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Last Weeks Loves – May 7th to 13th

14 Monday May 2012

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 Hi Kids!

I hope you all have lovely weekends! Monday again, and another episode of Last Weeks Loves is here…..

1. That Beatrice over at a Crafty Bee is so talented!  Look at this amazing necklace DIY she made to replicate one she saw in a store. So pretty.

2. I want to live in this gorgeous seaside home in Sweden that was posted over at Wicked and Weird last week. I want to live there.

3. Loved the little feature on turquoise and red I found here at Coco & Kelley.  Not a combo I would have thought I would like, but I definitely do!

4. My fave Yummy Mummy blogger, Sarah Gunn created this AMAZING rug using an IKEA rug and a stencil…..a freakin’ stencil people!  No wonder she is a superstar DIYer on Cityline! You can find her post here, and from there you can find the link to watch her showing how she did it on Cityline!

Sorry, it’s little short this week, but I spent a lot of the weekend photographing my room and putting my post together for my room redo which will be revealed later this week!!

And don’t forget to vote for my design board in the EQ3 Contest, only a couple of days left!  Leave a comment to vote!

Have a lovely day!

Last Week’s Loves – April 30th to May 6th

07 Monday May 2012

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Good Morning Everyone!

There are going to be some changes here at Recreated starting today (or at some point in the next 24-hours), as I will be converting to a hosted WordPress site. OK, so you likely won’t notice much change except a new URL. And my understanding is, you will be directed to the new one (www.recreated.ca) from the old one. Hmm, so I guess it’s really only a change for me.  It is possible that the blog may look a little weird over the next few days until I get everything set-up, but hopefully it won’t take me too long to do that.

But now, back to our regularly scheduled program….Last Week’s Loves!

1.  This week, the amazeballs peeps at Poppytalk highlighted Shelter Co, which is a very cool pop-up (literally) lodging service.  You can read about it here.  Such a great concept, and look at the lovely space they provide.  You can see more great photos over at Poppytalk.

2. Love the maxi skirts highlighted by Brittany in this post at My Daily Randomness.  These are the two I loved most of the ones she featured.

1. I love discovering new Canadian talent so when SF Girl by Bay featured this phenomenal art by Amy Friend where she uses vintage photos and light, I was floored.  How gorgeous are these?? You can read more here.

Miss Sheralee over at Escapade featured these great crystal light bulbs by Lee Broom.  Such a pretty version of a simple light bulb!

Ugly camera straps be gone! This post over at A Dairy of Lovely featured these sweet-a$$ camera straps by Bloom Theory.  Seriously, people come up with the best ideas.

Have a lovely day sweet readers!

XO,

Over the Moon for Ostrich

02 Wednesday May 2012

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Good Morning! I was recently reminded how much I like faux ostrich fabric, after reading this post over at Redesigning Sarah about how she fixed her damaged leather cubes by having the top reupholstered.  Check out how great they turned out!

Great huh?  This inspired me to find more faux ostrich loveliness….but it was hard finding an abundance of inspiration.  However, I did find a few things…

Like these chairs….

This bag…

These chairs, specifically the seats (from the home of Ms. Meredith Heron, designer extraordinaire as featured in Style at Home)

These flats….

This bench…

These heels….

These stools…

Can you believe that bench was a DIY project? You can see it here. I do love to see people having success with DIY re-upholstery, and that one tuned out amazing! Oh yea, and I would give my right ear for that bag…for realsies.

You just gotta love a little (faux)….

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I’m over the moon for ostrich…

Have a great day!

XO,

Last Weeks Loves – April 23rd to 29th

30 Monday Apr 2012

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Good Morning Dumplings….

It’s Monday again, and that means Last Weeks Loves is back!  I’ve got a great line up of posts that showcase my blogger inspiration from last week.  And here were go….

1.  On Thursday, Amanda from Recycled Consign and Design posted about the comeback of the drapery tie-back.  I think she might be on to something, especially with the great selection of great tie-backs she featured like the vintage ones below.

