Halloween, Caribbean style!

Image via Country Living

Any of these decoration inspirations would look beautiful in a coastal cottage. 

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I painted a couple of pumpkins white last year, couldn't believe how many weeks longer it kept them preserved!

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These velvet pumpkins above and the vintage sweater pumpkins below would make fun DIY projects.

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Image via dustyluinteriors

Hope you all have a magical evening and let your imaginations run wild, like these floating stage set designers in Australia . . . . incredible!

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Beach Barn Before and After- Headboards

I did not manage to get a wednesday+woodworks post completed yesterday but I hope to make up for it with today's before and after project.  The Long Bay Beach Barn is filled with  locally sourced, and often refinished, furnishings.  I purchased this pair of headboards at the old Salvation-Army last year for $40.  I started by painting them ivory and adding a light distress.  I then had mirror cut for the inset areas which I antiqued and set in place.  I love the way they turned out and how versatile they are; the pretty pair can be set up as a single daybed, as a matching pair of single beds, or the two singles joined together for one big shabby chic king sized headboard!

DIY Pillow Cover

Before: placemat

I am a huge fan of recovering throw pillows.  Fresh covers can update a room or piece of furniture easily and affordably.  Here is one of the quickest conversions I have used time and time again. Purchase a double sided fabric placemat, take out a 2-3 inch section with a seam ripper, stuff and restitch the seams together.  These two ivory and black pillows took 25 minutes!

After: Decorative Pillows

British Invasion: Union Jack trend

Collage from one of my new favorite blogs boho circus

I have been running into the union jack icon everywhere in the blogging network as of late.  I have unabashedly been collecting inspirations from here and there for the last few months.

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Living in a British territory, we dwellers in the Turks and Caicos definitely have license to apply this trend!  This Caribbean porch was certainly succesful so why not?

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I have been been meaning to get to my handpainted rug project started since last May, inspired by the fab photo above.  All of the above images could be great starting points for various projects but when I saw this:

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I gasped as soon as I laid eyes on it! Less than 24 hours later I was busy transforming this $20 thrift shop purchased jute rug from used and abused to jolly jim dandy.

BEFORE

AFTER

Can't wait until I have a beachy white room to lay it out in!

p.s.

R.I.P. amywinehouse