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[Another draft from the archives dated 2/6/17]
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Remember when I talked about rugs? This little hooked rug in front of the girls' love seat is from an east coast flea market and it brings joy to my old heart. This picture makes it look too small for the space though..I wonder if it is...? Aaand, Margot's shelves on the left are entirely undermanaged. Andrew built these bookcases according to my super simple specs (does the world know he's a cabinet maker? That's why I ask him, guys. Not everyone could ask their husbands to build furniture and get the same result I do, and I want you to know that I know I don't deserve him. ;) ) This little sofa was a craigslist find after trying multiple combinations of seating that I already had (pair of chairs, lawn furniture, etc.) The sturdy custom slipcover was a dreadful tan when I picked it up, so I combined a few shades of RIT and dyed it gray/blue. I can't say this is exactly what I was going for...I just didn't want it to stay the same, so I guess mission accomplished? Now it looks like a faded, tie-dyed chalkboard on which to rest yoself. We pile here almost nightly for family devotions and stories and very artful -ahem- arrangements of the Doxology. Hands down the most comfortable seat in the house. You know my love for paper creations (here, here, and here) especially when combined with Christmas. The girls and I went Elf style this year with tape, scissors, and an old hymnal. #paperchainnation
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Here's G's bed nook when it was freshly painted 4 years ago...ironic about the heart shaped paper chain. Did I tell you the wood in here (along with the kids' bathroom that's about to get a facelift!) is from the feed troughs in our old barn?
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| That large B&W photo is my grandmother and her twin sister shooting archery in college. How many people can say that about their grandma? Is that a normal college activity? That lovely dark print that you can't really see..is from this amazing watercolor shop. Georgi sometimes has a hard time sleeping, so we recite this verse before bed- "whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is lovely..think about these things." There's a small instagram shot of the 3 oldest Toftness babies being cowboys on bikes. That rough little jewelry box is from my childhood- it still plays Edelweiss. |
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| I'm not sure if I've mentioned the curtains/rods above the girls' beds..? They're ballet bar pieces in unlacquered brass, so they'll patina into something amazing. The curtains are just from Ikea, and they're the shorter version so basically the cheapest. We wanted to maximize floor space, so instead of having a door swing into the room we took the curtains across the entire bed/closet wall. It feels enchanting, don't you think? |
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Andrew's aunt recently handed down his great-grandma's vanity and stool to us. Here's the stool, freshly painted and reupholstered. Oh the former glory of the fabric that covered this seat! It was fern fronds and exotic flowers...rotten to the core. It came off in water-stained pieces. I had a scrap of this gray + white canvas-like fabric left over from my nephew's crib bumper (that I made 6 years ago!) has been waiting for this moment- Taadaa!
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There's that sweet little vanity. There was trouble with the wood veneer so Andrew puttied it and painted it and it lives again. Oddly enough the little stool is a fuzz too wide to tuck under, so the girls use this little storage ottoman from Target as a place to sit while they scribble and make oodles of paper messes.
I painted the stripes over G's bed while she and Oliver still shared a room..I was originally going to do orange stripes above his bed, but man alive. I'm not that stupid. So poor Marg just has a darker shade of gray looking down on her.
These lamps. You guys. They were on an endcap at Target for-- $15 each. I wasn't even looking for them and they found me! Also remember that time my sister and I sketched and painted little bunnies? So super fun!
