Laura Ashley makes these photo frames in three sizes and three colors. Laura Ashley Bamboo Plated Photo Frames Traditional style with an oriental twist is effortless with our Bamboo Effect Photo Frame. In shining silver with knots of bamboo as the border, this piece effortlessly enhances any surface and helps to keep photographs safely displayed….
I looked and looked for Blue Willow Melmac for the porch. Ballard Designs Bamboo Melamine Dishes Ballard Designs has introduced this Bamboo Melamine Dinnerware that has a Blue Willowish scene in blue on white with a bamboo edge. The smaller plate has the scene. The larger dinner plate is white with the bamboo edge. They…
The romantic floral print of Laura Ashley’s Maybelle Collection is beautiful with Shabby Chic, but this vintage style goes with Cottage, Romantic and Traditional homes. The Maybelle Collection really only includes bedding. There are no window treatments or throw pillows. I would use them with white. The Laura Ashley Home Maybelle Collection has a romantic…
The latest issue of Southern Living magazine has an article Farmhouse on the Water. It is written by Valerie Rains with Photographs by Hector Manuel Sanchez and Styling by Elizabeth Demos. I’ve read about photo shoot styling. It looks like that is a real job that real people really have. Anyway, the photo shows a lantern…
This is the Ralph Lauren Marina Large Table Lamp. It is available in small, too. Ralph Lauren Home has quite a few blue and white table lamps. They are decorated with stylized flowers, foo dogs, dragons or other oriental inspired motifs. A lot of them are no longer in production, but you can still find…
This week someone pinned a chair that looks like it’s made of glass. There was no link and no name, so I had to look for it. It is the Marilyn Acrylic Arm Chair. I found it on the Global Views website. Italian molded clear acrylic was inspired by our best selling Marilyn chairs. This…
In the late ‘70s, A&P Grocery Store let you buy a plate, cup and saucer in the Blue Willow Pattern for 99 cents any time you bought $10 worth of groceries. They were made by Churchill. I bought eight. The other pieces cost more. I bought some, but mostly mixed in the white dishes I…
The January 2019 Issue of Southern Living has an article Pretty Snug in the Home & Garden: Beautiful Spaces — Inside and Out feature. “10 new rules for cottage style, a small home can have big attitude. Birmingham decorator Fran Keenan certainly proves it.” Pretty Snug Don’t have room to spare? All the more reason…
One of my favorite decorating books is Signature Style: Creating Beautiful Interiors from Traditional Home Books. The book is about finding your own approach to design. All of the interiors are Traditional, but the eight different designers have very different approaches. There are a lot of photos, as you would expect. But the designers explain…
Blue Willow and other Chinese looking patterns are transferware. Transferware was developed in England sometime in the 1750s and became enormously popular. Transfer-printed dishes were affordable. Cobalt blue, like Blue Willow, was the most popular, but transferware was also available in green, yellow, red, pink, purple, cranberry, brown, black and gray. The style is timeless….
