Cute Little Creation...

Just sharing a cute little creation that I picked up at a fundraising market last weekend...a vintage bottle brush tree inside a darling old rose creamer.  I love the glittery Merry Christmas message attached by old book pages...

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

~Stacy~

I am linking with Pink Saturday

Basement Guest Room - My Mom's Room

My Mom stays with us every fall.  I am lucky that she can

come and stay with us for so long...2.5 months this time!

She has a bedroom in our basement and a nice bathroom

too.  Every year I do something a little bit different in her

room...here are a few pictures of what her room looks

like this time around.

I love this old metal bed.  It has a lovely medallion on the

headboard and footboard.  Some people would probably

have painted it straight away, but I liked the way it looked

this way so I left it.  The screen behind the bed is from

Target and it is a Simply Shabby Chic piece that was

available years ago.  Why is all of the great Shabby Chic

stuff discontinued?  The green rose throw pillows are

also SSC as well and yes, they are discontinued!

Just a closer view...

I love the details on this bed!

Here is another view of the room...the closet is behind those curtains.  The white chair in the corner is a chair

(one of a pair) that I purchased at an auction years ago

for $40 for the pair.  They are Ballard Designs chairs

and I looked up the retail price of them...quite crazy!

This is an old needlepoint that I framed in a beautiful

ornate gold frame that I had kicking around in my stash.

I love the way it turned out.  I have a mixture of cottage,

French and Shabby Chic items in this room.

One of my favorite pieces is this old claw foot table.  It is

shabby and worn and I just adore it!  The dresser is another

auction piece...there is another matching dresser on

the other wall.  I was forbidden to paint them.  Does your

husband ever do that?!  (*_*)

This lamp shade and base is also from Simply Shabby

Chic and they are long since discontinued.  I always include a picture of my Dad on her bedside table.  We all miss

him so much!

One of my favorite statues wearing her little tiara...

An old corday lamp and lamp shade.  I just propped up

the frame against the wall to give the lamp a background.

The candles are all flameless so Mom doesn't have to worry

about setting the basement on fire!  Ha ha!

I have had this little floral settee for years now.  It was

upstairs in my front room for a long time, but when I

found a new French settee, I moved it downstairs to the

basement.  I works perfectly in her room and it has roller

wheels so it is easy to move.

Isn't it cute!

I hope you enjoyed this little tour of my Mom's home away

from home.  She really loves it down there in the basement.  It gives her privacy and it's very comfortable.  I have a little portable fireplace that she uses as well if it gets too

cool for her down there.

My next post will be pictures of her bathroom.

It really turned out pretty!

~Stacy~

Musical Chairs

Last week I had the chance to go junking with a

good friend of mine.  We found the best stuff and

had such a wonderful day!  At one of our favorite

antique malls, we came across an amazing pink

needlepoint chair!  It was everything I adore in a 

chair and it was like it was made for my front room!

Alas, the price was just abit too high for me and

I walked away without it.

On our very last stop at one of the thrift stores

that we frequent (and with only 20 minutes to

go until closing), I came across this adorable little

French Provincial chair.  It was only $8.00.  Yes,

you read that right!  It jumped into my cart

pretty quickly when I saw the price.  I got a cute

little chair after all!

Well this story takes another little twist and turn...

I was speaking to my Mom on the phone that night

and described my thrift shop find with her and I

also described that glorious needlepoint chair that

was in the antique mall.  She thought that it 

sounded really pretty...we talked about it for

some time.  We get off on these tangents you see...

The next morning the phone rang quite early and

the caller id announced that it was my Mom.  I

thought that it was kind of strange (she lives in

Canada) seeing as how we had talked for some

time the night before.  Right away I could tell by

the sound of her voice that something was up!

She said...I want you to go on a caper for me!

Mom and I are always going on capers when we

are together!  (*_*)  She told me that she wanted

me to go down to the antique mall and pick up

that beautiful pink french chair!  Of course I told

her that I couldn't and that it just wasn't in the

cards for me at that particular time.

She told me that I most certainly could go and get

it because she had called down to the antique mall

and had purchased it for me as a present!  What???

My Mom is always up to something!  She had an old

flyer of all of the antique stores and sales that she

had brought home with her, looked up the number

to the antique mall and phoned them first thing in

the morning and purchased the chair for me!

That is just the kind of person my Mom is.  She is

always trying to do things for me and buy things

for me and I'm always saying NO!  I guess she

decided to totally bypass me this time and leave

out the middle man...that would be me!

Little does she know that I had already purchased

some gorgeous china for her from an Etsy shop in

Canada (Jennelise Rose) and it is on the way to

her.  She should be receiving it today and I did

that before I even told her about the chair.

That will serve her right!  (*_*)

Oh, and the $8.00 chair?  It is already downstairs

in the guest bedroom that is decorated with

French Provincial furniture!  

~Stacy~

My New Spring Pillow...

As you can see, I haven't blogged in awhile.  In

fact, it's been a little over a month.  I am patiently

waiting for spring...it comes, it goes, last night it

snowed and now it's all melted again.  I am itching

to get going at some spring projects, but because I

don't have a warm place to spray paint or do things

like that...I wait and wait and wait!

In the meantime, I thought I would share with you

this sweet pillow that I found at Hobby Lobby last

week.  They had an entire line of spring decor items

with this cute graphic on the front.  I don't buy a lot

of "cutsey" items for my home anymore (I have so

many already!), but this one tugged at me and I

thought that it would look sweet in the center of

my settee for spring.

I hope that you are all enjoying spring-like weather

where you are.  I'm sure it will come to Utah soon

for more than a few days at a time, but in the

meantime...we wait!

Enjoy your day!

~Stacy~

New Treasures Today!

Hello everyone!

