The Inspiration Bug Has Bitten Again

Well where has the time gone???  Last thing I remember, I was getting ready to be a Grandmother and here it is 14 months later!  Lot's has happened in that time, my subway signs are doing fabulous on Etsy and I've been busy with everything EXCEPT my home. 

I recently came across a house for sale - completely by chance.  It was actually a random email from my local Facebook Marketplace. Well I jumped right in the car and headed over to the real estate agents office and within 20 minutes I was walking through the door of who I would later come to find out was blogger "Just Beachy" Chris Kaufmann's perfect lil' abode.

To say it was love at first sight would be an understatement! Here are some photos for you to drool over...

I had no idea that this was her home, I never knew the owner was a blogger it was just a fluke...and so inspiring.  I did go back a second time with my husband and he actually loved it too.  We have debated, listed the pros and the cons and have decided to stay put and transform our home.  After all, Chris's home was a newer build and I think I read on her blog somewhere that "beach living is a state of mind".

So I am back!
I WILL change my space to reflect the cottage charm I have loved for so long and...
I WILL be inspired by all the talented women in blogland.  Looking forward to catching up on all I have missed.

My first project will be to make over an awesome little church pew I recently purchased at an antique store in Utica (pictures coming up).


By the way...here is a picture of my beautiful Granddaughter, Madison...my sunshine and joy.

xoxo

Subway Signs

Wordology Subway Signs

By: Marina Vazzana

New York, Paris, London, Toronto, Ireland, Las Vegas, Italy and Europe

are just a few of the amazing destination subway signs you can have as stunning artwork.

Or

Choose your own destinations Subway Sign - totally custom and personalized.

Visit: http://wordology.etsy.com

   

Subway Signs, Bus Blinds For Sale at www.Wordology.etsy.com

I've always loved fonts...adding numbers makes it more fab.  This design was created by using popular U.S Cities along with a few select area codes for the numbers.  Printed on premium, gloss,  heavy poster paper with a chunky white border which creates it's own mat...perfect for framing.   Large 24" x 36" - Suitable for stock framing. Here is Wordology's first listing for 2011 on Etsy 

   

Vintage Style Subway Signs Now For Sale on Etsy

I'm so excited to now offer Subway Signs in my Etsy Shop...Wordology.  Here are the first photos of what's being offered.  

New York City Subway Sign 18" x 54"

Paris Cities and Landmarks Subway Roll Sign

                       NY Subway Route                            European Cities Subway Sign

Help spread the word, please become a fan (hit like) of my Facebook Page  - Wordology at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wordology/177435282282821?v=app_169505045786&ref=sgm

Or visit My Etsy Shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/wordology

   

Feature Friday #2

IT'S FRIDAY!

Each Friday I will randomly pick 2 followers from my sidebar and do a feature on you - with a link to your blog.  It's my way of thanking those who follow my blog and spreading the love. FEATURE FRIDAY #2 

Hop over to Lara's place at Fresh + Simple  She loves thrifting and is in the process of  decorating her country duplex in the beachy coastal style we all love and guess what?  She's a white paint addict!  Did I happen to mention - the girl has some mad photo skills.  Thanks for following Lara.

Your gonna love Deb - a fellow Canadian girl at Cappuccino Cottage who's as sweet as can be. When she stops for a visit it's like having your best friend over for coffee.  She's transforming her lakeside cottage in British Columbia with her love of all things vintage, chippy and white.  Stop by and tell her I said hi.  Thanks Deb


 

 

Crazy Cool Wordle for Shabby Chic Love

 Thank you all for the nice comments about my soon to be grand-baby.  I've missed posting here but we had a great time in New Jersey.  It seemed like just yesterday that I had lived there...not muched has changed - with the landscape that is.  My daughter, well she looks great and is now showing ...too fun. Since I haven't really prepared a post I thought I'd give a neat little app you may not have heard of.  All you "wordies" should love it.  It's called Wordle.  What you may not know about me is that I own a Home Staging company, and I came across this site when trying to make an interesting sign for a trade show I did. Here is one I created for my love of shabby chic...

 

Isn't that crazy cool?

Here are some tips when creating your wordle:

1.  The more times you type a word - the larger the word prints

2.  You can have it run in different directions - this one was 1/2 horizontal and 1/2 vertical

3.  You can change fonts, colours and background colours (of course I love the black & white)

4.  If you also love numbers 123 (for example) go into language and check "show numbers"

5.  If you want more than one word to stay grouped together use this symbol ~ between the words as in Shabby~Whites

6.  You can also input your blog addy or any other website address and it will pull the words directly from it

Here are some examples from the gallery (not mine)

~Obama speech~

~create one for Mother's Day using words that describe your Mom...I framed one as a thank you gift to my business coach using words that described her and she loved it~

~plain initials~

~earth day~

Have fun with it, and let me know how yours turns out.