Hi Everyone! Welcome to the Ultimate Blog Party. I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Penny and I am a mosaic artist and a Home Goods Team Blogger. I own my own online boutique, Lavender Hill Studio where I sell my mosaics and whimsical lighting. My mosaics are created with vintage china and stained glass. My lighting is created from vintage chandeliers. teapots, tea cups and prisms. I am thrilled to be a part of Home Goods Open House Blog! I thought I would tell a little bit about myself, my decorating style.
My decorating style is Old World Chic with a little American Cottage thrown in for good measure. I love toile, roosters, checks, birds nests, mercury glass and more. Combine all of that with a red and white checked quilt and you have my decorating style!
When not in my mosaic studio you can find me in the garden, at the flea market, thrifting, seeking out bargains at Home Goods, creating cozy dinners for two to a crowd and reading decorating magazines and blogs. In future posts I will share recipes, gardening ideas, decorating ideas, turning flea market finds into wonderful pieces for your home and much more.
Today’s post is all about birds! Did you notice what a hot decorating item birds are this spring? They are on plates, pillows, fabrics, note cards and more! A quick and inexpensive way to update your home no matter what your decorating style, is to add a couple of birds to your decor. I have pictured some of the way I use birds in decorating my home.
You can see more of my decorating style by clicking here.I would love to know more about you and your decorating style so please leave me a comment. To win great prizes, click on the Ultimate Blog Party link below and follow the instructions!
1. Your work is beautiful!
by Donna — 3/21/09 at 12:22 pm #
2. great blog so glad I found you through the ultimate blog party, I signed up for e-mail updates.
Happy UBP 2009
by Pamela — 3/21/09 at 1:15 pm #
3. Hi Penny, fun to see you here. I certainly have noticed the bird decor everywhere. I love it!
by Mermaid Debbie — 3/21/09 at 2:25 pm #
4. Hi Penny, my youngest daughter has bird decor in her room…which is in honor to my bird-watching mom!
by Susan — 3/21/09 at 4:18 pm #
5. Love your style Penny:>) Happy Spring!
by Kathy — 3/21/09 at 5:24 pm #
6. Hi Penny,
I love your decorating style and have seen how you use your little birds& birdhouses so creatively. I’m off soon to Homegoods to see what they have for spring!!
xoxo
Jane
by Jane — 3/21/09 at 6:44 pm #
7. Hi Penny. I love seeing your work. My decorating style? Well, it is rustic, country, with some victorian thrown in for good measure. By that I mean, we have a cabin setting, with bears (stuffed toys), deer (real), wood and tin walls and ceilings, cement floors (natural undyed), wood burning stove (heat), along with quilts, antiques, stained glass, lace. I do have bird houses, that DH made and I painted. Also a rather large collection of pink, green and carnival glass dishes. All this enveloped in what one man called out tin shack, because the outside of the house is steel siding. LOL.
by Gail — 3/21/09 at 8:49 pm #
8. Great post Penny. Yesterday I was playing around with Flickr and searched “french country bedroom” and yours popped up first. I feel like I know a celebrity!
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Janet
by janet — 3/21/09 at 9:52 pm #
9. I’d LOVE to win the $100 gift card to HomeGoods! My Mom introduced me to HomeGoods years ago and I fell in love with it! How great to be participating in the Ultimate Blog Party!
Janine
by Janine — 3/22/09 at 12:42 am #
10. Thanks to UBP because I discovered Home Goods! And I now know that there are 3 stores in my area! I love it!
by Rona — 3/22/09 at 10:21 am #
11. My decorating style is French Country with a little Tuscan thrown in. My prize possession is a French wine tasting table. Our screened porch is all about mountains and twigs. Great for those birds you speak of. Love your ideas.
by Penny — 3/22/09 at 10:29 am #
12. Yes, I have noticed that birds are big this year. They’ve always been big with me, however!
Brenda
by Brenda — 3/22/09 at 5:35 pm #
13. Penny,
I can’t get enough birds and I love the one you have on your mosaic bird house. He looks happy to be moving in.
Gretchen
by Gretchen — 3/22/09 at 6:57 pm #
14. Hi Penny
I love the birdhouse. What a creative way to use a lid! The colors ae great too!
by Rhondi — 3/22/09 at 7:22 pm #
15. I LOVE birds! (And you have some lovely creations).
Janne
http://janne.cc/blog
by Janne — 3/22/09 at 9:47 pm #
16. Wow, I love your work! You are so talented!
Enjoy the blog party!
Beth
by beth — 3/23/09 at 8:53 am #
17. Ugh, I love homegoods! Happy UBP!
by Sarah — 3/23/09 at 9:53 am #
18. Hi Penny! I love anything mosaic art. Wow!
Nice meeting you on UBP ‘09 and I am very hopeful I will win the HG OpenHouse GC! ;D
by Jocelyn @ Hip Mama’s Place — 3/23/09 at 1:42 pm #
19. Thanks for the inspiration, Penny! I ran by HomeGoods this morning while I was doing errands, and look who I found - a sweet momma birdie with her baby under her wing. And she’s a key-hider!! Who knew? Our last one looked like a rock, and we lost it somewhere in the garden, but I don’t think we will have that problem now. Thank you Penny, and thank you HomeGoods!
by Andrea — 3/23/09 at 2:37 pm #
20. Hi Penny
I love your mosaic work. The birdhouse you made is so adorable!
A blog party! What fun! Hope I win something. Thanks!
Hugs, Pat
by Pat — 3/23/09 at 11:27 pm #
21. I love Home Goods. Please enter me in your giveaway. Thank you for your generosity!
by Brook — 3/24/09 at 3:20 am #
22. Nice to meet you!
Talk about a party!
I’m quite intrigued and am learning how to get around!
Just stopping by from 5minutes for moms blog party!
by JamericanSpice — 3/24/09 at 4:13 am #
23. Hi! So nice to meet you! I love toile too! Party hopping and participating too so stop in for a visit.
by Baba — 3/25/09 at 10:29 pm #
24. Hello! Poppin’ in from The Ultimate Blog Party…all the way from Queensland, Australia! G’Day! I hope you have time to visit my party soon.
I’m giving away Pink Champagne Shower Syrup from Jaqua Beauty…stop on over and enter! Ends April 8. Open to USA.
Ta!
I want to invite you to the Mommie Daze Virtual Baby Shower that I am hosting May 15 to June 8. This is an international even and there are prizes! Stop by my blog for all the details.
by Deborah — 3/27/09 at 7:04 pm #
25. Great site…keep up the good work.
by Bill — 9/1/09 at 5:31 pm #