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Did you have a good week?  I am finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel on my website.  Why, you may ask, haven’t I launched it yet?  Well, we are so close…..but have decided that I need my own dedicated server so that the site will load quicker.  I have over 14,000 fabric skus from one vendor alone, thousands of rugs and lamps and accessories.  All of these products have hi resolution images…..and it was starting to affect the speed with which we could shop the site.  So, we are in a bit of a holding pattern waiting for the upgrade to be complete.  Once that happens, we can load the few more vendors we want in the shop before we launch and then we are ready to go.  I am happy we’ve made this decision now vs. wait for issues once we go live.  And I recently added a new trade only fabric vendor to my line up on the shop and I am so excited to share with you.

Call it the promise of spring, but I’ve been focusing on doing a few things around the house.  I am working on getting an arrangement with orchids made in my giant clam shell for the foyer.  Finding the perfect height to compliment the mirror is harder than one might initially think.  My husband came to me with the below inspiration image (who knew?) for a rug in the foyer.  I’ll admit….despite the yellow front door….I had never thought of doing yellow in the foyer.

Meyer & Meyer, Inc. via Houzz

Thanks to reader, Libby, I found the artist I was looking for in my post earlier this week.  Lucky for me, his studio is a stones throw from where I live and I am meeting to pick out two pairs of his line drawings next week.  Finally, the living room is making some progress.

Don Bodine

Speaking of the living room, I am doing a custom pair of mirrors to flank the fireplace.

The process has been slow……bit I think we are getting there.  Just waiting for the CAD drawings to make sure everything works.  The mirrors will be similar to this one….except the dividers will run perpendicular instead of at an angle.  And the mirror will be antiqued.  My mirrors will be quite a bit wider than the inspiration.  The mirror floats in the frame, sortof like how the painting is framed.

I ordered a pair of these table lamps for the sofa table in our family room.  They will sit on the table (below the lamp) that I purchased last year.

Finally, I am trying to refocus on finding a fabric for the porch swing and chairs on our front porch.  I thought I had found the perfect yellow Ikat fabric last year, but two not right CFAs later, we decided to move on.  I’ve got the below Trina Turk fabric on my radar.  I think the yellow and grey would go well with our grey shutters and yellow front door. I am not 100% sold though……What do you think?

We have a relatively low key weekend planned around here.  Other than a birthday party and soccer practice, we have no set plans.  With temps supposed in the 80s, I am thinking it is the perfect weekend to tackle the garage which needs a major clean out.  We shall see.  Oh yes, and I promised my husband I’d try to make him this cake….

Southern Living Hummingbird Cake

Hope you have a happy weekend!

If you are fabric obsessed like me, you have likely seen Brunschwig’s “Les Touches” fabric.

Amie Corley via Design Sponge

Meg Braff

Good Bones, Great Pieces

Thomas Smyth, Canadian House and Home

Historically, this pattern has come in three colorways–black, cognac and red.  However, last year the Brunschwig introduced some “fresher” colors in this great pattern.

See anything you like?

For more information or to purchase anything you see on my blog, please contact me.

I am really drawn to the nudes that Jan Showers tends to use in many of her projects.  And I would love a few for my living room.

photo by Ronda Carmen, All the Best Blog

Anyone know who the artist is?

Care to educate me?

Harry is 2.5 and his room still pretty much looks like in did in these images I shared quite some time ago.  His built-in shelves (which you cannot see in the photos) are moderately styled and I’ve got a new piece of art on the wall.  But, I know his days left in the crib aren’t terribly long and I’ve kinda got the next iteration floating around in the back of my mind.

I am thinking of doing a pair single beds in his room…and might even do iron again….I so love that crib!  The dresser turned changing table will likely eventually go….as will the glider/ottoman left over from Maddie’s nursery.  The other day while waiting for some memo samples to be pulled, I was browsing through nearby fabric wings and came across this fabulous camo fabric (from Clarence House) and had to bring a sample home with me.  The colors work perfectly with the room……I am thinking pillow shams perhaps….layered with some more simple, neutral fabrics.

And then Saturday night, we were having dinner with friends in the Bishop Arts district of Dallas (such a cool area I cannot believe I hadn’t been to yet) and we headed over an hour before our reservation to wander around and shop the local galleries, home stores and street vendors.  I spotted these cute felt animal heads and immediately felt the urge to have another boy so I could use my camo fabric and these guys in the nursery.  (A great reason to want another kid, right?  Don’t worry, that urge passed…..quickly).

What’s your opinion on the shelf life of these guys….baby only, or would they work for a toddler?  And, please no comments on the camo and animal heads.  I do live in Texas now…..

I’ll apologize in advance, posting will be sporadic until my new site launches.  Too many balls in the air.  I finally broke down and hired some extra help and it is making me feel like I can breath just a tad better……and can step away from my computer!  Speaking of computers, yesterday I woke up to this:

image via Lilly Pulitzer’s Facebook Page

I couldn’t get to my site, not the blog, not the admin panel, not even the database.  I was freaking out.  I might have blamed my web team…..I feel bad.  Blame actually went to Register.com who had a server outage and didn’t feel the need to alert customers…..and after about 45 minutes waiting to talk to tech support was told he had no idea when it would be up.  Oh well, what was I gonna do…..learning not to freak about that which I cannot control over here.  The issues were obviously fixed, beacause you are reading my blog now!

I lost a diamond earring yesterday…which I didn’t notice until I walked into my client’s house.  She must think I am a hot mess.  Retraced my steps from the morning, no luck….I feel sick.  By that time, I had to pick up Maddie from school.  We ran to the Quadrille showroom where she got water, a bathroom break and played on their white linen couches while I chatted with the showroom manager.  She’s met both of my kids in the last week……I am sure she loves seeing my car pull into the lot!   Oy.

Finally, today would have been my mom’s birthday.  It feels surreal that she isn’t here…..Maddie and I have been looking at lots of photos of her recently.  We miss her!

So, apologies for the word heavy post.  If you don’t see me for a while…..please don’t leave me….I’ll be back….I am just having to limit the posting, pinning and other stuff that just isn’t helping me GET THE SITE DONE!  Hope you understand.

Happy Hump Day!

My eyes deceived me yesterday (or I didn’t look close enough).

I was wrong about the fabric.

Photography by Jonny Valiant (Designer, Fawn Galli)

The fabric used on the chair above is actually Lee Jofa/Groundworks “Edo” designed by Kelly Wearstler.  See how it compares to the Clarence House fabric I had found below.

Lee Jofa / Groundworks “Edo” (GWF-2814-513)

Clarence House’s “Jaipur”

The fabrics are similar but definitely not the same!  The Kelly Wearstler fabric runs around $117 a yard, while the Clarence House is more like $146.  Thanks to reader, Libby, for the heads up!

Neither is cheap.

Do you like one, both?

Happy Weekend!