image from M Avery Designs



some great wisdom from wise craft had this post today, that i loved:


Every room needs a bit of patchwork (a new pillow in the works above).

Put a child's artwork in a nice frame and hang it where its seen by all because it will always look good.

Buy secondhand furniture pieces and redo them. It gives you something to talk about when you have people over.

Everything you decorate your house with should have a story behind it. Think about what I mean here and go with it, I promise you won't regret it.

A dreary day can always be made better with good tea, a handmade quilt to lay under, and a decorating magazine.

If you want your home to smell wonderful, bake bread or make cookies with your kids.

Sew up your brightest, happiest fabrics into pillow covers , and scatter them all over the furniture.

Use all the good stuff you have (china, silver, bed linens) everyday

if I could sew, even a tiny bit, i would definitely do the whole pillow
thing. so, i'll have to settle on store bought ones. but the others are
doable, and some of them i actually already do. my favorite is the last
one, use all the good stuff. i have a bad habit of saving my "good"
paper for later. thinking i'll one day, come up with some excellent use
for it, that i haven't discovered yet, thus using it now would be a
waste! ( i know how lame is that?) so i vow to start saving the "good
stuff" and enjoy using it now! i would hate to have something happen to
me, and have all the good paper sitting in my studio, where nobody else
could possibly appreciate the goodness of it like i can.

thanks wise craft, your cool.