tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730865481045455892012-02-14T10:06:02.789-06:00A Sort Of FairytaleVintage Lifestyle and Decorating BlogStacey@A Sort Of Fairytalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01508801787684614107noreply@blogger.comBlogger10413asortoffairytalehttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2373086548104545589.post-81750732999560187692012-02-14T09:00:00.000-06:002012-02-14T09:00:45.191-06:002012-02-14T09:00:45.191-06:00Sweet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here's Hoping You're Day Is Sweet...</div>
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Cupcakes pictured are yummy Rosewater Cupcakes...find the recipe at my friend's lovely blog,</div>
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<a href="http://acozycottageinthecity.blogspot.com/p/rosewater-cupcakes-vanilla-buttercream.html" target="_blank">A Cozy Cottage In The City</a></div>
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XOXO,</div>
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I have a new {old} addition to my living room...a vintage window hung in the center of our large picture window. The frame is a nice chippy white, although it looks a bit cream in this picture (it was a gray day and this was this best I could do photo wise). I fit the window with two heavy gauge eye hooks and suspended it from two more heavy gauge hooks and S hooks. I am proud to say hung this up all by my big girl self! I heart my drill.</div>
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Here's a shot of the entire room with the new window...</div>
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This room is always a work in progress, and I'm liking what's developing, although I would like a new slip cover for the armless chair (or a different chair altogether) and I am not sold on the floor lamp by the love seat...I think I would rather have a big lamp on the round table instead. I actually made the little slip cover for the floor lamp shade, maybe it's just done in too bland of a color? Perhaps I would like it more if I made another cover in a less neutral fabric?? Here's a closeup of the slip cover...</div>
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What do you think? That I should stop obsessing over lampshade slip covers? Yep, probably a good idea, <i>and yes the lamp is in another location in this photo, if you happen to have noticed</i>. </div>
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Okay, back to the subject of this post...the window! It came from one of my very favorite vintage shops...</div>
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Here are some photos I took of the shop the day I bought the window...</div>
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Don't you love this shop?! If you live in IL you must go sometime. It's owned and operated by the sweetest and most fun trio of mother and daughters! <a href="http://tatteredtiques.com/" target="_blank">Tattered Tiques</a> has teamed up with the equally amazing <a href="http://mapleandmagnolia.com/" target="_blank">Maple and Magnolia</a> and <a href="http://urbanfarmgirlandco.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Urban Farmgirl</a>, so you'll find their cool vintage wares sprinkled throughout the shop as well. I really have to exercise restraint when I am in here...I want it ALL!!</div>
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Happy Monday!</div>
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XO,</div>
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"Beautility", or the art of taking something very<i> Utilitarian</i> and using it in a <i>Beautiful</i> way.</div>
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Love all the storage in this kitchen using vintage locker baskets and industrial cart shelving...</div>
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Lots of <i>Beautility</i> in this kitchen by way of a metal topped island, crates, and buckets underneath...</div>
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{<a href="http://www.yvestown.com/" target="_blank">Yvestown</a>}</div>
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Another vintage cart/rack for storing dishes and containers, with wire baskets to corral all the goodies...</div>
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Plenty of <i>Beautility</i> here too...</div>
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A beautiful and clever way to use a utilitarian wire tier basket...</div>
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Does it get anymore <i>Beautilitarian</i> than this amazing card catalog-like piece from my friend, Mary at Urban Farmgirl? I think not...</div>
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Sweet, yet industrial...</div>
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{<a href="http://ana-white.com/2010/09/vintage-crate-carts.html" target="_blank">Ana-White</a>}</div>
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A mobile office on a pretty pink, vintage metal cart...<i>Beautility</i> at first sight!</div>
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What can't you do with a vintage locker basket? This one holds my magazines at the moment...<br />
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A simple ladder transformed into shelving with iron grates, a colander as planter, and a wire basket...this whole scene is a thing of <i>Beautility</i>!</div>
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XO,<br />
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