Seeing Speckles

 Karrie was busy decorating mom's house this week.

I am so in LOVE

with this little vintage dish filled with

moss, feathers & speckled eggs

It's just too darn cute for words!

Sweet little way to welcome in the spring!!

Wishing you all 

a blessed Easter weekend!

~Karla & Karrie

It's begining to look a lot like Christmas...

 

'Tis a crazy(er) time of year for The Summer Kitchen Girls...

But we are finally trying to get a bit of holiday jingle going on at home all while we gear up for our Joyeux Noel Open House at the store this weekend.

Probably could have had much more in the way of decorating done if we wouldn't have taken the day off to shop... but those gifts won't buy themselves, right?;0)

A Touch of Blue

 Do you know what?

We love that white shabby style....

but we could never live in it.

These girls love 

COLOR

way too much!  One of our favorite way to add some

fun vintage color is by adding blue....

You'll never guess what kind of blue 

these girls love to add...

well, you just might :)

We love finding pieces of 

blue transferware.

There really is nothing like adding it for a 

POP

of color in your room

no matter what you're decorating style...

don't you think?

It probably all started with

  grandma's china set....

every holiday it would be out on the table 

and we'd be in charge 

of putting grandma's sliver knives and spoons

 beside each plate 

and putting the fork on a napkin

 folded by our little hands.

ahhh....you can tell

Thanksgiving is coming...

good memories always come with it doesn't it?

The Embellishment Factor

When you look all day

at a ho-hum pillow, 

you might think that there has 

got

to be something you could do to take it from this.....

to This....

So, I took some old fabric we had 

cut it into strips, and fashioned it into a bow

I then put one of my vintage pins 

on it to hold it in place....

I sat it on top of my pillow...

already it looks better :)

I dug through the ribbon drawers and found 

a ribbon that would work!

I tied the ribbon around the pillow and after I knotted it

 and tacked it into place with my needle & thread.

Of course, 

I had to add a few more loops 

to make a nice full bow.  

Then I pinned the pin on top of it....

Voila!

What an exciting pillow I have now!

What will you Embellish?!!

Join us for some fun with 

Paula & Patti from Ivy & Elephants 

for their What's It Wednesday!

World Up!

Gosh...do we ever LOVE candlesticks!

Rarely do we ever put candles in them in the store displays though...

During Easter there are eggs toppling them...

Christmas there are vintage Christmas bulbs...

But this fall...

well, we were hunting for a spot to display our new mini globes

and guess what?

Yep....

we put the world up on a pedestal

and we're loving it!

Spread the World.....

Bringing the Outside In....

We love bringing
 the outside....in!

This wicker rocker
 spent many a day on the porch by the previous owner,

but we couldn't see keeping it outside

so, we brought it in.....

and LOVE it!

What else do we love bringing inside from the outside?

Urns

Topiaries

Statuary

What about you? 
 Do you have a passion 
for using outdoor items inside?



The French Touch....

Hey all!! 

It's Friday....

and we are soooooo in LOVE

with this Wallpaper book.....

Imagine the pitter-patter of our hearts

 as we saw this at the paint store.....

we

HAD

to bring this one home

to 

DROOL

and 

DROOL

some more!!!

"Bruxelle Linen"

'The family crest, well known in European history,

 inspired this masculine design on a rich linen ground.'

{we are of course showing the pictures of the wallpaper in use

so that you can drool right along with us!}

"Biblioteca"

'A fine etched-style pattern depicting romantic European architecture'

What we love about wallpaper

{besides that it adds sooooo much to a room}

Is that if you see it in one color....

It's available in another shade!

We also LOVE getting 

AMAZING ideas 

when we look through the books!

Just look at this pattern on the wall

in the paper sample here...oh my!!!

"Empire Damask"

'A single damask shape inspired by French empire design styles,

 rendered on a rustic linen ground.

you can see hot this paper has a bit of metallic

in it.....GORGEOUS!!!!

Now....

check this one out.....

"Manuscript"

'A pattern reminiscent of distressed plaster work

with a modern take on manuscript etchings.'

We LOVE how they

style the wallpaper for pictures

 ~ just look at those cool vintage clocks!

 "Balustrade"

'A lightly distressed ground with soft metallic threads 

combined with a pattern reminiscent of antique wood carvings'

Then this one gets a lot of

oooooo's and ahhhhhhh's

from everyone.....

"Etamine"

'A rich moire background texture supports a Nouveau Style damask 

to create a rich yet subtle effect'

LOVE

that it has this matching pattern!

Well....

it's Friday

and we are in LOVE with

 "Maison Gallerie"

wallpaper book

by Seabrook

Hope you enjoyed 

our little visual journey of France...

Thought you'd enjoy a little

"Bal Petite Bal" 

with Eartha Kitt....

go ahead....hit play

then head back on up to look through this 

delicious wallpaper again!!

A Haunting Effect

Are you

so excited?

It's Tuesday....and that means

there's another great Halloween

decorating tip

from The Summer Kitchen Girls....

 

 

This year

 we wanted to have a hauntingly

good time decorating outdoors

 

{of course this is LOADS of fun indoors as well!}

 

Just find yourself some cheesecloth

{we got ours from Lowe's}

 



 

We opened the package up

and unfolded the cheesecloth

and then we stuck it in a bowl of tea

to stain it a bit....

 

we can't have cobwebs

looking like they are right out of the package now!

 

After we pulled the cheese cloth out

we let it air dry...

then

the fun begins....

 

S  t  r  e  t  c  h

that cheese cloth out and cover as

little or as much as you want!

 

It's an easy

Halloween effect

No

BONES

about it!

Arranging the Dead

It's that time of year...you know,

the one where we have to come up with a great idea

for the outside of the store to inspire all..... 

 

So we ripped out everything in our pots 

except for our purple potato plant

 

 

Then we started to insert some

expired

cone flowers from the garden

 

 We added some festive orange lights

and some long, straight twigs

then wrapped that potato vine

all around the bottom of the arrangement

 



 

For a Halloween arrangement 

that is

DEAD ON!

 

Join us as we link up with

Common Ground

 for some

 Fabulous Fall Fun!!

 

*******

 

We had so much fun this year

 with our Spooky displays...

look for a

Holiday Decorating Tip

every Tuesday until Halloween!

Playing in the Garden......

Back behind the store...

we've created a little area...

something a little whimsical

to make us smile

Last winter we sat this table and chairs out back

It's been so fun to watch the flowers

grow around it all....

Our brother

brought us this old barn door

so we used it as a backdrop for our table.

It is nice...

but it just looked like it needed

something.....

shiny....

we have lots of shiny....

So, up went some fun

junk....

and now it is as cute as can be!

Now....we have the other side of the garden...

gasp!

a door with nothing on it.....

{we feel a part two coming on!}

See

what a bit of junk will do...

it will get you all crazy thinking

and make you think that

you need to spread it around!

Thank heaven's

 for "junk"

Happy Monday everyone!!