Decorating with Ferns

I was going to call this post, The FernGully Bathroom but I didn't think you would have the least slightest idea what I was talking about.

There was a 1992 movie by this title.
 

Here is a synopsis. 

"The fairies don't believe that humans exist until "Batty" flies in to tell them that they are real. Crysta escapes FernGully and accidentally shrinks Zak who is helping to log the rain forest. She has to bring him back to the world of the fairies so that the "Magi" can fix him. He vows to help save the rain forest once he experiences the beauty of it. He and Crysta work together to stop the evil "Hexxus" from using "The Leveler" to enact deforestation. 

I forbade my children from watching certain things. 
Sometimes because I was opposed to the content other times it was because the show was annoying. 
I'm not sure which applies here.
My daughter says that I didn't like the tree witch in this movie. I'm assuming the witch was named Hexxus. 
Creative use of names in this flick.

 I love decorating with ferns in the summer time. 
There are some great faux ferns even though I usually don't care for artificial. 
I think that I overdosed on the bad faux ivy during the 90s.   

I have a hard time keeping ferns alive. 
It turns out they like water and I haven't been vigilent about keeping them watered. 

So far I've kept the one in the garden room alive for over a year. 
I can't believe it.

A great way to create instant art is to press a fern frond in between wax paper.
It isn't so instant if it takes almost a year to put said pressed fern into a frame. 

  
My daughter did the calligraphy.
I encircled the fern with green glass collected over the years.
I broke down and made a white valance for the shower curtain in the powder room. 
I kept having to make new ones for each season.
This one has been up for two whole seasons. 

 A fern and a little metal insect from Hobby Lobby rest on the vanity. 

I pressed another fern for the entryway. 
This time I didn't dry it, to make it even more instant. 

I searched for a free image of the movie, FernGully: The Last Rainforest. 
I don't like using images unless I know for sure they aren't copyrighted which is why one doesn't appear in this post.
 
 I take issue with the title of this movie, however, because I was unable to find any ferns in the images that I found. 
Maybe they appear in FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue.

Have a great day my friends! 
Katie 

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Metal Madness/Summer 2014

I told you about my crush on Chip and Joanna Gaines from the new show, Fixer Upper. 
 Please go to the HGTV Facebook page and show your support for this show. Do it now!
HGTV needs more programing other than House Hunters.
Update: I just heard they are slated to make 13 more episodes. Whoo hoo!

I love her use of metal work so I sprinkled it about the downstairs.
Read about the Garden room here. 
The black accents look cooler and lighter for summer. 

I did a few things in the dining room to simplify and make it a little more graphic. 

I removed the crystals from the chandelier. It seems lighter and a little Spanish. I like it. 

A hunt for metal at Hobby Lobby yielded the corner brackets. 
Metal wasn't on sale so I waited until the next week. 
If it's not on sale wait a week and it might be. 

I pulled out some galvanized planters filled with ferns and greens. 
Pottery Barn seems to show ferns in their February catalogue but they're a summer thing to me. 
I used faux because ferns hate me. (Or I hate them.) 

Tuesday Morning had a few things for the living room. 

This is a garden trellis layered with a sconce. Instead of a candle I used greens to make it a vase. 
I got the trellis instead of a typical wall piece because this was $19.00 compared to $50.00.
I just used a Sawzall to cut the stakes off of the bottom.

This is the first change I have made to this wall in about 20 years. 

Rocks, moss, ferns in a glass vase are cute and simple for the mantel. 

The pillars were an oops but I love them.

These were supposed to be a Restoration Hardware brown. 
? 
Instead it looks galvanized. Haha. 
It is a flat gray dry brushed over an oil rubbed bronze finish.

I repeated elements so that all the rooms flow into one another since it is an open concept.  

Glass
Ferns
Galvanized tin
Black and Wrought Iron
Monograms

Everything feels a little more grounded with the black.
I didn't complicate the design with other typical summer elements like ships or shells.
I have all those things but they will have to wait for another summer.

Someone asked me where I store all the seasonal stuff that I use for decorating. 
I have about a dozen totes in the garage each labeled for the different seasons. 
(I realize there are only 4 seasons.)
They are stacked on the my side of the garage. Theoretically they are all stacked up together (instead of in the middle of the floor). 
Bill has begrudgingly allowed me to have one wall for my cr@p. 
"It's more like squatting, is what it is."
Clearly no permission was given, I just absconded with a wall. 
(insert sheepish grin here)
I have tried to purge and clean out my "collections" and will continue to do so this summer.

That is about it, my friends.
Have a fabulous Saturday. 
Katie   
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