Showing posts with label tuscan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tuscan. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I'm Blue




This is a little redo I did in my sitting room before Christmas but I am just now getting the pictures. It used to be a tuscan style with and italian painting , brown plaid chairs, and burgundy pillows.  I took down the painting above the mantle and added this new mirror. There is writing in french in each of the four corners.
I made new simple pillow covers in icy blues.  I made bolster pillows out of the same fabrics for the chairs. 
I slipcovered the brown plaid chairs in a natural cotton duck. I was so happy to find this super soft throw at TJ Maxx. Usually when you go shopping with a color in mind you can never find it.


The fireplace surround is gray marble so I think it compliments the blue nicely.

I bought this blue church at Christmas but it matches so well I hate to pack it away. I got the nice little color change I wanted without having to change too many things. Since the room already had golds and neutrals I could get away with it I think. I'd like to do the family room in the same color scheme but the walls are green in there so that would require painting. Ugh....painting! I will have to think on that one some more.


Friday, March 7, 2008

Pink Bunny Box







Style, what is my style? I love pink and frou-frou and I love mixed media with hats and butterfly wings and I thought I couldn't do both. I wanted a style. And I tried to fit the altered art and then I drooled at the pink and glitter. So I decided I had to do both. Different moods , different style. I am like that with decorating too. I love a good shabby chic room in a magazine and if the next page is tuscan, that is my new favorite. I can't commit to a style in my home either. I so wanted a style, but my style is to incorporate many styles and for now that will have to be ok.

This week was a pink frou-frou week and I made a sweet bunny box with crepe paper and tulle, and a journal with copies of sweet vintage cards tied up with seam binding. Who knows what next week will bring!