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My Dream Desk ~ The Chinoiserie Secretary

January 31, 2020/4 Comments/in Home Décor, Uncategorized /by mrs.sshockley

Good Friday Morning,

Already February is upon us! Wow! 2020 is on a role. My husband asked me recently if I wanted to get any new pieces of furniture. Now why my husband would ask me that is crazy. He knows how much I love to look at furniture.

My eyebrows raised when he asked me. I said, “Well I would like a chinoiserie desk”. Of course, he has no idea what that is. So I tried to explain it but he still did not get it.

So that had me thinking. What kind of desk would I like to have if I could purchase one? There is no great inspiring website than Pinterest.

So below are the chinoiserie desks that I would love to have…

This is still one of my favorites. Remember I shared this office in June of 2019.

I think I am loving the secretary look. It seems so sophisticated and whimsical. This desk is from the Ralph Lauren collection. I should have known.

I would love to have a little pink in it. Especially some cherry blossoms. Now wouldn’t that be wonderful?

Oh my gosh, you guys. I found a blue and white secretary desk! ADORE! Pinterest is so dangerous!

There are so many beautiful options. But I do hope that sometime in the near future I can find one. I did see a chinoiserie desk at my local antique store but the price was about $795! Not something I was willing to pay at the time. Even right now I don’t think I would like to pay that.

I do hope that you enjoyed this post and that it provided some inspiration for you. Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy your time with family.

(photos via Pinterest)

Fresh Candles

January 22, 2020/2 Comments/in Home Décor, Uncategorized /by mrs.sshockley

Good Wednesday Morning Everyone,

I am back in the office and trying to get into the swing of things. This weekend we went out for dinner and while we were waiting for a table we decided to go next door to the bookstore.

I picked up a Good Housekeeping magazine and came across the beautiful Highgrove Tea Set for One pictured above. Isn’t it gorgeous? Oh I wanted it so bad so when I see things in a magazine and I know I don’t want to buy it, I take a photo of the article with my phone and look it up later.

So when I looked up this set I realized that after shipping it would be $100! That’s disappointing but maybe next time.

I did go candle shopping. Bath and Body Works was having a sale on their 3-wick candles. Their candles are the best. I did pick up the new fresh orange scent.

My husband loves and could not put it down. He keeps smelling it. It burns very nicely and has notes of grated orange zest and citrus.

The second candle that I picked up is my all-time favorite perfect spring. This has notes of fresh grass and apple blossom. It may be a little strong for some people but I love it.

I forgot to get my other favorite fresh cut lilacs so I am hoping to pick that up soon. Please let me know what your favorite spring candles are. I would love to know!

Enjoy your day!

(photos via Mrs. Shockley)

Inspired by Pink and Green

December 20, 2019/6 Comments/in Home Décor, Uncategorized /by mrs.sshockley

photo credit Chelsae A. Sahlman

Happy Friday,

Let the countdown begin to the Christmas festivities! I for one am looking forward to next week. This week has been a busy one so far and I am looking forward to spending time with family and not going to the office!

I know it’s Christmas time but can I share this beautiful apartment decorated by Danielle D. Rollins? I would really love to have this stunning petite fringe sofa. I believe it is from Society Social. Perfect isn’t it?

photo credit Chelsae A. Sahlman

I am loving the pink and green color scheme. Even the pops of blue and white are lovely. I have been on the lookout for new bedding for ummm years now! I can’t seem to find something that I love. So seeing inspiration like this helps me to broaden my horizons a little more.

photo credit Chelsae A. Sahlman

Can we talk about the closet? I love the space and the windows!!! Oh gosh, I would LOVE to have windows in my closet. The opportunity to add more texture and color to your closet…. would love it!

If you want to see more from this apartment, you may read it here. I hope you all have a great weekend and I may post once next week and take the rest of the time off. We will see.

Enjoy!

