Remix it design board

I was inspired by this picture yesterday while reading Erin's post at the Rare and Beautiful Treasures blog.

As well as this car that I mentioned the other day in one of my posts (amazing where we find inspiration, isn't it? :-))


I thought if I showed you the photos you might be in color love like I am, so I decided to do a mix and match remix it board for you today so that, depending on your taste and your room, you can add some of these fun items to your current design.

These items can be found at:

Updated Urns

I'm participating in Kimba's garden party

today, so here is an outdoor favorite...

These outdoor urns looked REALLY bad (unfortunately I don't have "before" pictures) and I was going to get rid of them, but decided to try to paint them instead. We sanded them down a bit and sprayed them with Rust-Oleum Multicolor Textured Paint in 223525 - Aged Iron.

I'm VERY happy with the result! The paint went on so well and they still have some variation in color which keeps them from having that "just painted" look.

I also love the different colors of Coleus that I put in the pots this year. The colors are so brilliant that even on a cloudy day, like today, they're beautiful.

Morgan Dane Giveaway

Heidi Kirwin, from Morgan Dane Designs , loves the room remix blog and has decided to do a giveaway for our followers.

The beautiful necklace that Heidi is giving away is the Firelight Necklace - Jasper, Carnelian, tigers eye,& smokey quartz. Handcrafted in the USA. Value:$42.00. Isn't this a great necklace???

You can enter to win 3 times for a total of 5 chances (remember EACH TYPE OF ENTRY requires a *comment or we won't be able to enter it into the randomizer):

1. For your first entry, visit the Morgan Dane Designs website, peruse the catalog and pick out your favorite item. Then, leave a *comment letting us know what your favorite item is.

2. For TWO EXTRA entries, become a FOLLOWER of this blog or a SUBSCRIBER to this blog, then leave a *comment saying "I'm a follower" or "I'm a subscriber". If you are already a follower or subscriber, just leave a *comment letting us know as described above. NOTE: if you become a new subscriber, you will receive an e-mail from feedburner asking you to confirm - if you do not confirm you will not really be a subscriber and it will eventually just delete your entry.

3. For TWO EXTRA entries, blog about this post and link to it. You then need to come back and leave another *comment telling me you did so, so that we can enter you two more times.

*For those of you not familiar with how to leave comments: To leave your comment, just click on the word "COMMENTS" (next to the time) at the bottom of this Morgan Dane post. Where it says "comment as:" if you don't have a google or other account, just choose the Name/URL option and fill in your name, you don't have to fill in the URL if you don't have one. Otherwise choose the type of account you have (google, etc.). Hopefully, you'll sign up to be a follower - then you'll have a google account! :-)

Contest winner will be chosen using the RandomizerContest is open until 5:00 p.m. central time, Saturday, June 20th. Winners must have a US address that Heidi can ship to. If you win, we will ask you for your shipping address.

The Porch & Atelier

I thought you might be interested in this Garden Day event at The Porch & Atelier in Buffalo. Check it out on Teresa's blog.

Don't forget to enter our Morgan Dane GIVEAWAY!

More Outdoor Decor

Maybe because it's been SO cloudy and gloomy here for the last 4 days and I'm really feeling the need to be outside on a great patio with the SUN SHINING, that I decided to post some outdoor inspiration today. We'll be focusing on the inside all next week with Remix It Online Week, soooo...
Love this! The set is currently on sale at Ballard Designs:


Hope you're having a great day wherever you are... Don't forget to register for our great Morgan Dane GIVEAWAY!!!

Foyer Art Solution

Here's another idea for those large foyer walls that you don't know what to do with. This is my friend's foyer. She was frustrated with this wall, so I gave her this idea and she put it into action.

She:
1. Painted a large square on the wall.
2. Purchased stock plastic molding at the home improvement store.
3. Painted the molding and antiqued it.
4. Attached the molding directly to the wall with nails.
5. In this case she had a decorative painter come in and antique the painted square and add the decorative scrolling.
6. Hung the picture in the center.

Didn't she do a great job? This is an idea that could be interpreted in many different ways, so hopefully it will be helpful to someone.

As always, let me know what you think.

Family Photo Grouping

Here's a little project I worked on with my baby sister. She moved to another state, which means another house of course, and she's going through the process that we all go through of trying to slowly pull everything together. I haven't been in her house yet, but she e-mailed this photo to me to get my advice. She wanted to showcase her family photos but they looked kind of like they were floating and lost on the wall.I suggested moving them down on the wall a bit and doing a variation of the "paint the square on the wall" idea to give it a more cohesive look. We had fun working out the details together over the phone and, since she has always been a thrifty shopper, this project didn't cost her much. She bought the paint at Walmart, found the trim pieces in a sale bin at the home improvement store, and bought the vinyl words for either $14.99 or $19.99 (I can't remember which, but either way it wasn't expensive). Love it! Excellent work little sister! :-)