Hi there, how are you doing? Boy its hard to believe we are about to enter the second week of August! Scary or what…….when I am being inundated with back to school promotions, saying goodbye to summer sales and a first sighting of fall clothes…I know the end is near:( I have to say as much as I have complained about the oppressive heat and humidity this summer, I would still push a pause button if I could just for a few weeks at least.
I don’t feel like I have even begun to scratch the surface on all the things I like to do! Case in point, I have only had two lobster rolls this summer……something about that is not right! So enjoy and savor these next few weeks……been busy, busy busy here. So as with my usual mid week musings, this is one of those random, anything goes kind of post….ready? And it turned out to be another loooong one, you can’t say I didn’t warn you…………
Have been looking well, let me be honest, no really haven’t been “looking” but if something happens to catch my attention for a beautiful antique pair of sconces, then I am by all means looking! We have a spot as you walk in where two sconces need to be hung, see exhibit A.Found these while at Villanova this past weekend, came back to measure and I am thinking the size is just about right. What do you think? They are old and French, could use a good cleaning but I am seeing them with the tiny mini shades…..pretty!
Exhibit A. Blank wall on which sconces are to be hung (see two white boxes)
Also remember my guest room, well pulled the trigger, got the fabric also found a beautiful plaid to go along with it and trim…don’t want to waste any time and take full advantage of when I am in a mood to get things done…here’s where I am so far!
I love when I get pictures from my readers and think it would be fun to start sharing them on my blog….so pretty they are worth sharing! Check these out…..
My very stylish reader, Annette sent me this gorgeous picture of her brand new home in Norway….totally magazine worthy don’t you think!
And the reader, Kathy from Life on Lakeshore Drive, who won the garden giveaway, took this picture….looks like an ad! Check out her lovely post and how she used the items here!
And another reader made my summer pasta and sent me this appetizing picture…making me hungry!! Looks so pretty…..
And do my readers know me or do they know me? One of my wonderful readers, Debra from 5th and State, sent me this and told me she thought of me, how great is this picture!!
WHAT A GREAT SHOT! And man does he have good balance!
Thinking of carrying this line…replicas of vintage monogrammed service, name your initial and you get this gorgeous five place setting, they come in little bags, you can order as many place settings as you need…like it? Give me your feedback!
Can you believe I am STILL waiting on the bathroom sconces? Thomas O Brien if you are reading this……I have been waiting 6 loooong months. Please put me out of my agony and stop making me look at those horrible black holes in my otherwise beautiful bathroom! I do have some Trowbridge prints from my old house thinking of hanging up in there, do you like prints in a bathroom?
Print 1
Print 2
Speaking of bedrooms and finishing up rooms, I am most certainly not ignoring my own. I have it all in my dreams and head and its a matter of bringing it to fruition. My GORGEOUS monogrammed bedding, courtesy of my mom and dad, is awaiting its “coming out party” but I refuse to put it on until I have everything set in place. So back again to look at wall to wall, which i am determined to have, to me its the ultimate in cozy elegance and feels great on the feet. Have had fun playing with fabrics and trims, here is what I am leaning towards so far….
Clarence House has some GORGEOUS trims but they are $$$$
Love this tape….stunning! Imagine on creamy pillows!
This is a snippet of the stunning monogrammed bedding, and
More beautiful fabrics for a pair of chairs or a bench? Also love the tape…..
And just found this beautiful trim too…..stunning!
This tape is beautiful with this very soft fabric
Attended a baby shower this past weekend.. I love gift giving and gift wrapping, really get into it. So it all started with a beautiful baby’s first china set and first enameled bracelet for a newborn (all wrapped up wish you could see it)…..
Then added a cozy sweet blanket……..
And a plush cute little pink elephant……
And a fun and useful girly basket, could be great as a hamper or to store diapers, many uses!
And some precious little rattle socks…yep, they shake when the baby moves her feet!
And of course a cute little girl stuffed animal…..
And then you put it all together with a bunch of tissue…….
And have a wonderful gift basket full of pink goodies!
I am admittedly a stationary hound, I love it, I should actually really be in the business for how much I love it, truth be told. But it would be bad on two accounts…one I would go broke buying stationary for no reason, and second I would feel obligated to throw parties so I could order it in the first place and clearly that could get me into trouble:) So instead I admire from afar and occasionally when I really do need something, I indulge. One company worth indulging in is a recent find….Lobird. How great are these cards!! Click here to visit.
You KNOW I am loving this one!!!!!!
