White Wednesday

"From France with Amour"

Don't you miss getting letters in the mail?

Hand written letters.
Beautiful, curvy writing, just waiting to be read....

French Writing.

That was my inspiration to make this little metal table top...

into something a little more special...

Tres chic...or not tres chic????

Oui, oui!! Tres chic!!!

Lots of wonderful whites at Faded Charm...
don't miss them!!!

Why not?

An old, shabby, very weathered door found in a junk pile

became the perfect background for a glamorous candelabra...

and its gorgeous crystals...

Opposites once again attract
and look good while doing it!

Follow no rules, only your instincts
A little unexpected goes a long way...

This week we are loving...

We couldn't wait until Thursday, the day that we usually post our week's favorites because this week we are really, totally, absolutely loving:

The super cute,

...perfectly shabby-ed,...

...vintage cart that Clara game me for Mother's Day...

Tons of possibilities with this cutie: in the bathroom holding TP or towels, in the bedroom holding magazines...but to be honest I don't want anybody to touch it, so for now is in my entryway holding vintage pretties and just doing what he does best: looking beautiful!!!

Clara's new love is: the perfect piece of furniture for "that wall in the living room". She tried different tables, different arrangements, but this is the winner!

Worth the wait!....she found it...

...she finally found it...the best antique dresser with empire lines and original white paint...

...perfect linens and silverware storage!

How about you?...What are you loving this week?

Oh La La!!

So chic...
So romantic...
So YOU!!!

Can you say Mother's Day Gift???

Just listed HERE and only $29.00!...Oh yes, you deserve it!!...

"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after"
~Peter De Vries~

Another party, giveaway and all things blog-licious!

That's right!!...Another party...this time a Make Over Open House, hosted by Jen from "Sanctuary Arts at Home"

Sometimes we get very frustrated when people just throw away their stuff
...their nice, old, "good bones" stuff!!!
and we say ...Oh well, if you don't want it...
We'll just "have" to stop the truck, dive in your dumpster, embarrass our kids again, and take home your "I don't want it anymore stuff"!!!! Last Monday was one of those days...

We lost the before pictures of our side-of-the-road-treasure, but here is a couple of the drawers.

We are sure you can imagine the rest, right?

Clara found it, so Clara works on it...we have some very strict rules around here!...
with the help of her new love Kilz Spray......

and her best friend Martha, yes Stewart, who provided the most beautiful and dreammy shade of pale blue, she transformed it into this...

Glass knobs, 2DIE4 accessories and the "Little Dresser that Could" is finished...

We wonder if the person that left it in the Lowe's parking lot could recognize it now...oh well, after all, it's just a good maple, very well constructed dresser that has been around for about 30 years and will last another 50. They can get that in any Ikea, Pier 1, Ballard....etc, etc, store!...Dream on!!!

Our second project went from "Grandma's makeup case"

to "I'm flying to Paris and I'm doing it in style" altered case!!

"Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atoms infinity"

~E. Knight~

Regarding Giveaways:
No, we didn't forget!!!...
visit Michelle Arnold at Vintage Grace, she is giving away a piece of her beautiful and stylish silver jewelry...No, we are not showing you... you just have to trust us and get over there...
totally worth it!!!!!...
It's OK, you can thank us later!!...Just don't forget all the creative Ladies participating in the Party and leave lots of comments!!

XOXO,
Clara & Marcela

This week we love...

This week Clara is in love with her new old....

Pair of huge urns...so vintage...so chippy

....so empty!

A little sand, moss....

...candles and voila!!!...Perfect during the day...

And oh so romantique! at night....

In the meantime, Marcela is loving...

The vintage folding kid's chair that just joined her ever growing collection...

"Number 9" found her perfect companion...

...and together they wait to hold the next generation of Cavaglieri-DiGiuseppe kids!

"Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?"
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II~
Cinderella

PS: they are also loving their new blog background...Thank you Background Fairy!

White...Oh white!

White...Oh white!

"White...is not a mere absence of color;

it is a shining and affirmative thing,

as fierce as red, as definite as black...

God paints in many colors;

but He never paints so gorgeously,

as when He paints in white."

~G. K. Chesterton~

From shabby to chic...

Remember that cute folding table we rescued from the garage?...The one we decoupaged with music sheet?...This one! Well, it sold right away to a very nice customer, we love when our goodies find good homes to go to!
Anyway, the music sheet and the white paint we used on that project, inspired this last creation. Also found in the garage, this time Clara's, an old glass cupboard door with an added back, perfect for a big shadowbox...

Painted a not very attractive black....more shabby than chic...

We started the transformation by adding a sheet of poster foam to the back, we then decoupaged it with vintage music sheets using lots of decoupage medium. The last step was the white paint and a little distress...everything looks better with crisp white paint, doesn't it?...

The old garage find became a nice display piece...from Andrea's jewelry to Lynda's bottle, everything looks yummy in there...

...to sell or not too sell? that's is the question!! The answer is: to sell!!...This is one of the goodies we are saving for our Arcade Extravaganza on April 5th.
The buyer will also take home 5 of the stylish black and white push pins we used to hold everything in place...love them!!