Showing posts with label burlap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burlap. Show all posts

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Pumpkin Urn with Bittersweet

I've been on the hunt for the perfect white Pumpkin and some Bittersweet, and finally tracked down those elusive little berries yesterday at a local nursery. Wow, these are expensive little berries, and why haven't the manufacturers of  "all things faux" not come up with a version that looks real?


Now having my Bittersweet, I was able to decorate my Pottery Barn Urn on the coffee table. I put this Frenchy faux grain sack on the coffee table this Spring, to bring a little "rustic luxe" into the mix. Love that tagline...Rustic Luxe. Helps tone down the over-the-top white foo foo.



Also keeps the coffee table clutter from scratching the paint finish.



I don't know if I can keep the Bittersweet here, as I just read where it's toxic to our feline friends. OK, where's the faux stuff when you need it?



At least it looks pretty for the moment...


(This was the urns Summer look)






...cause look who's lurking?


"The Nibbler"


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Hope you're having a great week,

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Going a little "Crazy"


One of the first things that I did as soon as the kids walked out the door after Christmas was to go play in the sunporch. It doesn't have heat or air out there, but it IS such a big part of my decorating scheme, that I have to keep it changed up. Not because I'm out there lounging around, but because you see it from the kitchen. Plus the kitties love to go out and sit on their perches for bird viewing.



 I have a few old bird books that I love, and even though they may be vintage, I still use them on a regular basis. My hubbs gave me these opera glasses a few years ago for bird sleuthing out here.



I didn't make a lot of changes out here, but I did want to try something different on the wicker settee. I have a couple of crazy quilts, and this one is more "Winter-y", where the other is more "Fall-ish". I've tried using whites out here in the winter, but it doesn't work, it just looks like an "ice-box"...too cold...I have to have some color to visually warm it up.


 I also changed out the runner on the little coffee table for a burlap coffee sack from Germany, to have some added depth and texture.




 The baker's rack still has the touches of red on it, and just yesterday I planted some hyacinth bulbs. I've never tried them before. It's pretty chilly out here, but since they grow in the snow, I hope it will work.



These are just too tempting for the girls to leave alone. They want to chew on anything "green".



Finally time to open up my Cavallini Bird calendar.
love these, pure art!


This is the place for some hot cocoa and some woolly socks.
Remember last week how I couldn't believe it was so warm?
It's definitely January now!

Thanks for coming to visit!

I'm joining in for these parties this week;

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xoxo,

Monday, January 2, 2012

Can you guess where this is going...?

I love the use of the "double entrende"...

I found this great frenchy burlap runner this Fall at Robin's and knew that it would end up on my Dining Room table after Christmas. But I also knew that once it was there, you wouldn't be able to see the wonderful graphics, so here it is draped across one of my slipcovered chairs in the Living Room.



Very heavy linen-y hemp-y burlap-y goodness.
So here is where the fun "other meaning" comes in...
look in the lower right corner.


My little companion, the burlap addict. 



Her brain is being taken over by the desire for burlap indulgence.


"Hmmm....what's my  next move?
Hey mom, don't you have someplace else to be?"


ahhhhh.....
oooooohhh....


So, once I removed the slobbering mess,
the burlap went to it's proper destination.
sans cat.


I'm trying to transition from Christmas to "Winter"
more later from the zoo...

joining in with A Stroll Thru Life
xoxo,

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