{blog love} this week i love…

Yet another inspiring week of images and ideas in the blogosphere!  Enjoy!

Design & Decor:

• $250 green and yellow room makeover – {La Dolce Vita} – can’t beat the price tag plus the Imperial Trellis print!
• Powder room makeover plan – {Velvet & Linen} – she picks all the right details!
• A pair of cute nurseries – {Project Nursery} – the pale pink one is so cute and yet sophisticated…who says a nursery has to be “babyish”?!
• A tale of Tone-on-Tone owner’s two homes – {Cote de Texas} – gorgeous use of Swedish pieces in two totally renovated homes
• Alys Beach planned Mediterranean-style community – {La Dolce Vita} – wow is all I can say!
• To die for crib bedding – {urban grace interiors} – I just can’t get enough of this gal’s nursery!!!…absolutely stunning!
• Entryway plan for mom – {Material Girls} – love the inspiration for her mom’s re-done entryway!
• Pool house staging plan – {Velvet & Linen} – this isn’t your typical pool house!
• Architect crush: William T. Baker – {Things That Inspire} – roundup of wow-inducing homes by architect William T. Baker
• Yellow and black interiors – {Material Girls}

Accessories:

• French alphabet poster – {urban grace interiors} – super cute nursery poster made by the same gal who did the French alphabet cards I picked up last week
• For the love of lotus – {elements of style} – I especially love the lotus capiz shell pendant and the Farrow & Ball paper!
• Adding tape to pillows to punch them up – {Haven & Home}
• Cute pleat-skirted chairs – {Absolutely Beautiful Things} – you just can’t beat a pleated chair skirt…especially in black and white ticking!
• Burlap sack everywhere! – {La Maison Fou} – great roundup of burlap sack popping up all over the place
• Urban Electric Co. – {elements fo style} – LOVE these light fixtures! (but not so much the pricetags, ouch!)
• Botanicals – {Velvet & Linen} – I share her love for botanicals!…she shares some really pretty ways to display them
• Stencils from Whitewall & Co. – {Tracery Interiors} – current reason for my stencil conundrum!
• Kravet wallpapers – {elements of style} – I just love the wallpaper is back (and totally not frumpy)

Recipes:

• Sour Cherry Slab Pie – {Smitten Kitchen} – I have a whole bag of cherries that just might need to be made into this!
• Spaghetti Carbonara – {Tobi Fairley} – not only can she decorate but she can cook!
• Plum Jam – {Savour Fare} – canning isn’t just for hipsters!
• Cantelope Salsa – {Smitten Kitchen} – super easy salsa (I make something similar to put over grilled salmon!)
• Baked Zucchini Fries – {Heart of Light} – great recipe for all the zucchini and squash my mom keeps giving me from her garden!
• Chocoloate Chip & Peanut Blondies – {What’s Kookin’ in Kara’s Kitchen} – yummmmm

DIY/Project Ideas:

• A bold foyer makeover – {urban nest} – how cool is this?!
• Paper scrap recycling – {design*sponge} – great ideas for all of your leftover scrapbooking paper!
• Corkboard makeover, take 2 – {everything LEB} – she recovered a corkboard first with linen, now with burlap (love the burlap!)
• Adorable homemade anniversary card – {The Crafts Dept.} – such a creative take on the “cotton” anniversary
• Ruffle belt a la JCrew – {100 Layer Cake} – Rachel from Heart of Light shares a ruffle belt tutorial that I L-O-V-E
• Chic grocery list idea – {urban nest} – such a simple but classy way to make your grocery list!…definitely need to do this
• Old dresser -> rolling toolbox - {Crafty Nest} – quite an undertaking but such a neat idea
• Paper garlands – {design*sponge} – I always think these paper garlands are so cute!
• Martha’s new punch around the page puncher – {The Crapts Dept.} – I really must get one of these!

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