Featured in Family Circle Magazine!

I'm very excited to announce that my feather linen napkins will be featured in the March Family Circle issue! Here is the page from the magazine, I love all the feathery décor!

Renegade Holiday Craft Fair, Austin, TX

I'm very excited to announce that I will be selling my handmade home décor products at the Renegade Holiday Craft Fair in Austin, Texas! The fair will be November 26-27 at the Palmer Events Center. It's free to attend and is a great opportunity to find those unique, handmade gifts and a little something for yourself. Check out all the other wonderful artists who will be selling their goods here.

Get more information on this event here

Hope to see y'all there!

Thanksgiving Dinner Table Décor

Thanksgiving is coming soon! Are you preparing a huge feast for friends and family? Perhaps a holiday dinner party? It's always so wonderful to eat dinner at a beautifully decorated dining table with wine glasses sparkling and flickering candles giving off a warm glow. My 100% linen feather napkins are perfect for a fall dinner table! Reusable and easy to wash, these natural colored napkins look lovely when paired up with some bright fall colors of orange, red, brown and yellows! Add a festive napkin tie and a beautiful centerpiece and you've got yourself a stylish table that will have your friends and family dining late into the night!

Purchase a set of these linen feather napkins at my etsy shop.

 

Geometric Pillow Even Bigger!

My black and white handmade Geometric Pillow cover is now available in a larger 16 X 16 size! This original design was created by me and has been printed onto a durable linen-cotton canvas. This bold, modern geometric handmade pillow cover makes a great accent pillow! Looks great alone or combined with other pillows. Whether you display it on your sofa or side chair, or use it to brighten your bed, this handmade pillow will be sure to add bold modern charm! Can be purchased at my Etsy shop

Backyard Deck Plans

Last weekend my dad, who is also a architect (lucky us), came down to show us some plans for our new deck we plan to build in the backyard. I've been imagining it in my head for so long now it was really exciting to see it on paper! Now we have to figure out what materials we want to use. I prefer the look of real wood but I know it can be high maintenance so we are going to shop around and look at the wood alternatives. Anyone have any good suggestions for something that holds up well and doesn't look too much like plastic?

For now I leave you with some updated photos of our living room. We still don't have shades, ugh. BUT I think I have FINALLY found a solution (fingers crossed)! I'll let you know if it works out!

Accordion Pillow Cover

I have this lovely new pillow cover now available at my etsy shop

 

 

 This handmade pillow cover is made from 100% linen which is a natural material. The accordion folds gives the cover a lot of texture which I love! Cover is 18" X 18" and is great alone or can be paired with other pillows.

A Modern Farmhouse

I've always thought it would be really awesome to own a old rustic farmhouse with a huge barn that I would turn into a art studio for me and a music studio for my husband. The house would be rustic with those old wood plank floors. I would decorate it with modern furnishings, with touches of vintage and rustic farmhouse décor. I created a treasury on Etsy of items I would put into my dreamy modern farmhouse and yesterday it made front page! You can check out these beautiful items here

Our house featured on Etsy!

Today our little bungalow is featured on the Etsy blog, Get the Look Decor! Check it out here http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2011/get-the-look-decor-old-charm/

Teardrop Trailer Love!

I just love teardrop trailers, they are super cute, especially the old ones from the 1940's! I've seen these mini trailers being towed behind old woody cars and Volkswagen Beetles. As much as I enjoy tent camping I can't help but want one of these cute little trailers to go camping with! Some come equipped with a little cooking stove in the rear. I really like the mid-century modern shape of them and I've seen them in colors of mint, red and yellow! I love them soooo much I decided to put one on a pillow since it's probably the closest I'm ever going to get to owning one. Perfect for the camper, the retro home or the vintage car collector! Go on over to my etsy shop and pick one up!

 

Laundry Room Makeover

At last, I finally have the before and after photos of our laundry room makeover! For those of you that have followed our other house makeovers on my old blog FindersKeepers this makeover is not quite as exciting as other ones but I think it's a good example how for not a lot of money you can really change the look of the room, even a tiny room like our laundry room!

The laundry room isn't completely finished but when you have a huge to-do list sometimes you just try to finish the bigger projects first and then come back later to add the finishing touches and let me tell you our to-do list is quite large!

