INSPIRATION TUESDAY

I felt inspired by some pictures and ideas from magazines, and interior decorators. Here see some of the inspirations:

A neat idea for a screen

 A cute chair done with a grainsack, just adorable.


Its time for a new project, come back tomorow to see my new grain sack design, I think I would like to do a pillow, and a chair. uhm  a big project,

love to all
martha

GRAIN SACKS CHEAP AND EXPENSIVE

theonlinefacricstore.net
pretty and only $ 1.50


 


 $44.00 lovely from  the textile trunk

this one is an antique heavy sack from Germany,, very old $99.00
Very pretty.









Coastal Inspiration

Coastal design ideas from designer Alex wijnen from Etsy, Enjoy

A beautiful coastal living room from the etsy winner this week, I loved it

From "get the look" Etsy blog these fantastic pictures of coastal decorations.


    love the tin in white,
   

 
Love the bedroom with the two oars, mine are in my living room and I painted them, (pictures are coming)





Simple bathroom but it reminds us of the sea, look at the painting.


          This is my favorite
                                                           

Get the Look Decor: Coastal Cottage



I'm not sure if you can see this picture but the work on this dining area is beautiful



I love to decorate with shells, I'm always collecting them, I have lots of them on plates, on tables, last summer I collected a lot of clam shells, then I followed MS directions and made garlands.

The shell bottles are beautiful, but to make them you have to solder them, uh, too hard

from Coastal crafts

I think they just glue these ones,

Here are the other ones from Carol of Beautiful Details @ etsy,  She has some beautiful pieces, lol

'I hope this will bring a little inspiration for your summer beach home, even if you don't live near the sea, you can bring the sea home in a room.

I promise some pictures of my rooms since I live 5 minutes from the beach, but my house is not all coastal, just during the summer month, because winter is our longest season, so the shells, sand, oars, boats, pictures, come out of storage at the beginning of the summer.  I love shell wreaths, huge shells, and oars.

love

martha

Happy Saturday!!! Field trip to the Fresh Market

Happy Saturday friends,around here they have yard sale after yard sale, I have a summer cold, so I don't think I can go but you know how we are, perhaps, I'll feel better.

I got some pictures to share, one of the things I love is to put vignettes together. I try to have one or two in my home, not too many because then, it gets to be too much.

Well, my supermarket here decided to decorate a la shabby chic and they had a smart decorator put these vignettes together. Be aware that they are lots of vignettes around the store, so I just asked if I could take some pictures for you all.
This is the type of market that I just go for a treat, and, I worked hard this week on the blog, the furniture, the etsy shop, the house, the family, the laundry, the list is never ending that I decided to go and treat myself, because that is all you can do there, unless you have lots of money, they don't take coupons.

You want to know what I got, well, first a cup of amaretto coffee, some sushi,tasted cheese, and ice cream. I came home with some flowers, more sushi, and delicious cookies.yam yam

Here are the vignettes.

This is one of my favorites because I love instruments and music. I have a lot of very old family instruments,like the cello, a violin, a piano, and a flute.  but the picture is no good, sorry, I need to save my pennies to get a cannon soon.

THis is the same picture but I wanted you to know how high the vignettes are.

I'm sorry about the picture actually is one of my favorites, there are four trunks and they painted the globe on a distressed blue and they outlined it with chalkboard paint, really neat. I see if I can get another picture.

my favorite, love the simple chairs and table and the ceiling tin as a wall



Love the bottles a la PB




This one is in the ice cream session, get it get it, are they smart oh what



this one is by the eggs, butter, milk of course

I cann't remember where this one is located, they have so many its hard to keep track, I didn't take pictures of all because I'm not feeling very well with my summer cold.

This one I love being a teacher  and I have the easel, the desk and the basket not the poster or picture

We;; I hope you enjoyed the pictures.  Next week make sure to follow my blog, because we are having the annual house tour in my town. Only six houses, they are very very old, I mean old, I saw the brochure. I don't know if they will let me take pictures, but they are magnificents.  I went last year, and I couldn't believe the renovations and how they kept the architecture to the period, but they look very up to date once you are inside. Stay tune, at least I will take pictures from the outside , just to see how old, some of them I was looking today on line and they are from the 1700, I love history and very very old homes, with the little doors, and low ceilings, and crooked floors, oh well, but I do like a modern bathroom , and kitchen , also a fireplace in the kitchen and in the master bedroom,  oh well one can dream,.

Have a great Saturday my friends
martha

Decorating with Grain Sacks



Love the chair  from Mes Belles at Etsy,details,details, notice the cording, tufting,brass buttons on the bottom, absolutely beautiful, this one is sold, but she has the green one for $$$$ , love this, its time to learn to reupholstery, however, she made this, you cannot tell, it looks professional. Her prices are reasonable compared to a professional upholstery company.



countrylifenaturals@etsy.com

Antique Grain Sack Bowl/Bag  love the bags.

love this from "junky style"







This is a different look,  from GinnyMae at Etsy, she does beautiful things, love it too.

Well, I invite you to grab a cup of coffee and go to the following sources, dream, dream and more dreaming.

Parna.com sells all kinds of grain sacks from Europe, the prices are in Euros, beautiful

Loodylady@ebay  sells the beauties, expensive but gorgeous grain sacks

Willow Decor blog shows the authentic German and French, some Belgian, she refers you to "the trunk"
great samples, high prices.

cgiebay  has Romania hand woven sacks  a few not too many.

In my humble opinion, and after talking to some wholesalers, they are overpriced here in the USA.  The ones that come from Europe, you really have to be careful, but if you take your time, they are deals at ebay, etsy, and all over blogland.
Perhaps you can get in touch with some of the bloggers from Europe, they are a lot of bloggers from Germany, Belgium, etc. not too many from France.  Be careful with the grain sacks from France, I know a dealer that spends six months in France and six months here, she brings them from the South of France, she buys them dirt cheap.  So, heads up.

Nevertheless,  WE LOVE GRAIN SACKS, if you do anything with them please send me apicture or email me, or a comment.

XOXOXO

martha