gathering spriggs

Aqua Delights

Robin's Egg Blue, Aquamarine, Peacock blue, Azure, Cerulean, Teal, Ocean, Pool, Tide, words to describe this week's color indulgence.

1.Flamenco Shower Curtain, 2. Crystal Drop Chandelier

3.Faceted Glass Knob, 4.Seed Packet Pillow, 5. Succulent Stamps by Geninne

London print designer, Brie Harrison via decor8.

O!Rachew!- one of my flickr favs.

Crafty Intentions via Desire to Inspire

Wren Handmade

Flea Market Storage Solutions: Home Office/ Craft Rooms

So this is the post I have most longed for in the series. After years of pouring over books, magazines, and blogs pining over my most hearted craft rooms, I realized its been my secret dream to have a craft room like one of these.  And now maybe once we get a new home (hopefully soon) that dream will start taking shape. In the meantime, here is my stash ...  Enjoy! Let me know your favorites!

Fabric designer, Heather Bailey's  Studio.

Clever stationary storage from diyideas.com

Studio space from Shabby Scraps.

From one of my favorite books, Found Style by fabric designer, Amy Butler and her husband David.

Detail from the above room.

Another studio again from Found Style.

One of my all time favorites from Victoria Magazine June 2002.

Milliner, Amy Hamilton.

Flea Market Storage Solutions: Romantic Bedrooms

Happy Valentines Day!! In keeping with our Flea Market Storage theme this week we are featuring Bedrooms today for a romantic Valentine-sie twist. All of the featured bedrooms are flickr finds and have romantic, timeless themes.  Although not all images cover storage necessarily, they do offer creative uses for vintage finds in the bedroom.  Check out these artist's flickr sites by following the link below each picture.

Anahata Katkin - one of my fav artists and owner of PaPaYa!

 

sfgirlbybay's bedroom from the highly acclaimed design blog: sfgirlbybay.com

Prettyshabby

Homebug

And Last but Not Least: Valentines theme bed 

Jek in the Box- a great series called "making the bed", its like dressing up the bed for different occasions.

Flea Market Storage Solutions: Kitchens

So, I am very excited about this series and have gathered so much stuff, that I've decided to sort by room/area of the home, starting where we left off with more from Country Living's Storage Style.

Cute and quirky. Great pieces -Very Vintage - Check out the chandelier!

(I want one in my next kitchen)

More sleek contemporary but marked with a retro vintage flair.

Open shelving is more and more trendy and works when the collection is unified by color.

From the Queen of organization and repurposing timeless treasures, herself,

Martha Stewart's Good Things for Organizing.

How about this storage armoire for kitchen supplies!

Thanks Martha!

Stay Tuned: Craft rooms, living rooms, bedrooms!

New Series: Flea Market Storage

After a trip to my local library branch and browsing the new arrivals shelf, I spotted a book that has inspired this series on stylish storage using vintage finds. The book:country living storage style by lesley porcelli .  Flipping through the pages one night this week spawned an exploration on this topic. So I have many more sources on the subject coming throughout the week. But for now, I pulled some of my favorite pics from the book to share with you here. (It is arranged by room/area of the home). 

Amazing use of an antique library bookcase painted and revamped for china display. 

As someone who works with painted cabinetry, I love this fresh fun combo of old and new/ color and neutral.

LOVE this crafty work station!!  There are so many great repurposed items: the hanging fruit basket, vintage post office boxes, metal locker room baskets!

More to come...

Sorry for the technical difficulties

Only just this morning, I realized that some of my links to the featured artists were not working properly. The problem has been fixed and the links to the featured artists should work now. 

And the Winner is.....

A TIE ! Between the two Beth's! 

 

Beth Stanion (Kansas City, MO)

Beth Gilmore (Nashville, TN)

1st Runner Up:

Anna Belanger- Annabelle (Canada)

2nd Runner up:

Holly Noble (Allen, TX)

All photos were judged by Heather S. Thompson (myself) and Eve Peach (my business partner).  Eve did not know who the photos were from.  Each photo was graded on a 1-5 scale in the following catagories: creativity, composition, originality, theme and color.  

Thanks to everyone who submitted to this little contest. I appreciate your creativity! It was a very close race. Each of these contestants were within 1 point of each other.

This was so much fun!! 

The winning entries will be featured at the online gallery, Gathering Spriggs, as a limited edition print, and will receive a digital print of Eve Peach's "Butterfly Tree"!

Thanks Again Ya'll!