Around the House

Do you recognize this table setting? In Savannah we went in The Paris Market where they had used brown kraft paper for "placemats" and had these wonderful little bird's nest with quail eggs on green plates. I bought some of the bird's nests and quail eggs, found some Bordello plates (at Ross) that I've been wanting, and made my own "tablescape." I bought a roll of the brown kraft paper, cut it to the size I wanted then just scorched the ends until I had a shape I liked. Simple and easy (my kind of project)! This is the beginning of my Easter tablescape and I think it turned out pretty neat.

Kitchen table

In the kitchen I used what I had....round woven charges with a mixture of solid green plates and some green and white toile plates with a little faux chocolate bunny placed in the middle. For the centerpiece - an apocothary jar, a cute green bunny (I tied a brown satin ribbon around his neck) and some books.

I've also been working on converting the office/nursury/junk room into more of an office/grandchildren's room. The baby bed we have converts to a day bed and instead of buying a day bed to replace the baby bed, hubby suggested I paint the bed and use it (it was originally white). First I painted the bed black.....it looked pretty good. Then I found a new paint color that I fell in love with by Krylon called "Ivy Leaf". It looks a lot like the green color used in the Ballards catalog so I decided to paint over the black with the green. I have brown glazed walls with a leopard boarded area run and that color green looks great with brown (and black). OMG what a mess! The paint started bubbling up. I finally took it to a professional furniture stripper who said he would not touch it because the bed came from the factory with a baked on finish and it probably would buckle if I tried to strip it. Soooo, on to my favorite paint store, who sold me $50+ worth of stripper, sandpaper, steel wool, and said I had "my work cut out for me." Well, long story short, I finally got some green paint on the bed and it STILL bubbled up in places! I haven't even started on the main portion of the bed so I'm praying for patience and success!

Here the finish looks smooth as a baby's butt!

Don't you love this color? I do!

This was an old ugly bookcase that I sprayed black and lined with some black and creme paper I got at Hobby Lobby (another blogger did this - sorry I can't remember who - and I thought it was a great idea). This is going in the office as well.

Keep your fingers crossed that the baby bed/day bed project doesn't have me pulling my hair out before it's finished or that baby bed might just end up on the street!