Painting Projects

I wanted to make the baby girl's room something she could grow into, not overly cutesy. I attribute my love of the fleur de lis to two things: I spent a few years living in the wonderful Frenchy city of New Orleans, and my Parisian Grandmother. Two things that I hope might be as much a part of her life as they are mine. I used a very faint pink and added the fleur-de-lis border. When Margot's crib arrived with stars on the headboard, I decided to integrate the stars into the room design too.


I first saw painted on bookshelves in an Anthropologie catalog a few years ago and knew I had to have some. Here they are in my first room devoted to crafting! There aren't any windows in the room (like a Las Vegas Casino, I could stay up all night in there) so I kept the color sunny, but wanted the shelves to look like a shadow, so I used gray. I ended up recycling the color in the laundry room... and the fleur-de-lis stamp I used in Margot's room!

There's nothing like a new house and a new baby coming to inspire creativity. I just around from craft to craft and love to hunt around at Borders to find a book to inspire me. The ghostly trees in our front hallway (project finished daaays before Margot was born) was actually a stencil by Lena Corwin. Though we love the way it turned out, now that I've done more stenciling and printing, I wish I'd redesigned it a little to make it my own.

I love the way this looks when the sun is going down and is coming through the front door.


Ooooooohhhhh...ahhhhhhhhhhh.

I wanted to be very precise with the stamp placement in the laundry room, and this is turning out well so far. It's not finished yet. But the $1.99 investment in the stamp was a good one. I love this way this stamp looks, painted lightly so it looks antiqued.