Playing with wallpaper

One of my favorite wallpapers is Hygge & West's Petal Pusher in almost white and gold ...

I used it in a gorgeous nursery that was finished last year and although I have not had time to go up and take the final photographs, I have a few that were taken on install day ...

 I love what Emily Henderson said about the pattern:

"What's so great about this paper is how the gold and ivory becomes a neutral when put up on the wall. It's reflective and strangely quiet for a wallpaper."

I have to agree.  

When I was cleaning out my office last week, I came across the wallpaper sample. I thought it might make a fun drawer liner ...

I was right ... it is a little bit of sunshine every time I open the drawer.
Happy Monday everyone!

Long time no see ...

I cannot believe we are already into April and Easter is over. I don't remember the years flying by so fast when I was younger ...

We had a quiet Easter this year ...  we tried to use natural dyes for our eggs which didn't turn out too well (we rushed them) and I forgot to take photos of the finished eggs (blogger fail!) ... but you can see I started with good intentions:

Went to an Easter egg hunt at my sister's house ...

And this little one turned a year and a half ... seriously, wasn't she just born?

My kitchen is finally finished ... well, it has been for a while but my camera is not working (is there some rule that says everything has to break at the same time?) so I have been waiting to share ... here are a few from my iPhone to give you an idea and I will do a nice post about it when the new camera arrives :D

The floors were lightened and the walls darkened, new counters and cabinet fronts were installed and we finally have a working oven! (the new range was the culprit that started the whole thing).

Just before Easter I had my photographer sister come along for the first stage of the nursery install I have been working on for the last few months (remember the nursery where I had to keep the gender of the baby a secret?) 

 Photography: Patti Prizler

 Photography: Patti Prizler

Photography: Patti Prizler

She had a girl! We have a few more things to install before I can show you the final reveal but it is very worth waiting for!

Hope you are all doing well! Thanks for reading :D

A room at Grandma's

The grandmother of the twins that were born a few months ago needed a room of her own for the girls to come and stay.  And just like the girl's room at their house, this room needed to sleep not just the twins but their big, 3-year-old sister too. 

My sister (who is the best assistant) and I went over yesterday to put up the artwork and bring in some accessories. I forgot to have my sister bring her camera which we could have really used since the lighting was tricky (a beautiful morning sun - but had to shoot right into it - yikes!). My little camera tried it's hardest ... and photographer I am not, but I think the room is cute enough that you will see through the not-so-great photos...

We used Sharon Montrose's animal prints and I was told the giraffe was the three-year-old's favorite. 

The window treatments were already in the room and the full sized bed already had a color scheme (the quilt and the bedskirt) and that made an easy jumping off point. I added the rug and the wall color (Benjamin Moore's Fairest Pink), the white duvet cover and shams to brighten up the bed and the crib bedding from Serena and Lily tied it all together. 

The nightstand was from ZGallerie and the accessories were from HomeGoods and Target.

I cannot resist a bla bla doll ...

What lucky little girls to get to spend the night at Grandma's house in a room like this!

Designing a warm & chic nursery

Wow, it has been a while since I posted. I took some time to re-group after the first of the year, play catch up, re-organize both my house and my life (a never ending on-going process!) and decide how I wanted to spend my time. I have felt out of balance for a while and decided that I needed to cut out some things and add some others. More about that later I am sure, but today I wanted to share an exciting new project I am working on.

I am designing a nursery for a previous client (we designed her darling little girl's room last year) and this time, the gender is unknown. (I love in this age when we can find out so much ahead of time that a couple would wait for the surprise!). So I will come up with two plans, one for a girl and one for a boy.  (The truth is, I have the envelope from the doctor with the gender results but shhhh I am the only one who knows!).

I hope you enjoyed this first look ... these are the inspiration boards I am showing my client to start the process. We will be narrowing our choices down in the next couple of weeks and I will begin to place the orders. 

I hope you are all well - thanks for stopping by! xo

A nursery for twins ... finished!

The nursery for the twin baby girls is finished ...

 I posted about the nursery first here ... This was my starting point:

I added a few things from HomeGoods and Target, custom curtains from Etsy (from here), a rocking chair from Walmart and a dresser (that will be a changing table) from Ikea. I found the storage baskets on Pottery Barn's website but they were a little expensive for the budget. The next day I found them at HomeGoods for a fraction of the cost!

I found the mobile on ebay ... it was originally sold at Pottery Barn. 

The twins will share the room with their almost three-year-old sister. It was a tall order having that many beds and kids and toys in one room ... but it worked out well.

We couldn't paint, but a tree decal added a little fun to the wall.

We tucked the twin bed in a narrow little space on one end of the room and instead of a nightstand we gave this sweet little girl her own roll top desk.

She also has a little play area and bookshelf across from the cribs. We used the large baskets behind the cribs for her toys.

Now we just need the babies to arrive ... they are due any day! 

Thank you sis (Prizler Photography) for taking the photos!

Happy Monday everyone!

Double blessings

My cousin's daughter is about to give birth to twin girls. They have a small apartment with two bedrooms. One of the bedrooms will be the home to the new babies and their three-year-old big sister.

So many blessings. "Double blessings" as a friend of mine would say.

My prayer for these soon-to-be-born-girls and their sister is that they will always know how loved and cherished they are; that they will understand that they are God's gift. 

Oh, that we would all understand this. 

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
 your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,
 when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand …”  - Psalm 139: 13-18

A nursery for twins ... a preview

I'm working on another little girl's room ...

Land of Nod

And this little girl is about to become the big sister to twins!

All three girls will be sharing one room for a while ... two cribs and a twin bed. I wanted the colors to be sweet and soft. 

This one is just too much fun!

Happy Monday everyone :D

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More nursery love

I did a little painting while I was visiting my oldest daughter this past weekend ... and snapped a few photos with my iphone ... they are not great but I thought I would share anyway. 

There was still a blank wall in the nursery that needed some love ...

We took some old frames we had rescued from our garage sale last summer - two were white and one was black and we covered them with acrylic paint that my daughter had in her cupboard (didn't even need to leave the house for this project!). I mixed two colors to match the crib.

We cut up a calendar, framed a colorful gift bag and a LOVE poster from Made By Girl.

Do you see the framed numbers? They were from this project.

The pink bookshelf was previously spray painted - it used to be natural maple.

I think the nursery is coming along quite nicely!