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LGN sponsor, A Slice of Life, is kindly offering up a pair of monogrammed linen hand towels for one of you lucky readers!

Check out all the thread color options:

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Vintage Scarves as Pillows

One of my clients inherited quite a few vintage silk scarves from her grandmother. Lots of Liberty of London and Vera.

We're putting the collection to good use. One will be framed and several others made into pillows. One of my favorite scarves is a sweet blue Liberty of London floral that will go on a chair in the nursery. It looks just like this one, available here:


Both Martha and Eddie Ross have featured this same idea for turning scarves into pillows and shared their instructions here and here.

image via Eddie Ross

image via Martha Stewart Living

Framing vintage scarves is another great idea.

Country Living

Domino

House and Garden by way of Style Court

Martha Stewart Living

World of Interiors via

This framed Vera scarf hung in the Rockefeller Center Anthropologie.

image via the Vera Co blog

If you're not lucky enough to inherit dozens of vintage scarves, check out eBay for an incredible and very inexpensive selection. Here are some of my favorites up for auction right now:

Orange, teal and yellow Vera



YSL



40s floral


Pink and yellow



Vera cityscape


For my color-loving Canadian readers!



Red and gray Vera
Navy polkadots!




Blue and orange stylized floral


Make two boudior sized pillows out of this long Vera floral



French floral


Red and white stripey


Kick start your collection of LofL scarves!



Emerald green (the color du jour for me)


Any other great ideas for repurposing vintage scarves?

Plum Cushion

I'm thrilled to announce that my newest sponsor is the very popular etsy seller, Plum Cushion!!


The owner of the Plum Cushion shop, Melanie, is as kind and as talented as they come! I cyber-met Melanie when contacting her about making some KWID Imperial Trellis pillows in the charcoal colorway for a client. Even though she didn't have a listing for that specific colorway in her etsy shop, she was more than happy to make it happen.


I asked Melanie about her background for this post. Don't you just love learning the story behind the genius?

"I formally learned to sew in college, I was a Family and Consumer Sciences major, but I remember sewing Barbie clothes out of silky nightgowns when I was 5 or 6. After college I taught for four years then decided to go back to school for interior design. I've been in the industry for almost five years now. I have a major obsession with high-end textiles. Because of my appreciation for their quality and beauty I'm incredibly persnickety about the construction of my products."

I think it's awesome that she would sew her own Barbie clothes as a child! Not surprisingly, I was obsessed with arranging and rearranging my Barbie's furniture...

Check out some of the fabulousness at Plum Cushion:





Prices start out around $75, which is amazing considering she uses only the best designer fabrics available and includes down inserts with your purchase! With the holidays just around the corner, now would be a good time to order a pair of gorgeous cushions for your best friend, sister, mother (or yourself!!).


And speaking of the holidays, I'm completely loving her Christmas stockings! Such a creative idea!!



Please show Plum Cushion a little love and pop on over to the shop...

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Custom Adler Pillows

I'm wrapping up a master bedroom project in Rhode Island. We only need to find a rug that will work (none have been right so far) and to finish up with some accessories - like pillows.



We scored some great basic pillows at Crate & Barrel in magenta, peacock blue and chartreuse to complement this fabric that we used for the drapery panels (above).



But we need a lot of pillows - there is a window seat, two settees and a bed. So we've been on the lookout for something in our color scheme, but in a fun print.

Then my client sent me the link the this fun 'Design Your Own' program on the Jonathan Adler website that lets you color-customize all of his best-selling pillow designs. The pillows are a bit of an investment (these below are about $98 each and go up from there), but you can do a different design on each side of the pillow, so it's basically like two Adler pillows for the price of one.

Here are some of the designs and color combos that we're considering for my client's bedroom:



P.S. You guys are going to die when you see this room all finished!