Jeni’s Design Diary

These appeared on Apartment Therapy back in January, and I’m still coming up with variations of this idea.  It makes me want to start collecting thrift store doilies.  I’ve been thinking of a drum light shade in dark blue to go with my orange walls.

Artist: Marian Duijvestijn

If I were to ever walk on the red carpet, I would have this dress made for me.  Of course, it would need a lining of some sort.  Forget the red carpet.  If I were a seamstress or could afford to pay a seamstress, I’d have it made now.  A tea length version would be made for more casual wear.

This was made for the Chinese Paper-cutting Art Exposition in Wenzhou City, September 2004. I do not know the artist.

I’d buy this Lineatre tub. I love the lines, curves and of course the sparkle! However, unlike the vignette it’s showcased in, I’d like to see it in an art-deco setting. I wonder if there is a way to create a DIY version.

I have struggled with sustaining this blog.  I keep using the excuse that “I don’t know what to write.”  If I were honest with myself I’d have to say that it’s not that I don’t know what to write about (I have a growing list of ideas), but that I am too lazy to put the time into writing and research.

On our January to-do list I put “go through all old magazines.”  What this means is to continue my growing collection of torn out pages from various (mostly Better Homes and Gardens) magazines that have inspired me in one way or another.  For a while it was great.  I’d only keep 5 to 7 pages out of a 100 page magazine and recycle the rest. But as I sat down to rid my house of all the magazines I hadn’t gone through yet, I realized that my small, manageable collection has grown so much that it can’t fit into 2 binders!

On my About page I say that this blog is a way for me to keep track of inspirational ideas.  So I’ve begun a new project: to find digital copies of my collection and put them up here.  These will be no - brainer posts.  They’ll mainly be an image with an explanation as to what struck my fancy.

So to start this off:

source: Better Homes & Gardens, April 2006 issue

Exterior House Design Idea for Ellis Manor