brown paper packages tied up with string...........

Here are a few things I recently received as gift and some of them I splurged and bought for myself!!!!

"crunchy" art panel from papaya

(Gift)

"Bewitched" Giclee from Papaya

(Gift)

2010 Weekly Planner from Papaya

(Gift)

Tiffany Orange Owl from Fringe Studios

This was a gift to myself

Owl Lily Vase from Fringe Studio

(Gift)

Victoria Couture Large Denim Tote

Gift to myself

Oh The searching And Creating I Do...............

Oh the searches I do online daily for anything vintage or crafting and decorating ideas.  I couldn't begin to calculate how many hours go into searching for just the right inspiration that I so desperately need  to complete the master piece that is my studio or bedroom...... I have to admit that I am so very close to being finished........ but is anyone ever really finished completing their masterpiece?  I know when the time comes I will eventually redecorate everything that I have done!  but for now I can enjoy what I have done so far......

I recently redecorated my bathroom from the god awful red that it was.   I know some of you will gasp after reading that but please allow me to explain that the red that was in the bathroom did not fit the room.  Red is not fitting for a small bathroom in fact red or any other dark color is not fitting color for any room that is small.  I changed the color of my bathroom to a beautiful light blue with black accessories and chrome details(fixtures).  I chose a lovely black and white damask shower curtain black shelving and black wall decoration with white bath towels, black and white hand towels and blue wash clothes.  I have to say it looks lush and spa like and was a lovely change to an other wise blah and not so fitting bathroom.  (Pictures to come).  

So on to my web find for all of you web junkies out there that are looking for cute hard to find items....... this a wonderful website that has beautiful stationary and wonderful art pieces and lovely cards and journals....... the website is papaya  (Click on the link for the website). here are the purchases that I recently made to make my boudoir complete.  

Bewitched $48.00

Beautiful $16.00

Parrot Girl $16.00

Victorian Bird $16.00

Visit papaya and bask in the beautiful things they have for sale.... And Enjoy!

Ooh la la ... utter cuteness

As some of you may know I'm a wedding florist. With that said I was setting up a rather large  wedding this past Saturday (yes i know valentines day very original and quite cheesie).  Anyway i asked a friend to help us with the wedding and then with the late night pick up that night.  While we we waited for them to finish off there last glass of champagne  and the last dance to be danced we headed to highland tap in the Virginia highlands for a reservation i had made the day before..... if you have never been there it is really  quite nice and unique.... It's like being in an underground bar in London very warm dim lights stone walls candle lamps on the table literally at the bottom of a building... the food was wonderful and we had the most delicious appetizer of fried risotto with asiago cheese ...yum yum. and to finish it off with something wonderful we had pistachio gelato from Paolo's (for anyone that goes into the Virginia highlands you have to go here and have the gelato its yummy and a local hot spot there is usually a line but worth the wait...).  While walking back to the car we did some window shopping and came across a store called the paper source ( I love this store its full of hand made wrapping paper beautiful stationary and they also sell paper flowers which are beautiful... while admiring there window display they made this wreath out of the wrapping paper they sell with hearts and flowers it was oh so cute.....  i decided i could make one of those myself and sure enough i did.  I love eyelet its my fav and i buy almost anything with eyelet. so with out further delay here is the wreath that i made the night after i saw the one in the window

it was really simple to make i used a pre-cut cardboard round (i bought the round at Michael's in the cake section).  I then  made cones out of all different sized doilies and started hot gluing them to the round until it was completely covered. you can attach a ribbon to the back to hang and walla my oh so cute wreath!!!