You know that feeling when you get all excited over discovering a new blog? I need a new blog to obsess over like I need another 100 degree day 🙂 Well I got a bit sidetracked and stayed on this blog, One to wed, for over an hour, just pouring, devouring and lapping up every single beautiful picture. I have always had “a thing” for wedding sites, planners, locations, dresses, cakes, you name it..I love it all! Well this girl has superb taste and seriously if I had a wedding blog,I think it would look quite like hers. Here’s some pictures I found over there…click here to visit One to Wed. Warning you WILL have to go back:)
Love winning anything and was very touched to have been awarded the versatile blogging award from Missi over at Havoc to Heaven. She is a real sweetheart and her post on accepting the award was so much fun to read, click here to visit. Thank you Missi for passing this onto me. As far as awarding it, I honestly want to award it to every blogger out there…..seriously because blogging is a lot of work, albeit its fun and the ultimate creative outlet. But at the end of the day it means giving up time to do other things in order to share with all of you here. There are just too many fabulous dedicated, deserving bloggers for me to narrow it down so this is for every single blogger……you rock!
Part of accepting the award is also revealing 7 things about me that you wouldn’t necessarily know….so here it goes. Not terribly exciting but tried to come up with random facts that I have not revealed before!
1. I used to ride/show horses from about 13 to 18 and LOVED it, it was seriously my life. I lived, ate and breathed anything and everything having to do with my horse, riding and my stable buddies.Definitely the fondest memories from my childhood.
2. I cry over Disney commercials, Johnson and Johnson and anything having to do with cute, little chubby kids…..yep, it makes me incredibly nostalgic for my little cherubs and being able to hold them and squeeze them and mostly just being wanted by them 24/7!Now I get grunts:)
3. That I got married at the ripe old age of 21……and at 47 am only two years away from being an empty nester…scary, its going to be a sad day in the universe when that happens and I cannot bear to think about it. I love being a mom.
4. That I would love to write a screenplay one day and make it a reality, even have half of one written which I really truly believe could be a hit. Really enjoy the writing/creative process and its high up on my bucket list. Dont’ we all?
5.That I used to be obsessed with all things Hello Kitty, well actually still find them pretty cute:)And still have a brush from when I was 18, that still does the trick on my senstive head!
6. That I am severely claustrophobic, and am a bit of a germaphob. Its really not such a great thing to have and its somewhat gotten worse as I have gotten older and has even had an effect on my kids and hubby, who look at things like hotel bed comforters and dirty glasses in restaurants as though they are lethal.
7. That one of my all time favorite movies is The English Patient and absolutely anything Nancy Meyers has produced. Just watched Its Complicated last night..never gets old.
So that’s my random musings post for this week! This post got longer than I originally had planned…oh well you know I can get carried away on these random musings! Hope alls well on your end, that you are having a wonderful week and surviving the heat and humidity. Seriously I am over the humidity, did you hear it….the hottest summer on record! No surprise. Stay cool!
Well, Tina, you are on a roll! Love the choices you are making for the bedroom! Can’t wait to see the bedding. I am a sucker for anything monogrammed. I can’t believe you haven’t gotten your sconce yet! It will be lovely though. I am in love with the stationery, and the weeding blog is to die for. Love the wine bottles with monogrammed labels! And, Tina, the baby basket is amazing. Have a great weekend. Teresa xoxo
Every single one of those fabrics are gorgeous! Love the soft blues….Mrs. Howard hasn’t got anything on you 🙂 I saw her and Jim at Scott’s yesterday buying pillows…in fact they bought 25 from Sudi…who is my workroom. I was helping in her booth!
Tina, your posts are like mini books, love them and they are my favorite posts of yours. So much information. Love the fabrics/color scheme for your room the ant. sconces for your entrance and the other bedroom choices.
Your taste is impeccable! And that baby basket is so pretty,what a wonderful and generous gift. The stationary is also a great find and you have some very talented readers, such good taste they have!
Enjoyed your 7 things, my daughters rides/shows and I know the passion behind it. Have a good weekend, Tina
Thank you so much for adding One to Wed to your post today!! So happy that you love it and hopefully some of your readers will as well 🙂 Happy Friday and I’ll definitely be checking The Enchanted Home myself!
I loved everything I saw on this post! The bedding is amazing for your room! I love it! It reminds me a lot of what I did in my daughter’s room when we made it into her “big girl room” at the age of 20! LOL! It was hard for me to let go of the cutesy look we had going in there! Atleast we’ve saved it for when she has a little girl! Anyway, LOVE the silverware! I would buy it in a heartbeat as well just like another blogger said! I loved the new blog you found…I’ve been hooked on one I just found this morning that is truly fascinating! I can already tell I won’t be getting much done today because of it! Found it through Lost in Arles if you want to look it up….I really must investigate it more! Anyway, enjoy the last of your summer…and your children! We move my baby to Auburn on Sunday for good…got a big head start on Wednesday but there is still lots to do and lots of tears to come for awhile! 🙁 I think that’s why I’d rather just sit here and enjoy blogland! It’s not possible though….Life goes on whether we want it to or not! Have a wonderful weekend, Tina! ( go eat a lobster roll for me!!)
