yes, please

um, or this one... still in stock :)

http://www.funkyfabrix.com.au/item_2370/Home-Decor-Leaflet-Canvas.htm

i like

looking for fabrics to recover the two chairs ryan found recently.i like this one. lots. but it's out of stock. the search is on!

http://www.fullswingtextiles.com/haleyscomet-turquois.aspx

inkodye giftwrap

So as you could tell from my last post, I was pretty anxious to go ahead with the sun prints even though there was a lack of sun this past Thursday. I have a heap of linens I've collected and my mom has given me from estate sales and garage sales that are perfect for Inkodye projects. I was going to make a set of four napkins as a birthday gift, but due to the lack of sun I ended up with three, very different shades of green, napkins that I figured would be better as gift wrap than as the gift themselves. I looked outside the window at one point and could see some sun, so I decided to go for it. By the time I had the dye painted on the fabric and the wooden alphabet letters in place, the sun was no longer shining on our apartment. In an act of desperation, I put the print in the car, and drove several miles to the sun :) (Yes, I actually did this). I stopped in front of a house that, for some unbeknownst reason was being shined upon, got out of the car, put the print on the trunk, got back in the car, and waited impatiently as five minutes passed by. So weird. Anyway, by the time I got back to the apartment, as you can expect, the sun had returned. I hustled upstairs, washed out the dye, and quickly completed two more prints; this time from the comfort of the steps in front of our apartment.

They turned out different colors, and I was definitely not precise, but I think for gift wrap, they turned out pretty cute.

Bad day for Inkodye

I had my heart set on trying this project today. http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/2011/08/make-your-own-fabric-print-using-sun.html I got everything ready and looked outside and saw clouds. Happy for the clouds... bad day for Inkodye.

If the sun does come out today I'll hustle outside to let my dye set and then I'll post pictures.

antique-ing

Recently I found myself on a mission to re-do the wall area above our landing strip. (In the design books they call it a landing strip, so I decided I should probably do the same). I decided the space needed a mirror so I went to the antique mall to see what I could find. I did find a mirror... and several other things I wanted. I took pictures of them instead of purchasing. I ended up leaving the store with the mirror and a copy of the children's book "Ferdinand" (one of Ryan's favorites as a kid).

so nice....

new chairs!

Free New Chairs

Episode 1: A couple of weeks ago Ryan came home telling me about some chairs that he'd seen at the accountant's office, and he'd taken some pictures of them because he thought I might like them. They were being thrown out as the office was getting a makeover. I immediately fell in love with the chairs and told Ryan that "yes!!!" he should definitely get them. He then let me know that he had taken the pictures several days before and he was not sure that they would still be there. AAAAAAHHH!! When he went to work the next morning he went by and sure enough, they were gone. After processing our loss, I decided that it just wasn't meant to be.

Episode 2: This past weekend Ryan proceeds to show me a couple of pictures of more chairs he had seen at the office and wondered if I liked them. And of course I did. He hadn't asked yet if he could have them, so I prepared myself for a repeat of the first episode. I received this text that morning when he went to work:

I LOVED them even more when I saw that they were coming to the apartment! I'll most likely re-cover them at some point but for now, they're doing a good job as they are.

The following day while looking through the new Design*Sponge book, I saw this picture, and sent it to Ryan. He totally redeemed himself :)