New Tools To Work With

Orders made at High Point Market are starting to come in. 

Sorella Glenn lampshades are beautifully tailored. Owned by a pair of sisters, whose parents sell lampshades and finials at Rock House Antiques in Greenville South Carolina. 

This whole collection of trims came in. The colors are so clear and the patterns are simply fresh. 

Shore Bird pillows, from Taylor Linens, almost beat me home!

This blue, pleated linen shade, I bought at the Rock House. I brought two of them home for a pair of blue and white lamps that are in the showroom. 

I also brought home three of these red, hardback lamp shades. 

Wall papers, fabrics and seagull pillows for this nautical guest room.

I always find new fabric swatches at 1502 Fabrics in High Point North Carolina. 

Excited to have the new tools for the trade! 

 

Still Recovering From High Point Market

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After being on lockdown, for sixteen months, I was ready to see new sights! What I saw was overwhelming. So many people, very few masks in the buyer's crowd, the market employees were masked. By the way, I like these happy little rings, they make me smile!

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As I lay out the loot, I stopped at my fabric warehouse, I was drawn to orange in plaids, prints and geometrics, for some reason. Same thing with the orange coat, above. I especially love it with the denim blue. 

 

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There was a woven rug in the antique design, part of the market, that I did not buy and am regretting that decision. Orange, pink and red with a mustard yellow mixed in. Darn!

I opened some new accounts and as the books start coming in I will keep you posted. New fabrics, new wallpapers, new lamp shades, I had a smorgasbord to chose from. 

So excited to share them with you!

So Far So Good

This is why I go to High Point Market! Planning on updating my business card, adding my name and address! Wasn't sure where I was going to land when I sold my brick and mortar store. Now I know!

With my show room in mind, I headed to the market. Thinking of my up coming design jobs. 

Porch reading, for inspiration, getting ready for the trip to North Carolina. 

Down the road and over the Kanawha River.

Chuck Yeager was said to have flown under this bridge!

Through the mountains, bug shit splatter and no reading material.
 

Gas station reading material, better than the triple xxx material!

Picnic lunch at the side of the highway.
 

Back on the road. Will continue the story when we get there.

On the way to High Point Market, the International Home Furnishing Center in North Carolina.

 

I Have Been So Busy

All these photos were taken with my phone. Not the best shots. But the easiest way to get a blog posted! I just look in my gallery, on the phone, and pick out pictures of some of the projects I have going on around here. 

Do you believe in serendipity? I sure do! I have been working on turning my bedroom over to blue and white since last winter. Searching for a pair of lamps to put on either side of my bed. Never in a million years would I have thought of looking at Dana Gibson. I use to sell her lamps and accessories in Anchor Cottage. So, long story short, I was helping a friend out, last week, and she wanted to reimburse me and I declined. "It's a favor", I insisted. Then she asked if I would like this pair of lamps!!! 

Jaw dropped to the floor! These were the perfect lamps for my bedside tables! The right size, the right blues and the price was right!

Ordered a Kate Spade fabric to slipcover a chair and sew decorative pillows. Still love my Bunny Williams pillows and the Annie Selke rugs, that I bought off her retail site, at 30% off.  Now if I can stick to just blue and white! I am terrible about needing to add colors in my rooms. Green, red, yellow with black as an eyeliner, so to say! 

A collection of blue and white plates to accent the walls, along with a collection of landscapes I have collected over the ages. Yes, I am that old that I can say ages over years!

In the mean time, I have been filling my flower pots with red, yellow and blue! I even wintered over some Geraniums and repotted them to see if it was worth the trouble, all winter, keeping them alive!

I have a trip to the furniture market coming up and I will keep you posted on all the new product for your home decorating projects! 

Have a blessed Memorial Day, keeping in thought and prayer, our fathers who went to war to keep America safe and free from destructive forces. Yes, I am so out of date, thank you to the ladies in the military, protecting us on foreign land. I don't care for war so much as I appreciate the forces that keep us safe. Today is that day to say thank you.  

 

The Prettiest Of Details

 

designer Liz Bauer

Softly ruffled, softly scalloped, this room has a relaxed elegance that I fine restful and soothing.

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Shirred, quilted and stitched gives a comforting repose to all the pillows in this bed. 

Collins Interiors

Pale, quiet, blue and white with tassels for your delight!

charlottegaisford.co.uk

My favorite faded red, blue, and crème with ball trim.

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Gently pleated, folds, of the softest of fabric on simple brass rings.

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Charming kitchen seating, crisp blue on white with copper accents and a barley twist floor lamp.

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The prettiest detail of all is a very simplistic welt edge on the waist of this denim skirt with a self tie closure. 

The details of décor are what makes it just for you!