So this is a different lazy take on the  painted board that are out there.  I needed something fast and low cost for a cute little friend gift.  I love painted signs but just thought they would be too time consuming. So I tried my hand at spray painting. I know weird but I think it turned […]

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 Happy Birthday to the bell jar its a hundred this year!! wow there is just something special about being that old.  Not much survives past a few years these days you need a new phone every year, your computer is 5 years old!!!! how do you function.  LOL  there are a few things is life […]

The bell jar is 100

So it takes a long time to fix up your house!!  Some time the littlest things make me happy, because there is so  much of the big stuff still to do.  We haven’t had a light in the hall for 8 months. I so wanted to find the right light and put up.  however the […]

Light it up

What the heck I know I know another silver leafing project???  I just can’t help myself  I have silver leaf floating in the air at my house.  My cute dog is covered in little specks of shinny silver stuff. My husband is often told he has glitter on his forehead or sweater, seriously its a […]

Sliver leafing my table

 This chandelier was a long time coming.  I have been wanting to replace the dinning room chandelier for months now but just couldn’t find the right one.  Then to my utter surprise I saw it, out of the corner of my eye while I was in West Elm exchanging my rug.  It was so pretty […]

My beautiful shell chandelier

 Oh i know its painful to look at.  I’m not a big fan of the primary colors!  but I knew that i was going to make the cutest center piece for a carnival so I ripped all the paper off it and got started with my creation.   The colors for the party were hot pink […]

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ok ok I get it I’m obsessed with silver leafing.  But its sooooo easy and makes the biggest change in what ever it touches.  My friend bought a mirror for her bathroom, the only photo she had seen of this mirror was an online photo from Pottery Barn.  When she got the mirror it was […]

How to update a mirror

I knew when we moved in that this house, had a lot of things I wanted to change.  Our master bath has got to go!! (even our arctitect said it was one of the weirdest/ugliest master baths he had seen) and he’s seen a lot! The master bath  however its way way far down on […]

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