(photos via House Beautiful.com)

Christmas in my Office

December 4, 2019/3 Comments/in Home Décor, Uncategorized /by mrs.sshockley

Good Wednesday Morning Everyone,

My day designer is becoming more and more filled with tasks that I have to accomplish. As Christmas day is fast approaching, I began to check my Christmas lists to make sure that all is finished or close to it.

I decorate any and everywhere I can. I always add a little Christmas cheer to my office. I have my Pandora radio playing my Frank Sinatra Christmas station very quietly. But most of my co-workers around me don’t mind hearing a little Nat King Cole.

Today I wanted to share the little holiday decor items that I have around my office.

So we will start with my office door. We have nameplates and I always tape a faux poinsettia above my nameplate. I love it and enjoy walking up to it every morning.

This is my magnet board under my nameplate. We use these to announce when we are out of the office, meetings, etc. I have a little photo of a poinsettia on mine.

When you walk into my office you will see this. I have blue and white planters and ginger jars on the floor. I filled one with some faux poinsettias. Very festive!

I have this faux arrangement on one of my window sills in my office. I always exchange or change out the arrangements according to the season. This year I put faux pine, eucalyptus, and oranges in this arrangement.

My Christmas cactus has started to bloom. This always adds a little more life to my office.

This is another one of my faux arrangements. I added more faux pine, acorns, red flowers and greenery. It is very beautiful. Especially in the blue and white vase.

Now my local grocery store had real pine this past weekend. I could not pass it up. I am really enjoying it on my desk this week.

My supervisor gave us all these charming glass poinsettia trays a couple of years ago. I love using mine every year. I also brought in a Tis the Season candle this year. I don’t light it (office policy) but I can still smell it in my office. It’s delightful!

And I cannot forget about my scarves. I love placing my scarves on my chair. Especially this beautiful faux fur stole in emerald. It’s stunning and soft!

I hope that you all have found some inspiration in this post. If you can’t decorate your workspace then make the best of what you can do and what you have. You have a job and sometimes that is the best way to keep things in perspective! Have a great day!

(photos via Mrs. Shockley)

The Breakers

November 20, 2019/10 Comments/in Home Décor, Uncategorized /by mrs.sshockley

It’s Wednesday already and today I will be volunteering at Dress for Success. I’ve got some clothes that I need to drop off. I am having one of my “massive purge” feelings. I love these but also hate them because it’s usually a year later I began looking for whatever I got rid of and then I totally regret it.

It takes a few weeks for me to move on and then I feel good about my closet being “lighter”. Well, the word is getting out in my office. How I adore elegance and beautiful things. Oh boy, I have some co-workers giving me the stare down but no matter I will keep moving forward.

One co-worker, in particular, shared how she went on a historical home tour in Rhode Island. It piqued my interest so she came to my office to tell me about it. Oh me, oh my. I now want to take a tour of the Breakers!

photo credit Annie Spratt

I have never heard of these homes before and was very grateful that my co-worker shared her experience with me. I quickly hoped on the website and learned about all of the homes on this fabulous tour.

The Breakers were these massive homes that were considered to be “summer cottages” in the 1800s. Can you believe that these homes were considered to be summer cottages? Nuts!!!

photo credit Marjorie Bertrand

The Preservation Society of Newport County has 10 homes listed on the website as apart of the tour. My friend said that you could buy a ticket to tour all of the homes and even see the gardens. Sounds like an elegant dream to me.

It should be no surprise that most of these homes have a connection to the Vanderbilts. I toured the Biltmore Estates in 2016 (see here if you missed it)

Photo by Jessica Fadel on Unsplash

I think taking a tour of the Green Animals Topiary Garden would be fun. I know our daughter would love to see this.

I am thrilled to learn about more places that my family and I could possibly tour. Well, maybe just me. I have already thought about how I could add these to our time when we visit New York again.

If you have visited the Breakers please let me know in the comments section below. I would love to hear about your experience and your time there.

A Charleston Home Tour

November 8, 2019/5 Comments/in Home Décor, Uncategorized /by mrs.sshockley

Good Morning All and Happy Friday,

I’ve got a busy weekend planned. I am putting up my Christmas trees! Yes, I know it is early but I must get a head start because I put up about six and I want to enjoy them for more than a month. So I will be starting that this weekend.

