Dining Chair Fail + Antique Wins

Table: (licking his lips) mmm I eat tiny dining chairs like you for breakfast!
Chairs: noooo mr. dining table, I'm an antique and I wasn't meant for such a big table, it's not my fault!
Table: nomnomnomnomnom

I bought these dining chairs at Canton last week. I got all 4 for $90, I planned to paint them pewter, sand the edges, and cover the seats with awesome fabric.

But once I got them home and put them at the table I realized they don't work at all! Le sigh...they are very small visually compared to my meaty table. I would prefer something with heavier legs and a higher back. I will never find another deal as good! I will be selling them on craigslist if you or anyone you know wants them.

On a lighter note I did have other antique successes recently. For example, the lovely blue vase in the above photo. I'm now looking for glass of the same vivid blue. I think a collection of it on my black table would look stunning, only $5!

I got this wall art as well. There are different kinds of men around the clock and a small caption at the bottom that says "time of her life", get em girl!

Snagged this gold chair I put at my vanity table. The seat cover will be changed but I love the details and the sanded edges.

I also got some large vintage scarves for a dollar each that I plan to frame. Too bad they will cost like $150+ each to frame. Guess that will have to wait until later. It's crazy how expensive custom framing is. I even got a quote from Hobby Lobby when they were having a half off frame sale and it was still $$$$. It's highway robbery I tells ya!

My Life as a Wedding Planner

My brother is getting married to a lovely lady on June 5th at our parents "farm". I say "farm" because the only animals they have are a bunch of cats, but it's a place in the country with a barn nonetheless. My brother's fiance, Jackie, is in her last semester of college, taking classes, student teaching, getting ready to move, so I offered to help plan the wedding. Not that I wouldn't have wanted to anyways :). A few weekends ago my aunts threw her a lovely bridal shower, they threw mine last year and they are the best hostesses if I do say so!

They used vintage hankies as napkins, so cute!

Jackie opening gifts

A good time was had by all. Did I mention my aunt has a super cute house? Because she does...

It's a victorian style house with a huge wooded lot.

She hung vintage hand mirrors with plate holders in a diamond pattern, it looked beautiful.

My grandpa's picture from the navy, isn't he a cutie?

My mom is also making Jackie's wedding dress by hand which I helped design. Can you believe my mom's skillz?! I'm so happy Jackie was open to the idea of adding the blue lining, it's what makes this dress special. Here is Jackie at her recent fitting. She will be wearing the same jewelry that I wore and designed myself for my wedding. It makes me happy that some one else will get to enjoy it.

Here are some inspiration pictures I've been collecting for the wedding. It's going to be so charming and country chic. My mom and I have been collecting bottles, tins, and vintage table cloths for months. I can't wait to see everything all set up!

Her dress was inspired from these images...

Yes, we will have rows of hay as seating at the ceremony...

So what do you think? Is my stint as a wedding planner going ok?

Vegas Baby!

As I mentioned before Scott and I had the wonderful chance to take a weekend trip to vegas for our first anniversary. It was so nice to get away and just happened to be the start to my two week sabbatical.

We stayed at the Paris Las Vegas. The hotel was gorgeous and in a great location on the strip, right across from the Bellagio and the beautiful dancing fountains. We went to watch them 4 times and each time it was different.

Inside the Bellagio the lobby was so beautiful...

And they had a gorgeous botanical display. It smelled so lovely...

The first night we saw Penn & Teller. It was a great show and afterward I got a picture with Penn!

Then we went to see the fountains at night and they were even more enchanting!

The next day we saw a Sigfreid and Roy's secret garden or whatever it's called. All the animals were sleepy and they promised baby tigers and there were no baby tigers!!! ggggrrrr!

The last night we had front row seats at Cirque du Soleil which was beyond words. The show is so amazing. I just love all the theatrics, the costumes, the props...amazing! No pics of that unfortunately.

We also went to Fremont Street, which has the largest TV screen in the world! This is it before the big show...

Here it is during the Doors tribute they had playing. This isn't even the whole screen, we were standing in the middle!

It was such a great trip. I even won $100 playing a Sex and the City Slot machine. Now, I had no idea what I was doing on there, I was just pressing buttons at random the money just kept going up!

We even saw the Hoover Dam from the plane on the way home, where we sat first class by the way, now I can never go back to coach. I had no idea of all the luxury you get in first class!

Just this one post because I really need your help!

One of my projects is to paint my entry way. I've said before the color of the walls in our house were so heinous when we bought it I elected to paint everything the same color. I wanted to live here for a while and take my time deciding on colors. So I finally decided that I wanted to paint my entry way mint. It's a really bright room and it only has one solid wall. It's mainly just a pass through from the main part of the house to the bedrooms. Anyways long story short, I now have three colors of green on my walls and I can't decide. I only have three days left on sabbatical so a decision must be reached. Here's the photos (it's kinda cloudy today but oh well)

My first paint choice is the top one in the first photo (the same as the color to the left of the mirror) but when I put it on the wall it's almost neon mint which I'm not in love with. The I went back and got the other two. My gut reaction was to like the darker of the two. Here's the issue; my style is a little funky while still being sophisticated and I'm afraid the darker one, while nice, is not edgy enough. Here's what I plan to do with the table and mirror so you can make an informed decision. The table will be black lacquer with new knobs from anthro. I might wall paper the drawer fronts or make a different colored stripe of some sort on them. For the wall I plan to do a collection of antique beveled edge mirrors. I stupidly didn't save my inspiration picture for this but I'm sure you've seen it before, just a collage of beveled edge mirrors in all shapes and sizes. To balance out the black table and give the wall some weight I'm going to cover some (not all) of the chains the mirrors hang from in thick black ribbon. Sort of like you see here...

So PLEASE HELP ME! Leave a comment if you would on paint color a)neon green on top b)the darker green in the middle or c)the lightest green on the bottom. Thanks a bunch!