Just hangin around....

So I've had 2 problems: First, I buy way to much fun "ghetto" jewelry, be it rings, earrings, necklaces, etc. I have so many accessories that you can find them in my car, purse, dining table, desk, night stand, you name it! The second problem is I can NEVER find anything!! So today, I took on ORGANIZATION of my jewels!! I used a few antiques I had laying around the house and then constructed a new item on a minimum budget!

This red compote is vintage and my wonderful mother gave it to me one Christmas ago! It is my new bracelet holder!

{now I just have to locate them all!}

This beautiful 1930's green glass bowl was given to me as a wedding gift from a dear friend who's parents own a lot of antique glass. I will cherish it forever. It is the new right hand ring holder!

And below is my latest project, my new earring holder! I saw this around Christmas on Anthropologie for like $75 and thought how easy it would be to create! I went to JoAnn's and they had all of their frames %50 percent off, so I got the frame for $12.50. The lace wasn't my favorite, but it was $7.99 yard and I bought 1/2 a yard for my 24" wide frame. I really wanted a beautiful Chantilly lace, but since I am only hanging earrings on it, I relinquished that thought. {plus I couldn't find any} I doubled the lace over, so it would be thicker, and used my staple gun {a must have} and stretched the lace as tight as possible. Voila! What do you think? I'm going to hang it, but for now here it is: $16.50 TOTAL!!! :)

{since my earrings are taken off and placed here and there, the bottom row represents earrings still searching for their mate. We aren't giving up hope that he/she will appear in some purse, bag, etc.!}

Now that the earrings, rings and bracelets are taken care of, it's time to take on my largest vice: necklaces. They are in drawers and on plates on my shelves, in purses {surprise} and bags. I am still working on some kind of wood board, covered in my wedding wallpaper by Cole and Son, framed in a pop yellow or green color trim, with multiple knobs in various styles to hang the necklaces on. We will see. This is a project for the weekend. However, my 2 year anniversary is on Monday and the hubs and I are sneaking off to Asheville for a quick get a way!! I've never been to Biltmore and I think we are going wine tasting too! There has to be surprises ya know! :) I'll post pictures from the trip next time!

Cool Coincidence :)

While working on my wallcovering post, I discovered a unique coincidence! Favorite {residential} wallcovering company Cole and Son and my current favorite furniture designer Tom Dixon have collaborated for a wallcovering line for Cole! :) The collaboration happened in 2009, but it's new to me! While I'm not a HUGE fan of the retro 70's patterns created by Dixon, I do think in all things in design, they have their proper place! I do love the geometric honeycomb, link and striped patterns and the super retro colors! More Tom Dixon to follow...

And one last really cool pattern from the AMAZINGLY talented Vivienne Westwood's collection for Cole and Son and in honor of the fab Brit Tom Dixon! It's called Union Jack!

Walls....They should be Covered!

My OBSESSION with wallcoverings began in 2002-but not the way you think it would have. I had always loved weddings-one of my favorites is the design-color schemes, table arrangements, lighting, just all of it. {So my wonderful mother shared the same excitement about weddings too-so much so that she had a subscription to Bride magazine.} While flipping through this BRIDE magazine, I stumbled across a perfect wedding design scheme. It was set in Charleston, outdoors and very chic. The color scheme was black, white and apple green. There was white lounge seating in tents, a table of green candies in apothecary jars {love these}, black glass taper candle holders, green and white Japanese lanterns, etc. But what struck me the most was this amazing paper pattern they used as the aisle runner, place cards, on the cake, etc.

I saved the article and it wasn't until I got engaged that I came across it again! I was able to look up the wedding online {booo it's not online anymore or I would TOTALLY post it!} and find out what that "paper" was. Turns out it was a English wallcovering from the amazing Cole and Son Wallpaper company. I was able to find out through one of my reps how I could get a sample.

<---------------This is it!

It's from their series New Contemporary Collection 1 and it's called Malabar. History blip: Cole and Son was founded in 1873 and today is the only remaining wallcovering company in the world producing hand-made flock wallpaper in the traditional way. Cole and Son owns more wooden pattern blocks than any other wallcovering company. Coles is now the prime source for entirely authentic period wallpapers printed by the original method and has provided wallpapers for many historic houses, including Buckingham Palace and the White House.

By going to the website and looking through all of their collections, I began to have a passion for wallcovering again. {I should note that I get this from my mother, who always had the most beautiful taste in wallcoverings in my houses growing up. I didn't appreciate them then, and thought they were SO UGLY but now, I love them!}Below are some of the other colors of Malabar as well as a few prints from their new Vintage Glamour and Fornasetti collection. Enjoy!

This one has to be the coolest wallcovering ever!!! A little creepy with all the faces but striking!

Here are a few pictures from my wedding showing how I used the Malabar wallcovering as the table runners and around our "lumpy" cake! :)

I still have all the cuttings and will do a future project with them one day! Just haven't figured out what or where! :) It's so striking-it just needs the perfect small room!