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Sugar, Lace & Lavender

Published on April 5, 2011 in Color Palettes and Stuff We Love. 0 Comments

Currently loving anything with dainty, laser-cut and intricate details…

Clockwise from top left:  (1) That’s the prettiest little lace underthingy I’ve ever seen.  But if that chick isn’t careful, she’s gonna show everybody her petunia. (2) That iPhone case reminds me of a snowflake.  And it’s leather – rawr. (3) Now they make umbrellas for umbrella drinks that look like pink doilies?! Genius. (4) Those are the most gorgeous antique milk glass sconces I’ve EV-AH seen.

Also LOVING every shade of the lilac rainbow these days.  Especially when you pepper it with some sugary sweet shades of apricot, charcoal, and that muted, cloudy, minty-blue hue.  PS:  Do you think that ice cream tastes like lavender?!

If that color palette fills your soul with sugarplums and gumdrops like it does mine, but you’re hesitant about using pastels anywhere outside your 5-year old’s room, take a cue from the photos above:  saccharin shades instantly become chic and sophisticated in big kid rooms when you layer ’em with earth tones, or anchor them with black.

Happy Tuesday!

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Spring, you’re such a tease.

Published on April 1, 2011 in DIY and Seasonal. 1 Comment

Spring has been a real skank thus far…  playing peek-a-boo with sunny 60 degree days, and then peppering us with snow flurries and 13 degree weather.  I had visions of tulips and budding trees and sugarplums dancing in my head come the 21st of March, and *cough* – “Spring” shot them down with its frigid temps and perma-gray skies.  So, I’ve decided to stop waiting on the elusive old floozy, and get the party started.  In my window sill.  So if you’re out & about this weekend:

  • Scare up some terra cotta pots at Target, Wal-Mart or Home Depot
  • Grab a few seed packets of your favorite herbs (I just planted basil, cilantro, and lemon balm)
  • Snag a few bags of soil…  then plant, water, and watch ’em grow.

If you want to kick it up a really pretty notch, instead of using terra cotta pots, plant your herbs in gorgeous vintage tea tins, like zeese:

By the time it decides to play nice outside, your herbs will have germinated and started to flourish, and you can always transfer them to a larger pot and plop ’em outdoors, where they can grow & prosper.

Go Cubs Go!

*photo credits:  (1) house to home (2&3) a diary of lovely

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