2. I always enjoy a little whimsy so when Escapade posted about this treehouse in Scotland, I thoroughly enjoyed.

3.  On Friday, Heather of Interior Groupie had a great guest post from Jessica, a writer for Arcadian Lighting on black and wood.  A great design combo and this outdoor space below was my favourite of the examples she provided, though I would recommend checking them all out for yourself.

4.  I LOVED this post from Ambiance & Armoires all about how to set up a summer night at the movies! I loved going to the drive-in as a kid so I  think it would be crazy fun to have a movie night in your backyard.  I seriously loved this post.

5. I was asking the same question Vanessa over at A Casa Da Va did when I read So…When can I Move In?, a post she did on Bettina Prentice’s apartment, as featured in Vogue. I love just about everything about this apartment: the amazing art, the use of colour and pattern….all beautiful. J’aime beaucoup.

6. How stunning is this plate painting by Molly Hatch? Molly is a ceramic designer who also creates fabric patterns, furniture, jewelry, prints, pen and ink drawings and paintings.I found this amazing plate painting in a feature this week on Design Sponge.  Seriously, it floors me how insanely creative people are.

7. How much fun are these Tekenaka Bento Boxes I found on this post over at Creature Comforts this week? Ez always finds the coolest products. These definitely make me want to take my lunch to work.

Photos via: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

As usual, my blog reading keeps me full of inspiration, and this week was no exception.

Enjoy your day, even if that means pretending it’s Friday. I’m out….

XO,

Last Week Loves – April 9th to 15th

16 Monday Apr 2012

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Good Morning lovelies!

I kinda hate Mondays….but I kinda love re-hashing the week in blogs with my Last Weeks Loves series!  Here’s what I loved from last week:

I LOVE this DIY art that Beatrice posted over at A Crafty Bee.  The upholsterer in me has been trying to find some cool furniture art for awhile, and this is an easy and affordable way to get it!

Love this free arrows brush download from Creature Comforts! I’m just learning Photoshop Elements and I am always looking for cool ways to add fun to my photos, and these are pretty neat.  She also has great instructions on how to upload brushes to Photoshop which is really helpful.

I always enjoy Bliss Blog’s I Heart Mondays.  I often find many things in her list that I love too. This week its the top from Emerson Fry.  Love the simple, yet interest cut of this tank.

Check out these yellow chairs spotted in Desire to Decorate’s post on Spring Fever. She found the photo from Decor Pad, but Decor Pad doesn’t seem to have a source for the designer or where the chairs are from. Would love to know where they came from, they are gorgeous.

I didn’t get a chance to do a fashion/style post this week, so instead I’ll share with you this lovely Fashion Friday outfit put together by Amber over Simple Dwellings.  Love the pattern, colour she used, and that purse is to die for.

How pretty is this porcelain lamp posted on Design Sponge this week? The lamp is called the Brahma lamp and is by Barcelona lighting company Pedret Lighting.

Really enjoyed this Artistic Apparel post by Design for Mankind this week. Love the art by Francisca Pageo inspiration and colours, but mostly I am in love with the amazing pleated dress by Oasis.

Hope you enjoyed, have a great day!

XO,

Yesterday’s Guest Post and a New Project

11 Wednesday Apr 2012

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Good Morning!

Before I share with you my new project, I wanted to let you know that yesterday I was over at First Time Fancy doing a guest post.  If you didn’t know, Kerry and her family are moving to beautiful BC next week so she is crazy busy packing up her lovely home.  She was looking for some help with posting during this crazy time so, to help out I put together a little post all about florals.  If you didn’t see it yesterday, you should check it out.

Now, moving on to the newest upholstery project that I’m working on over at Re:style Studio.  It’s going to be a big transformation – but here a little sneak peek.

I’m taking this condo-sized sofa belonging to my friend Amber….

and transforming it into a sofa that is a cross between this….

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and this…

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It’s going to be fabulous when it is all done, and I cannot wait to show you the final product!

Have a fabulous day!

XO,

Last Weeks Loves – April 2 to April 8

10 Tuesday Apr 2012

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Good Morning!

