Friday Favorites: Music to my eyes...

I recently picked up these little darlings at Pottery Barn. I plan to mix them with some cranberries in a hurricane vase. Layered or randomly mixed? Hmm. Unfortunately, they are a gift and not for me. Boo. Although another little box may find its way to my house. It got me wondering what else was out there with a sheet music theme (besides the PB candles that have been around a couple years). I'm loving all of these great creations from Etsy. Wouldn't they make a fun gift for the music lovers in your family? They almost make me want to tickle the ivories. But, I'll have to settle for tickling my babies instead since there is no piano in my house!

1. Gift Tag 2. 3D Letter 3. Ornament

4. Wreath 5. Christmas Banner 6. Clothes Pins

7. Cufflinks 8. Gift Tags 9. Flower

Tie one on!

I really want G to have an apron (or two!) for her play kitchen. I'd love to make it myself and even have a pattern ready to go. I feel that by blogging about this little project, I'm more accountable and apt to get 'er done! I love the 3 aprons below (especially the one from PB) and am going to use them for inspiration. Wish me luck! And please forgive me if come December 25th one of these finds its way under our tree... my time is more monopolized these days with a certain little bundle of JOY!

Gagie Pagie Pudding Pie
Gagie Pagie Pudding Pie

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Drowning in a sea of blue...

...painters tape. It's everywhere! We are painting our entire house with the exception of G and E's bath and bedrooms. The house is white, white, white and with the addition of our red furniture it looks very unfinished and stark. The goal is to completely finish the downstairs before Thanksgiving and the visit from all the in-laws. Lofty goal with 2 small kiddos. We shall see if we succeed.

A little inspiration

Now that we have our fab new red couch, chair, and ottoman I am getting excited to accessorize and pull the room together. Here is my inspiration pic:

image from BH&G magazine

I think I'll use an apple green in place of the blue accents but the layering of fabrics is what really appeals to me. It also seems light and bright (not in my badly scanned copy of the pic but in glossy mag form) despite the fact that the room is anchored by such a dark piece of furniture (similar to our new sofaroonie).

Feeling a little Halloween-ish

We didn't decorate the house or carve a pumpkin but boy did we celebrate! It even felt fall-ish here. My little snack-o-lantern is wearing the same outfit G wore at 10 months...and she's only 10 weeks. Hee hee. We've been calling her the chunklet.

Getting ready to trick-or-treat

Mommy and Daddy got to go out, too! Name those costumes...(put on your thinking caps people!)

A new verb???

Apparently, the verb for having hiccups (according to G) is "hickin up." Ha!

So fa, so good.

Because we have a bonus room in the new pad (woo hoo! a place to stash toys!), we'll be getting new furniture for the great room downstairs. For the longest time, I thought I wanted something like this...


This is the Carlisle sofa from Pottery Barn and I like the English arm and the two cushion set up. After the big, unstructured sofa that we've had for the past 7 years this seemed like a great option because it provided the slightly more formal look I was going for but kept it easy and breezy with a slip-cover (although I wasn't sure I wanted to deal with a covered coucheroo). However, the $1600+ price tag didn't make me too excited and I haven't ever gotten to actually sit on it. No PB seems to carry it in their small store and I only buy if I can test drive, er, sit(boo).

Then I saw this curvaceous creature...

The Jefferson by Bassett came out of nowhere. A worthy contender with beautiful little legs and a gorgeous (hopefully, dirt forgiving) linen-esque fabric (J called it nice looking burlap, but what does he know?). The price was also appealing at a mere $999 at the BX with NO TAX!!! However, I felt like the camelback style was a little too formal for our family. Hmmm. Decisions, decisions.

Then, we went to the LaZ Boy store. Not necessarily known for its sofas but my mom got her couch and loveseat there so I knew it was a good place to check out. Plus, you can match any style with any of their custom fabrics which might be a little more expensive but would give us a better range of options. Right when we walked in, I saw her. The Laurel. Two cushion design, button tufting detail, and, best of all, she's RED. But J nixed red sofas back in '03 when we bought our first furniture so I just mentioned that I liked the design. He agreed and after wondering around the store for 20 minutes or so we agreed that it was our favorite. Yes! We agreed on something!!! I ask the sales clerk what other stock colors it came in and Josh interrupted with "What? Don't you like the red? I think it looks good."

EEEEEERRRRRRK! (That's the sound of me slamming on my mental breaks.) We both like the red?!? Because I couldn't believe it, I almost talked myself out of the bold choice but in the end, we've decided to go with it. I get the WORST buyers remorse so I did sleep on it. The awesome part about me waiting a day to purchase was that we got $100 off if we brought in a bag of groceries for a food drive (which we still need to drop off, oops). Score one for not rushing into a big purchase and saving some moolah! So without further ado, here is our new sofa.

Can you believe I went from a breezy white slipcovered look to a stiff and formal "burlap" camelback to a retro-esque RED! I can't really either. We'll see about that buyers remorse when it all gets delivered on Wednesday. Just kidding. Maybe. No, I love it. I think.