~Fireplaces~

Gorgeous fireplaces! I am wishing that we had built one in our home especially now because the weather has turned cold. It would be so nice to enjoy some coco, watch a movie and snuggle up next to the fire. But since I don't have a fireplace it looks as if this isn't going to happen anytime soon. Oh Well~


Via: Tara Striano



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Inside Catharine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglass Guest Bedroom

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~Pretty Bright Dining~

Beautiful ideas for your dining table and of course they have to be all in white with some simple touches of color-my favorite! Next time I will try to add more rooms with color-promise!


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Show in SLC this weekend!!

Hello everyone.......

We are going to be at the Salt Lake City Family Christmas Gift Show this weekend. Thought we would let you know, those of you who live in this area. It's going to be a wonderful show and we will have so many beautiful, new pieces there, plus many of our paintings and a new little elf house we are working on and many more incredible works of art! Hope you can make it to the show!

It is at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, starts at 10 a.m.

Email me for more details if you need to. Hope you have a wonderful weekend and we would love to see you at the show, if you can make it. We're in booth 628, by Santa.

Debbie

~Pretty ceilings~

Here are some neat ideas for the ceiling in your home. You can go extraordinary or do something more simpler and inexpensive like the Bluish color used in J.Lo's home. This would be a way to add color to any white room. Love it!

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Designer: Hagan

~Marie Antoinette~

Most all of us know who she is and is famous for her wild behavior such as once she told the one's beneath her "Let them eat cake" when they had no bread. I absolutely adore her for some reason. I believe it's because she loved to live the life of pleasure and extravagance.

Marie was born in Austria and married at the age of 15 in 1770 to Louis-Auguste during the french revolution. Her marriage remained unconsummated for 7 years. Yes- 7 years Can you believe that? She was execute for treason by guillotine which is a device used to perform the execution.

This was a cottage built for Marie in the Petit Hameau- a rustic retreat meant to evoke a peasant village.

New furniture and pictures of our booth at the show!!

Hello everyone!

I am trying to post more on my blog.....we've been so busy, I just haven't had very much time to devote to my blog; so sorry! We've done several art shows recently, so we've been traveling a lot and it seems like it takes us forever to recover from all that! I would much rather stay in one place and just have a little shop of our own, so we wouldn't have to be gone so much. Travelng is so disorienting! (Does anyone else think so?) Anyway, we have had a wonderful time, though, even with all the driving, but now with winter setting in, we probably won't be doing any art shows very far from home til spring.

I've posted some pictures of some of our newer pieces and also some pictures of our booth at the shows. Our booth was a little different at each show, but this is basically what it was like. Mike and I really love creating a space that has it's own atmosphere and feeling. People really loved our booth. (So sorry for poor quality of the photographs....I should have used our newer camera).

We'll be doing two more shows here in Salt Lake City....one in about a week at the Holiday Food and Gift Show in Sandy, November 14th til the 16th. Then we're doing a really unique show November 28th til December 6th, called the Old World Christmas Market. It will be at the Gallivan Center (for those of you who live in Salt Lake City or know of the area). It will be really fun, I think. It's an outdoor show, but we will have little wooden cottages (with heaters) and it will be like an European old world market. They will have Christmas carolers, other artists (only handmade art and crafts) and Kurt Bestor will be singing, Richard Paul Evans will be doing a reading and they will have the downtown Christmas lighting going on during that time, too. I think it will be really exciting. I hope we can stay warm, but it should be fine. I think it will be a really festive and wonderful holiday show.

I hope you are all having a beautiful time of year. I am so grateful for the way the election turned out. I really think Obama will be a wonderfu president. I really pray for his safety though. I just hope people will be kind and appreciative of him. I thought John McCain's last speech was very kind and humble. He is a great man, too. This time in our country's history, we truely need to be respectful and understanding of one another and be grateful that we live in such a wonderful country. It's an amazing and yet difficult time in our country, with the economy being in such a terrible state. But, I think if we pray for sensibility, honesty and perseverence, we will get through it.

Take care and I would love to hear from any of you!!

Debbie

~Girl's Room Inspiration~

I found this cute chocolate bedroom on flickr. Isn't it adorable? It reminded me somewhat of my daughters bedroom except her walls are yellow and pink, but she has the whole Bakery theme going on just like this room. So Cute!