Lace screen room divider

A netherlands designer created an amazing lace room divider. It is made out of concrete and different materials like ribbon and 1 mm. steel cable. Can ube used in your home, hotel lobbies, auditoriums and public buildings.
One of the many uses of the beauty of lace.

Jennifer Lopez romantic home decor

Romantic home decor is enjoyed even by celebrities. Actress and singer Jennifer Lopez opened up her romantic newly remodeled California mansion to Veranda magazine. Following soft lines, delicate accessories and a touch of romance, her home reflects elegance and shabby chic sophistication.”It’s tastefully glamorous, like Jennifer herself. She really has a romantic streak. That approach goes along with my whole design philosophy, which is about capturing the personalities of the homeowners” explained the designer.

The photos reveal the home is washed with white and pastels, highlighting
the spacious, airy feel of the rooms. Though the magazine was restricted in letting readers know the exact address of Lopez’s home, real estate blog HousingWatch reports it may be her 17,000 square foot estate in Hidden Hills, Calif.

Wherever the home is, you bet J.Lo got what J.Lo wanted when it came to the design.

“She expects you to be fast, and she’s fast in getting back to you. So often with clients, you are waiting and waiting for approvals. But not Jennifer. She knows what she likes,” Workman told the magazine.

The 41-year-old Lopez shares the home with hubby Marc Anthony and their two kids.

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Teddy Bears

Did you know the word “Teddy” in Teddy Bears refers to president Teddy Roosevelt?   Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt was our 26th president and the person responsible for giving the teddy bear his name.  On November 14, 1902, Roosevelt was helping settle a border dispute between Mississippi and Louisiana.  While attending a bear hunt in Mississippi, Roosevelt came upon a wounded young bear and was so touched, that he ordered the mercy killing of the animal.  The Washington Post run several cartoons that illustrated the event.  One of the later drawn cartoons, depicts the bear as a cuddly cub, rising the popularity of the cartoon and later-on becoming a toy favored amongst children.  In addition to a toy, teddy bears became a collectible, room decoration, fashion icon and accessory king.  Today, we have teddy bear museums, teddy bear festivals, children movies, “build-a-bear” stores, with a mass production of teddy bears that brought in 1.3 billion dollars in sales in 2006.   Teddy bears are a classic toy that bring feelings of warmth and love.  Adored by children worldwide, they are the number 1 stuffed animal and toy choice for kids.  The enjoyment of teddy bears is not limited to children alone.  Since their mass production, teddy bears are used by adults as room decor.  For example, instead of throw pillows, place teddy bears on your sofa, or accent chairs in your living areas using teddies.  Supplement your seasonal decor by using bears on your mantle place, under the Christmas tree, in stockings, or place within a pumpkin for a Halloween celebration.  Teddy bears also make great decor accents for a baby nursery.  Even when the sex of the baby is unknown, teddy bears are the way to go to create an adorable atmosphere for the baby.

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Antique Lace Tissue Box Cover

Victorian decorating doesn’t have to be stuffy or overly formal.  The old Victorian style of decor has evolved into today’s romantic chic decorating style.  When we purchased our English Tudor, I used lots of simple elements to decorate that weren’t murder on our wallet.  In using rich wall colors, good solid wood furniture, lace accents, distinctive rugs, I found it easy to focus on the atmosphere that suits my family best in each room.  Always start by picking colors that make you happy.  Create a palette of colors for each room keeping in mind what each room will be used for.  For example, choose warmer colors in the kitchen, because it’s often the room that enriches with food and good company.  Keep the cooler colors for your bedroom, where you end your day looking  for a calm and serene environment to refuel  for the next day.  I found that incorporating accessories in your home that bring you joy becomes a valuable source of spiritual replenishment  and happiness.  In my case, keeping my favorite pictures of my kids throughout my home reminds me to focus on my blessings and brings a sense of peace.  I absolutely love old Victorian frames.  While visiting an antique flea market, I came across small old mirrors with lovely frames.  I renovated them to use as picture frames and arranged them to display my valuable memories. 

I found that there is no need to spend a fortune on linens and doilies.  While browsing through a garage sale a few years ago, I came across a bag filled with old pieces of lace.   A portion of the pieces were too damaged to use, but others were washed and currently serve as doilies throughout my home.  I’ve found that venise lace remains beautiful, even after the harmful effects of aging.  I’ve set old pieces of venice lace on the shelves of my china cabinet, on my night table, on the living room coffee table as a runner.  Lace is a magnificent fabric that creates elegance. 

