sarah is up to her ears in flowers right now so she’s sent over some beautiful spring bouquets to keep our eyes occupied this week. stay tuned next week for regular weeder’s digest content- and a how-to video soon!
weeder’s digest: visual feast
April, 2009
Thursday April 30th, 2009
before & after: kristen’s chair + neryl’s kitchen
it’s always fun to see what decorative painting can do to spruce up a piece of furniture and this project from kristen davis at kfd designs is a great example. inspired by a dwell studio pillow, kristen updated this swivel chair with a coat of paint and cheerful bird design. i love the yellow color…
before & after: helen’s stairs
i hope that one day when we move into a real house we have a stair case of some sort- nothing too fancy, just something that lets me decorate the stairs like this makeover from d*s reader helen. helen has done some amazing before & after work that you can see on her site, but…
before & after: carrie’s dresser + sarah’s chair
our first before & after of the day belongs to carrie of pattern of life. carrie found this somewhat dilapidated dresser and had the vision to turn it into a beautiful sink. she picked up the dresser for $30 and with a little ingenuity and elbow grease- they created a new sink from their found…
j. morgan puett
in one of katie’s guest blog posts this morning she linked to j. morgan puett‘s interiors and i’ve been drooling over the site ever since. hello, rooms of my dreams. i’d like to take a nice long nap and read a good book in each one. click here for more interior dreaminess.
Bonnie Runnels, Painterly Garden Home
Bonnie Runnels, Painterly Garden Home, Fayetteville, Arkansas Bonnie Runnels is a painter, a collector, a gardener, a grandmother, a wife, and a mother….my mother. She was raised as a young girl in a small Hungarian neighborhood in South Bend, Indiana then spent her teen years under the warm skies of southern California. She married my…
southern interiors
good morning! i’m typing slowly this morning because yesterday i sliced my finger open with a lovely new bread knife we got as a wedding present. 4 hours later i left the ER with new stitches so now my typing ability is slightly impeded. thankfully katie runnels has two beautiful interiors up on the d*s…
Pam Pemberton- Homespun Zen
Pam Pemberton- Homespun Zen, Fayetteville, Arkansas Pam Pemberton is a style maven, tenacious earth mother, friend, farmer and entrepreneur. From 1984 to 1997, Pam owned the now-legendary woman’s clothing boutique, Hi-Lines in downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas. She carried many esoteric and at the time, somewhat obscure designers like J. Morgan Puett, Dosa, Vivienne Tam, Krista Larson,…
Wednesday April 29th, 2009
diy wednesdays: scrap lumber coffee table
since we just got back from a wonderful trip to savannah, (congratulations again grace and aaron!) this week’s project needed to be super easy and super quick—something we could crank out after working all day at the shoppe. looking around our apartment, we spotted a scrap piece of walnut that we had picked up at…
diy project: tin letterpress clock
this is the very last of the altoids tins diy projects, i promise! they are just so cute. i have several shopping weaknesses, and letterpress art is one of them. a friend of mine sent me this adorable card (by wexford girl)and i have been meaning to frame it. but since wall art is another…
sneak peek: aun and su-lyn
aun and su-lyn are former journalists, each having spent a decade in the publishing industry (perhaps reflected best in the bookshelves completely devoted to cookbooks). in the course of writing about travel destinations, hotels and restaurants around the world, the duo’s love for great design and thoughtfully conceived interiors is self-described as an obsession. apart…
diy project: kate’s tin travel frame
here come the last of the altoids tins diy projects, just in time for mother’s day! my mom is a bit of a globetrotter for work, and she has definitely honed her skills at packing lightly. but i hope i can add one more thing to her travel kit with this mini tin travel frame….
mr. and mrs.
good morning! i’m back in brooklyn today, writing as a married woman! our wedding went off without a hitch last weekend and we spent the last two days cruising around charleston enjoying beautiful weather, the smell of marsh (which i love), and incredible southern food. i ate more biscuits, okra, and shrimp than i can…
Kathy P. Thompson, Ozark Art-House
Kathy P. Thompson, Ozark Art-House, Fayetteville, Arkansas Kathy P. Thompson is probably the original “constant gatherer” that I had the good fortune of calling my friend. Kathy has been collecting, assembling, and treasuring the visually interesting and meaningful minutia of her life from the time she was a small girl exploring the neighborhood and woods…
Tuesday April 28th, 2009
d*s guest blog: winifred ross riley (swamp modern)
[morning everyone! aaron and i are on our "mini-moon" in charleston today so i'm going to posting katie runnels' guest blog posts over here today. they're also on the guest blog, but i thought you guys might enjoy the interiors over here, too. so, welcome katie!] Winifred Ross Riley or Fu (as her friends call…
Winifred Ross Riley: Swamp Modern- Baton Rouge, LA
Winifred Ross Riley or Fu (as her friends call her) is an artist and designer whose home environment is thoroughly an extension of her art. Several years ago I got to tag along with her good friend, Kathy Thompson on a visit to Fu’s when she installed a sculpture made for her friend’s garden. I…
Monday April 27th, 2009
Amy Zurcher, Lost and Found, Savannah, GA
I consider Amy, my fellow co-creator and current director of ShopSCAD to be my oldest and dearest friend. We met when she was living in my hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas and worked at Hi Lines-Pam Pemberton’s (coming up on my list of mentors!) former boutique. I consider my lucky break to have been the handful…
d*s guest blog: amy zurcher, art and found
[morning everyone! aaron and i are on our "mini-moon" in charleston today so i'm going to posting katie runnels' guest blog posts over here today. they're also on the guest blog, but i thought you guys might enjoy the interiors over here, too. so, welcome katie!] I consider Amy, my fellow co-creator and current director…
guest blog: katie runnels!
Greetings from the South! I am excited to join you here this week as Grace and Aaron should just now, this very day, be settling in as man and wife on their mini-moon in Charleston! Congratulations! We were all so very thrilled they chose Savannah for their destination wedding! I can only imagine how beautiful…
Friday April 24th, 2009
wedding bells
tomorrow i’ll be walking down the aisle and marrying the love of my life, ac. so today i’m signing off to get ready and enjoy spending some time with my friends and family before the big day. thank you to everyone for your kind emails, texts and tweets of support and congratulations. it’s been so…
