Winner Winner Winning!

OK!!!!!!!!! So we have a winner for the olive leaf stencils giveaway!!!!!

 Shannon @ What's Up Whimsy said...

 An Ikat Stencil?? That is crazy!! I would get Ikat Number 1 all the way!

                March 23, 2011 7:14 AM 

CONGRATS SHANNON!!!!! You are the bestest winner ever! 

See folks, It Pays to follow along on my little ole Bliggity Blog!

Oh and By the way go take a look at the cuteness that is What's Up Whimsy....You'll love it!

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DIY

So I bought these chairs for 10 bones at my local thrift haunt.

Kinda had a thought I might live with them as is and then I realized I was having a moment....and this happened. 

My camera made this fabric look ORANGE and its not...It's coral dammit!

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Egg Head

I have been the proud owner of one of these babies for a couple years now and I absolutely love it. It has been with us through three apartments and now resides on the front porch of our new house. In every apartment we hung it in the corner of our living room, leaving the landlords PISSED and with a giant hole in the ceiling.  The duck has a love hate relationship with the chair cause he knows he's the one who has to crawl in the attic to find the stud to drill it into.... Just to bug him I am contemplating bringing it back inside.
Anyways, it is currently the natural rattan finish and I am thinking maybe paint it white....Here is the chair as is{in our apartment 4 years ago}, and some inspirations with it both painted and leaving it
Au Naturale.

Thoughts?

and here is a little pic of yours truly...just because.

{Me on most days}

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Love me some Home Goods

"OUCH You BIOTCH STOP IT!"...oh sorry that was my credit card yelling at me from all the abuse I have been giving it lately!

Quick post because the Duck is glaring at me to put down the computer...... but I must show my new pretties. Good ole Home Goods. It is so close to our new house I basically MUST stop there everyday so that I can keep up on the inventory. They should throw me some kind of a sponsorship, In fact Home Goods if you are reading  this...make me a t-shirt and or a bright red trucker hat and I will wear it around town. Free advertising.

Look what came home with me yesterday!

Subway poster $29 dollas...Holla!

Cute rustic bench thingy...$49

Ignore the doors/old brass knobs AND ignore the shiny looking spot in the corner.

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Bloggin Buddies

The lovely and talented Nicole at Parlour featured little ole Amber Interiors today on her uber blog! Parlour is a must read and I am embarrassed to say that until today I was unaware of her fabulousness. Check out her house while your visiting..it's pretty gorge!

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Kabuki

Here we go, yet another project added to my "TO DO LIST" which at this point is longer than Mr. Sheen's "P-STARS I HAVE DONE LIST"(too much?)

Anywhoo, I have always been a fan of Florence Broadhurst  and her fantastic wallpapers and fabrics, but for some reason I have kinda forgot about her recently. I remember, way back when, before we owned our pad, I dreamt I would cover a hallway in "Japanese floral" or "Kabuki". Since we have recently depleted any excess of funds to justify buying 185 dollar a roll wallpaper, It dawned on me last night that I could probably hack this myself ! And what if not in a hallway but in G's room. How amazing would it be if I painted her accent wall a flamingo pink and then hand drew the kabuki fans on with white or silver paint pen?

kinda like this.......but not white with pink....pink with white (see crappy photoshop below)

Also I am sure this is gonna be very popular in the Blog World but the PINK ISSUE of House Beautiful...... "I Die" 

There are no less than 6 pages of pink painted rooms with sources for which colors were used.. if the Duck wouldn't divorce me for it, I would paint every room in our house a various shade of pepto pink. 

Here are some of my faves....that were not included in the schemes

Farrow and Ball "Pink Ground"

Behr "Flamingo Dream"

or any of these colors currently littered across my desk

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