The bench was Goodwill score, and Mitchell attacked it with her trusty staple gun. The Alexander Girard Pillow is from Urban Outfitters, and the round side table is Thomas O'Brien for Target. Unfortunately, both have been discontinued; sometimes you have to use the same strategies for chain store shopping that you use for thrifting to score the best stuff: stopping by often, and deciding if you want to gamble on having something sell out while you wait for it to go on sale.
Girard believed in keeping the fun and wonder he saw in folk art in his own designs. He said “the hope for good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do, and who will only do what they believe. ... Contrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.”This cheerful pillow with a Girard sun on it brightens up blogger and retro-style aficionado Jenny Mitchell's bench. See the rest of this home