When we first moved into our little 820 sq ft. 1940 bungalow the laundry room was pretty gross. The walls were really dirty from the previous owners dogs and although it was in decent condition it really needed a good scrubbing and repainting.

The cabinets were some past owners diy project gone really wrong. The doors weren't cut straight, there were huge gaps around the edges and the wood finish was pretty ugly.

We added a simple trim around the edges to hide the uneven edges and gaps which then allowed the doors to close properly.

I then primed and painted the cabinets white with a paint sprayer.

I also added new hardware that matches the finish on our new light fixture.

Before there was just a bare bulb for the light fixture. I found this handcrafted period style light fixture at Schoolhouse Electric and I think it looks perfect in our house! We are going to get a matching one for the hallway and maybe for the bedrooms as well.

I can't find the before photo but the old latching mechanism was completely missing on the backdoor and there was just a big round hole that allowed bugs to climb in from outside. We were able to find a new one that fit our door! It doesn't have the old patina on it so it doesn't really match the door handle but it looks a lot better than it did before. We still have to refinish the backdoor so it hasn't been painted yet, eventually it will be bright white.

Our laundry room still has the old style deep sink in which the washing machine dumps out into. It's really great having this sink for rinsing out paint brushes plus I use it to rinse out my screenprinting screens. Before the cold water faucet was frozen and so you could only use the hot water which often came out scalding hot. I found this faucet at Home Depot that fit perfectly and allowed both the hot and cold water to come out of the same spout. It may not look like much but it's nice to be able to control the temperature coming out.

We also added some plexi glass around the sink to act as a backsplash and protect the wall and paint. Someday I would like to tile this or come up with another solution but this was a cheap fix for now and since it's clear it's not very noticeable.

Before there was no molding at all in this room.

My dad came down and installed molding around the windows and doors as well as a baseboard which made a huge difference in this room! He did such a wonderful job with the molding throughout the entire house, it really made a huge impact!

I painted the walls a cream color and the trim and cabinets I painted a bright white which made this tiny space appear larger.

For not a lot of money we transformed this space from a dirty boring room to a clean room with much more charm and it now looks more 1940's than it did before!

Re-designed Pillow Cover

Since I've been back from vacation I've been hard at work re-working one of my favorite designs! My Scallop Pillow has been a pretty popular design but since it takes me so long to create, having to hand cut and sew each felt scallop individually, I've had to increase the price and still I'm really not charging enough for how long it takes me to create it making it a fairly pricey pillow cover. So I've been working on making a screenprinted version of this design and I'm really excited about how it's turned out!  I will be taking photos of the new version this week and will be adding them to my etsy shop. Photos coming soon!

New Stag Tea Towels Now Available!

I've been hard at work on my Stag Deer collection and I'm just about done now! After this I will begin work on a new collection. The newest edition to my Etsy shop are my Stag Deer Tea Towels. These tea towels are hand sewn from 100% linen and screenprinted by me using a water based non-toxic ink. Linen is a natural material made from the flax plant which is very absorbent and gets softer and softer with each washing, perfect for drying hands or the dishes! Towel is completely handmade by me in my San Diego, CA studio. Tea towels measure approximately 16"W X 25.5"H and features a 100% cotton twill loop on the backside for easy hanging. They are pre-washed and pre-shrunk.

Here are photos of the different color options:

Grey with White Stag

White with yellow stag

Brown with semi-transparent cream stag

Hello!

Hello! My name is Amy and I am the designer behind FindersKeepers and now my new Etsy shop  Tangerine a handmade home décor shop. I recently opened my new shop Tangerine because I decided I wanted a new name and new look and since user names can't be changed I decided to open a new store. Tangerine will be focused on more eco friendly designs, more original designs created by me and I am now set up to screenprint my designs so I will be introducing fully washable table linens into my shop which I'm very excited about! I have a ton of new designs I can't wait to get into my new shop, I wish there was more time in the day so I could hurry up and finish them and share them with everyone!

Some of you may have been following me on my old blog FindersKeepers I will still be adding new photos of our home remodeling projects as we complete them. I'm hoping to have our laundry room completed in a few weeks and this summer we will begin work on our backyard landscaping!

Here is a look at my new 100% linen Stag Deer pillow covers. Completely handmade by me and screenprinted using water based non-toxic inks. They are now available in my Etsy shop