Before and After: Tiny Turquoise Weathered School Chair

Hey! It's Tuesday, my invites went in the mail today and I'm feeling light as a feather! What a weight off. I took lots of pics that I'll share with you tomorrow. For now, here's the final Lather reveal in the set of commissions I did recently. Local photographer Melanie picked out this teensy little toddler chair I had on hand to use in her wee one's photogaphy.

It's the perfect little size and super solid. So I painted it in a bright and vivid turquoise colour then roughed it up real good. It was coated with water-based poly for finishing.

Recognize the sock monkey? Yup, it's the same one I made for my nephew Wyatt, that my dog Gus promptly chewed into and ate his eye. Sigh.

Hope you're having a good week? Anything new and exciting to share?

Agency Style Peek: Festivalitis

Say hi to Theresa! She's an account director here at Fusion. Last week, she got back from Coachella so we're all just a little bit jealous (at least the music geeks like me are!). I was loving her hippy-casual festival look (plus she's usually dressed up fancy pants for client meetings), so I snagged her for a few pics for today's Agency Style Peek. Doesn't she look like she just got back from frolicking amonst So-Cal's desert plains while uber-hip bands rock out on stage?

Minus the boots of course. That's just because we all woke up to 4 inches of show yesterday. Every girl in the office had to break her boots out of storage for work today...all you could hear were boot heels clacking around.

Sheer floral tunic - H&M

Grey skinny jeans - Michael Kors (purchased in LA - ooh la la!)

Boots - Aldo

As for the shows, Theresa's faves were The National and The Black Keys!

Question for you - what's the best concert you've ever seen? Mine's a toss up between The Prodigy at the Brixton Academy in London (97), The Pixies at Red's in Edmonton (2003?) and Madonna at the MGM Grand in Vegas (2006). We just got word the Kings of Leon are coming to Winnipeg this fall so I'm hoping to score tickets!

Have a great day friends!

Sunny Tips

Hey friends! For those of you who don't live in Winnipeg - let me tell you...we can sure have some wacky weather. All week it's been like summer. Then bam! Blizzard. We woke up to 4 inches of snow and it has continued to snow and blow all day long. Considering we had to drive out to Gimli and install a new stove for our rental tenant - it was not the bestest of days. But as I was wallowing in some seasonal affective disorder blues, I decided to do a little something to pull myself out of it.

Coral is the colour of the season and I'm not one to dive on the trends as soon as they show their face, but I love this colour. I've already picked up a bright coral cardigan and earlier in the week, I picked out a gorgeous vivid orangey-red shade of nail polish to go with the +20 temperatures we were having.

How can you not feel a little brighter every time you look down at these flirty tips?? They kind of even make my hand look a little tanned - ha ha! Perfect for fighting off the depressing white stuff.

The other bright side of this weekend is that the wedding invitations are completely ready for our little assembly party tomorrow night and the big plan is to mail them on Tuesday - yay! I cannot express enough how much of a weight this is off my shoulders. I still can't believe I took it on and although I'm very proud of the results - I'm fairly exhausted. My Red River College workshops are the next two weekends so it's going to continue to be busy, busy, busy!

Sorry the blog is the first thing to get neglected but I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. Please keep cheering me on! Your support and encouraging comments mean the world to me, so thanks guys.

Hope you all had a FANTASTIC weekend and an AWESOME week ahead! By the way - are you loving the new coral this season or is it just way too much for you? How are you styling it?