European Linens, Food, Home Accessories and Home Decor

This tutorial appeared on the blog written by Rachel at Smile and Wave.  It is the perfect way to use and display doilies in a new and fresh way – and it’s simple!  The results are just lovely and will fit in so many different types of home decor – see the result for yourself:

(Image used with permission from the Author)

Some of her really cool suggestions include using different colors, to get a variegated effect, or to try with colored doilies (and we’ve been itching to try our hand at dying linens since it’s such a huge thing in Europe right now).  She also recommends making sure the background fabric is a little bit different so the design shows up, but not too different, so it doesn’t steal the show.

I’m now going to go dig through doily boxes and make one too!

As of this writing the building is still sort of pink.  Not for long, but work on the outside has halted until I return from Europe.  Oh well.

Inside is progressing well:

The furniture for the store itself is now sitting in the packing room because

the store itself is getting painted this week

Meanwhile, the warehouse has twice as much shelving as before. Will it be enough?

We had this vision of our building with a terra cotta roof and sign, sort of the colors of the rooftops in Italy.

One of us is colorblind.  And apparently so is the painter, despite us having given them the pantone colors.  Yikes.  They have to fix this, obviously

or maybe it did not photograph well.  This is being written while I am far away, so of course who knows!  We will know soon though.  I hope it’s simply the picture that is not right.