Under a blue moon

Friday's Favorites

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• Homemade chalk paint.  Worth a try.  What's nice is your color choices are unlimited
• Pretty, beachy earrings in my favorite gold and palest aqua
• Okay now THIS is my kind of camping (click through to see the rest of the pictures too)
• This is such a clever idea for making little tartlets (I'm talking about the cookies cutters.  Although I've heard that using vodka in your pie crust recipe is the way to go.  Has anyone tried that?)
• I know this cake picture has been allover Pinterest but it really does make me want to bake a cake.  It is just so sweet looking.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all you beautiful Moms out there.

Friday's Favorites

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• Love these measuring spoons from Anthropologie. Question: Do you keep your measuring spoons all together on the ring or do you separate them?  I keep them together but everytime I wash them after using just one of them I'm wondering how practical this is
• Gah!
• I love this idea of little libraries popping up all over the place.  
• Very cute balloon banner
• I am so trying this: Easy corn shucking (once we replace our microwave which just blew up....)

I should just change this blog to "Friday's Favorites"  as it is all I can seem to manage these past few weeks.  Work is the usual culprit.  Ah well - I have a job and it is keeping me busy.  I need to be thankful for that.

Meanwhile I have all kinds of small, perfectly blog worthy projects stacking up.  Once I get a little breathing room I'll have something to blog about.

I hope everyone is having a splendid Friday and has nothing but relaxation and fun on the agenda for the weekend!

Friday's Favorites

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• Did you know that Anthropologie has their own Pinterest page?  They do!
• Ikea has a fun line of picnic wares that is very reminiscent of Liberty of London.  Cute napkins and cups (among other items)
• Sundance has some lovely earrings.  Modern or classic or sparkly (I seriously covet those sparkly one - very dainty. Wish they had a CZ version)
• Old Faithful Shop has that branding that sucks me in.  Clean and vaguely retro.  I have this colander and it is one of my favorite kitchen item.
• Coldplay AND stop motion video!

Yay!  Friday!!  What a busy work week this was.  We are taking full advantage of the gorgeous weather promised and we'll be working out in the garden.  We have a bunch of new plants to get into the ground including a crabapple tree.  One of the things we have always wanted is a pretty crabapple tree and now we have one.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

 

Friday's Favorites

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• Love these simple planners in gorgeous colors.  I want one of each (via Creature Comforts) 
• 15 things you should give up to be happy
• Another cute graphic print I need to add to my (imaginary) collection.
• Gorgeous decorating photographed by one of my favorite photographers
• Pretty cameo 

The weather has finally turned a corner around here and it is gorgeous out.  We are scheduled to have a pretty warm weekend though - up in the high 80's.  I swear we have the shortest Springs on record. Every year is seems like we get about a week or two break between Winter and Summer.

I have a couple of projects I'm working on (to be mentioned later...) this weekend and we are having a house guest on Saturday.  Pretty full schedule!  

Have a lovely weekend everyone and Happy Friday!

Friday's Favorites

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• Tutorial on DIY labeling for jars or cannisters.  I want to try it in white so it has a faux etching effect (for those of us in the US I found the products on Amazon and Ebay)
• Pricy but adorable Spring or Summer purse
• I adore this map idea for a child's room.  
• Pretty, sparkly earrings.  Nuf said....
• I've been having a nice email exchange with Dionne in England. She has an adorable brick and mortar shop where she sells all manner of lovely things including her very own cards.  She also has a website that showcases her designs.  I think my favorite are the La Femme series.

We have been having some weather around here.  Thunder, lightening, hail.  I wandered down to the creek yesterday afternoon and it hasn't quite spilled over its banks yet but it is close.  

So this weekend I intend to stay inside where it is warm and dry and work on a couple of projects.  

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

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• Absolutely the most gorgeous DIY Easter Eggs.  I would do them in a soft turquoise too
• Clever Easter cupcakes
• Keeping with the Easter theme - I love this painting by Toshio Ebine
• Some Etsy prettiness for your Friday: Vintage baby brush and comb * Boullion cups and saucers * Teapot
• I'm having so much fun looking at all the entries for the Apartment Therapy Small Cool 2012 contest.  Can you even imagine living in the teeny tiny category?  Yet they make it look so doable

This week went by fast - I've been in class for the past two days which is a definite change of pace for me.  I have to actually get dressed and look presentable to go into the office.  

