PB Santos Ornament Winner

Thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway for the PB Santos Ornament.  I am happy to be able to give one of you the chance to own one for yourself, since they were sold out on the PB website.

The winner is #10 ~

Melanie!  Congratulations Melanie!

Melanie said...

Mine actually is also "It is what it is"! But one I keep hearing lately that's driving me bonkers is "That's how I roll!" UGH!!!

Thanks for the chance to win.

Thanks for leaving your email Melanie {not shown here} and I have contacted you for your mailing address.

I have a sponsored giveaway coming up within the next couple of weeks!

Kathy

Last Call ~ PB Santos Ornament Giveaway

Putting out a last call for entries into my PB Santos Ornament Giveaway, which you can enter here.

The giveaway will be ending tonight at midnight, EST, so enter while you still can!  I’ll be announcing the winner on Saturday.

Kathy

New Lampshade For Master Bedroom

This is the wonderful toile I bought at Hobby Lobby, which I really just love the look of ~ the colors are great, as well as the pattern, and it has an aged look about it.

I bought about a yard and a half to do this lampshade in our master bedroom and a pillow for the bed.  I have plenty left over and could probably get three pillows out of what is left.

A good way to use a fabric that might otherwise be out of your budget is to buy a small amount and use it for something like a pillow, a lampshade or a simple valance.  It’s a good way to get something you love into your home while staying in your budget.  This fabric is fairly pricey.

I followed the same steps as I did on my craft room lampshade and you can find the complete tutorial here, although this shade is a bit larger than that one.  Plus, I’m just using one fabric as opposed to two.

I’ve used a wider flat trim on this one in a gold tone that went well with the gold in the fabric.

I used it for each section, the top and the bottom.

I had this looped fringe {just enough to go around the bottom portion} and also covered that with the flat trim.  I could have left it with just the looped fringe, but I thought it would finish it off better because you could see the thread where they sewed the looped fringe together.

Finally, on the lamp.

There were eight sections to be cut for this shade and I made sure to do every other section with one of the women figures.   So, I had four of those and then I tried to get some of the other colors going on in the fabric from the scenery in the other four.

You can see in the picture above how, with the lamp in front of the mirror, it will pick up the images that are on the back of the shade, too.  Here’s a night shot so you can see how it looks lit up!  If you have any questions about this project, feel free to ask!

I can’t wait to get started on that dresser!  I am going to try and do the shade of blue that you can see in this fabric.  I think this mirror is going to go {it came with the dresser} and I have a larger mirror from my old house that will probably work better here.  That will need to be painted too.

I’ve got a giveaway going on for the PB Santos Ornament here!

Linking up with

Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps On The Porch

Wow Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style

Winter Blues Wednesday at DIY by Design

Air Your Laundry Friday at Freckled Laundry

Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage

Inspiration Friday At The Picket Fence

Kathy

French Tea Towels

Right before Christmas, Debbie from Confessions of a Plate Addict made these great little tea towels.  They turned out really pretty and not only did she do it in color, but it really does look like embroidery.

I just loved these!  Being that I usually keep some Osnaberg fabric on hand {it’s just so versatile}, I knew that I would be trying something similar soon.  This is soon.  I followed Debbie’s post so I won’t repeat any instructions here.

I didn’t have enough to do two towels of the same size like Debbie did, but I got one and then made a smaller one.  My Osnaberg was just about totally cut up, so I used it all on this project.

I cut as close as I could to the images and the Avery directions say to keep it rounded for easier removal.

I used these two graphics from Karen at The Graphics Fairy.  I was actually going to do the text one on both, but couldn’t resist the bee and crown image!


Here they are and I love the way they turned out!  Picture overload ahead.  This is the smaller one.



A nice little towel to use with my tray and maybe some tea and cookies.


Here’s the larger one.



Thanks so much Debbie for sharing your inspiration and thank you, Karen, for the great graphics!

Don’t forget to enter my giveaway for the PB Santos Ornament here! I’m keeping mine out all year round!

Linking up with

Brag Monday at The Graphics Fairy

Sew Crafty Tuesday at Ruby Jean's

Your Cozy Home at Cozy Home Scenes

Kathy

Santos Ornament Giveaway

This Giveaway has ended.

Word on the street is the Pottery Barn Santos Ornament is now sold out! Happy news for you ~ I ordered two! One for me and one for a lucky one of you!  Here is the ornament as pictured on the PB website.  Since I didn’t officially celebrate my 4 year blogaversary on December 30th, I thought this might do.

Here’s mine under one of my cloches.  I’ll be keeping this out year-round so I have to clip that little ring off the top.

Let me remove the glass so you can see it a little bit better.  This Santos ornament is made of wood and is 6 1/2 inches tall.  It comes with a jute string hanger.

To enter for a chance to win this Santos ornament just leave me a comment on this post with the word or phrase that just drives you up the wall.  Mine is “it is what it is”.

For additional chances to win you can:

• Post about this giveaway or put it on your sidebar and come back and let me know in a separate comment;
• Tweet about this giveaway, come back and let me know in a separate comment.

Giveaway will end on January 20, 2012, at midnight EST.  Giveaway is open outside of the United States, too!   You must leave me an email for contact if you do not have a blog.  Winner will be selected via random.org.  Winner must confirm within 48 hours of notification or a new winner will be selected.

This Giveaway has ended.

Kathy