You pack so much into your musings that we need to come back and read more over lunch! That stationary is lovely and reminds us of Felix Doolittle and we’ll be bookmarking One to Wed! Happy weekend, Tina. xxoo C + C
oh tina… where to start on today’s post… LOVE the vintage french sconces you found for the entry way… did you buy them? i think they would work perfectly! love your reader annette’s norway dining space… so cozy. then, i’m pretty sure you and i could be long lost sisters over our obsession of gift wrapping and stationary goods. my husband says i have a problem. that baby shower gift is awesome. and now… thanks to you, i’ll definitely be following the ‘one to wed’ blog. such gorgeous images! happy friday, hope your weekend is great!
Love following your blog, great ideas, beautiful home and decorating! Remember being a Mom is a lifetime job, and you will never be unemployed (even when they are gone from the nest)!
Good afternoon, Tina! I enjoyed getting to read about you today! I knew you had good taste in interior design, and now I know your taste in movies is fantastic, too! The rooms that you’re working on are going to be beyond beautiful. I can’t wait to see them!
Wow- loved every detail of this post! You have made me smile, reminisce and get motivated all in less than 5 minutes! Love your sconces and the classic and sexy details for your boudoir! A beautiful woman in a beautiful home surrounded by your fabulous men – Your empty nest is looking pretty, pretty good to me! Enjoy the weekend and thanks for sharing all your goodies with us!
There’s so much to comment on here! I got married at 22, now I’m 52 .. and thought I would be an empty nester by now, but I’m not .. but both kids are still around (not complaining because I now what the alternative is!) I too rode horses when I was young .. so I have a thing for farms, animals (as seen by the video 🙂 chickens and cows. I’m also claustrophobic and once embarrassed my family while on the Finding Nemo ride at Disneyland (a delay in getting off).
Your monogrammed bedding is gorgeous and you are so funny about the wall to wall thing. I find gentle nudging with my husband works for these kinds of things 🙂 Your bathroom prints are so pretty and work perfectly with the window treatments. I’m so envious as my bathroom is in need of a re-do at the moment. Last, those sconces at the top are stunning and I can’t wait to see them up.
Dearest Tina, I so enjoyed your post of today (I always do!)! I love your bathroom and all the fabrics and trims you have chosen! You have a remarkable eye for beauty! And the sconces are gorgeous! Oh yes definitely my style! Thank you so much for sharing the things we did not know yet about you!! How fun to read!! We have several things in commun : age, horses, claustrophobic, Nancy Meyers movies! And I forgot to tell you that I love love the silverware you showed here!! Have a great weekend my friend! xx Greet
I know exactly what you mean about summer and the heat…I will not drone on but the heat is killing me. I cannot wait for Fall but I do not want to rush the slow, lazy, vacation feel of summer and visitors, etc.
I LOVE the Silverware, you must get that. And that stationary! Wow, one designe is better than the next.
Your bath looks beautiful! I do not think I could wait 6 moths for light fixtures, but I am sure they will look great. I love your new window dressings! Beautiful, and like icing on a cake.
The Sconces are gorgeous, and I agree with many others they would look so beautiful!
I cannot wait to follow along as your transform your bedroom. Beautiful bedding from your parents!
These are such lovely posts, the mental meanderings are a delight, a nice way for me to sit back and escape the humdrum for a bit. The downstairs sconces look outstanding, and your Trowbridge prints are perfect in the bathroom, I am a fan of prints there. Your bedding is beyond gorgeous, holy cow! The fabrics and trim you shared are all stunning, the blue is so very pretty. The baby shower goodies made me smile, to cute! And the 7 things are interesting, I too am claustrophobic and a bit of a germaphobe!
Tina,There is a beautiful Kravet trim that I thought you might like for your projects. It is a beautiful Greek Key trim in soft blues. Kravet T30374 in colors 635, 515 & 35.
Fun post-Beautiful blues for the bathroom, love the monogrammed antique silver. Speaking of silver I have a post up of your little silver tray from your store that I think you might like.
This was the most entertaining post! So many gorgeous things going on. Your bedroom fabrics are just stunning and I loved the wedding site. One thing…6 months is waaay too long to wait for your sconces! I would cancel the order and look around for others.
What a great post. OK lets see if I can remember all I wanted to say-
I love the silverware and would buy it! Adore all the fabrics for your master retreat, its going to be so beautiful Love the ant. sconces, think they are perfect Great stationary, like you always looking for an excuse to order it! And how wonderful to discover one to wed, my son is getting married in 2015 and this is a great site for all of us to get ideas!
