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Untitled ◊ Untitled ◊ little romeo ◊ Bloomingville: Spring/Summer 2010

My daily motto
Target has some nice looking patio umbrellas. Like this tasseled floral number, this neutral pattern with pompoms, this fringed number and for a less boho vibe, this white umbrella with black scalloped trim
What gorgeous details in this Brooklyn Brownstone. Read to the end to see the fabulous find in their basement

We made it to another Friday! And for a change we are going to have nice weather! It finally stopped raining and has been in the 70’s. Ideal weather.

We don’t have much in way of plans other than watching our granddaughter on Saturday night while her parents go to a concert. I’ll have to clean my office before she gets here because she likes to hang out in there and it is a hot mess right now. I have four different projects going on and it looks like either a bomb went off or I was ransacked.

I hope the weather is lovely where ever you are and that you can get out and enjoy the weekend.

Free Desktop calendar – June

Gosh I wish I had removed that post-it note from my monitor before taking pictures. Ah well. Continuing with the free desktop calendar downloads for June. This time I have included a quote that resonates with me at the moment.

These are all rendered in 1920 x 1080. To save the image click on the link and the image will open in a new tab. Right click on the image and select “Save image as…” and save to your computer.

I’m not sure how to update a background on a Mac but on a PC you right click on your desktop background and select “Personalize.” You can then browse to the file location of the picture you want as your background.

Pink desktop calendar

Lavender desktop calendar

Platinum desktop calendar

I hope you enjoy!

Happy Day After Memorial Day

I wanted to pop on today and say a quick hello. I didn’t mean to take yesterday off but I was enjoying the long weekend so much that I didn’t get around to posting. We had a lovely weekend visiting my sister and her husband and going up to her daughter and son in law’s bbq restaurant. Yesterday I spent the entire day at my sewing machine plus catching up with laundry.

See that sweet face up there? Well this is the carnage we wake up to every morning:

Piles of kitty toys in various stages of dismemberment strewn about the hallway to our bedroom and guestroom (that’s the guestroom above). She brings them, one by one, from her toy basket in the sitting room and leaves them there for us for when we wake up. She’s a fierce hunter, that one.

I know it’s Rosie and not Grace because Grace was sleeping at the foot of our bed all night.

Anyway….I just wanted to pop on and say hi. Normal posting schedule will resume tomorrow with the monthly calendar download.

Friday Favorites

Untitled ◊ Last days of Coney ◊ Untitled ◊ Carrousel

I had no idea that these facades were painted on when I first saw the thumbnails of the photos. Talk about taking tromp d’oeil to a whole new level. Fun fact: I grew up in Palo Alto where we had our very own celebrity tromp d’oeil artist, Greg Brown, that had a number of installations in downtown Palo Alto that were painted in the late 70’s. I also had a friend that was a “house boy” for a very wealthy family in Atherton (we’re talking third richest family in the world at the time….) and their guest house was done up in Greg Brown’s work. It was a bit more risque than what was on the sides of buildings in downtown PA and it was amazing.
Fabulous eye mask from Masqueology. I have tried a ton of different eye masks (and facial masks) in that ever elusive quest to retain a modicum of youth and none have worked as promised like this one. I found this one I found actually depuffed and brightened my under eye area. And they are so inexpensive! I picked mine up at Walmart for a few bucks and got four patches (enough for two uses). I wish they made a neck version….
I’m all about light and serene in my own home but I do appreciate a dramatic decor. This Oak Park home is gorgeous. I think what I appreciate the most is the home owner’s slow pace in getting the restoration and decor just like she wanted with the help of her father.

Happy Friday! We actually have plans for this weekend! After what seems like weeks of weird weather we will finally warm up (and hopefully dry up) and to celebrate we are heading up to Angels Camp to visit my sister and her husband and hopefully visit their son in law’s new BBQ restaurant, 9 Diamonds BBQ, for lunch.

I keep forgetting it’s a holiday weekend too. How is it possible that it is the end of May and we are about to launch into Summer? Where has the year gone? I’m pretty sure I still have a few Christmas decorations that need putting away.

Have a splendid weekend!

Dollhouse: Bedroom

I have been on a creative tear this week. Unfortunately I keep hopping from one project to another and nothing is really complete. You should see my office, it is an absolute tip. Scraps of fabric, beads, buttons, paints, all strewn about.

I did finish a teeny painting for the dollhouse bedroom. I actually started out trying to paint on fabric for a pillow for the wingback chair but my proportions were wrong. I was practicing my roses on a little scrap of basswood and liked how it turned out so I put it above the bed in the dollhouse.

Painting does not come naturally to me. Full scale or miniature. I found a tutorial online and had a go at it. It is from the same woman whose wing-back chair inspired mine.

I need a little more practice, mainly with placement of the roses, but I like how it turned out.

The room is still very much a work in progress. I need to sort out the walls and install the floor properly. I’m a bit divided on the floor. I love the whitewashed herringbone but I think I need to find something easier to install and work with since I want the floors to be the same throughout the first and second floor.

The bed is one of my more popular Pinterest pins. I found the bed on Etsy but it is available in a set from miniatures.com. I painted it white and added clear, faceted beads on the four posters. It looks very much like my own bed.

I made the bed linens from vintage hankies and lace trim. Vintage hankies make great material for dollhouse furnishings. They are very soft and the threads in fabric are so fine. It helps create a realistic draping.

The dresser is a vintage Ideal Petite Princess dresser that I also painted white.

I want to find an oval free-standing mirror and maybe a nice chest for the room and then the furnishings will be done. Then I’ll move on to the 2nd floor landing which is going to be a library of sorts.

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