Industrial Metal Wall File

What to do, what to do?! I acquired this vintage metal file from a colleague. I've actually been looking for something like this. It is pretty rusted, but I took it home anyway. So should I paint it or keep the original finish with rusty patina and all?? Is it rusty enough to be cool? I desperately need to clean and organize my office. I was thinking of putting all my paper in this. Then I'll have more shelf space for all the crap that's piled on top of my desks! It's a lot. I can't see any surface at all. Sigh...

Succulent Flower Frog

 

Procrastinating as usual. I have a bunch of photos to share from Paris but some how I keep putting them aside. So in the meantime, here is a new arrangement of succulents and Dusty Miller in my vintage flower frog. Ta da!

Vintage Animation

Love this! Via PoppyTalk, Via Diane Gilleland.

BlogLovin

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So rumors are that Google Reader is kicking the bucket. I'm hearing that BlogLovin is the next best thing. Admittedly, I haven't used either - I just bookmarked everything! So I'm jumping on the bandwagon with BlogLovin. Join me!

Quick trip to Austin, TX

We went to Austin for a cousin's wedding. It was a quick and busy trip with lots of family events. But we managed to squeeze in a little sight seeing. Here are a couple shots from the rehearsal dinner and wedding. They were lovely and I wanted to take more pictures of the awesome vintage decor but I had to spend most of my time wrangling my kids!

 

We ended up an a cool little artisan fair on South Congress and I saw these awesome plastic animal planters. I love anything succulents. I grabbed the artists business card and then lost it so if anybody knows who this is, let me know!!

Of course, we had to check out Allen Boots. Super cool store and we had a little modeling shoot in the kids section. She's SO dramatic in her fancy cowgirl boots!! ;)

Gallery D is our cousin's awesome boutique. If you're in Austin you MUST check it out! You can shop online too... ;)

Curb Alert!

 I found this guy on a street near my house. Somebody was just throwing it out. Luckily I was on a walk not too far from home so I rushed back, dumped my kids on my neighbor, snagged her brother and truck and went and grabbed it! It was in great condition. A vintage Basset solid wood dresser with dove-tailed drawers. Stoked! I was looking for some less-chunky hardware but I couldn't find any in the quantity needed that I liked. So I just did a basic paint job and now I have a pretty new dresser for my bedroom.

 

Now on the the rest of the room. AAaaahhhhh! 

Summer Picnic Invitations

 

Just wanted to share some invitations I recently did for an Etsy customer. They're my Picnic design invitations with response card. The customer chose matching ivory envelopes and red for the response cards. I included the tags option because I like to use as much of the paper as possible. Those are made with the excess strip that would normally be tossed. I've started doing this for a while now. You can also make cute link garland with the strips. I'll have to get some photos of those! 

If your interested in these invitations or other items, check out my shop on Etsy here!