Framed Petty Paper

One of the things I loved in our living room before our home re-build was the framing the numbers of our wedding date. I loved its simplicity and the meaning behind the date. I wanted to do something similar, that reminded me of our wedding date. This time, I wanted to doing something else. Recently I was looking though all the pretty paper at Paper Source and saw hydrangea wrapping paper. I instantly felt connected to the wrapping paper, since our wedding flowers are hydrangeas and knew they paper would make a pretty addition to our home. I instantly felt connected to the pretty paper because our wedding flowers were hydrangeas and the lovely shades of chartreuse represented in the paper. As most of you know, I'm smitten with shades of chartreuse so the paper just felt right. I ordered the paper online along with a few other paper pretties (envelopes and paper liner templates, love!)

 I decided to frame the paper in the Ikea Ribba frame I picked up months ago. I used the matte to trace the paper then cut the paper to the correct size. 

I love how framing a pretty paper can transform it into artwork (at least in my mind) and better yet the 20x30 wrapping paper was super affordable only $ 3.50. Making framing this paper super affordable and inexpensive allowing me to splurge elsewhere. 

Along with framing the paper, I also framed an Etsy print I purchased from Printable Wisdom. I love how the framed artwork looks in our living room. 

Now, whenever I see the hydrangea print blooms in our home, I'll instantly think of our wedding. I like that. It's a very special day and I love simple reminders. Next time you come across some pretty paper, consider framing it. 

What's the last piece of artwork you framed in your house?

Fabric Finds

If you follow me on Instagram then you may have already seen me sharing a few pictures of my recent fabric shopping trip. We spent the weekend celebrating my husbands birthday in Reno, NV with our kids which meant lots of pool time, and Circus Circus time. While there, my husband was sweet enough to drop me off at a fabric store called Home Fabrics for about an hour, giving me time to wonder though the many designer fabrics that they sell at steep discounts We used to have one in Sacramento, where I picked up this fabric for our dining room drapes. Below is the fabric I picked up! The first fabric is from West Elm, called Honeycomb in the colorway Horseradish, I picked it up for $7.99  per yard. The floral pattern is so pretty, it was on clearance for $3.00 a yard! The turquoise and orange matching fabric is from Serena and Lily called Diamond fabric, again paying only $7.99 per yard. The blue tigerish fabric was also a bargain for only $7.99 per yard. 

Now that you've seen my fabric buys, its time to share my fabric plans. First up the Honeycomb fabric is going to be turned into fun kids project, I've been wanting to make for years! This fabric inspired me to finally pull the trigger. Once I complete the project, I'll share for now keeping that one under wraps. The floral fabric, I plan to use outside for an upcoming party we're having at our home, think table runner etc. The turquoise fabric will become one or two pillows for our living room sofa. I'm also planning to use the tigerish fabric as a lumbar pillow on our sofa to break up all the squares one we have on it now. I plan on recovering our bench in our mudroom / laundry room with the Diamond fabric! The little bench in our mudroom could totally use happy dose of color and I think this is the perfect fabric to do the trick. 

Have you come across any amazing fabric finds recently? Any guesses what I plan on doing with the Honeycomb fabric?