Brick by Brick

LOVE

the look of BRICK....

but what do you do when you don't have any 

peeking through your plaster

and that is the look you are going for?

You paint it on,

THAT

is what you do!!

{ok...maybe we have our friend Jill do the painting!!)

Just a little here...

and a little there....

And while we are at it...

how about a whole lot of it in the hallway 

outside of the laundry room?

We thought we'd go visit Debra 

over at Common Ground today for

Stay tuned this week....

we'll turn the corner 

and show you the cutest idea for your bedroom door!

What's Bloomin?

Geraniums!

 

Grandma Norma would always have pots and pots

 of geraniums sitting in all of her windows during the winter

So, when it came to decorating a wall

 in Karrie's laundry room

What better than Geranium pots!

 

 

And of course,

 since Karrie studied plants in her

herbaceous class in school,

we just had to use the genus name for Geranium

Geraniaceae

What's Bloomin' in your house today?

Dirty Little Secret....

...or maybe I should have named this post

"Ancient Chinese Secret!"

Last month...

on one of the snowiest days in the great state of Ohio,

Karrie, Ruth and I went antiquing & I found this Chinese figurine.

It's one of those things that you have NO idea why you love it,

but you know you will really be disappointed if you leave it there,

and you get home, and figure out where in the world you could have put it,

if you would have only brought it home.....

So....

GULP

I can't believe that I am showing you this...

but

THIS

is my laundry room....

Yes, I know...the horror!

I think everyone in blogland has a wayyyy cuter laundry room

and I can't believe that I just showed you it...

but - there it is...

my dirty little secret!

Now...

on this particular day that my yellow Chinese gal came home with me

my laundry room had nothing....

NOTHING

fun

cute

interesting

But when I put her on top of my dryer...

MAGIC

came to the basement!

I thought...

how cute would it be if I had a Chinese Laundry sign

to hang up on that ugly wall...

No Chinese Laundry signs to be found.

EBay

Etsy

No where...

So...I thought about hanging a clothesline above the washer and dryer

and....

EUREKA

or maybe

DUH!

I have loads

(pardon the laundry humor)

of  vintage linens

and THIS one

was my favorite...

so up it went!

Then...I brought home a red quilted runner

from the store to lay on the dryer...

oh...am I diggin' this!!

A Vintage Red teacup was found a couple weeks later

when I was out and about with my Mother-in-Law

Took an arrangement that I had and put it in a

fun vintage green pot

And...

It may not make it in

House Beautiful...

but,

It sure makes laundry

a bit more fun

and cheerful to do!

Tell us...do you have a room that you never speak of?

We'd love to hear......

**OK...

so, I know that you have studied this picture...

and you're thinking why didn't she put red duck tape around the dryer vent

instead of that groovy blue paint tape...

and THEN you are thinking...

Why in the world did she show us this picture!!

Oh well....I guess I'm just coming clean

(ha ha ha ha!!)