Harper Valley

Decorative Refrigerator Magnets

Is your refrigerator depressed? 

Does it feel hopeless and sad, with no bright outlook on the future? 

Mine was.  But I didn't realize it needed therapy until I received a package of giant floral refrigerator magnets from my friend, Michelle.

Within minutes, my fridge was transformed from a pitiful place to store food... into a cool celebration.  Voila!

 

Michelle picked up these magnets at a little shop in the Pacific Northwest.  I've never seen magnets this large, so if you can't find them... mimic this idea by using vinyl wall decals instead.  

In 2008, LG Electronics made a series of appliances with whimsical designs on their exteriors.  They were only available in Malaysia, but who needs Malaysia?  You can do this yourself! 

Online at stores like Etsy or Dezign with a Z have a huge selection of vinyl wall decals.  Plus, they're easy to remove so you won't damage your precious hunks of metal.   

 

Breathe new life into your kitchen with these ideas.  They'll make those Cinderella chore days a bit more bearable.  Decals are the new appliance therapy!

p.s. Thank you for the super thoughtful gift, Ms. Workman.  : )

The King's Speech... and Walls

The King's Speech.  It's been all the buzz, and rightly so.  I finally got around to seeing it last weekend.  What a treat!  I fell in love with Geoffrey Rush all over again. 

I fell in love with the story too.  How could I not?  A royal leader healed from a debilitating speech impediment through true friendship and unconventional techniques of a speech therapist with no pedigree.  This is the kind of movie I could watch over and over again....

Ya know what else I fell in love with?

The walls.

Weird, right? 

But how could I not fall in love with THIS wall?  This is the office of Lionel Logue (great name!), Bertie's speech therapist. 

It's simply stunning.  And it's even more mesmerizing on the big screen.   Look at the history on that wall.  Years and years of peeling paint and wallpaper.  Oh, I bet this wall could tell some stories. 

THE WALL. This image is from the location in which the movie was shot, Portland Place, London. Photo courtesy of David Barrie.

 

Here's another one of my faves.  Lionel in his study at home.  The art deco wallpaper took center stage here.  Most of the scenes were framed this way, or from an equally creative view point.  I was drooling over this one.

 

The final scene in the movie features Lionel's newly converted BBC broadcast area.  From a dreaded lone desk... to a cozy room draped with velvet curtains on the walls and ceiling.   Bertie felt safer and so did England.

 

The walls in The King's Speech were characters of their own.  There were many more walls that stood out to me...  this is just a sampling to get you excited and motivated to see the film. 

If you already saw it, what did you think of the walls?  Which ones were your favorites?