Showing posts with label Dancing with Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dancing with Design. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

A little bit of this and that

This was one of those weekends where everything went wrong. Hubby and I had a sort of depressing visit with his mom in Guelph on Friday & Saturday – getting old sucks :-( The furry somethings that were supposed to arrive on Saturday night missed their transport and are still in Kentucky. And on Sunday my laptop crashed and burned, along with ALL my pictures. Toby pictures, Malcolm pictures, before & after project pictures… I HATE TECHNOLOGY! Hubby is trying to save as many files as he can from the laptop, so hopefully it’s not a total loss.

That being said, my blog post plans for the week are kinda screwed up. So I’ll be winging it, starting with today’s little-bit-of-this-and-that post…

Heather at Setting for Four and I met up at C&M Textiles last week to look for some drapery fabrics for her new home and for my master bathroom. We both found some nice ones, which of course are super-expensive. Why does that always happen!? In spite of the $151.98/yd price tag (YIKES!), I brought home a sample of Helena, as well as the comparatively bargain priced Zippy at $39.98/yd. And then I remembered I had ordered a sample of a pretty blue fabric called Theo a while back from Tonic Living for another project. And I think we have a winner! Because not only is Theo’s colour a perfect match to the accent tiles in the bathroom, his price is pretty close to perfect too – $17.95/yd.

fabrics 1 pm

Speaking of perfect colour matches… I’m seriously in love with the combination of these two colours from PARA Paints: P5021-41D Shopping Spree on the left and P5044-62 Leek on the right.

brushes

I’ve been working on another PARA Paints Blog Crew project using these colours that I’ll hopefully finish this coming weekend. Although the way things gave been going lately, no guarantees!

Christine at Bijou and Boheme had a big multi-day giveaway a few weeks ago, and I won a prize – Woot! It’s a book by Canadian designer Eileen Marshall called Dancing with Design.

book cover

Not only does the book have lots of great advice on how to create a unique home, but there are some lovely renderings and drawings as well…

book Collage

Thank you Christine and Eileen!

And I was so happy to receive a wonderful update from Malcolm’s new family yesterday. He’s doing amazing in his new home, and gets along great with his new Catahoula brother :-) Yay Malcolm!

Malcolm artsy