Blogspot - Recipe Scratch Rusia

What is it about Cottages that make us so easily swoon.  While the world is constantly telling us that more is more, bigger is better, we all go gaga over cottages.  Is it that we crave simplicity and the slowing down that surely happens inside this picket fence?  I imagine the grass is very green inside this cottage's garden gate. So simple and lovely.  I wonder how they live without a basement full of junk they don't need? ; )  When I look at homes like these, I automatically think about the lifestyle that would go with a home like this.  I'm sure their kids don't want an iPad or LOL dolls (if you know what that is, then you are the mother of a 5-8 year old girl like me!). These charming cottages and all of the feels I get from them have inspired my Summer Collection .  When I'm creating a new collection, I compile inspiration photos like the ones above and below, and visualize the rest of the picture.  What do I  think   hope  th...

Since we've found our new textile manufacturing partners (Rightfully Sewn), I've been excited to expand my custom pillow options.  I'll continue to add more each season and I look forward to it being a big focus of each collection moving forward.   I get a lot of questions about what size pillows to use and how to arrange them.  I put together three design boards based on three different color sofa that I think are pretty popular - Cream (like my hearth room), Beige/Oatmeal (like our formal living room) and Grey (which I don't have, but my sister does...). The most important size for me is the Large 22" Squares that anchor each side of the sofa.  In my (humble, wink) opinion, a 20" squares are too small to be on a sofa by themselves.  They need the larger pillows to fill it out.  I use the 20" as accents with the 22", or use the 20" in a chair by itself.   In the arrangement above, as seen below in real photos of our Hearth Room, I used two 22...

Last Fall, I let you in to my process of creating my custom block print textiles.  The newest to the collection is the the Fleur.  It was actually called the "Small Berry Stem" (by me) but so many of you kept referring to it as the Fleur, that I followed suit.  And the name suits it, I think.  It is delicate and small, graphic and when it was printed by the wood blocks, reminiscent of a fleur de lis. It is available in both a green and light blue right now.  I've ordered it in a deep blue and a gold color for later collections.  Are there other colors you'd like to see it in?  Maybe a grey? The Green Fleur is so lovely and truly seasonless.  I am using it now with my blue check and block print pillows, and it will still look great with richer tones come in this Fall.  And of course, it will look perfect for the holidays.  I tend to stick to natural greens and golds for the holidays an accent with a little bit of red.  All of my cust...