We also have Monday off for Veterans Day (thank you to everyone for your service) so I will be using that day to run some errands. There is a new consignment store that I wanted to visit so we will see how that goes. I’ve got to return some purchases at the mall and Von Maur’s beauty week starts so I may take a peek at what they are offering.

Today’s post is a beautiful home tour from one of my favorite bloggers. I follow Gal Meets Glam (Julia Engel)’s blog and website religiously. I have been such a fan of her style and home decor for about six years now.

I saw this home tour on the Southern Living Magazine website recently and just became enamored with all of the inspiration from the home. Even if you don’t like everything about it there is still so much decor inspiration to pick from it.

Gorgeous curb appeal!!! I love the splash of blue on the home. See….serious home decor inspiration!

They have a beautiful wrap around porch. She and her husband always do a great job of decorating their outdoor space.

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The breakfast nook area is bright and inviting and the butler’s pantry area is something that most of us will kill for!

Now the kitchen is spacious, full of color, and simply stunning. But… there is a but for me. I am not a fan of the light fixtures. I am a vintage chandelier kinda girl but as I stated above, you don’t have to like everything about someone else’s space. You can just use it as inspiration.

These chairs are my favorite thing. They have the chinoiserie look and they are just classic!

Now, this photo is from a couple of years ago. I remember seeing this peony on her wall and thinking, “I must have it”. I asked her and she said that it was made by an artist in San Francisco named Tiffanie Turner. Here is her website if you are interested.

Doesn’t this look like a wonderful retreat? I only dream of having bed linens like this. I am working on it but they are quite expensive. I’ll get there.

I don’t want to show all of the pictures so if you wish to see the rest of the tour click on the link above to view and take it all in.

Home tours are so wonderful. It’s amazing how someone else can decorate their home in a way that you would have never thought of. Enjoy your weekend!

(photos via Gal Meets Glam.com)

Floral Wall Decals

September 16, 2019/in Home Décor, Uncategorized /by mrs.sshockley

Hello and Good Morning!

Thank you to everyone who reached out and gave wonderful comments about my bag. I really appreciate it! I hope you guys enjoyed the Youtube video as well.

Before I jump into today’s post I just wanted to share how some porn people are back on my blog again! Geez… I got some new followers on Bloglovin and they all have these Russian porn sites connected to their names. Some guy named Jake, some person name Gion, and some person name Claudia. All have some porn connection. Yes, I am calling you out. Get off my page! I don’t want your support. Go away!!! Now back to my regular program.

Today I wanted to share a small recent project that my husband and I attempted to do. A few weekends ago we took a visit to Ikea which most of you know I am not a huge fan of. My step-son had never been and we wanted to take him for a visit.

I looked at a few things and I must say that I do like a lot of their kitchen setups and huge islands. I wrote about some of my favorite things here if you wish to read it.

Ikea is a great place for college students or for couples or individuals who are just starting out. I think that their kitchen basic utensils are wonderfully priced and have great quality.

When we were there last week we decided to just look around. I saw a few things but then I found these wall decals and thought, “this might be a good way for me to get wallpaper”!

These peony decorative stickers looked so great at the store. I thought about how I would love to have them at home.

So we purchased about three and brought them home and began to piece them together. You have to come up with your own combination. Each peony is in pieces but it gives you the opportunity to create the size and variation that you want.

They were bigger than expected.

And the verdict is…..no. Here is the thing. I don’t think that they are ugly. They are quite lovely but it’s not the look that I am going for. I really want some wallpaper and I really want chinoiserie.

These for some reason to me just look really cheap in this area and I think that they would be great in a college dorm room and a girl’s bedroom at home. That’s just my opinion.

If you are interested in these I provided the link above. Again, Ikea is a great place for affordable home decor but not if you love antiques.

Thanks for reading!

(photos via Mrs. Shockley)