Am sure I left out something but suffice to say I love everything you choose, say and do! Your blog is so awesome.
Thank you for another wonderfully entertaining post. Your blog is such an inspiration to me. I love that silverware more than I can say, but I am in Melbourne Australia, so I suppose it will be difficult to post so far. Not impossible though……..
Oh my gosh……….Lovely — everything! Prints in bathroom…..YES! The sconce beautiful without the shades…….the baby basket is adorable……the wedding cupcakes yummy!……..I LOVE Hello Kitty – I am 50 yrs old!!…….Thank you for sharing all of this WONDERFUL stuff!!
i was watching IT’S COMPLICATED last night with you…did you watch meryl and andy afterward??? loved that. loving the silverware you are considering and my vote is YES. i still love hello kitty everything. it’s just a girly thing. and i married at 21 too. so the 25th anniversary is approaching quickly and am so happy to be even more in love now. i mean i was pretty sure he was a keeper, but now!
that offer to join us for dinner in paris is still out there, tina (october).
Hi Tina, There is so much to love in this post… the french scones are gorgeous, wish I could have a pair… and the silver fabric is out of this world. Silver is my favorite color.
Let me just keeping listing all that I loved…
…the monogrammed silverware…..I collect silver from thrift shops, it’s an obsession…cannot resist place settings, beautiful plates and platters and all things that have to do with the table…
….since I am getting married, the wedding blog will come in handy….so much planning goes into a wedding, even if it’s just a few, like 10. which is the number of guests I want… (it’s my second marriage so want to keep it small and simple but beautiful and elegant).
…adorable baby gifts…..my children are grown, I miss them but have adjusted very nicely, now I am on to some great adventures… like traveling around the world and doing pretty much whatever I FEEL like it. That feels really good, just writing it. I loved being a Mom too, and it was terribly lonely and painful when the 2nd child left for college…I mourned for a few months, moped around the house, didn’t know what to do with all the free time,,, then slowly I accepted and began to dream again and not little dreams but Big Dreams, like really doing something Big for the world, like you’re wanting to write a screenplay, GO FOR IT….YOU HAVE THE TALENT AND WILL SOON HAVE THE TIME….
…Loved the blue table setting, and
JUST WENT CRAZY OVER THOSE GORGEOUS WHITE, BRIDAL CUPCAKES….
..I think I will make those for my wedding.
Thank you for such a great post…and if you begin to sell the monogrammed silverware, I will buy some….
Sooo love reading and SEEING all of your beautiful pictures of your home and your decorating choices ~ Thank you for sharing with all of your (I like to think of myself as)friends!
Hi Tina, hope you are having a nice weekend. Loved this post as I do all your random posts. Your fabric/trim choices are just perfect, you really have such a knack for putting those things together, love the idea of the prints in your gorgeous bathroom and those sconces are really beautiful, you get my vote! Love the stationary, all the readers pictures and of course anything having to do with a wedding always makes me smile, whats not to love. This site looks like a great one. Thanks as always for sharing all the beauty that you do.
PS How fun to learn 7 things about you, you SHOULD write a screenplay, you friendly, witty funny personality would translate perfectly. And agree you are never too old to love Hello Kitty!
When you do these long posts I lose track of all of the things I want to say. 🙂 I love that stationary and YES that home in Norway is definitely magazine worthy! Hope you’re doing well Tina – I have spent less time blogging/commenting lately as part of my goal to get out and enjoy my life/kids more and spend less time on the computer. Hearing that you will be an empty nester soon reminds me again to savor this time while my kids are still young and want to be with me! 🙂
Hi Tina, I’m back blogging again. I so agree with you. There are so many things I wanted to do this summer and I haven’t even started :0 I want to have more dinner parties outside, but the weather are not letting us right now. I’m not ready for fall!!! But my Italy trip was wonderful and holiday time with family are always nice – even though the weather haven’t been on our side:) Lot’s of wonderful inspiration in your post today and your bathroom looks like a dream!! Have a lovely day!
Adored your post as usual. And thank you for the stationary website and wedding blog – love love. And the scones, and the fabrics and the flatware and the beautiful gift basket. Thank you!
Oh my goodness Girl…need another cup of coffee! Your energy is infectious! Bullet points: sconcees – perfect love colors for guest room beautiful home in Norway – did you get a look at those floors – love ’em love love love the flatware bath – lovely (great minds DO think alike – I have the same fabric in a different colorway in my LR) master bdrm picks – lovely (as always) great baby gift – I’m telling you we could be great partners as I love gifting this way AND the stationary, yep that’s me too!
Have a great Sunday…I’m off to draw and put together design boards for a client!
