Subway Art & an Office remodel

I decorated my friend Leah's office, she is a Realtor and loves bling, clean modern lines and glamour. She also said she liked how the Kardashian's home and office was decorated. After alot of surfing the net for ideas and inspiration from Pinterest and of course the Kardashian's, I had some idea of what to do in her office. We went with a neutral pallet and did an accent wall using a stencil from Cutting Edge stencils, the stencil is called Casablanca and is morrocan. I decided to call her style Modern Morrocan:) She had a huge cork board in her office that was useful but nothing much to look at, so I decided to make it into Subway art. That way it can be used for function but also has great form and makes for a great piece of art on her wall.

The Kardashian's almost always have a little bit of zebra somewhere in their rooms. lol

French Poem Coffee Table

A good friend of mine, we will call her Lainey. It really is her name Really:) We decided to go to Goodwill & look for a fun project to work on together. We found this cool coffee table for $20. It is a really good sturdy table with some great bones. I love the swans! It was also a glass top but it was broken so we asked the good men at Goodwill to remove it. They thought we were a bit nuts but that's okay we knew that we would find another option for the top. What could we do to replace the glass top? Our solution was to go to Home Depot and have a piece of plywood cut to size that would fit ever so nicely in the niche. Once that was done we proceeded to paint the wood with Anne Sloan paint in Old White. Lainey had a beautiful french poem stencil that she had been wanting to try. We put the poem over theOld White and then aged and sealed it with clear wax and then dark wax also from Anne Sloan. We painted it Duck Egg Blue and then waxed it with more clear and dark wax. I love how this turned out, it feels so romantic to me and very, very original..

BE HAPPY

Today, I decided to clean out a craft/junk drawer. Isn't it amazing how cleaning out something like a drawer or closet can make you feel good. Nobody else knows about it or for that matter really cares about it, but something changes in you, you feel lighter, more organized, ready for new challenges. I may be stretching this a bit but for those of you who have cleaned and organized anything you know what I am talking about. It feels good:) So, while doing this I found some random things and started feeling crafty. I just washed this wine bottle the other day, and thought I might do something with it. I had some scraps of burlap & twine and you know you can make anything if you have these 2 things. lol I had these really cute flowers that I made out of the aluminum tins you get from votive candles. I am really making these flowers for some amazing summer project..check back with me soon for that! I stole one to make this cute little bottle which I decided to write BE Happy on and you know what it does make me happy:) I will tell you how I made these flowers when I post my summer project with these flowers. In the meantime I will tell you that I painted them with nail polish that I purchased from the $dollor store. Really pretty vibrant colors. Paint outside and get some fresh air when doing this or you might start to feel a bit high:) or get a really bad headache which is what happened to me.

Sweet Summer Time

The best thing about summer is BBQing and eating outdoors, enjoying the sunshine,the  sweet smell of flowers and listening to the crickets chirp on the porch late at night and early in the morning. We kicked off the Memorial day weekend with a BBQ with some family & friends. Just sharing a few of my table top decorations. I love my Irises, they always bloom so beautifully and the fragrance they give off is amazing. This nest was found while my husband was trimming my Clematis vine. I literally took it and displayed it here in a pretty little blue bowl, found @ GW of course and put these adorable miniture S & P mason jars in it. How cute is that?

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Get Creative with Salvaged windows

If you happen to be in an antique or salvage store make sure to look in their window selection. You might think hmmm....what the heck would I do with those old windows??? Here are a few that I have bought and I love to display all kinds of fun family pictures, invitations etc....You could paint them or leave them all old and chippy. Which is usually my choice. I did paint the small black window in this case and added some cute glass knobs from Hobby Lobby. They have really cute hooks, knobs and handles there and they are usually 50% off.  The glass is usually broken when you buy these windows so you have to get creative with the backing. In the black frame I used metal so you can use cute magnets, in the white window the glass was good so I attached my photos to glass with double sided sticky tape.

My $1.99 Lampshade

This week on my usual perusing through my local Goodwill I found an awesome lampshade! It was new, still in it's wrapper and waiting to be re-invented. I have been wanting to stencil a lampshade for a while so I already knew what I wanted to do with it. I already had the stencil and paint so I went right home and got busy. The hardest part about this was trying to center the stencil in the middle so the patterns would look right. My husband, who is an engineer told me it looked a little off and he probably is right but to me it looks really pretty and just the way I had imagined:)

I will not pay $50 for a Pillow

I love all the beautiful pillows I see at Pottery Barn, Arhaus, Restoration Hardware Etc...but I just can't seem to bring myself to pay so much money for one pillow. This is a problem because I really want them:) Here is a solution that I have found and I think it turned out pretty and will satisfy my pillow cravings. Have you seen all the beautiful kitchen towels everywhere? They have so many patterns and colors. I purchased this one at an Antique market for only $9..Wow! I am always on the lookout at GW for pillow forms, I have found quite a few of them. I sewed this pretty little Rooster pillow up in just a few hours. I had the pillow forms, some gingham material and some Toile material so really this pillow didn't cost me more than $15. Success! 

also..the pillows on each side I bought at GW. I first found the pillow forms and then I was looking in the pillow sham section and found the pillow covers which are really nice from Ralph Lauren. I like this because I can wash them and they are like new.

...I was at Sur La Table yesterday and I found so many cute kitchen towels for under $10. If you have one near you, you should definitely check it out! They had this very same rooster towel there too:)