Master Update

It has not been quite a year since I participated in ORC.  Late last spring, I decorated this room on a six week time table and a budget. At that time, I used some items that I had until I could acquire what I wanted. Since then, I have made a few inexpensive changes to the "master" bedroom. One of them is the perfect pillow purchase.

I think I've told you that I have an obsession with pillows. I almost always have. I attribute the want to many siblings, and the fact that pillows always seemed to disappear. Today, I can never have too many pillows; so much so, that I really should close my eyes when I walk by a display. 

I am particularly attracted to the detail and perfection of handmade pillows. Thus, while I was recently shopping locally, I did not avoid the display, and purchased this enchanting, handmade pillow for the home. I am obsessed, and I brought this pillow home, not really knowing where it was going! My daughter spotted it as I brought it in, and after she scolded me, she said, "try it on your bed." Well she was right. And, I was right; there was a place for it, so there it stays, because it pulls the room together. 

It was locally handmade from vintage French cloth and a French bag. 

(She does not have a website.)

It also looks nice with the art I have in this room: western women outdoors, and you can see a partial reflection of one in the antique mirror. 

The cross was found years ago, and I was told it was from Ethiopia.

The Madonna was a Mother's Day gift from my daughter.

The curtains on the bed are from Ikea (lace) and P B (linen) and the windows are (P B).

As you can see, it is a really small room. There is bureau on one side and armoire on the other, and a chest in front of the bed that can't be seen in these photos, and a chair in the corner. Except for the quilted linen shams from P B, the bed linens and shams were made by a Portuguese company . 

Madeline and Francis are in the chair in front of my daughter's portrait.

Up soon... the garden... and

soon...The Madhatter Library... Last year when I did ORC, it ended up being two rooms.
I changed my library, because we switched a library piece with a bedroom piece, which required some changes as well. We went from dark to light in the bedroom and light to dark in the library. I never showed the transformation and inexpensive changes made to the library over the course of ORC.

And if you missed them... the recent changes in the living room

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