Tina, Where do I start! The bathroom is looking fab and love the new prints. The sconces are wonderful, love the flatware and love the baby items. I am on my way to check out the new blog….
You NEED to buy the sconces. They are GORGEOUS!!! Love the monogrammed flatware – think you would sell a lot of it.
The stationary with the blue and white ginger jars have your name all over them. I always think of you when I see ginger jars.
I think your reader Annette needs her own blog. Does she have one? Her home is magnificent. Beyond cozy.
I am a bit of a germaphob too. I’ve completely mellowed. One time the kids and I were out and Jordan dropped a french fry on the restaurant table. He knows how I feel about the cleanliness of those tables. He picked it up and went to eat it just to freak me out and it was like watching a movie in slow motion – I was like, “Noooooooo.” Then he chewed it with a big grin, clearly enjoying teasing me.
I can tell you enjoyed buying the baby shower gifts. I miss having little ones too. Your future grandchildren are going to be spoiled rotten!
Pretty wonderful random musings…Love the flatware…I think you should definitely carry it in your store…Gorgeous antique crystal sconces. Love them. One of my clients wanted to make sure that I saw them, because she would like to have some like them… Oh and Debra knows you well…love the image on the motorcycle…Have a great week…
Such a beautiful home and stunning fabrics and pieces you’re thinking of filling it with … your bedding is sooooooooo lovely and I think, just like you, I’d be waiting too until I had everything in the room perfect and then place the bedding on the bed (sort of like the crown as a finishing touch!).
I’m a new reader of your blog and perhaps you’ve mentioned this in an earlier post, but I think your wall paint color is so beautiful in the shots of your home above. I can’t tell if it’s a cream or a pale yellow … as I have a “new” historical home and haven’t chosen paint colors yet and want to keep that sunny feeling in the home, I’d love to know what this lovely color is if you have the chance! I’m Sandy and you can reach me here: http://oohlafroufrou.blogspot.com
I’m new to your blog and well having been laid up for two weeks with a broken leg I’ve been having so much fun reading. I have to say though this post made me giggle…my husband also measures the success of his summer in lobster rolls and living on Cape Cod they can not be few and far between!
I feel your pain for those Thomas OBrien sconces. Visual Comfort is the worst for back orders. I have waited almost a year for one of their fixtures. Hope they arrive soon!
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And a fun and useful girly basket, could be great as a hamper or to store diapers, many uses!
And have a wonderful gift basket full of pink goodies!
Dont’ we all?Well, Tina, you are on a roll! Love the choices you are making for the bedroom! Can’t wait to see the bedding. I am a sucker for anything monogrammed.
I can’t believe you haven’t gotten your sconce yet! It will be lovely though.
I am in love with the stationery, and the weeding blog is to die for. Love the wine bottles with monogrammed labels!
And, Tina, the baby basket is amazing.
Have a great weekend.
Teresa
xoxo
Every single one of those fabrics are gorgeous! Love the soft blues….Mrs. Howard hasn’t got anything on you 🙂 I saw her and Jim at Scott’s yesterday buying pillows…in fact they bought 25 from Sudi…who is my workroom. I was helping in her booth!
Tina, your posts are like mini books, love them and they are my favorite posts of yours. So much information. Love the fabrics/color scheme for your room the ant. sconces for your entrance and the other bedroom choices.
Your taste is impeccable! And that baby basket is so pretty,what a wonderful and generous gift.
The stationary is also a great find and you have some very talented readers, such good taste they have!
Enjoyed your 7 things, my daughters rides/shows and I know the passion behind it. Have a good weekend, Tina
Yes to all of it. Hope you might start E-design services I would be your first customer. You have such a great eye.
Love the silverware, would buy that in a heartbeat.
Fun post, how is Mr. Teddy? Give him a hug.
Lisa
Love the peek of the Braemore Garden Toile! We were considering using the yellow colorway in our master bedroom 🙂
Thank you so much for adding One to Wed to your post today!! So happy that you love it and hopefully some of your readers will as well 🙂 Happy Friday and I’ll definitely be checking The Enchanted Home myself!
i never would have pegged you as a germa-phob!!!
hehehe
i don’t know why??? you are an organized neatnik.
among all your other divine talents….
me on the other hand
will drop a ciggie at the barn {by the stall}
….and light it up.
xxx
I loved everything I saw on this post! The bedding is amazing for your room! I love it! It reminds me a lot of what I did in my daughter’s room when we made it into her “big girl room” at the age of 20! LOL! It was hard for me to let go of the cutesy look we had going in there! Atleast we’ve saved it for when she has a little girl! Anyway, LOVE the silverware! I would buy it in a heartbeat as well just like another blogger said! I loved the new blog you found…I’ve been hooked on one I just found this morning that is truly fascinating! I can already tell I won’t be getting much done today because of it! Found it through Lost in Arles if you want to look it up….I really must investigate it more! Anyway, enjoy the last of your summer…and your children! We move my baby to Auburn on Sunday for good…got a big head start on Wednesday but there is still lots to do and lots of tears to come for awhile! 🙁 I think that’s why I’d rather just sit here and enjoy blogland! It’s not possible though….Life goes on whether we want it to or not! Have a wonderful weekend, Tina! ( go eat a lobster roll for me!!)
