Cheering up is in order: shop projects, craft projects, and creating entertaining table tops with friends. The line-up begins in February and Oh, what FUn is to be had with all of you who will come! I do hope you'll join me.
xo
sharon
Showing posts with label Elle Decor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elle Decor. Show all posts
I'd love to go to this place in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. It didn't surprise me that Miguel Flores-Viana so beautifully captured the amazing work of interior designer, Mary Lynn Turner, and her two daughters, Marie, and Emily of m. elle design. Amazing workmanship, too, I might add. The place they built on family land looks as if it was rescued, and those were there exact intentions.
Rescuers, come to my rescue and take me there. I've been walking a mystery mile, here lately, and could really use an escape like this one to let free a few worries o'mine. I just know it would soothe any ones soul, don't you?
via elledecor.com/
Cheering up is in order: shop projects, craft projects, and creating entertaining table tops with friends. The line-up begins in February and Oh, what FUn is to be had with all of you who will come! I do hope you'll join me.
xo
sharon
Cheering up is in order: shop projects, craft projects, and creating entertaining table tops with friends. The line-up begins in February and Oh, what FUn is to be had with all of you who will come! I do hope you'll join me.
xo
sharon
Happy Friday!! I've had to put the blog on the back burner for a bit, because I am completely up to my knees with the weddings coming on this spring. We've been geeking-out on lots of goodies {wedding stuff} @ our nightly craft bashes on Commercial Street. It's been so much fun!
I'm grateful this week, for some little rants on the blogosphere! Design*Sponge and 417 Mag. {You can see the story here and a little rave here.}
Love this image by Convey Studios. Note: Katie, our brilliant model, {and artist} spray-painted her own shoes for the shoot. LOVE that color!! And you want to know something else?...According to Elle Decor, turquoise is the hottest color for 2010, and is not going away any time soon.
Have a lovely weekend, everyone!!
xo
sharon
Spring really is here, we just don't know it yet. Lovin these painted chairs/tables mixed with the warm woods. Organic + Modern + a sign of I just realized it yesterday when my sister, Julie, pulled me out of my indoor rut. She grabbed me to go for a drive to look for fresh, pliable grapevine. Yes, you heard that right...grapevine...I took on a job that I wished I had not.
I agreed to make grapevine valances for a dear old friend who loves Victorian decor. I thought it would be simple, fun, and give me a change of scenery for a day or two. I purchased my supplies at the wholesale floral shop, came home, and began trying to unravel the store bought grapevine wreaths. Utter crackly mess!! I got in a bad mood. A real bad mood. Will even tried to tell me to talk me out of my bad mood...he said to go on a drive to look for it, just like my mom used to do. I told him I didn't want to waste hours looking for grapevine in my whiny voice. {Sorry, Will. You were right.}
Julie came by and picked me up, in my Wellies and clippers.
We had fun driving down alleys thru all the huge, muddy, pot-holed puddles. We remembered the good old days when mom would take us to find grapevine and then we'd make loads and loads of grapevine wreaths to sell on our street corner. Mom was ahead of her time and so creative. People snatched those wreaths up as fast as we made them.
It didn't take long for Julie and I to find an abandoned old property in the center of town. The house sits on a property that has been zoned to be torn down due to a flood that continually rips thru that flood plain. We ventured onto the large 'countrified' property and discovered a sweet little pond with a momma and papa duck sitting quietly {A real sign of spring}. AND...Sitting next to it, a sweet patch of honeysuckle w/pliable, green centered vines + grapevine! We pulled and tugged just like mom. Took all of an hour to feel invigorated and restored.
Spring has sprung. What new things are you doingthis spring?
{images via Skona Hem, Coco and Kelley and Elle Decor}
Happy Spring, darlings!
xo
S
Without a doubt, I think everyone and their next door neighbor's dog is ready for spring, and gosh darnit... I wish I had this garden!! I just nearly flipped when I saw this article in May 2009 Elle Decor Issue. 
In the heart of bustling L.A., Richard Shapiro has created a paradise. 700 boxwood ago, this property was just another Southern California back yard with a manicured lawn, some palm trees, and a 1950's swimming pool. The image of the pool situated in front of the Roman Style temple {portico} nearly took my breath away. The pool has been painted algae green and the stones have been distressed. A stunning recreation. Definitely could've fooled me. I thought this paradise was set in Europe. Did you?
Mr. Will has been itching to ready our North side yard up like this one. We went to a green house auction last weekend and came home with lots of evergreen trees and bushes. Some of the trees are half dead, but if anybody can bring 'em back to life, Will will. That's his name.
So, What are your spring plans? Any garden projects?
Images by Miguel Flores-Vianna
Happy week to you, darlings!
