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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Rain Boots in Decor

These Boots Are Made For
D E C O R A T I N G !!!
Have you noticed all the rain boots showing up in decor photos?
They've become the chic'est of accessories.
See how Courtney of French Country Cottage recently used them when showing off her bathroom?
They immediately bring the feeling of spring into a vignette.
Filled with long stemmed flowers and branches...
they create an instant sense of spring.
Pretty yellow boots filled with daisies create the cutest of door decor.
Fun at the front porch steps.
They make such cute whimsical planters.
Seems any kind of rain boots will do...from utilitarian black to pastel florals and
hot pink!
Don't have a pair sitting around your house?
You can pick these up at Pier 1.
They are ceramic but look like a mottled green pair of boots.
They'd be so cute with forsythia branches jutting out the top.

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Thanks for all your advice on getting well.
Sometime this afternoon I took a turn for the better.
Sore throat much better and I'm at least coherent now.
Another couple of days and I'll be out running around again.

Don't you just hate being sick? 
You have all these things you planned on doing and 
you can't do any of them because you feel so crappy.
I am glad that I at least got to be sick at home with all the weenies.
They didn't mind it one bit.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Easter Mod Mix!!!

More From Mod Mix Monday
I'm using only blue and green eggs his year...but I ran out!
Tomorrow, I'll paint some of the yellow and pink ones.....blue and green.
As promised...I picked out some of my favorite Easter themed links.

I was going to take photos today but I am way too sick to do anything.

Here are my favorite Easter links from Mod Mix Monday! 
Melissa of Daisy Mae Belle has a tute on how 
to make this cute Bunny Wreath for your front door.
Christine at Little Brags showed off her Easter porch which included....
a Real Live Easter Bunny!
Melissa of Daisy Mae Bell decorated her dining room all up 
for Easterand shared how to make some very cute carrots.
Penny of Penny's Vintage Home made this gorgeous Easter Flower Display.
Oh...my it is lush!

I am still super sick today although slightly better.
Hopefully, I'll feel good enough to finish my Easter Dining Room and share.
We'll see...

I did not go to the doctor. I know a cold just has to run it's course but I've never had
a sore throat last this long!

I don't think it's strep.
Although I've never had it to know what it's like.
My throat doesn't hurt as bad today but it still hurts.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Mod Mix Monday #94

Mod Vintage Work Table
I thought this room was a craft room at first...but then I looked closer and it's possibly a kitchen!
There is a sink and looks like refrigeration.
Food...dishes...whatever it is...it's wonderful.
I love the boxes on the wall serving as shelves and I usually don't care for shadow boxes
but these as usable shelves?
Yes!

Thanks to all of you for advice on the hugging situation.
I had to go into work tonight and set up new displays and the hugger 
was there.
Oh! She didn't want to hug me tonight! 
She made no move to do so at all!
What! Afraid I might make you sick?
I told her I was pretty sure I'd caught it from her but she just laughed.

I am REALLY sick tonight!
I have had a sore throat for five days now!
It really hurts when I sneeze which is often.
Usually, I think a cold runs its coarse in seven days.
But this is day five and I feel worse by far!

Oh...well...I'll live. maybe

Here is what struck me as genius from last week's Mod Mix Monday.
There were so many good things that I'm going to pick my favorite general things today
and then later in the week pick my favorite Easter links up.

Rita of Suburb's Mama showed off her newly redone bedroom.
Wow! This bed is amazing! 
I love all of it but the thing that really stopped me was the capiz shells attached to the ceiling fan.
That fan is so much more attractive because os them.
I do hate the way ceiling fans look...but I'm addicted to the one in my bedroom.
I think I might need to do this also.
Oh...had to also share Rita's (Suburb's Mama) pretty gold and milk glass accessories.
A little paint made these super chic!
Tricia of Little Cottage on the Pond was inspired by a Ballard Design bed.
She and her husband made their own complete with a little perched bird.
Kelly of Groovy Green Designs decoupaged this little desk and painted it.
I love the whole effect of it.
Well, it definitely affects me?
Leslie at Paper Daisy Designs transformed this sewing table with a little Milk Paint. 
It has just the right amount of chippiness now. But I'm also loving her little 
pinwheel folded things on the wall. They are very cute, aren't they?
Rachel of Maison de Pax painted this dresser with Milk Paint.
I love the way this turned out.
Lovely shade of red. 

I'll be back with Easter favorites from this party and I'll share my own Easter dining table.
If I can ever have the strength to finish it.
I will.... I will...

Also I got some Milk Paint and am going to paint my shutters in the dining room with it.
Can't wait to do this!

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Remember anything old made over to be new...anything new changed up to look old.
New and old together...
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