Saturday Flower Arrangements

Fresh flower arrangements around the house can cheer you up while staying at home this week-end. Occasionally I love pampering myself with lovely fresh flowers. As you can see I took too many pictures of them and I had so much fun photographed them. I hope it can put a smile on your face while looking at this flower arrangements post. 

 Have a lovely week-end Everyone!

Pink Blush {Mood Board}

I always love creating a mood board since I was in school many years ago.  I love beautiful texture, patterns and shapes.  As a student of Fabric Styling I was trained to create a mood and theme, such as "romantic" or "art," and to show a certain era such as 1920's "Flapper" or "Native American," to name a few.  

I am no longer in school but I still enjoy creating a mood board.  It reminds me of the days when I was a student.

This "Pink Blush" mood board created by using many of my vintage collection. Water color painting added a soft touch to the overall feeling of the mood board. 

Have a nice week-end Everyone, and thank you for looking !

Home Decor Journal/Collage February 2013

Having a bad cold is really taking your mood down. I seem to can not have the energy to do anything. It has been more than a week since I have this cold although I feel much better but I am still coughing. Yesterday I immediately went to have a flue shot. Hopefully I will completely over with this cold very soon.

Today I am posting another home decor journal/collage. I am right now very excited about making journal, collage and mood boards. When I was in school I took Fabric Styling major. Not many people knows about this major. But this major  teaches you about trend and styling. So we created lots of 'mood or inspiration boards'. Eventually when you finished from school you will becoming a stylist that basically read future trends for a garment of fashion industry.

Okay, the focal point on this journal collage is the two paintings on the mantel. I love the birds drawing and the flower in the vase solid painting. The contrast of the two styles of paintings creates point of interest.

Thank you for reading and have a nice week-end Everyone !

Guest Bedroom Furniture Makeover {DIY}

I always wanted to re-paint or to do a furniture make over before but never really gets down to it until I saw missmustardseeds painting furniture video tutorial {here}. It looks very easy and she has her own milk paint for furniture line that we can buy from. So after studied her video tutorials I jumped right in to it and bought milk paints from her distributors across USA listed in her blog.

I must say that I really enjoyed painting furniture with missmustardseeds' milk paint. And these are the results painting thrifted furniture for our guest bedroom.

All furniture must be sand paper lightly before painting them. Since they are an old pieces, I did not have to strip the paint the paint will absorb nicely into the wood. I must say that I really enjoyed painting these furniture.

Do you see the rug with Moroccoan trellis motif that I painted {DIY} also ? Tutorial {here}

These two furniture {mirror and cabinet drawer} are located on the foot of the bed. Eventually I am going to re-paint them also but I do not know what color yet. Maybe, white, dark blue, I really don't know. So right now I leave it as it is until I decide what color to put on them.

Thank you for reading !

Painted Rug - Moroccoan Trellis (DIY)

I have been thinking about painting the sisal rug we have in our guest bedroom in our home in Delray, Florida. I saw many DIY beautiful painted rug in a blog before so I wanted to do the same for this sisal rug.

So I finally said to myself "I am going to do it and I will not stop until it finished!". It is a big rug too! It is 5' x 7' and it took me 4 to 5 days to finish it.

Okay here is the step by step.

This is the original rug and the finished painted rug.

What you need.

First, paint the whole rug using a roller brush with one color (the lightest color). I am using Muffin Mix for the light color and Marine Magic (the dark color) from Behr paint and bought at Home Depot.

Then take the motif template on the painted rug (start on the corner) and tape it down with masking tape so when you paint around it, it won't move. Please have the tape measure handy near you because you must always measure each pattern is line up with the same size. Let's say if the size of the line that I marked in black below is 18" then each pattern has to be the same position at 18". When all pattern are in the right position then tape down the pattern here and there and start painting. Since the sisal rug has lots and deep groove you might want to pounce the brush down instead painting it in a normal motion. Believe me I did a lot of pouncing. You see the first picture on the left, that is what you want to do first. Pounce the darker color around the template. Then fill in with  darker color on the inside of the pattern. When finished and dried, take the pattern off then you will see the motifs start to form. Then do the next pattern by putting the template next to it and join them together. Do not forget always to measure each pattern so that you will get a straight line of pattern a cross the rug.

This is what you do when creating the next pattern. You join the pattern together. At this point you basically start all over again. Pounce around the template, fill in with color inside the pattern. Then take the template off. Then do the next one until the whole rug is filled in with pattern.

At this point I almost finished painting and pouncing the whole rug.

The finished rug.

I am very happy with the result. It is now in the guest bedroom.

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Re-draw Winner of 2 Butterfly Paintings and USD 25.00 Target Giftcard Giveaway

Hello,

I re-draw a name for this Giveaway. 

Congratulations to Terri !

Please contact me by email at Elmelati@gmail.com !

Thank you so much !

Soft Blue and Linen End Table Makeover {DIY}

I could not be more happier with the result of this end table -re-painted and DIY. I remember when we bought it two years a go for USD 8.00 at a thrift store in Delray, Florida I knew that this table has potential to becoming a pretty little table to decorate our living room in our small cozy home.

It took me two years until one day  I decided repainting it as I was a little intimidated by the big job. But to my surprise it was not difficult at all. I used Missmustardseeds milk paint {here}. I love her paint very much. It is very easy to use. And in her website you can learn the easy tutorial with video on how to paint the furniture. In fact, it was not until I saw her video that I gained confidence to re-paint {a few already} my thrifted find furnitures and can not wait to post it here and share it with you.

Okay so with this end table I am using two colors. The white cream one is 'Linen' and the blue one is "French Enamel' and both are from missmustardseed.

To get that soft blue color; I mix in the white 'Linen' powder into the 'French Enamel' blue color. I want to have a soft blue color as the accent color for this end table.
My husband "Steven" had a strong input on this make over. He won't let me re-paint the top of the table. So I left the top of the table as it is.

I knew that I wanted to put decorative pieces on the four legs. So I bought the pieces from Decorators Supply Corp. {here}They have many beautiful furniture decorative pieces. But just to warn you  that you must order of  a minimum of USD 100.00 So with this purchase I bought other pieces that I thought one day I will make another furniture make over with it. 

Then I gold leaf the pieces and glued on the leg with all purpose Tacky glue.

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