I have finally gotten into gear and listed some

new treasures in my Etsy shop and on my web

site.  I've had a few people ask me what the

difference is between the two!  Well, nothing

really...basically I just have two selling venues.

The prices are the same, although I will say

that by purchasing on my web site I do not 

have to pay the Etsy final value fees.  That

is about it!  Now that I've cleared that up

for you...here are a few new treasures that

I have just listed.  If anything strikes your

fancy, just stop on over and see me!  Shop

links are in the sidebar!

Love this antique yardlong print!

This French lady print is gorgeous!

This porcelain bisque vanity set is so pretty!

I love vintage Italian florentine!

Another yardlong print...this one is by Mary Hart

and it's abit worn.  I called it "shabby decayed".

I love it!

Everyone loves a sparkling chandelier!

Have a great day!

~Stacy~

Reunited...and it feels so good!

Today I thought that I would share a cute story

 with you all...the case of the reunited shades!

A little over a year ago I fell in love with this

adorable lampshade on Etsy and purchased it

from a lovely seller than I have known for years.

The delicate, floppy ruffles and pretty lace

totally sold me along with the fact that it was

the most pretty shade of pale pink!  I could

not wait to make it mine!

A year passed and it was still sitting on my shelf.

I needed to find the right lamp for it and it had

taken a back seat to all of my other projects.

I decided, after searching around my city, to visit

Etsy again to see if I could find a cute little lamp.

As I was scouring through the pages, I did a double

take and clicked back one page.  Umm...there was

my lampshade.  What the heck?  I contacted the

seller, who lived in Canada, and it turns out that

she had made the lampshade almost two years

ago, but now she was going to sell it.  She had sold

its mate on Etsy to someone about a year and

a half ago and yes, you guessed it, that was my

first pink shade that I purchased.  So...between

two sellers (and a few years!), both of these

adorable lampshades are back together

again...just as they should be!

Now I guess I need to find two lamps!

Let the fun begin!

~Stacy~

A Perfectly Pink Present From Paula

I know that Christmas is over and that we have all been

inundated with Christmas pictures for ages, but I 

could not help posting this absolutely adorable

Christmas present that I received from my good

friend Paula.  Paula consigns on my web site and

we've been great pals for years so she knows me

and knows how much I love PINK!

Can you believe that she kept her keen eye out the

entire year for things to put in my Christmas basket!

Yep, she's amazing!  This adorable angel was on the

top of the package...printed from Graphics Fairy.

Look at all of these wonderful pink goodies!

Everything is just so cute and so pink!

First of all, there is this adorable vintage celluloid

deer complete with its pink plaid bow.

Then there is this super pretty antique canister 

piece covered with roses on the front.

This is one of my favorite things...the graphic 

was printed from Graphics Fairy and then this

sweet vintage pink trim was added to the bottom

to form a multi-tiered pink skirt!  How cute!

This is such a cute item and one with a story.

Paula thought that these pink rose scented trash

bags were so cute and equally cool because they

have the identical side on the back written in

French.  I told her that I used to use these back

home in Canada all of the time and I was amazed

that she ran across these.  I turned it over to the

French side and found that they were made in

Burnaby, which is near Vancouver...the same

province (British Columbia) that I am from.

Of course they had both languages on them...

everything in Canada has both French and English

on it...every single product!  I'm sorry, but I do not

missing seeing French and English on everything!

These are adorable...cute little vintage clip-on

Christmas ornament earrings!  So different!

This fabulous vintage Shiny Brite ornament will fit

in nicely with my tree next year as I changed my

entire tree to include hot pink and silver!

Love these...a roll of pink Washi tape and a very

cool vintage pink measuring tape.  I will use it

in my purse when I'm out and about!

Paula made this pink bracelet for me.  It almost

looks like candy now that I'm looking at the picture!

She also made this sweet pink paper banner that

I will most likely use for Valentine's Day.

Lastly, there is this beautiful vintage pink Pyrex

bowl with its perfect pink and white stripes!

See...isn't Paula a lovely friend to think of all

of this for me?!  I should say so!

Thank you for indulging me with my last

Christmas post.  I couldn't not show you these

wonderful goodies from an equally wonderful

friend.  Thank you Paula!

~Stacy~

My Christmas Chandelier

Today I thought that I would share my dining room chandelier.  I usually like

to decorate it for Christmas and in previous years I have had it loaded with

all sorts of Christmas ornaments, florals and baubles.  I wanted to go more

simple this year so I decided on two different types of ornaments.  I wanted

a little pop of color, but not too much!

I decided on these vintage pink ornaments for the very top.  I just love

the look of these...I am totally into silver this year and, of course, my

decor wouldn't be complete without the ubiquitous pink in it!

For the bottom I chose these gorgeous glass angel wing ornaments.  I

found these lovely treasures here in Salt Lake City at a warehouse decor 

store called Tai Pan Trading Company.  They are delicate glass and they

have pretty silver glitter accenting each wing.  I love the way they look

hanging around the bottom of the chandelier.

I managed to find eight of these at the end of the season last year and

they were almost giving them away.  I actually went back a second time

to find more, but they were all sold out!

Here is my little tablescape just below the chandelier.  I found this adorable 

pink crepe paper Christmas tree at my favorite decor boutique, Dear Lizzie.

I just love this tree!  It has silver glitter sparkled around each layer.  The rest

of the display is filled with silver candle holders on top of my large rose

resin mirror.  I love the way the mirror reflects everything!  It's so sparkly!

I hope you enjoyed my chandelier and I would like to

wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

~Stacy~

A Few New Treasures...

Just a few new treasures that have been added to the web site and

Etsy shoppe.  I hope you are having a wonderful day and are enjoying

some warm weather in your part of the country!

~Stacy~