I’m baaaaack.  So sorry for my lack of posts this weekend. I planned on using the few days off in my sleepy (but relaxing) hometown to write a whole bunch of blog posts. But as it turns out I needed more rest than I thought, and I barely opened my computer. I did visit with my family, finish the Hunger Games, almost finish Domino: the book on decorating, visited a very interesting local business near my hometown (more on that in a later post), and ate….a lot.  I also started The Paris Wife as part of the Blogger Book Club.

So, I’m posting my Last Weeks Loves series a day late this week, and since my weekend was so “unplugged”, this might be a shorter list than normal!  But, size doesn’t matter, right?

1. Blair from Delight by Design posted about conservatories, and I realized that a conservatory is on my dream “must-have” list for a home. And the one she featured was so pretty.

2.  These scarves by ILANA KOHN were featured on Design for Mankind last week and they are seriously gorgeous.

3. Tim from Design Maze did a fantastic feature on Lia, the brains behind Mod Pieces, a fabulous one-of-a-kind lamp design shop!  Lia uses vintage lamps and designs custom shades to renew these amazing pieces. Check out her Site if you haven’t already!

4. Susan over at Saf Affect did a feature on the lovely wooden churches of Slovakia.  They are beautifully designed structures and so unique.

Have a lovely (short) week!

XO,

Last Weeks Loves – March 26 to April 1

02 Monday Apr 2012

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Good Morning Sunshine!

It’s Monday and there was whole lot of fabulous in the blogesphere last week, so let’s not waste any time getting to my loves of the last week!

1. Erica over at Moth Design posted about her fabulous marble wallpaper DIY in her dining room cabinet. I am officially in love with marbled wallpaper, it’s a whole lotta prettiness.  Yeah, just like everything else on Erica’s blog!

2. How can you not love this easy Easter centerpiece idea posted by over at Brooklyn Limestone?

3. Anna, of In Honour of Design, has done it again with her DIY wizardry with this Kate Spade Inspired Dot Stud Earring DIY that she posted this week.  I definitely need try this one out.

4. I sooo love a good idea, and bloggers always have the best ones. I was over at 6th Street Design School and discovered The Amazing Lace Skirt project, an idea from Monica and Whitney from Ask the Duplex.  This lovely black lace skirt is being shipped around to bloggers all over to see how they would style this skirt.  See Kirsten taking part in this great idea and modeling the skirt here. And learn more about the Amazing Lace and how it got started here!

5. A while back, Meesh from I Dream of Chairs did a post and showed this chair.  I’d seen them before but didn’t know what they were called, so I asked her.  This week, she not only told me the name but did whole post on the Porter’s chair. You should check it out.

6. OMG, when I read this post over at Inspired by Life I literally was laughing out loud.  Staci alerted me to the Ryan Gosling “Hey Girl” picture craze that has been cropping up on Pinterest. How had I not heard of this hilarity before??  Staci even made up a few of her own which were amazing.  This is one of my fave Hey Girl’s:

7. Finally, yesterday I hit up the One of a Kind Spring Show.  Got there just in time to watch Christine of Bijou and Boheme rock the main stage talking about styling tips, and using great finds from the show to style a space in 3 different ways.  As usual, she was great!  Then Sarah, Pam and I set off to do some shopping.  There were some great things to be found and purchased but I didn’t have my camera to show all of it to you.  However, luckily a few other bloggers did, such as Lisa,  Jenn, and Lindsay and you can see their recaps here, here, and here.  They loved a lot of same things I did!

Have a great week everyone!

XO,

Last Weeks Loves – Online Shops Edition

26 Monday Mar 2012

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Good morning!  Monday again, so you know what that means….my last weeks loves are up!  But today there is a little twist…instead of last weeks posts I loved, today I’m featuring online stores that I’m loving which I’ve only recently discovered (i.e. in the past week!).  I’ve come across these shops/stores either through searching for specific items or through other blogs, but all have items I would buy on the spot….if I only had unlimited funds and storage.

First up….