Love your posts and musings! I always know that I’ll see beauty when I visit your blog.
You pack so much into your musings that we need to come back and read more over lunch! That stationary is lovely and reminds us of Felix Doolittle and we’ll be bookmarking One to Wed! Happy weekend, Tina.
xxoo
C + C
oh tina… where to start on today’s post… LOVE the vintage french sconces you found for the entry way… did you buy them? i think they would work perfectly! love your reader annette’s norway dining space… so cozy. then, i’m pretty sure you and i could be long lost sisters over our obsession of gift wrapping and stationary goods. my husband says i have a problem. that baby shower gift is awesome. and now… thanks to you, i’ll definitely be following the ‘one to wed’ blog. such gorgeous images! happy friday, hope your weekend is great!
Love following your blog, great ideas, beautiful home and decorating! Remember being a Mom is a lifetime job, and you will never be unemployed (even when they are gone from the nest)!
Hi lovely friend,
Good to be back here! And you have been busy I can see!!
I think the prints will look lovely in your stunning bathroom. And what a nice baby shower gift! You are one generous lady Ms. Tina.
We are both splendid vintage 65 (wihoo – the best!) and yes I am with you – the day my kids will leave the nest I will be one sad cat.
Warm hugs and happy weekend.
Mon
Good afternoon, Tina! I enjoyed getting to read about you today! I knew you had good taste in interior design, and now I know your taste in movies is fantastic, too! The rooms that you’re working on are going to be beyond beautiful. I can’t wait to see them!
Wow- loved every detail of this post! You have made me smile, reminisce and get motivated all in less than 5 minutes! Love your sconces and the classic and sexy details for your boudoir! A beautiful woman in a beautiful home surrounded by your fabulous men – Your empty nest is looking pretty, pretty good to me! Enjoy the weekend and thanks for sharing all your goodies with us!
Tina,
There’s so much to comment on here! I got married at 22, now I’m 52 .. and thought I would be an empty nester by now, but I’m not .. but both kids are still around (not complaining because I now what the alternative is!) I too rode horses when I was young .. so I have a thing for farms, animals (as seen by the video 🙂 chickens and cows. I’m also claustrophobic and once embarrassed my family while on the Finding Nemo ride at Disneyland (a delay in getting off).
Your monogrammed bedding is gorgeous and you are so funny about the wall to wall thing. I find gentle nudging with my husband works for these kinds of things 🙂 Your bathroom prints are so pretty and work perfectly with the window treatments. I’m so envious as my bathroom is in need of a re-do at the moment. Last, those sconces at the top are stunning and I can’t wait to see them up.
Have a fun day!
leslie
loved this post!! Get the silverware I would buy it in a heartbeat too. If you do decide to carry it when would you get it? I loved it
Dearest Tina,
I so enjoyed your post of today (I always do!)! I love your bathroom and all the fabrics and trims you have chosen! You have a remarkable eye for beauty! And the sconces are gorgeous! Oh yes definitely my style!
Thank you so much for sharing the things we did not know yet about you!! How fun to read!! We have several things in commun : age, horses, claustrophobic, Nancy Meyers movies!
And I forgot to tell you that I love love the silverware you showed here!!
Have a great weekend my friend!
xx
Greet
Hello Tina,
I know exactly what you mean about summer and the heat…I will not drone on but the heat is killing me. I cannot wait for Fall but I do not want to rush the slow, lazy, vacation feel of summer and visitors, etc.
I LOVE the Silverware, you must get that. And that stationary! Wow, one designe is better than the next.
Your bath looks beautiful! I do not think I could wait 6 moths for light fixtures, but I am sure they will look great. I love your new window dressings! Beautiful, and like icing on a cake.
The Sconces are gorgeous, and I agree with many others they would look so beautiful!
I cannot wait to follow along as your transform your bedroom. Beautiful bedding from your parents!
Have a wonderful weekend, Elizabeth
These are such lovely posts, the mental meanderings are a delight, a nice way for me to sit back and escape the humdrum for a bit. The downstairs sconces look outstanding, and your Trowbridge prints are perfect in the bathroom, I am a fan of prints there. Your bedding is beyond gorgeous, holy cow! The fabrics and trim you shared are all stunning, the blue is so very pretty. The baby shower goodies made me smile, to cute! And the 7 things are interesting, I too am claustrophobic and a bit of a germaphobe!
