master pillow

Sorry for the absence.  You know how it goes,  a little of this and that and well life gets in the way!

I had a lovely Mother's Day weekend and went to a mother daughter tea with my Mom at a once private home here in NJ that now hosts classes and events in their public gardens.

 

We got to have tea sandwiches and scones with clotted cream and drink really delicious tea out of proper china tea pots on the veranda of this grand place.  Isn't it fun to be fancy sometimes?

My Mom brought down my gift with her.

A new pillow for our master bedroom.  We're getting more yellow in here little by little.

I'm not sure how to arrange it yet.  Like this...

or this

or this

It looks pretty to me every way.  She did an excellent job, complete with contrasting striped piping.

Well done Mom, I love it.

at the picket fence

mellow yellow

I went back to the fabric store where I picked up the swatch I talked about here and I'm a lucky lady because they still had some months later!  I also found a great striped fabric too.

The grey and white in the back is the fabric from our drapes in the master bedroom.  I found the drapes at Ikea and loved them.  I bought two sets and I only used one panel on the smaller window, I just cut it in half.   I used the fabric from the other panel to upholster our desk chair and had my Mom make throw pillows too,  I even have a little left.  The room has been screaming for yellow and I added a little yellow in the desk I painted with chalk paint.

I think these fabrics will make some lovely accent pillows.  I'm thinking maybe a little yellow trim on the drapes too?  We'll see...

I haven't showed you the whole master.  This is the most you've seen I think.

Won't some yellow do it good?!

the shuffle

Do you ever start the day with your room like this

and end the day with it like this?

This is what I've been up to today.  It's all still shaking out and getting settled.  I have been thinking about doing this for a while but for whatever reason mid-morning today I decided it was time and proceeded to drag all the furniture around.   I should mention this is learned behavior from my Mom who once dragged two Queen Anne chairs up the stairs by herself while we were at school because she wanted to see what they'd look like up there. 

I used the jam a towel under the dressers then drag them across the floor while moaning and groaning and hoping you don't scratch the wood floors method.  Mostly successful.  I'll be back with more photos of our newly improved and rearranged master bedroom.