I love the great vintage housewares found at High Street Market - the shop is very well curated with lovely pieces with pretty details, and they appear to be in great condition.  Some of the beauties I’ve found are…

I want this lamp for my desk

I love this bold brass lamp with the plain white shade.

And I love this modern brass bowl.

I found Have You Met Miss Jones through this post by SF Girl by Bay.  This great online store is full of beautiful bone china, clay pottery and recycled glass art for your home.  I love the bone china lighting in all sorts of interesting shapes and forms, as well as their beautiful vases….like these ones….

And this adorable little doe nightlight, how cute would that be for a kids room?

And I love these handy yet pretty white china paper bags…

Part of the reason I love upholstery is because I get to make old new again.  Which is also why I really like Found Design Miami.  They take old furniture and make it new again, by refinishing, redesigning and/or reupholstering. How could I not like that?

This piece called “Paige’s Curiosity Cabinet”, is so unique…..I can’t even think what kind of space I would put it in, but there is something about it that I’m drawn to.

I love a chairs with good shape, which this one definitely has, and I love the simple fabric with the detailed wood frame. Great piece.

I occasionally randomly search for vintage items on Etsy and during this weeks perusal I found Loverly Vintage.  Beside an amazing name, this store has a really neat collection of vintage items from housewares to accessories.

Hot pink and vintage go hand in hand, right? OK, maybe not normally, but this piece challenges that for sure. Love it.

ummm, pretty copper cups…gorge, totally gorge.

Vintage copper coloured beaded belt….pair this stunner with a LBD and you’ve taken your outfit from plain to fabulous.

It is crazy how many great online shops are out there, and these are just a tiny sampler.  Also, Miss Christine over at Bijou and Boheme featured two great blog shops this week, The Enchanted Home Shop and Recycled Consign and Design.  Go check out her post to see the fabulous items you will find in those shops, and then check them out for yourself! (Oh ya, and keep your peepers peeled for Christine’s shop in the coming months…with her talents, how could it not be fab?)

Have a great week!

XO,

Last Weeks Loves – March 12 to 18

19 Monday Mar 2012

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It’s Monday….please insert frown and groan here. But one good thing about monday is it’s the day that I look back to things I discovered this past week on the pages of blogs that made me smile, laugh, sigh, and drool (occasionally followed by online shopping).  Here are my Last Weeks Loves….

1. This is such a cool window treatment DIY over at Brooklyn Limestone. A cameo silluouette on a window made of written quotes!  I think it looks so great and I like it even better because the quotes are from Einstein.  Just had to share it.

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2. I always love the spaces that Jacqueline over at Lark & Linen posts in her House Envy series, but this weeks was particularly awesome.  Love the shots of pink and the mix of design styles in this house designed by Josephine Interior Design. I also loved her Scenes from my Weekend: Halifax Edition post – being from the east coast, it’s nice to hear when others appreciate the friendly and helpful nature of the people there :)

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3. This Milk Art DIY that Rosa from Flutter Flutter posted is so cool! I know it was intended for kids, but I really want to try it!

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4. This post titled Art: Fail Harder at Wieden + Kennedy by White Cabana caught my eye first because of the quote “Fail Harder”, which intrigued me, but the story behind this art wall gets even more interesting. To find out why head on over there to check it the post.

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5. I’m ready to brighten up my wardrobe for spring, particularly colour-wise. Less black and grey, more pink and teal, ya know?  And I love the cut and colour of this J. Crew blouse selected in Blissblog’s I Heart Monday List. I always enjoy the “hearts” on her Monday list, but this one deserves a “love” this week.

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6. And speaking of colour, you have to stop by and see this post on Poppytalk about the The Saguaro hotel in Palm Springs and Scottsdale. Bright, retro, and a fun read to start your week.

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7. And finally, did you know that Heather at Interior Groupie and Carol over at the Design Pages are starting a Blogger Book Club?  Um, hells ya they are!  I used to read so much more and now I find I don’t make time, so I am joining for sure! I love motivation. To get all the deets on how to get in on this great idea go here or here.

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