A little footstool gets a makeover

Velvet.  I love it.  I can't get enough of it.  It feels luxurious and warm and decadent and just so sexy.  I use velvet a lot for my upholstery projects.  Even though I know it doesn't make a lot of sense to use such a beautiful fabric for a home with two young children and three dogs, I just can't help myself.  It feels like I haven't done any furniture make over lately and I was feeling a bit antsy.  Of course after visiting the Getty museum, I was just overfilled with inspirations.  I went through my hoarding room to find a project two night ago and came out with this broken little footstool my grandmother has given me 7 or 8 years ago.

One of the legs was broken and it was in serious need of a new fabric.  So I fixed the legs and went to work.

I painted it with Chalk Paint® Paris Grey then used gilding wax to go over the details.  I added a few left over Efex appliques to add more details to the legs.  I reupholstered the top with this gorgeous blue velvet.

I am loving how all the colors are looking together.

Can you tell how much I love velvet?  Everything just feels so warm and cozy which is perfect for our cold New England weather.  Now I can't decide where I want to keep this little footstool.  I need something for our bathroom.  Every time I give the girls a bath, I have to sit on the toilet and I thought it would be a perfect little chair for the bathroom.

A velvet chair for a bathroom?  Why not?  Don't you know that is how we fancy ladies roll? : )  The girls and I are so very excited for Halloween tomorrow night.  Bella is going as Cleopatra and Aurora is going to be Elsa from Frozen.  Bring on the candies!  Happy Halloween to all my sweet ladies!

Love,
Victoria


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To Cali we go.

Where is the time going?  I feel like it is flying by yet I am not getting much of anything done.  Fall welcomed me a cold that lasted for two weeks.  I was utterly useless.  Then the girls went to Disney World with their father this past week and B and I went to California.  We were at this quaint little beach town called San Clemente and it was wonderful.  I have to say the high light of my trip was getting to go to the Getty Museum.  Oh my.  It was such an inspiring experience and exactly what I needed to get my creative juices going again.  They had a great display of French furniture and I was in my furniture heaven.

I apologize for the pictures.  They didn't come out clear since I had to use my phone.  Can we just talk about these chairs?

And this beauty.  I like how the cushions were done.  I am going to have to try it with one of my French chairs.  Oh dreamy velvet.  It just gets better with age.

After seeing this pink and gilded combinations, I decided I need one of these beauties in my living room.

The details! I can't stand it.

I literally wanted to jump on this gorgeous daybed.  It was huge and decadent and just yummy.

 

Of course I fell in love with this mirror.  

My phone decided to die midway through.  So these were all the pictures I got.  It truly was an amazing experience.  I got two more weeks until Jess's bridal shower.  Then I have so many projects line up and I can't wait to start working on them.  As much as I love the beautiful weather, it feels so good to be home with the girls.  There truly is no place like home.


Love,
Victoria

Eclectic dining room

Hello friends.  Happy October.  Normally the girls and I would be turning our house and yard into a witch coven or a cemetery but this year I have been totally and completely obsessed  with planning my best friend, Jess's bridal shower.  It is not until November but you know I can't do anything small.  She and I, like most crazy women out there, have been planning her wedding and bridal shower since...oh I don't know...before they met.  She always wanted to get married under the rose arbors at a rose garden.  Then he proposed a few months ago and she went all "OMG, I want to get married now and lets do a fall wedding with pumpkins and dried wheat!"  I love you, Jess but what!! I just can't shake that image of my best friend getting married in a flower garden with roses everywhere.  So for her shower, I am turning my house into a rose garden...and I have a month to do it. Can you just feel my craziness coming through your computer screen?  Because I feel it.  Ok, enough venting.  Now you know why I haven't done any projects lately.  I want to share with you my latest find.

You know my love for art...especially large art.  I found this gorgeous frame with a lithograph at the same antique shop where I found my oil painting.  It had to come home with me.

The frame is almost seven foot high and it fits perfectly in my dining room.  I don't think I have ever photographed this room before but here it is.  I built this farm table using tutorial from Miss Mustard Seed.  I painted the top with chalk paint® in Old White then Louis Blue for the bottom. I am not sure why I painted it white...not a good idea with the girls.

Mix matched chairs and shabby chic bunting banner bring a more causal vibe to the room.

I fell in love with the details of the frame first.  How gorgeous is it??  I mean this little fellow is pretty cute too I guess.  You can tell he felt too cool for school in this picture.

I love those shoes!

Does he reminds you of somebody we know?

Actually when Aurora saw it, she said "Wow, Thanks Mom.  You got a painting of me!"  Only my child would think it is normal to have a seven foot painting of herself.

Our house is pretty small with weird layout but we make it work.

It is hard to think about pumpkins and ghosts when all I can think about is planning a rose garden bridal shower.  I just love these pale pink roses.

I can't wait to share more bridal shower projects with you.  You know it is going to be good.


Love,
Victoria


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