Cottage & Family [Search results for creams] 

I just love creamy white and all different hues of white ~
These are some things vintage milk bottles that I have embellished with creams and some charms with creams ~
There are more on my website too !

I have been in love with creams for quite awhile now,

which you can probably tell by my website

and blog if you have been following me :)

For awhile we have had a pretty much

pinky and white shabby chic style home but I wanted

to redecorate so we are slowly

but surely taking room by room ~

I have always loved to change stuff!!

Anyway, so I decided to go from my complete

white white things

to creams but still keep some white here and there ~

I got a wild hair to tea dye

our white slipcovered sofa and chair in the bathtub ~

It came out cool but truly, a whitish couch with dogs and

well ..... pretty much people too, doesn't work too well ~

I also took some white wood pieces that I had and made

them a creamy color and

really love how they came out!!

Then I wanted to change my wall decor

behind my couch but am kind of

on a personal challenge to not spend alot of money ~

Sooo.... I dug in my own stash

of stuff I have had around waiting for a new home

and created something completely new with

stuff getting really dusty out in my shop ~

It has been so much fun and even more fun

recreating with what I already had!!

After Christmas is over and my decorations are down

I will show you

my new mantel decor and other things ~

I got to go to the Dallas Home & Gift Show

the last couple of days and just loved

some of things that I saw ~

Whites, Creams, Greys and Flea Market find type

items were all over the place ~

I loved this light fixture and the

one down farther with the silverware ~

Over the weekend I went to the sale at Cottage Panache and fell in love with all of her gorgeous things in her shop ~

I got to get some of Lisa's wonderful treasures before she sold out ~

Soooo I have always been a pink shabby chic girl but Oh my gosh my heart skips a beat over creams and tarnished silver ~

Rene at Miss Gracie's House has me completely inspired to redo my bedroom, well whole house, in creamy yumminess ~

I have noticed that alot that I get for my website has these colors too ~ I will never get away from a little touch of pink though as you can see from the pictures ~

The last post showed some of the things I was working on and these are some of the things I got over the weekend and just listed at Katies Rose Cottage ~

I just love the soft and relaxing feel of this look ~

These are a couple of our necklaces that have the same look even though we have more than this at Katies Rose Cottage Designs ~

The teapot necklace is new ~

I am soooo very much leaning

toward painting my studio walls

a soft creamy white and going

with whites, creams (surprise, surprise)

and Robin's Egg Blue ~

I love Annie Sloan's Duck Egg Blue paint

and I LOVE vintage aqua jars ~

The color is so beautiful

and I have never had anything blue

in my home at all ~

These are some jars I found

yesterday and have a really hard time

parting with them .... I guess I don't

need to hoard them ~

I am cleaning and

destashing after all ....

( I am keeping some though )

Janet at The Empty Nest has

an awesome post on the

history of the jars and

how to figure out their age ~

Thank you Janet!

I love knowing the history of things!

Alrighty I need to unload

my car from junkin' ~

It has come upon me sort of slowly but I think it

has hit ~

My love of decorating with the color black !

I have almost completely redecorated my house in creams

and whites but I am thinking that I am going

to add some black accents here and there ~

Yesterday was fun because I worked with some

black and white ticking ~ I love how the colors

look with vintage rusty stuff and

tarnished silvers ~

I will be adding more to my website soon !!

This year I wanted all
of my Christmas decorating
to be creams, burlap,
mercury glass and greens ~

The challenge was to
take things I had and
kind of recreate them
and also to use things
that I had around
my home already ~

We have an artificial tree
but I wanted fresh greens
for the awesome smell ~
I went to Lowes and they
gave me cuttings that
were just laying around
from their fresh
Christmas trees ~ It was
awesome!! I left
with an armload ~

Then I got some of my old
glass ornaments and
washed them in warm sudsy
water to make them
turn into a wonderful
mercury glass ~

Next I took a wreath that
was shoved in the attic
and took off all the old
decorations ~

Then I added
clippings from the greens
all over and used
some hydrangea
blossoms that were still
on bushes ~
Then added some of the
mercury balls that
I had washed ~

This is our mantel with
stocking for my precious
grand babies ~

I am still using the
hydrangeas that
I showed you in this post ~
The colors have faded
but they work great for
my tree ~

My armful of greens
helped create all of
these simple little
Christmas vignettes
and it smells great!

Have fun decorating!

hugs,
Lori

I was so excited to

get to take a Chalk Paint class

today from

Karla at Lady Butterbug

in McKinney, Texas ~

Taking classes for chalk paint

is fun because

you get to learn new painting,

distressing and waxing techniques ~

There are beautiful colors which

can be used as they are or mixed

to make a bunch of different colors ~

I love that the colors

are inspired by European furniture

from the 1800's ~

This next picture shows my least

favorite piece as we were working on it ~

It has 3 different colors, dark wax

and clear wax and a couple different

distressing techniques ~

After I got it done I ended up

LOVING it because

in real life it looks like an old

building that has had layers of paint

and wear ~

I really like this color combination

too and would love to incorporate

it in my home somehow ~ I have

all creams and whites but I am

thinking that Duck Egg Blue

needs to be there too!

It was alot of fun!

I love how easy, fast

and fun Chalk Paint is to use ~