Monday, November 25, 2013

Planting narcissus and bringing fall indoors…

Fall flowers awaiting their Thanksgiving debut

in a vintage champagne bucket

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Ilex, croton from the garden…and orange tulips from afar

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Paper white bulbs….

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slowly opening and unfurling for winter

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I love collecting thrift store trophy bowls and loving cups through the year

and planting the narcissus in them

easy….and so winter in the tropics to me!

 

“Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.”

                                                                                       ~Koran

Saturday, November 16, 2013

A bathroom…

As big as an airplane

lav….

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That would be our  powder room.

Took me 4 minutes to paint it  including priming and getting the mail.

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When just the Mexican star is lit….It feels like the night sky.

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A fave snap of Picaso on the beach

brought to Staples and made into an engineering print

$4.99 clams.

Benjamin Moore Hale Navy on the teensy walls.

Now

just need to place this  suggestion somewhere…

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Apparently tight spaces can be confusing…

OOOO

carry on.

Monday, November 11, 2013

Monday, November 4, 2013

This time…a ONE minute lamp re-do.

I tell ya.
Getting faster and faster at this.
:: Lamp re-do weekend in the ole casa ::
Added some grass cloth wallpaper to these lamp shades
 
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And
well... you know.
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Big Black Dog approved.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Another 3 minute re-do…'cause that is all the time I can afford...

So…I found a  reading lamp
for 30 clams
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Nothing exceptional….but wanted the warmth of brass.
Enter this paint
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and about two minutes of my time
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Voila.
Now the dog can read
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On HIS couch
::sigh::
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