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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Topsy . Turvy

I'm very excited today because my studio/our guest room is almost complete!! {little "hooray" for finishing projects!} There are a few things that I still need to get up on the walls, but the most important part of the room is now finished!!

I decided to order the Topsy Turvy wallpaper from Anthropologie and I couldn't be happier with the choice! My mother - who is a saint - came over yesterday to put up the paper on one wall, and she did a smashing job of it!! I decided to go with just a feature wall in the studio, as it's a small room, and a bold print everywhere would be far too overwhelming.




My dress form will also be against this wall, though right now it's just my trusty antique wooden wheelchair there. The wheelchair was a crazy/amazing find from Ruth at The Salvage Yard. All it needs now is a cushion!

The studio will hopefully be done within the week, and I'll post more pictures as soon as it is! (If I'm not too busy staring at my pretty new wall, that is!)

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Antiquing . in . October

The weather in Michigan has been crap for a full week now: rain, gloom, rain, etc. Today is the first day I've seen sunshine and it's positively lovely out! So I got up a pinch early this morning and went over to a wonderful little outdoors antique & craft show in Dewitt.

The show was started just a year ago by a women who has the loveliest farm in existence. Her white centennial home and multiple out-buildings sit snug in the middle of cornfield.



The interiors of the out-buildings are all done in a country white, and they're perfectly manicured on the outside too! She even has a refurbished working outhouse and a vintage chandelier hanging under one tree!

For the show, the vendors got little parcels spread all about the property and inside some of the barns. I mainly went to visit my mother (who had a booth there), but about two seconds after I arrived I'd spied at least $200 worth of things that I wanted!




I was thankfully able to keep my pocketbook tucked away, but it was difficult when everything was so lovely!

I also got to meet Theresa, whom I had only known from her ETSY shop, T. Hein Originals. She makes the most wonderful mixed media pieces, my favorite of which is an insanely cool glittery owl:



...because seriously, what more do you need when you have a vintage owl + glitter? Theresa is lovely person, and hopefully I'll get to know her better as she's going to be giving crafting/arty classes at a local antique store! How fun is that?!

I also ran into the parents of a childhood best friend, and met a couple who live not too far from the neighborhood B. and I just moved into (but then I had to be secretly jealous all morning, because this girl is just cute-as-a-button!). Overall it was a perfectly lovely way to spend a pretty October morning!