FANCY FRIDAY!!

It is another FANCY FRIDAY!! This Friday, I felt in a very sparkly mood as my friend Fancy Nancy would say. You know a girl has to have her diamonds, but did you know you could have diamonds on other things besides jewelry? Anybody can buy diamond jewelry but how about these diamond enhanced items............

Notice the diamond floating in the stem of these lovely goblets? I think it would make me feel very fancy to drink out one of these to the tune of $101,777!

For the very special golfer in your life, how about a ball marker by Trimarker for $10,500?!

Need to make a call? Use one of these jewel and diamond encrusted phones by Boucheron and, you too can have one for $350,000.

Everyone needs a glass, diamond and gold saxaphone. You could sport ten 2 carat diamonds if you carried this around.

Now let's get a little more practical and do some fancy cooking with this pot that has solid gold handles and 200 diamonds. That would make one special meal.

You can not leave out the dog in the family. He can feel like a very Furry Fancy Fellow with this 52 carat diamond collar worth $1.8 million. If that feels a little bit too fancy there are others ranging form $280,000-$480,000 like this sweet little collar below.

We can not forget the ipod user's. This is white and pink gold and encrusted with diamonds. It is the only one like it. This was made for a charity auction and is worth $39,526.

A little too Fancy for my budget but a lot of fun to look at.

" Enjoy the Process" Of: Thinking Fancy thoughts.

Kathysue

Enter My Brain If You Dare!!!

I did a post recently on Design Springboards, here.  I have a project that I am starting out slowly and I am not sure when I will be able to finish it, but I have made a little progress that has pointed me in the direction I need to go. My thought process started like this.............(You are now entering my brain).(insert The Twilight-Zone music here)

1. I desired a change in the playroom (Kiddos are getting older, time for a change).
2. Looked in my inspiration folder that I have been collecting pictures in for a couple of years.
3. Noticed there was a consistent color theme (actually, this was a bit of a surprise, but when you randomly select pictures, a common thread will start appearing). I think this is the most important step in finding what you really like. Do it randomly and go with your heart.  If you like it save the picture.
4. Once I had the color family I was going to use, then the fun part, shopping for my first element or Spring board.
5. Next the shopping continued until I had enough items that a picture started to emerge.
6. Since this is a playroom and also used as a guest room it has a bed in it. We need new furniture desperately but due to budget constraints this might have to wait for awhile.
7. Now that I have the color pallete, I now know what color and design of furniture I am looking for.It needs to be crisp and white, fun with simple lines.  (I have found a bed I really want and will show it to you later.)

With all this in mind I am going to show you pictures of my inspiration file and then my Springboard. After that, I will show you the fabrics of the various elements I have pulled together so far. Here we go..........

Serena & Lily bedding

The funny thing about all of this, is I have talked for about 2-3 years about wanting a black and white color scheme in the play room. See how interesting it is when you put a collage of inspiration photos together. No black and white here, only blues and greens.

Next is my Spring Board..........

TA-DA! This is the quilt I am using. It is beyond perfect for what I have in mind. What makes this even better is I got it on clearance at TJMaxx for $10!!! I would have purchased it even at full price because it was that perfect for the room. They also had some sheets and pillows to go with it but you know me. I can not Smatch! (my word for matchy/matchy). I have to make it hard on myself and try to co-ordinate things.  The next step was to find some elements to go with this quilt. This room is also a guest room, so the bed is sometimes slept in by a boy and sometimes by a girl.  With that in mind I knew I needed two sets of elements to address each gender.

Next came this............

I had  seen this earlier and fell in love with the color and pattern, but at that point I did not have the quilt(Springboard). Once I had the quilt I could move forward, so I quickly went back to the pillows and grabbed two of these-one large and one small. I thought it might be too strong because it is so bright, but I loved it with the quilt.  In my minds eye it was starting to come together.

Next came the sheets for the boys bed. These sheets are a very tiny bright turqouise pin stripe. They appear brighter in person so now I had another puzzle piece to the bedding.

Next I needed some pillows to complete this look.............

I found this Nautica pillow sham on clearance for $5.00. Boy, I am on a roll. Now I have the boys bed complete.

 Onto the girls bedding...........

When I saw this round pillow I just knew it would look great with the quilt. I brought all my treasures home and started playing with the bed.  I went shopping in my house and found this lamp in my closet. (I told you I love lamps and they are hidden in closets through out my home).............

It just happens to be the perfect in-between blue and I love the gourd shape, very Christopher Spitzmilleresque. ( I think I just made up another word)

In this room I have a small wicker table that I covered with a lime green tablecloth making it look like a table skirt. Here is a close up of the fabric. It is banquet size so I had plenty to work with.  I found this at GW last year for $5.00.........

The last two pieces I needed for the room were a pillow and sheets for the girl bed.  I forgot I already had the perfect sheets from Target that I had purchased about 4 years ago.........

I am in love with this pillow. The fabric is a linen and I am in love with all of the colors. The large flower is more of a shocking pink with red under-tones in person.  I got this on clearance for $10 and I would have paid full price. Too me this made the bed and once I put it in there, I smiled!! Remember that is my very technical design test.

Here are the sheets that I already had and it completed the picture............

Pretty cute and they go so well with the quilt it looks as if they were almost a set.

Boy Bed Elements.........

Girls Bed Elements.............

Now you see the evoulution of how my mind worked on this project I will show you the bed all made up in a future post, I promise it won't be too long before I post it. In that post I will also show you some other pictures of some elements I might like to use. I need to do a little virtual shopping. I hope you had some fun tagging along in my brain. Next choice to make is Paint!

"Enjoy the Process" Of: Finding your own inspirations and design Springboard.

Kathysue

SALE ALERT

I just ran across a few items that I was truly surprised at the cost and equally surprised at where they came from.  Just guess where this first item comes from.

I love the color of green in this pillow and the embroidered leaf detailing adds texture and interest. You can find this pillow here, I could not believe this price $13.00

You can get this one for the same price here

Use all three to add a touch of spring green to your home. If you like this one you can get it here

Since brown and green seem to be a theme here take a look at this pillow here for $4.98. The white design is embroidered!

This antique green glass bathroom set is available here. Each piece ranges from $9.99-$12.99

These three pillows have wonderful detailing on them. The pillow on the left has an embroidered  detail that I think looks so sophisticated. You can pair it with the black neck-roll pillow which also has an embroidered detail.  Each of these pillows in of themselves is lovely but you will get all three for the price of $38.88 . That is less than $12.30 each. They can be purchased here (you are going to be surprised, I know I was) They can also be purchased seperately for a little bit more per pillow.

I know this is hard to see, white against white. You can get all three of these tables for $49.99 they were $199.00. Obviously these are not tables that you will keep forever.  If you need something to fill in until you can afford to get what you really want these would be a good purchase. They would look great in a bright sunny room or even in a room that needed to be brightened up with a pop of white.  If you like these you can purchase them here

These darling book cases are a steal at the price of $34.98 instead of the original price of $139.99 each here. I think these would look great in a child's room or a playroom.

 I hope you have had a little fun virtual shopping and maybe one or more of these items could work in your home.

"Enjoy the Process" Of: Finding some bargains for your home.

Kathysue