November 2009

Monday, November 30, 2009

Pooja Mishra Hot Photoshoot In Bikini

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Seven Things You May Not Know

About a month ago a fellow blogger, Emmie of Aspirations of a Southern Housewife, gave me a Kreativ Blogger Award. Emmie writes a wonderful blog, do stop by and check it out!

Thank you Emmie for nominating me.

You need to share seven things about yourself. I tend to be a rather private person, so I have been hesitant, but here they are in no particular order.

I am an incredible procrastinator but also an over achiever/Type A personality. This causes me lots of stress in my down time but very concentrated blocks of productivity during my work time.

I am half Italian and half Portuguese, My grandparents on both sides came to America in their youth and spoke only broken English. I love my heritage. I am very expressive and passionate about life, actually about almost everything.

Of all the areas of design my favorite is kitchen design and spacial planning. I really should have been a kitchen designer; perhaps someday I can play one on TV.

I have an incurable antique furniture habit. My basement and attic are filled with furniture that will someday find the perfect home - but until then happily reside in spaces above and below where we actually live.

I love puppets. I wanted to be a Puppetry major in college but my parents thought it was irresponsible. Instead, at their urging, I entered college as Accounting major (what a laugh!)

I am a mother of two beautiful children. They are amazing people and they make me laugh everyday. I can not imagine what my life would have been like with out them.

I believe we are all connected somehow and that we need to be good to one another. I try to be a better person every single day.

I am also suppose to nominate seven other blogs for this award, but I am interested in so many blogs I couldn't possibly choose. So, if you would like to share anything about yourself, please consider yourself nominated. I would love to know more about YOU!
xx-Gina

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Scout Taylor-Compton Photos

Here are some photos of Scout Taylor-Compton. For more information, go to these sites:

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http://l.yimg.com/img.omg.yahoo.com/omg/us/img/05/b1/6247_53680888.jpg (Scout in a red dress)
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http://l.yimg.com/img.omg.yahoo.com/omg/us/img/be/5c/8712_4374863215.jpg (Scout with Rob Zombie and Sheri Moon Zombie)
http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2007/08/22/253771/ScoutTaylorComptonPhoto1.JPG (Scout in the Blue Dress)
http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2007/08/22/253771/ScoutTaylorComptonPhoto2.JPG (Scout looking Beautiful)
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http://l.yimg.com/img.omg.yahoo.com/omg/us/img/56/46/507_2691250648.jpg (Scout as Laurie in hospital gown)
http://l.yimg.com/img.omg.yahoo.com/omg/us/img/75/bd/3747_8404541031.jpg (Scout in Maid's outfit all bloody)
http://l.yimg.com/img.omg.yahoo.com/omg/us/img/87/7f/7276_12505463306.jpg (Scout as Laurie looking herself in the bathroom mirror)
http://l.yimg.com/img.omg.yahoo.com/omg/us/img/f9/57/4246_6290266102.jpg (Scout as Laurie in the bathroom all bloody)
http://l.yimg.com/img.omg.yahoo.com/omg/us/img/08/0f/8135_9945928429.jpg (Michael carries Laurie)
http://l.yimg.com/img.omg.yahoo.com/omg/us/img/6e/70/7882_1236101083.jpg (Michael slices Laurie's throat)
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Friday, November 27, 2009

Holiday Decorating with Antique Grainsacks

Everyone who regularly reads Willow Decor knows my love (obsession?!) with antique grainsacks. So can you imagine how excited I was when textile artist, Kym Fraser, of 3 Fine Grains sent me photos of her new Antique Grainsack Holiday Collection.

Kym transforms authentic antique German grainsacks, hessian and french jute into gorgeous pillows and throws, but what to do with the small scraps of the precious material that is left over? Well Kym has designed these extra pieces of history into the most wonderful Christmas ornaments and stockings.

Above is her Christmas star made out of French Hessian with real antique glass buttons.

Another star fabricated from a striped German grainsack.

One of my favorite designs is the Dove. This lovely little gem is made from 100 year old antique linen and an antique glass button eye.
Hanging in front of the Dove is an antique button over an antique spoon ornament.

Here's another one for that special mother in your life - (I hope my children are reading this!) Plain small hearts and large hearts are also available, as well as partridges. Kym's ornaments range from $10 to $15.

My other favorite items in Kym's Holiday Collection are her antique hessian and French jute stockings.

They come with a ruffled or striped cuff made from 100 year old antique linen. The striped stocking is $65 and the Ruffled $75. Surely Santa would appreciate these beauties and pack them full of goodies!!

Finally, an antique German grainsack finds new life as Christmas tree. Contact Kym directly for more information on this one of kind item. Notice that Kym also used jute upholstery webbing as garland for her tree. You can learn more about using jute upholstery webbing in home decor in my post here.

Now here is the exciting part; contact Kym between now and December 6 and mention Willow Decor in comment line and you will receive 10% off your purchase. If you are interested in any of these items please contact 3 Fine Grains. Happy decorating!!!