Stenciling

I’m having one of those weeks that’s packed to the gills, morning ’til night. Between work, running (I told myself I’d run every day for 30 days and am totally regretting it already.), and something on every evening, there won’t be many free moments for the creative projects I have spinning through my head.

So instead beating myself up for not getting to my projects, I’m just going to talk about them. (And try not to spend too much time daydreaming about them when I should be working!)

The dining room table in our house is a little sad and I’ve been scheming up ways to give it a new lease on life. My newest plan? Painting it off-white (I’d paint every inch of our house off-white if Michael would let me!) and adding a stencil in a pretty color.

Our living room/dining room is currently a hodge-podge of neutrals and I’d like to bring in more accents of tangerine and aqua to pull it together more strongly.

These are just a few I’m taking vague inspiration from. Hopefully in the next week I’ll convince Michael this is a great idea and have lots of pretty *after* photos for you!

{pretty aqua stencil from here}

{damask from here}

{negative space from Emily Henderson}

{this isn’t a table, but love that shiny stencil!}