Decor – Page 9 – Snapshots & My Thoughts by Ailee Petrovic

Décor June 8, 2012

Up, Up, & Away!

Another little confession of mine: I’m 100 percent, truly-madly-deeply in love with hot air balloons, yet I’ve never ridden in one. Why? I don’t actually know. There is something so fairy-tale about drifting into the sky in a big basket being carried upward by a pretty balloon. In fact, one of my favorite blouses is a hot air balloon shirt from Anthropologie – I wore it with my first suit for my final interview with Accenture!

So, I was looking at Oh Happy Day (it’s perfect!), and I saw this balloon-themed photo shoot for a kid’s birthday party. Isn’t it incredible? Click here for step-by-step instructions. Who says you can’t scale it for adults??

Then, I was inspired to search for more balloon themed festivities, and I came across Paiges of Style. It’s amazing.

Paige is an interior designer with impeccable taste. Her daughter had a hot air balloon-themed birthday. It seriously looked like the most perfect day ever! What a lucky little girl – she’s one talented momma.

Decor June 7, 2012

Polaroid Facebook

I was first introduced to Deeann Rieves’ work a few years ago through a college friend of mine. Deeann is incredibly talented, which is evident if you take a look at her website. She also has a blog, and I was looking through pictures the other day and came across beautiful handwritten canvases that she had painted. I immediately fell in love. Later, I looking at Style Me Pretty, and I saw a couple’s wedding pictures taken on scrolled paper, painted in a similar style to Deeann’s canvases. I think it would be so romantic to have multiple white backdrops with the lyrics to you and your fiance’s favorite songs at the entrance of your reception, with photographers taking Polaroid pictures of the guests as they enter using ‘Stickyback’ film so that they can paste the pictures to the guestbook sheets and sign their name next to their faces – a “wedding face book,” if you will.