March 2012
3 tags
5 tags
3 tags
3 tags
5 tags
DIY Orange "Lacquer" Box
I love small boxes. They look so neat and tidy no matter what mess of junk you’ve got inside. (Side note: I helped with a seminar on “de-cluttering” in the winter, and the whole time I kept thinking “I should teach a workshop on ‘how to look organized when you’re not.’” Which is not very productive. But that’s what I feel I do...
6 tags
5 tags
5 tags
6 tags
5 tags
5 tags
6 tags
11 tags
Warming Things Up
Before Christmas I was really craving another colour in our living room area. Our walls are painted Woodlawn Blue by Benjamin Moore - and I really like it for a wall colour. It’s very warm and dynamic - changing its look throughout the day.
Beyond that everything was pretty much blue or cream/beige/ivory. I considered adding apple green (I have accents in my adjacent kitchen) but wanted...
4 tags
Feeling Green
Do you ever find yourself inexplicably drawn to one colour? I totally do this. Around the time I got married it was a soft celery green. I was so drawn to it and used it so often, my mother-in-law dubbed it “Justine Green”. And then I went through a long turquoise/robin’s egg blue phase which morphed into a teal/peacock blue phase. And I’ve since had a bout with dark...
4 tags
4 tags
5 tags
4 tags
4 tags