I hope you have a relaxing weekend and lovely Easter Festivities if you celebrate.  We are doing our usual extravagant brunch.  I have some treat bags again this year (here are last years) that I'll share on Monday.

Friday's Favorites

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• These have to be the sweetest spice tins I've ever seen
• Someone with small children needs to do this on Easter
• I've seen this method of shredding chicken on Pinterest and I have to say it totally works!  I did it myself this week. Shredded about six cups of chicken in under two mintues (I did two chicken breasts at a time).  Tip:  Cover your mixer with a towel before turning on otherwise you'll be cleaning shredded chicken off your kitchen ceiling.  Don't ask how I know this....
• Fabulous source for party and craft supplies.  Look at their selection of Luau stuff - not your usual cheesy neon faux leis and plastic tiki cups.
• What a pretty set of bangles

Well hello there.  I didn't mean to be gone for so long.  I guess I just needed some time to reflect on what I was doing with this blog and what direction I want to take it.  Lately it has felt like I was scrambling to slap something up here rather than genuinely having something I wanted to share.

It also felt like I was spending all my time online looking for inspiration and recycling ideas rather than coming up with my own (I realize the irony of this statement on my Friday's Favorites post where I am essentially just bringing you links and pictures I've found online but bear with me...).  

The overall tone of this blog will not change - One of the things I was struggling with was identifying what type of blog this is - is it a craft blog, a decorating blog, a me rambling about whatever nonesense catches my attention blog...and I decided that I really didn't want to pick one single direction - so it will continue to be a lifestyle type blog.  Only a little more organized.  This is more for my sake than anything else.  I find I do better when I have a set schedule or routine.  I feel more grounded and focused and less like I'm just spinning my wheels.

So no glaringly obvious changes will happen around here, just a little more consistency with my posting and hopefully I'll have new and inspiring things to share.  Thanks for hanging in there with me.

Have a fabulous weekend and I'll see you on Monday.

 

 

 

Friday's Favorites

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• Hey!  You can rent the house in Under the Tuscan Sun:  Bramasole - Villa Rental
• I love the sweet simplicity of Alessandro Gottardo's illustrations
• I found this frame on Pinterest and then went on a hunt for the perfect pale chalky beige/pink so I could DIY (the swatch online looks darker than it is in reality.  Trust me - it's a perfect match)
• Two of my favorite collectibles - milk glass and brooches combined.  I saw a few pretty examples used as hair pins for brides.  This is lovely  As is this one (covers that whole "something blue" business
• I'll leave you with a little pulling of your heartstrings.  Poor scared little pup just needed a hug  Edited to add:  Thank you Thelma!  Here is a follow up video

This week just flew by.  My photo a day class is over (but not my photo a day resolution) so normal blogging will resume (I never intended the class to pre-empt blogging but that's kind of what happened).  I have some things to share next week.  Like my version of the pale pink frame, a new addition to one of our oak trees and an updated milk glass collection post.  

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Friday's Favorites

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• Are you doing anything fun for the Oscars?  We like to do a tapas type party and yell at the television whenever Russell Crowe comes on (my mother disliked him for some reason so we boo him in her honor).  This looks like fun:  Oscar Bingo!
• Isn't this a pretty table runner?  Original photo from the Carter and Cook site
• If I ever had to live in a drafty old garret (What? It could happen) this is what I would want it to look like
• Another one of those graphic-y signs that I like.  This would be cute in a boy's room
• Lovely looking Etsy site: Curate & Love

We have another one of those weekends with nothing planned.  I'm not quite sure how we will spend it.  I think just relaxing around the house sounds like a pretty good idea.  

Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

Friday's Favorites

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• Please and thank you - magic words indeed.  I love the colors, typeface, the message.  This would be cute in a kitchen, don't you think?
• I'm a bit obsessed with finding the perfect ballet pink ballet flat. This would be on the top of my list if they weren't so pricy. They look cuter when you see them on someone's feet
• Pretty earrings.  For all the pale aqua or blue earrings I post here you would think I have a ton of them.  Maybe I should just BUY a pair and then we can move on to another style
• Free digital ephemera.  Vintage children images or Reusable Art
• This would make a cute garden shed, doncha think?  

I didn't mean for this to be a twice a week blog.  Sorry about that. I'll try to do better.  I've been away from home for the better part of this week so I am going to especially enjoy our long weekend.  I have bareroot roses that are soaking in the laundry room sink as we speak that need to be planted.  So see lots of relaxed puttering happening this weekend. 

Hope everyone has a splendid weekend!