Lavender Beauty

Hello everyone,

     I hope your week is going well and I am sure many of you are looking forward to a special weekend with Mother's Day coming up. The weather here has been warming up so the garden is  coming along and everyday makes a little difference but it is not pretty enough yet overall to give you a garden tour.

So, today it is just a little lavender beauty.

    

This clematis was overwintered in the basement, so it has bloomed much earlier then if it was in the ground.

I love the soft lavender color.

A pretty daffodil joins the picture

Thank you for stopping by and for all your lovely comments on our little garden cottage. Welcome also to my new followers.

I will be joining Bernideen for her Garden Party Tea on Saturday. It will be my first outdoor tea in our early spring garden. If you would like to join in please visit Bernideen's Tea Time Blog.

Since it is Show and Tell Friday I am joining Cindy at My Romantic Home again.

I have been featured by my new Italian friend Bluezlee at In Pigiama.She has done a lovely post and could easily write for a magazine.She is also a great photographer and is being published in her favorite magazine.I am sure you would enjoy a visit very much.Click here to visit.

Take care,

Carolyn

Beautiful DIY Lamp Project from Create.Live.Design

I came across this awesome lamp project from Natalie Roe at Create.Live.Design blog...and I was blown away.

I love good DIY projects...and this one takes the cake.

Here was Natalie's inspiration: a $372 lamp

Here's Natalie's DIY magic:

 

And here's Natalie's finished project...for $42.50 a piece!

For the behind the scenes details read Natalie's post here.

Water for Elephants - Why can't people still dress like this?

Not much to say today...it's cold and rainy here...and I can't wait to go to the beach this weekend!

I did see Water for Elephants last night with my girlfriends. I never got around to reading the book--it's sitting on my guest room nightstand, but I heard it was beautiful and much better than the movie.

The movie was good for a couple reasons...one I learned I still love Rob Pattinson outside of the Twilight mania (he is so hot in this movie), two I adore Reese and she looks beyond beautiful, and three I was obsessed with the set decor.

 

 

 

There is something so ornate Victorian...yet bohemian vintage, with a whole lot of quirky about this 1930's Circus life. I loved the circus costumes, the clothes, the train cars, the furniture...it was beautiful. So much texture and color.

As one blogger accurately put it "The interiors and styling, created under the set director Jack Fisk will have you yearning for Billie Holiday, a snifter of good whiskey, and frilled lamp shades."

Here are some current pieces that remind me of something you would see in one of these lavish tent rooms, when prohibition was in 

Jack Fisk talked about his approach to set design during an interview with Filmmaker Magazine.

"Once you realize that you're not only designing a film but you're designing the way it can be shot, the collaboration with the cinematographer becomes more important. If you give them something they can't shoot, it's like you're cutting off your own foot. On Terry's films, working with Chivo [Emmanuel Lubezki] - that's really fun - because we're trying to do it without lights. A lot of times I'll be cutting extra holes in buildings to create more windows: Holes in the ceiling and stuff like that, so he can shoot.

I never wanted to just design sets in an office and accept whatever is built. I keep working on a set until the crew arrives - until it's shot. I keep working until the actors push me out of the way. Because it's permanent. You have to take care of them and love them and not ignore them - be there every minute you can, while they're being built and shot. Because that is their life and they will be on film forever."

His passion definitely jumps off the screen.

Water for Elephants is worth seeing if you are a design lover!