Inspiration from "A Storybook Life"



This week I discovered a wonderful new blog called "A Storybook Life". All of you cottage style lovers will surely appreciate the photos of her home and her decorating tips, advice, and articles. During my first visit, I discovered a beautiful set of artful and colorful stacking boxes that work perfectly with my style and color scheme. Pearl was kind enough to let me know where I could purchase the boxes for my home and I ordered them yesterday (from Lang.com), along with a matching calendar. If you haven't done so already, check out A Storybook Life.

Oh, and here is the calendar and all the art within it. These would be beautiful framed, don't you think?




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love Bob's Boxes! Lang is in a quaint little town not far from me here in Wisconsin. They have a great outlet even closer, and the sales they have there are to die for. Some awesome deals to be had. Check out the calendar frames on the Lang site.

I also want to stay your cabinet pictures are an inspiration! Hopefully, I will be able to convince my husband that we need to do something similar.

November 28, 2006 at 6:42 PM
Kathy said...

I got the Greased Lightning at Home Depot & did a small test area on one kitchen cabinet - wow! I didn't realize we were such dirty people... Thanks so much for the tip.

I need to apologize to someone who wanted to paint her almost new oak cabinets - I thought she would ruin them. Now I need to send her the link to your site. Your kitchen is really beautiful.

November 28, 2006 at 10:15 PM
Twice Remembered said...

Hi Pen! You know, I had never heard of Lang's until yesterday. I'm in Tennessee, so they may not have them around here (I'll have to check!) I look into those frames - how neat! Aw, and thanks about the comments about the cabinets. It's amazing how a lot of elbow grease and paint can tranform just about anything!

That's great, Kathy! LOL, I thought the same thing about our cabinets! They were oak and *looked* clean, but once I started degreasing them, I was completely grossed out by the *grease* and dirt that came of them. I couldn't believe it!

Hehe, yeah, when I told a few folks that I was going to paint our oak cabinets, I could have picked their jaws up off the floor. Oak is pretty, but I grew up with the nearly the exact same cabinets and I really wanted something different in my own home. I didn't have the money to buy new cabinets and our oak ones were too nice to get rid of anyway. Painting them worked for us!

A note about painting cabinets...just make sure you that after you degrease and sand them, use a good bonding primer before you paint. It will really help the paint to stick.:)

November 29, 2006 at 12:48 AM

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