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Friday, March 29, 2013

Be Inspired # 132 "Simple" Joys of Spring

Hello Everyone, and Welcome to Be Inspired!

a place to come and share all the things that have inspired you this week.

Visiting at Sylvia's Simple Life is always a joy.

Her posts are magazine worthy and truly inspiring.

Last week she shared the thrill of Spring flowers and journaling.

Do you need a dose of "Happy"?

This post will do it!

Where to start about this wonderful

Easter Tablescape from Jill at Sew a Fine Seam?

The chalkboard, the basket light, the centerpiece, those tablerunners...

love it all!

Laura from Decor to Adore gives us a two-fer this week

with her garden inspired Spring Burlap Wreath

and how she combined a great candle lantern and a thrifted hanging lamp...

and voila...the French Chandy Lantern

Silvina from Cups and Tales created hand blown decorated Easter Eggs that were inspired by one of her favorite children's Easter book illustrations.

Daena from Bad Rabbit Vintage shares a wonderful image found on Pinterest of a mirrored gallery wall that just makes me want to try this myself. So many wonderful combined elements.

And Pitchers and Plate shares an adorable pottery bunny plate

and a yummy recipe for Chocolate Waffles.

What a treat for Easter morning!

Today's Be Inspired Sponsor is Becky from Timewashed, Have you been by her shop recently? She always has such wonderful hand crafted goodies, made with an extra "personal touch"!

(thanks Becky!)

Time to link up all your inspiration from this last week. Be Inspired is now open to all inspiring posts, vintage and new. Please have a link within your post to be featured.

and check out my other Friday Party Gals

Have a blessed Good Friday!

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Be Inspired Showcase

Time to Showcase a few links from last week's Be Inspired Friday

that really do share some great inspiration!

Julia from Vintage with Laces has some "egg"ceptionally pretty ideas for Easter. You'll love her wonderful decorated eggs and carton. Give her some lace and she can come up with the most beautiful things!

Laurel from North End Loft shared her new Craft Space. If you're wanting to have a dedicated work space, be sure and check out all her great ideas for storage, organization and lots of functionality!

Robin from Happy at Home used burlap and some thrifted frames to create these wonderful botanicals for her Living Room. Nothing prettier than these florals to lighten up your space for Spring!

And if you've ever scratched your head over what to do with lots of odd sized windows then you'll love this idea from Maria Elena at Ramblings of a Southern Girl. She has a neat trick for easy window panels.

And speaking of beautiful fabrics and linen

hope you'll run by EpicLinen and take a peek

at some beautiful items for you and your home.

See you all tomorrow for Be Inspired!

xoxo,

Garden Tray for the Coffee Table...

I've been wanting to do something a little different on the coffee table for awhile. Just for a little change; something subtle and a little organic. Two years ago I painted all my furniture in the Living Room an antique white which I love, but I wanted to continue to tone down the "ornate" factor a little. I've had an antique silver tray here for awhile, but since Spring makes my thoughts go all "garden-y", I decided a tray or basket or something along those lines might be what I was looking for.

but where to find it...?

...My latest trip to Robin's Vintage Suitcase to snap some Easter goodie shots for the upcoming Spring Open House. When I photograph a store or antique space often I don't "see" it all until I'm home downloading the pics. That's what happened with this. It was right in front of me, I just didn't see it!

Last year I added this wonderful heavy linen-y burlap piece to the table top to keep things from scratching the paint finish. So... I moved my urn inside the tray and then my majolica bunny and book stack felt right at home. The tray is big, so everything else needs to be corralled inside it.

I moved an English Ivy in from the sunporch and gave it a haircut for the urn. Whatever is in here needs to be low profile, but "real". Ivy and I get along pretty well. If it has enough light it's hard for me to kill it.

Oh something else...

I brought up the RH linen pillows from downstairs,

and I like them much better here on the slipcovered chairs.

Less distraction than with the darker pillows.

It's always a work in progress...

OK, so here are some pics from The Vintage Suitcase. If you're local you'll want to put the Open House on your calendar. Robin will have a drawing for a gift certificate that you'll want to be sure and enter.