've thought about the DIY route- there are some pretty great tutorials out there on how to make drum shades. But, I have yet to find a good tutorial on how to cover up apartment lighting.  I would love my readers forever if they knew of any...I know you do.


(all lighting fixtures above from Circa Lighting, Bellacor, and Neena's Lighting)

Marbles Lost

Back a few weeks I posted about marbled paper that had been on my radar (and many other bloggers and magazines as well)  I had full intentions to purchase some for a DIY box project.

Well we all know that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions", so you can pretty much guess what that means.  Yup, never got the marbled paper. 

In my defense the marbled paper that I fell in love with at Paper Source was $23 a sheet, and I just couldn't see spending that much on a project I had no clue if it would work or not.

I'll give you one guess what I did with the box? 

PAINT!

These boxes from Plantation had me at hello.  But for a $130 price tag, I knew I could whip up my own version with that closet full o' paint I have

And so I did.

After painting the whole box turquoise, a little of that magic Frog Tape and a ruler is all it took to mark out the lines for the white paint.

 

After I took these pictures I realized I should do something more eye appealing with the inside.  Maybe black paint like the Plantation ones.

Or maybe I'll just get another box and start the project all over again. 

I mean this box could always use a friend.

I've lost it, I know.