A Dream Blue Toile Wedding

If I am lucky enough to get hitched again, I want a blue and white toile wedding.

I would wear a simple white cotton, sleeveless, tea length dress with a cropped blue and white toile jacket over it.  Kind of like this one here:

And I would wear blue topaz - a favorite gemstone of mine.

(Matching the ring to a necklace and earrings.)

I'd want a ring like this:

I love the toile I have in my family room - it's called M Musee Toile Blue by Covington and is a soft-handed 100% cotton fabric with a brighter blue toile on a clean white background (no drab cream for me).

It's bright and cheery and has been my staple fabric/color in my home for going on 10 years now when I first found it and bought it as bedding at Country Curtains (they have since changed their toile pattern).

I would make invites to match and maybe give those peace cranes I saw on ETSY, as favors to guests.

How fun to dream!

New Sofa

 I have been waiting all year to get this new sofa for the family room and am so glad I finally bought it.

It's not that it was too expensive (because it's from IKEA, and its NOT), but it just wasn't the right time to go get it.

But now, with spring coming and spring cleaning going on around the house, we are ready to take the old broken sofa to the dump and replace it with something clean, comfy and big enough for at least two people and a few cats to lounge on at the same time.

It's from IKEA's Ektorp collection.  Slip-covered and washable - that's what I am all about!  This cotton twill cover is very durable and washes well.  I keep the love seat I already have in the living room white as white can be with Mrs Stewart's bluing agent.

If someday the white becomes too soiled or I tire of it, I can simply dip it into some RIT dye and make it baby blue, so it still matches my blue and white home.

http://www.ritdye.com/ 

Although for $99 I can have an extra slip cover...might be well worth investing in.

I have three covers for the love seat.

Toile Peace Cranes

I saw this artist on ETSY today as I was checking on my own store.

Her shop is called localcolorist and she is in S.F.

I LOVE her blue toile cranes - what a perfect combination.

One could use them for Christmas tree ornaments or wedding favors/at place settings.

How fabulous!

Let's give her some business!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/localcolorist

Target Bedroom Look

This is the target look for my bedroom once its moved upstairs in the current old, art studio space above the stairs.

Faded blue roses in an airy, light-filled space.

Isn't this just lovely?

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