The Lilly Pad

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Red Egg

There is a furniture company out of High Point that I really, really love called Red Egg. I have a buffet from the Double Happiness collection that I found last year when I moved into my new house. It has a few scratches so it was super discounted, which is fine by me. My table is cream, but it comes in juicy colors like coral, orange, citron, and turquoise. Also, it's all made here in North Carolina :)

(Yes, my drapes only go to the bottom of the window and not to the floor. It's acceptable, but not ideal...but they were only like $8 per panel so it works for now.)

Stella

Here are some other amazing pieces from their collection.

Little Shop

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

My Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades

Last night a couple of other girls and I got together for our first attempt at a craft night. Basically, a couple of girls came to my house with small craft things that they have been meaning to do for some time and just haven't gotten around to doing. We all sat around my dining room table, chatted, and worked on different things.

I decided to attempt to monogram lamp shades for Lil's room. I saw this picture on Pinterest (of course) the other day and decided that it seemed easy enough and could be done in a couple of hours.

Pinerest

The shade on Pinterest used felt for the monogram, but I thought it would be a lot easier for a first attempt just to use paint.

First, I used a container to make a circle on plain printer paper and then I just drew a (kind of wonky) monogram in the circle. I used a Sharpie to outline the monogram and then taped it to the inside of the lamp shade. I traced the monogram with pencil on the outside of the shade and then painted it. I used acrylic paint because I already had it. My shades are not perfect, but they were an easy project for craft night :)

The lamp bases were from Pier 1 several years ago that I spray painted pink.

Are any of you guys and dolls up to anything fun?

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Gotta Love the Grasscloth

I hope everyone's New Year has gotten off to a fantastic start! Jeff and I have started jalking or wogging with the Couch to 5k program. So far, so good, but it's only been 3 weeks and I've already pinned inspirational running quotes on Pinterest to keep me excited. Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE my in shape 18 year old body, but I don't really LOVE to get my fat booty up and run (hence the fat booty).

It's been forever since I've posted anything. I haven't been up to much around the house other than trying to organize my shizz, so there really hasn't been much to write home about.

One thing that I do have coming up is getting grasscloth wallpaper hung in my living room. I am a HUGE fan of grasscloth and I think that it really gives you a l lot of bang for your buck. It comes in a plethora of fun colors, but I've only ever hung the tan, traditional kind because I change my mind way too often to commit to a funky color.

In my last house, I hung my own grasscloth. It was a little tricky because it's so heavy. I had to thumb tack the paper after I glued it to keep it from sliding down the wall. It looked okay, but definitely not at all professional (not even close). Jeff still makes fun of me about it and has said that there were probably still tacks in the wall when we moved. There were definitely staples in the wall because I stapled corners down that had started to pop up...I know, I know (but it worked and the texture of the paper hid the staples).