Incidentally, nothing goes better with lace than roses.  Today’s rose bouquet vases look and feel like the real thing and are very cost effective.  I’ve placed several throughout my home, not only do they complement any style of furniture, they also bring out all the accents around them. Who can resist a lavishly decorated table with lace, framed pictures and a magnificent bouquet of roses? 

 Although difficult on the wallet, invest in buying good quality, comfortable  furniture.  Even if you move, the re-sale value of solid wood furniture way outnumbers other cost effective furnishing, so it’s a win-win situation.   If possible, save until you can purchase a good piece of antique furniture as the focal point of your room.  Every decoration falls into place easier around a distinctive piece of antique furniture.

 Never disregard your bathroom decor.  Even finding ourselves decades away from the old “outhouse”, bath decor today is often overlooked. Thinking along the lines of necessities, the bathroom and kitchen are the most important rooms of a home because they provide food and personal care.  With today’s state of the art showers and tubs, the bathroom has been transformed into a favorite room that provides much needed relaxation and grooming.  I incorporated many Victorian touches to my bathroom.  Starting with a golden tone floral wallpaper, I added distinctive victorian accessories like roses, golden cherub shelves, unique vintage jugs, lace tissue box covers, and toilet roll covers as accents.

Modern Roll of Toilet Paper

Just in case you are not happy to live in the twenty-first century and take for granted the simple amenities we enjoy in everyday life, like general grooming items, for example, like soap, toothpaste and toilet tissue paper.  How would you manage without them?  Did you every wonder, for instance, who invented toilet paper and what was used before its invention?  We can go back in history to the ancient Greeks, for instance, whose idea of using stones or pieces of clay was a bit rougher than the Romans, who used sponges on the ends of sticks that were kept in jugs filled with salty water.  Mid Easterners commonly used the left hand, which is supposedly still considered unclean in the Arabic region.  But who first thought about using paper for personal hygiene?  If we could travel back in time to 1391, we would encounted a Chinese emperor who demanded the first paper sheets sliced to be placed in his outhouse.  The first “official” toilet paper was introduced in China measuring a whopping 2 feet X 3 feet each.  In early American years, on common alternative happened to be corncobs.  If you lived in early rural America, you would find a corncob hanging from a string in the outhouse for purposes of personal hygiene.  The string, as it turns out, was to permit the cob to be reused.  While in coastal regions, the cob might be replaced by a mussel shell, the preferred method became plant leaves and magazines.  In fact, Sears received significant complaints when they switched to color coated shiny paper.  As history would have it, an important move towards the production and distribution of modern toilet tissue paper came from a simple teacher from Philadelphia in 1907.  Concerned about a mild cold epidemic-  See more about this story  Find victorian lace roll covers -  tissue box covers - at antiquetissuecovers.com

Victorian Lady

We are accustomed to thinking about the Victorian Era as a period in history filled with uptight, prudish people who wore incredibly uncomfortable outfits.  However, we are now finding out nothing could be further from the truth.  In 1973, a historian gathering research for a book came upon the papers of Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher, a former teacher at Stanford’s hygiene department around the turn of the 20th century. At coming across a mysterious bound file, the historian put it aside, asuming it was an old manuscript of Mosher’s publiched works. Instead, he found a sex survey conducted during a time when discussing sex was considered taboo in society. The survey was completed beteween 1892 and 1920 by Dr. Cleilia Duel Mosher.  The very limited history found on Dr. Mosher curiously points towards the fact but she appears to have be the early version of a feminist.  In the survey, Dr. Mosher asked a wide array of questions centrally seeking to find out if victorian women were in fact satisfied and happy with their sex lives.  Of those surveyed, three quarters said that they made love once a week and almost half claimed that mutual pleasure was their number one reason for the encounter.   One woman wrote: “The highest devotion is based upon it, a very beautiful thing, and I am glad nature gave it to us.”  Another woman explained..”in my experience the habitual bodily expression of love has a deep psychological effect in making possible complete mental sympathy and perfecting the spiritual union that must be the lasting “marriage” after the passion of love has passed away with the years.” Suprisingly, most of the women surveyed were not shy about speaking their mind. One called sex “a nomal desire” and that “rational use of it tends to keep people healthier.” The librarian in charge of where the manuscript was kept said that no one had ever looked at any of Mosher’s archived papers.

The Quaker Lace Company of Philadelphia was founded in 1889 and started out as the Bromley Manufacturing Company, founded by the three sons of John Bromley. Mr. Bromley was an English carpet weaver who immigrated to Philadelphia in the 1840s and later became the patriarch of one of the city’s largest textile enterprises.  To large-produce lace for America, the Bromleys dipped into the profits they had made on their carpet business in England. This allowed them import not only expensive lace looms, but also the skilled weavers to produce them from Nottingham, England.     See more…