Have a stellar weekend,
tp
Tina,There is a beautiful Kravet trim that I thought
you might like for your projects. It is a beautiful
Greek Key trim in soft blues. Kravet T30374 in colors
635, 515 & 35.
Fun post-Beautiful blues for the bathroom, love the monogrammed antique silver. Speaking of silver I have a post up of your little silver tray from your store that I think you might like.
The sconces are perfect!
The fabrics….Wow, beautiful,simply beautiful!!
so MANY pretty things! but my favorite is that hanging plank candle holder above the dining table. Love it!
This was the most entertaining post! So many gorgeous things going on. Your bedroom fabrics are just stunning and I loved the wedding site.
One thing…6 months is waaay too long to wait for your sconces! I would cancel the order and look around for others.
What a great post. OK lets see if I can remember all I wanted to say-
I love the silverware and would buy it!
Adore all the fabrics for your master retreat, its going to be so beautiful
Love the ant. sconces, think they are perfect
Great stationary, like you always looking for an excuse to order it!
And how wonderful to discover one to wed, my son is getting married in 2015 and this is a great site for all of us to get ideas!
Am sure I left out something but suffice to say I love everything you choose, say and do! Your blog is so awesome.
Thank you for another wonderfully entertaining post. Your blog is such an inspiration to me. I love that silverware more than I can say, but I am in Melbourne Australia, so I suppose it will be difficult to post so far. Not impossible though……..
Oh my gosh……….Lovely — everything! Prints in bathroom…..YES! The sconce beautiful without the shades…….the baby basket is adorable……the wedding cupcakes yummy!……..I LOVE Hello Kitty – I am 50 yrs old!!…….Thank you for sharing all of this WONDERFUL stuff!!
Gorgeous post- Love the monogram flatware- is it sterling silver? I think it’s great!
i was watching IT’S COMPLICATED last night with you…did you watch meryl and andy afterward??? loved that. loving the silverware you are considering and my vote is YES. i still love hello kitty everything. it’s just a girly thing. and i married at 21 too. so the 25th anniversary is approaching quickly and am so happy to be even more in love now. i mean i was pretty sure he was a keeper, but now!
that offer to join us for dinner in paris is still out there, tina (october).
smiles.
michele
Yes. let’s all enjoy more lobster rolls {or whatever is the local comparison during these waning days of summer!
OMG! What an eye full! Nothing like having fantastic pictures for us to enjoy…I’ll make it cute and short…Love everything! Lol!
Nickiexo
Hi Tina,
There is so much to love in this post…
the french scones are gorgeous, wish I could have a pair…
and the silver fabric is out of this world. Silver is my favorite color.
Let me just keeping listing all that I loved…
…the monogrammed silverware…..I collect silver from
thrift shops, it’s an obsession…cannot resist place settings,
beautiful plates and platters and all things that have to do with the table…
….since I am getting married, the wedding blog will
come in handy….so much planning goes into a wedding, even
if it’s just a few, like 10. which is the number of guests I want…
(it’s my second marriage so want to keep it small and simple but beautiful and elegant).
…adorable baby gifts…..my children are grown, I miss them but have
adjusted very nicely, now I am on to some great adventures…
like traveling around the world and doing pretty much whatever I FEEL like it. That feels really good, just writing it.
I loved being a Mom too, and it was terribly lonely and painful when the 2nd child
left for college…I mourned for a few months, moped around the house, didn’t
know what to do with all the free time,,,
then slowly I accepted and began to dream again and not little dreams but Big Dreams,
like really doing something Big for the world, like you’re wanting to write a screenplay,
GO FOR IT….YOU HAVE THE TALENT AND WILL SOON HAVE THE TIME….
…Loved the blue table setting, and
JUST WENT CRAZY OVER THOSE GORGEOUS WHITE, BRIDAL CUPCAKES….
..I think I will make those for my wedding.
Thank you for such a great post…and if you begin to sell the monogrammed silverware,
I will buy some….
Have a GREAT WEEKEND…..
i have to go back through and read this post again and again tina, so much eye candy!
crazy for your fabric/trim/rug choices, what an eye you have for assembling beautiful and complimentary components.
🙂 so happy you liked the snap of the man on the cycle, can imagine for a moment it is you on a shopping excursion!
hugs
debra
Sooo love reading and SEEING all of your beautiful pictures of your home and your decorating choices ~ Thank you for sharing with all of your (I like to think of myself as)friends!
