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When is the next issue of Lonny?

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I’m really enjoying Lonny, everyone’s new favorite online magazine. But I think it needs to become monthly… Honestly – what are the editors doing in between months? Sitting around spending all that advertising money, I expect. I can’t imagine they’re working hard at all…

Seriously though – here are some of my favorite images from the Feb/Mar 2010 issue:














I also love these little idea boxes peppered throughout:


When does Apr/May come out? Fingers crossed for April…

Fromental Wallpapers

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I am FAR behind in lining up posts for this week due to an outrageous amount of time I spent looking at Fromental wallpaper online yesterday.


I found this company via Brooke at Fabulous Doodles (a super fun fashion illustration blog if you are into that kind of thing – and if you’re here, I assume you are…) She raved about the display she saw at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show and I was intrigued.


So 24 hours and a Google reader exploding with 1000+ unread posts later… I thought I’d justify the time I spent on the Fromental website by inundating you with pretty pictures.


This London based company opened their doors in 2005 with a mission to “to create the world’s most beautiful wallpapers.” They call their hand-painted and embroidered designs “couture for your walls.”

I couldn’t agree more…


















This Carousel design would be adorable for a Park Avenue nursery, don’t you think?






I don’t know which colorway I like best. But I’m in love with that zebra.

And now I guess I should go catch up on all of those unread posts in my reader…or feed the children or something… It’s Spring Break for Fairfax County public schools – and even with Oliver only going to half day preschool this year, it’s going to be a looooong week.

Paper Lanterns

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Maybe it’s tied in with my love of chinoiserie, but I’ve always had a bit of a thing for Chinese lanterns.


Earlier in the week I posted some images of fine china and my absolute favorite piece was this bowl with a lantern motif:


It reminded me these two Janet Hill paintings that I’ve kept in a folder forever – just so I can look at them and sigh:



If I could go back and do anything differently with my wedding – I would consider tying in a theme of Chinese lanterns:



Not sure how well it would have worked with the beautiful painted ceiling of the ballroom we used… Maybe it would have to be my parallel universe wedding under a tent…

Anyway – I saw this image today, and it pretty much summed up my love of lanterns in a nutshell:


I want to live in that picture. Dim Sum anyone?

Images: 1 Katidid 2 home, james! 3&4 Janet Hill Studio 5 The Milwaukee Wedding Blog 6 Wedding Fanatic 7 ngoc minh ngo via Lolalina

Two DIY Silhouette Ideas

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Last week, I found two different posts about creating silhouettes for display. I’ve always loved this idea – it may be connected to my childhood love of all things “old fashioned” which included cameos. But it never occurred to me to try it myself.

Now I have a couple of options to consider.

The first comes from Caitlin Wilson of Style Files (owner of the beautiful lamps I featured yesterday).


You’ll have to go to her post for full details, but here’s the basic idea:

First you take pictures in silhouette and cut them out.


Then you paint them.


And then you mount them on paper and frame them.


Beautiful! and even better – this creates a family portrait effect for people who cannot under any circumstances stay still and with the group long enough for an actual photograph.

The other method I read about comes via Emily A. Clark. She used Widdly Tinks to make a FREE silhouette of her “virtual” family.


Here is her family portrait:


She even put together some cute gift cards for her kids:


They won’t be personal silhouettes – but come on, they’re silhouettes. Like anyone will know the difference.

The chances of me getting to this before Fall of 2010 are unlikely. But I feel a holiday card idea starting to take shape…