oh to covet...

this couch from pottery barn paired with:

this chair from room and board.  would make this lovely room that I photo shopped for your visual pleasure: 

Do I like neutral colors ? why yes how could you tell?? The rug is from overstock.com. The cowhide is from IKEA (although sometimes they have them at this great place called Home Emporiums in Cola). The bookcases are Expedit from IKEA and the curtains are Peyton grommit drapes from Pottery Barn.

my little one

More music to share: PEARL

T-shirts are for sale at this lovely lady's website! : http://www.pearlprojects.org/ . It's pretty simple, you buy a shirt, you support a talented artist, she then in turn can make more pretty music! Here is the store. Two of her songs are available on Itunes.com

Great music in progress

Back these guys!
http://www.theseawolfmutiny.com/

Bummer....

Our poor little house was spanked by the wind last night. A night full of Wfap bwap bap and no power.

stealing ideas

I want to make some of these for the Kitchen!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evajuliet/3700321097/

organization dream

1.

Funny Bunny and Bright- Scrugger's under $20 shopping guide to Fishs Eddy

The Carnival Umbrella -It's just cute. 

This eggholder is pretty cool, but lets face it- eggs already come with a great carton right? why would you take the trouble to move them to the new one where they can get squashed in the refrigerator. BUT how cool would this pretty be on top of a dresser or in a closet used to organize rings and necklaces? or if you're more into square: try this tray

These Pretty Powder Blue storage containers could be used to hold bobby pins and hair bands in the bathroom...I'm thinking three in a row in a window. (or buttons, or crafting things).

and who doesn't need a funky horsehead to open their beer. (I'm going to have to admit that I just watched Black Beauty on Netflix and cried, I know I'm 23 and a wuss!). 

Baby Scrugg's Room

Nope not ours!!! Our brother and sister in law are expecting a baby girl in January. They've been preparing her little room for months. Mamma Tine isn't much for sissy pinks and pastels, she likes it bold and happy, so she picked a color scheme of teal, lime green, orange, and a splash of yellow. The challenge for the tiny room was to make it as cheerful as possible because as renters, they were not allowed to paint the ugly murky wood trim and the tiny window let's in a pitiful amount of light. 

BEFORE:

Thus began Brainstorming sessions in which I put together in photoshop some ideas for Christine. 


IDEA NUMBER ONE: tapestry from Lebanon, white graphic prints, orange rug, brown crib (we didn't think we were allowed to paint it) Original bookshelf painted white.

 IDEA NUMBER TWO: Christine decided that she wanted to go with the changing table and dresser on the far wall and keep the bed in the room for company. So the tapestry went off the wall onto the bed. We added a mid-century modern dresser which we were currently on the look out for. Opened up those closet doors and added colored poof balls for a "mobile" (you're my hero Martha Stewart!).

 IDEA NUMBER THREE: Then we realized we could paint the crib white and we started finding all of the furniture to be painted white, we scrapped the picture and imagined filling in the space.

I suprised Mamma Tine by painting the room while she was at work. The bed went in, and the new baby stuff...and then later moved back out again.
Mamma tine was so so cool to think of doing this for art: She cut little elephants out of cardstock and pretty paper and glued them on a paper. 


They lacked the area to work on all of their DIY projects, so our garage became "project baby world". As a group effort, the crib was sanded and stained, evaluated, sanded again, primed and then painted. A rocking chair was re-coiled, foamed and painted white. They also painted a small table white  that was once a lovely dino-the -dinosaur-shade-of-purple. 


BEFORE/AFTER on the Crib!


BEFORE/AFTER CHANGING TABLE:

Hot Spinach Salad

Photo by Scruggers

Vinegrette:

1/4 cup balsamic vinegar

3/4 cup olive oil

tablespoon of Dijon mustard

honey to taste

3 pieces of bacon, crumbled

bacon fat :p

Salad:

Spinach 

 Diced tomatoes

Fried cheese ball: Gorganzola and Cream Cheese

or Goat Cheese

(flour the cheese, coat with egg wash, then bread crumbs)

Fancy Garbage

The Simple Human Sensorcan

Scandinavian

Isn't this the cutest teacup you've ever seen? It belongs to a Norwegian blogger at Mali-Mo. She has a bright light house full of pastels and little quaint things and zero zippo nadda on the clutter! (so very Scandinavian of her).  Everything looks organic and wintery and ikea'y (i'm pretty sure that should be a word).

You know you want some...

Photo by Scruggers

Photo by Scruggers

Thank you Publix for making awesome whole wheat products like pre-made dough. This pizza is topped with sweet basil tomato sauce, fresh spinach, mozzarella, Parmesan (the best cheese in the whole world) mushrooms and garlic.

Now that I'm a dog lover

I'll admit, before it was all about cats, now its about my cute little puppy Juneau. She's so great. I have just now noticed all the great pet things available on Etsy. Here are some of my finds (the numbers will lead you to the Etsy Shop, happy hunting):

1. Art Print

2. Pet Paintings
 

3. adorable stamp

4. pup in your pocket?

5. Dog Salt and Pepper Shakers

6. Jackets for the chilly winds ahead