Hi Tina, hope you are having a nice weekend. Loved this post as I do all your random posts. Your fabric/trim choices are just perfect, you really have such a knack for putting those things together, love the idea of the prints in your gorgeous bathroom and those sconces are really beautiful, you get my vote!
Love the stationary, all the readers pictures and of course anything having to do with a wedding always makes me smile, whats not to love. This site looks like a great one. Thanks as always for sharing all the beauty that you do.
This is my Saturday morning treat in bed with coffee…you are so entertaining. Such a comprehensive and fun post!
PS How fun to learn 7 things about you, you SHOULD write a screenplay, you friendly, witty funny personality would translate perfectly. And agree you are never too old to love Hello Kitty!
When you do these long posts I lose track of all of the things I want to say. 🙂 I love that stationary and YES that home in Norway is definitely magazine worthy! Hope you’re doing well Tina – I have spent less time blogging/commenting lately as part of my goal to get out and enjoy my life/kids more and spend less time on the computer. Hearing that you will be an empty nester soon reminds me again to savor this time while my kids are still young and want to be with me! 🙂
Hi Tina, I’m back blogging again. I so agree with you. There are so many things I wanted to do this summer and I haven’t even started :0 I want to have more dinner parties outside, but the weather are not letting us right now. I’m not ready for fall!!! But my Italy trip was wonderful and holiday time with family are always nice – even though the weather haven’t been on our side:) Lot’s of wonderful inspiration in your post today and your bathroom looks like a dream!! Have a lovely day!
Kristin xo
I think those prints would be spectacular in your bathroom!! I hope you use them with or without the sconces!
Stacy
So traditionally American…..
Adored your post as usual. And thank you for the stationary website and wedding blog – love love. And the scones, and the fabrics and the flatware and the beautiful gift basket. Thank you!
Oh my goodness Girl…need another cup of coffee! Your energy is infectious!
Bullet points:
sconcees – perfect
love colors for guest room
beautiful home in Norway – did you get a look at those floors – love ’em
love love love the flatware
bath – lovely (great minds DO think alike – I have the same fabric in a different colorway in my LR)
master bdrm picks – lovely (as always)
great baby gift – I’m telling you we could be great partners as I love gifting this way AND the stationary, yep that’s me too!
Have a great Sunday…I’m off to draw and put together design boards for a client!
xx
Tina, Where do I start! The bathroom is looking fab and love the new prints. The sconces are wonderful, love the flatware and love the baby items. I am on my way to check out the new blog….
Tina,
You NEED to buy the sconces. They are GORGEOUS!!! Love the monogrammed flatware – think you would sell a lot of it.
The stationary with the blue and white ginger jars have your name all over them. I always think of you when I see ginger jars.
I think your reader Annette needs her own blog. Does she have one? Her home is magnificent. Beyond cozy.
I am a bit of a germaphob too. I’ve completely mellowed. One time the kids and I were out and Jordan dropped a french fry on the restaurant table. He knows how I feel about the cleanliness of those tables. He picked it up and went to eat it just to freak me out and it was like watching a movie in slow motion – I was like, “Noooooooo.” Then he chewed it with a big grin, clearly enjoying teasing me.
I can tell you enjoyed buying the baby shower gifts. I miss having little ones too. Your future grandchildren are going to be spoiled rotten!
Deb xo
Pretty wonderful random musings…Love the flatware…I think you should definitely carry it in your store…Gorgeous antique crystal sconces. Love them. One of my clients wanted to make sure that I saw them, because she would like to have some like them… Oh and Debra knows you well…love the image on the motorcycle…Have a great week…
Hi Tina, The sconces are beautiful and I love the fabrics you are using in the guest room. The monogrammed bedding….Gorgeous!
Such a beautiful home and stunning fabrics and pieces you’re thinking of filling it with … your bedding is sooooooooo lovely and I think, just like you, I’d be waiting too until I had everything in the room perfect and then place the bedding on the bed (sort of like the crown as a finishing touch!).
I’m a new reader of your blog and perhaps you’ve mentioned this in an earlier post, but I think your wall paint color is so beautiful in the shots of your home above. I can’t tell if it’s a cream or a pale yellow … as I have a “new” historical home and haven’t chosen paint colors yet and want to keep that sunny feeling in the home, I’d love to know what this lovely color is if you have the chance! I’m Sandy and you can reach me here: http://oohlafroufrou.blogspot.com
Thanks so much!
SANDY M Illustration
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I’m new to your blog and well having been laid up for two weeks with a broken leg I’ve been having so much fun reading. I have to say though this post made me giggle…my husband also measures the success of his summer in lobster rolls and living on Cape Cod they can not be few and far between!
I feel your pain for those Thomas OBrien sconces. Visual Comfort is the worst for back orders. I have waited almost a year for one of their fixtures. Hope they arrive soon!