So I'm at Target, shopping around, minding my own business when I see it. This quilt/coverlet that I've been eye-ing for the better part of year - and it's been marked down by 50%. I was surprised that after a year the blanket is still there, but I quickly snatched it up and stuffed it (rather unsuccessfully) into my basket and made off like a bandit!

I love how it plays nicely with the other colors and patterns on the bed:



I started searching for a new quilt after reading this interview and drooling over the subsequent photos of such an amazing New Orleans home. In particular the master bedroom with its gorgeous, handmade embroidered silk quilt:



I think that the above bedding combined with another favorite of mine - Amanda Peet's bedroom (from Domino) and her John Robshaw quilt - create a similar look to what I found at Target

Such a gorgeous and romantic wedding suite!



Designed by Laura of Orange Beautiful for her sister. She did an amazing job, especially when it came to mixing and matching all the paper - that marbled beauty is so calling my name!

Finally... back to some house progress!

Pardon the iphone photo (and poor lighting! I was so excited to finish this that I had to take a pic right away instead of waiting until the room had proper lighting)

The nightstand is an Ikea Rast Dresser (as seen in some other fabulous make-overs here, here, and here) which I painted in Martha Stewart Sharkey Grey (from her discontinued line with Sherwin Williams - yes I obsessively hoard paint cards...), and re-knobbed with some ivory-esque lovelies from anthropologie (not on their site).

More of the bedroom to come soon I hope!