Gray Lake and Gray Owl Paint
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 Did I say we were leaving for Minnesota yesterday? I meant today!
Slight change in plans, back we’re all set to leave this morning now. Yippeeeeee!
PS- That’s the view of our Gray Lake paint (in the sunroom, on the left) and our Gray Owl paint (lightened by 50% in the kitchen, on the right) from our back door…which I’m walking out through as soon as I shut off this comput
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We’re headed to St. Louis today. That’s about the halfway point to where we’re going in Minnesota. I’m hoping our pets don’t give our house-sitters too much trouble while we’re gone.
Something tells me everything will be just fine though.
PS- Know any must-stop-for flea markets between southern Alabama and St. Louis? Sure would be fun to stretch our legs in
It’s been a shuffle-y couple of months around here, but now that the wall paint is dry, we’ve started putting things back into place.
There’s still a fireplace to paint (Simply White), and tile to (temporarily) cover up…
…but things are definitely starting to feel more like us around here.
I’ve had the shelf above (and below) for so long…but I never cou
Our hearts and prayers go out to everyone affected by the tornado in Oklahoma yesterday afternoon.
Father,
We ask that in your most gracious Love,
You may send Protection, and Help
Strength and Peace;
Courage and Comfort
To all of those within Oklahoma
as they move forward.
Loving Jesus,
Please be with those
whom have lost a Loved one in this tornado.
We pray, O gracious Father,
Please b
I got an email from a gal named Traci recently, and I thought I’d make a blog post out of it since cottage style is one of my favorite things to talk about. She said it was okay for me to share it here today, so here’s what her email said:
Dearest Layla,
I love the way you mix the old with the new and make it look crisp.I, too, have just moved into a new house this past Fall, and am t
I noticed something serendipitous while the paint was going up on the walls in the pantry yesterday. Do you see it there, too?
That’s our (50% lightened) Gray Owl paint on the wall space between each shelf, but it almost has a “paint strip” effect because of the different light and shadows in there, doesn’t it? So fun!
Ooh- and speaking of paint strips, some readers were
A reader named Sarah left me a comment the other day asking about how things were lookin’ in our living room. She reminded me that the only photo I had ever shown of it was this one that we took right before we moved in:
She asked if we could “pretty please show a now photo”.
Well, it’s far from finished but, Sarah, this one’s for you!
I just snapped it about 30 min
My friend, Lucy, helped us find these old wood corbels earlier this year, and we’re so excited to use them on our soon-to-be country kitchen island:
Right now, the island doesn’t reflect our personalities at all, so we’re going to have fun giving it a farmhouse/cottage-style makeover over the next couple of months.
The new bar top will stick out a little further than the existi
Well, I was hoping to be over this cold by now, but not only is it still completely rockin’ my world- I woke up with pink eye yesterday, too. And by pink “eye”, I mean pink eyes. Sheesh! Anywho, I’ve been trying my hardest to take it easy. Resting, reading…all that good stuff. Yesterday, I e-readHandmade Walls, by our local friends, Ashley and Jamin Mills…
I kn
Thanks to a cold-that-won’t-quit, I’m still kickin’ it on the couch. It has been sort of fun just (new) neighborhood watching out the window though. Yesterday, this pretty little bird kept me entertained, just as the sun was starting to set…
It sat there for soooo long.I started to wonder if it was going to lay an egg- ha! Max and Kit-Cat were very intrigued by it, tooR
Kevin and I have both been under the weather this past week/weekend, but before the crud really knocked us out, we had a chance to do a little work on Keith the Fireman’s fireplace. First Kevin and Keith removed the old mantle and tile…
Scoring with a utility knife, and a couple of hammers did the trick, lickety split!
We had planned to go back over to Keith’s this past Thursda
“Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic.” ~Lillian Jackson Braun
“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.” ~Jules Reynard
Kevin and I photographed some Thanksgiving-themed place card ideas for HGTV.com this week, and even though I had just started pulling things together in that last pic, I just had to snap a pic when I came around the corner and saw Kit-
Hi, and happy May Day!
To kick off this magnificent month, our friend Dee from Red Letter Wordsis going to give one lucky Lettered Cottage commenter a pre-made, gallery-wrapped canvas of their choice! I’ve always loved the one Nester used in her living room…
#sigh #dreamy #NesterI’llBeRightOverToTakeANapOnYourCouch
The winner of this week’s giveaway can choose any 1212,
I’m helping my best friend put some finishing touches her son’s nautical-themed big boy bedroom right now, and gosh am I having fun scouring the internet for inspiration! Check out these photos I found:
(Sources clockwise from top left: unknown, PSDAB.com, Trulia.com, unknown, House Beautiful, unknown.)
Man are there some creative, kids-at-heart out there in the design world!
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Remember that wooden orchard ladder we had propped against the wall in the reading room in our old house?
And remember that black wire basket we used in my Mom’sguest bedroommakeover a while back?
Well, my Mom gave me the basket at one point or another (we’re both chronic switcher-uppers, ha!), and there’s this little chunk of wall behind the half bathroom door here in our new
The walls at Keith the Fireman‘s house are officially coated in a 50% darkened version of Benjamin Moore’s “Gray Owl” paint as of this week, and although Kevin and I weren’t able to attend the paint party because of a scheduling conflict- Keith and his family & friends were able to knock it out, lickety split! His girlfriend, Lauren, took a bunch of photos that day, a
If you were one of the many people who left a comment on my Cloudy With A Chance Of Master Class post- THANK YOU! Wow! What an awesome collection of wise words to have all together in one e-place!
Below, are a just a (very) few of the friendly folks who made that conversation such a blast. I thought it would be fun to feature photos of them and their loved ones, along with some of their comments,
My name is Layla Palmer and I love cottages. This is the story of the one that got away…
One day, back in 2005, Kevin was doing some work out in the country, right here in sweet home Alabama. While he was out and about, he discovered a quaint rural neighborhood, chock full of colorful cottages, nestled around two small lakes. Later that same day, he came home and said, “Get in the car!
I got to squeeze one of my besties yesterday:
That there is Myra in the middle, and her newest addition, Cameron, on the right. Don’t they have the absolutesweetest eyes?! Their personalities are just the same- sweet, sweet, SWEET! Unfortunately it seems to only happen a couple of times a year, but I always love getting to see Myra in person. She’s one of these people that just makes
Kevin and I drove down to my mom’s place this weekend, so we could spend time with her and my brother and my nephew…and the Gulf of Mexico…
(Me and my nephew, at Navarre Beach, FL)
We stared at it ’til our feet and ankles had disappeared waaay into the sand, and he told me he loved me “deeper than the part of the ocean with sharks in it” that day.
Month. MADE.
