Christmas Living Room 2013

Clearly my Living Room is my favorite room to share. 

So here is the 2013 Christmas time addition. 

New for this year are my pretty, soft, white stockings. $7.99 each at Marshalls.

Also the buffalo head I got a couple months ago from another dealer at A Classy Flea.

I love fresh flowers, so I was all about purchasing this pretty white poinsetta to benefit a friend's daughters 4H group.
A silver ice bucket I had on hand makes a perfect "flower pot"

 My faux ikea sheep skin found a new home across my coffee table for the season.

And the most exciting change is my mirrored dresser!! I just found it at GW.
It was black and screamed 1980s. My brother told me I just needed a panther statue to go with it HA!

 All it took was some white paint to make it an amazing TV console. 

If you are familiar with my blog, the gray dresser that was there has already sold the day I brought it a A Classy Flea.
So thankful for that!

I'll have to stock up on Windex ;)

I refinished this stool a while back and the Santa pillow I made 2 years ago.

I'm really happy with the progress this Room has made.
Here it is in the MLS listing nearly 3yrs ago.

BEFORE

AFTER

There are just three things left for me to feel like this room is complete.
You can call it my Christmas list.

1. An Area Rug - likely Jute

2. A New Couch - Casabella has some great ones!!

In a different color this one would be my favorite.. come on people I have dogs and a 4yr old

This might make me want to re-design the whole room to make the color work, probably not a good idea :)

Safest option?

3. A new Ceiling Light Fixture
Really don't know what I want for this one..

 

 I really like this one from by Ralph Lauren via Happyroost

maybe something like this by Phillips

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OPEN HOUSE

Way late in announcing this but this past weekend was A Classy Flea's 18th Annual Open House.

 Everything in the shop was 20%off plus live music, food and giveaways. 

Here are some shots from the weekend of my spot as well as some of the other talented dealers.. enjoy!

And in Casabella News:

Amy Howard

Have you heard of her?

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If not, let me tell you a little about her.

 Amy Howard started as an artist and transitioned into designing and building her own high end furniture line out of Memphis, TN more than 20 years ago.

So besides her amazing designs and talent,

in the last year Amy Howard has launched her way to go green in design with a line of paint products and specialty finishes. 

I've also been making lots of fun chalkboard signs for the store too

I've been learning all there is to know about her products for my new role as Casabella's "Amy Howard's" specialist :)

I will be teaching classes for those who have never picked up a paint brush, to those who want to learn a new technique, such as mirror antiquing, gilding or aging metal.

 

Above I painted 4 samples using Amy's "One Step" paint with various finishes

This table that I just brought into the flea was also painted with One Step paint.

 

 And though this coffee table wasn't painted with one step, it is now available at the flea.

I'm really excited about this next chapter of my career and all the new products as a whole!

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