dreamy whites.

the awesome thing about my job is that i get to do a lot of fun research.. like looking at blogs. i am always looking for great inspiration or ideas for different projects and i came across this blog a few weeks ago and i am in love.

love, love, LOVE the headboard and the frye boots beside the bed.

love, love, LOVE the tin ceiling, the chandelier, the hydrangeas

and here is her daughters room..

love the pink peony pillows and the little green chair. so sweet.

(all photos from dreamywhites.blogspot.com)

i love your blog, i love you home. thank you dreamy whites for having such great style.

much love,

mary morgan

amy butler + etsy = dangerous

as i am researching and scouring the web for ideas for our new house i fell in love with the idea of mixing and matching some fun amy butler prints (in no particular order based on photos).

i am thinking one basic polka dot pillow pattern mixed with two coordinating patterns. i can just see it now, pretty white sofas, against pretty gray walls and pretty amy butler prints everywhere. it will be so.. pretty.

all photos from etsy.com, persnickety home designs.

i heart amy butler, she is so good at what she does.

happy thursday!

much love,

mary morgan

working with gray.

well we signed a lease on a town home in nashville monday night and i am so excited i can barely stand it.

the walls are this great color of gray, the color gray i always dream about, the color gray that i always see in in restoration hardware and say "i love this color," the color gray that is hip and cool and modern.. but there is a problem. gray is great and awesome when you have a great and awesome budget to buy wonderful white couches and you live in a magazine where white couches never get dirty. but i dont have a budget like that and i dont live in a magazine.

so i am scouring the internet for scotch-guarded white slip covers that i can throw in the washing machine every few weeks and fun, bright affordable accents to bring it all together.

i currently have a bookmarked folder entitled, "ikea wish list" and have the gas tank full to drive to atlanta at any moment.

here are some inspirational photos of a world where people live with white couches that are miraculously clean. enjoy.


























much love,

mary morgan

how great thou art.

this piece was an on going process. i started it this spring, finished the background and then it sat on my dining room table for months. literally, ask my roommates. the reason i couldn't finish it was because i was trying to think of the perfect phrase or quote to write on it. but then it hit me, a hymn. i absolutely love hymns. they are filled with simple truths. i even have a hymns mixed cd. its filled with my favorite country and bluegrass singers singing old songs, and i love it. so do my friends, on a road trip back from atlanta last summer we listened to it the whole way back. okay, enough about hymns.

this is for sale. it is a 12 by 24 acrylic on canvas. the background color is a mossy green, dark robins egg blue center and white lettering. it is $45. please email me at rebeccaandvirginia@gmail.com if you are interested.





much love,

mary morgan

i sew.

first, i wanted to show you the beautiful roses i got this past week. we had our last SGA meeting at school and it was bittersweet. bitter, because it was my last meeting as student body president and sweet, because they surprised me with these pretty little things and an hour massage at essential therapy. thank you. thank you. thank thank you. to 'my boys' and the senate.

now on to more crafty things.. i went home and picked up this heavy, heavy, heavy machine. its my necchi sewing machine. its my favorite because a. it was free (a hand me down from my aunt and uncle) 2. it is HEAVY duty (no plastic here, its pure metal) 3. its simple (no fancy computer screen or tricky buttons)

four years ago i couldn't sew a straight line. but thanks to many, many, sewing, construction and flat pattern classes and many, many hours spent in the closet (literally) they like to call "the clothing lab" it think its time to put all that education to some good use.

so i went to fabric heaven, aka textile fabrics and found these pretty little prints.

and then i decided to make another "katie dress." here it is mid-progress (right before i screwed up and had to rip out the whole back side with my seam ripper, hey i never said i was perfect. it takes lots and lots, multiply 'lots' times 100, of practice.

and here is my favorite part about sewing, the pressing (aka: ironing). i love ironing. it's my stress release. there is just something about taking a wrinkly old piece of fabirc and making it all smooth and pretty again. and proper pressing is the key to a well made garment. i promise. its all about the details.

and drum roll please. here is the first finished product. and my cute friend laura modeling, thank you. i have also started a shirt and a baby's dress. so stay tuned.

so heres to putting your degree to good use. somewhere my parents are wandering what they are going to do with me.

got to love a middle child.

much love,

mary morgan

the katie dress.

this past sunday afternoon i was looking around the craft room at home trying to find something to do and then i found this old floral fabric. four hours later..a dress. (if you ever want to learn about patience, learn to sew. or if you are a boy, learn to fish).

it was super easy to make.. i simply sewed the skirt portion, hemmed and ruffled the top. i bought the tank at target and used the excess fabric to make the ruffle and voila a simple sundress.

i like to call it "the katie dress."

special thanks to my best friend, roommate, kindred spirit, katie for being my model.

much love,

mary morgan

independent study.

as a senior textiles and apparel major i was able to pick a special topic for an independent study for my last semester in college. i chose to study surface design. i researched the history of textile surface design, techniques and surface designers, but my favorite part of my independent study was researching textiles through out the decades and one of my best resources was this blog.

here are some of my favorites.

1920

1940

1966

1950

much love,

mary morgan

pretty in pink.

paint anything pink and i will most likely fall in love with it. if i were to ever have my dream pink house, i think it would look a little something like this..