My tiny new home is calling to be decorated. I don't own the RV so I can't do all that much decorating to it but maybe that is part of the challenge. I also can't really purchase anything for it because of the self imposed no buying for the year of 2012. But, beauty is a priority for me and decorate I must.
I found the following picture in the recent Romantic Homes issue. The bedroom is from a house featured and owned by Paulette Adams. The home is choc a bloc with interesting items (I get my stuff fix viewing the stuff of others these days) and one tiny beautiful bedroom. I was standing in the local bog box store transfixed. I had most everything already to pull it off.
I secured the OK from my son, and hopefully he secured the OK from his wife. I had four needlepoint pillows, one crewel pillow, a string crocheted tablecloth that could double as a spread and a natural drop cloth that could replicate the bed skirt. Now to put it all together.
The RV has two small tables on each side of the bed that are built in. I needed a better lamp, so I took one of the remaining office lamps that I liked enough to keep, several hard back books about french beach life, a shell encrusted box with beach photos in it and several photos in silver frames...of which one is my precious sister who left us recently. I was ready to re-create!
The drop cloth was my first project, I needed the perfect stencil to imitate the cut work on the bottom of the
bed skirt. Here is where the no buy thing might get kinda confusing to some. It is the peek inside my head that Salty never wants to take. Art supplies don't count in the year of no buy. So a stencil is something that
I feel ok to purchase. Semantics? Probably, but these are my rules so I can bend them how I want.
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| The raw canvas awaiting the paint brush. |
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