Dollar Store Decorating

Are you ready? For Halloween that is. Dollar Store and decorating are two things that I generally do not use in the same sentence but for Halloween I scored. A bunch of packages of "spooky cloth" (yes - I know it's just colored cheeses cloth), some Styrofoam skulls, light-up eye balls and a lot of glitter and we are all set. Plus if I don't dust this month it just looks like part of the theme!

Note: the jar on the dining table was filled with candy eyeballs but they seem to keep disappearing.

The skeletons were a splurge (aka NOT from the dollar store) but I love how the girls have one stepping on the other's head to climb the column. We tried to paint the boys with glow-in-the-dark paint but it didn't seem to work. Oh well.

Gotta' go finish sewing costumes....Have a fun weekend!

Trends: Hello Yellow!

Have you noticed all of the great yellows this fall? Luckily the trend is towards rich, beautiful, mustard-y yellows and nothing too lemony.

this yellow print from Scalamandre is always in

via House & Home

 I decided to freshen up our entrance and painted our front door this cheery yellow. The deep red was getting old.

new "leaves" design on linen/blend in (you guessed it) - yellow!

Sheer Madness

Maybe it's the cooler weather and the darker days that are making me dream of warm and light places and spaces. I'm loving patterened sheers for window treatments.

via Fjorn Scandinavian

 via Designer's Guild

via Designer's Guild

seaglass sheer cotton voile

dandy sheer cotton voile

Big News Brewing

like my Halloween reference?

Sorry I've been away from the Blog for a while but I've been working hard on a new development. I will have some really exciting news in the next few weeks....

I'm curious if any of you use indoor/outdoor fabrics. Do you like the way they feel? Do you use them strictly outside or indoors too?

IF you had to choose some of my designs for indoor/outdoor, which would you choose?

school of fish?

burst?

sticks?

garden stool?

any others?? I'd love your feedback!