Wednesday Weekly Wish List #198

Your weekly dose of new ideas, helpful hints, favorite items, and tidbits of wisdom…from a trio of lifestyle bloggers who love to share! 

Today’s Features

Lory | Designthusiasm

1. READER FAVORITE THIS WEEK: Looking to add a little luxe to your family room? In this week’s 5 Ways to Upgrade Your Family Room for Luxury and Comfort, we look at affordable upgrades that add style, warmth, and functionality to your family room.

2. TOP SEASONAL POSTS:

• Bring the garden indoors with spring garden decor ideas for indoor spaces.
• Upgrade your reading ritual with these free spring printable bookmarks.
• Be inspired by this elegant Easter table with soft colors.
• This super easy Easter centerpiece, a simple project to add charm to your Easter gathering.

3. AMAZON PICKS: here are this week’s favorites from Amazon.

4. ALSO ON THE BLOG THIS WEEK: Spring is many things, including house tour season! In that spirit, enjoy a tour of 3 stunning French-inspired homes, each filled with unique touches that will spark fresh ideas for your own decor.

5. CURRENT DECOR CRUSHES:

• These stunning delicate melamine dinner plates.
• These lovely faux lilac stems.
• This rustic ceramic and glass hurricane.
• This wonderful vintage print framed art.
• This springy faux wild grass & eucalyptus wreath.

6. TOP FASHION PICKS – Spring classics:

• This fabulous relaxed fit trench coat with button-back detail.
• These terrific cropped wide-leg patch-pocket jeans.
• This easy-chic linen maxi slip skirt.
• This oversized chambray button-down shirt.
• This wonderful canvas & vegan leather top handle bag.

7. CURRENT FURNITURE DEALS:

• This bamboo-inspired armchair gives an organic, update and relaxed vibe.
• This chic sofa goes with any style and is sleek but plush.
• This beautiful arched armoire makes a great focal point and stores a lot.
• This lovely tufted back recliner has elegant lines.
• Tie it all together with this fabulous antelope patterned rug.

8. WHAT I’M READING: How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits, a delightfully “fresh and spirited take on what it really means to be a Parisienne: how they dress, entertain, have fun and attempt to behave themselves.” Not your typical how to be like French women book!

9. WHAT’S INSPIRING ME AROUND THE WEB: Not that long ago, I discovered a blog that celebrates the little luxuries and small pleasures in life that I so love! All the better, this blog, The Simply Luxuriously Life, is tailored for the Anglophiles and Francophiles out there. I found it while looking for my next book to read, and loved the author’s first book, Choosing the Simply Luxurious Life. I’ve since read the next two and she’s currently working on her fourth!

10. UP NEXT: Preparing your home for summer guests.

Yvonne | StoneGable

1. ON THE BLOG: Did you know I post a menu plan and other delicious recipes every Friday? Check out 45 mouthwatering recipes On The Menu this week.

2. AMAZON FINDS: See all my favorite new picks in my Amazon Shop.

3. 5 DAYS TO BE A BETTER DECORATOR: In just 5 days, you can tackle your biggest decorating issues and get unstuck! I’ll show you how. Sign up HERE.

4. FABULOUS HOME DECOR FINDS:

• This classic, go with everything checked pillow.
• Must-have white clay pot with ruffled edge for summer planting.
• This willow garden obelisk to add to your planters.
• This scalloped pedestal bowl.
• Set of 4 scalloped stoneware plates. Perfect for Easter.
• This large blue ginger jar lamp.
• Cheetah rug in my office (LOVE)- color champagne.
• Trio of black and white botanical pictures.

5. BEAUTIFUL HOMES AND MORE: You will love this Charleston Home! It’s stunning and filled with ideas you can use in your home. This home in the Hamptons is one of my favorites and worth another look! Bunny Williams shows us how to create a lovely, easy flower arrangement.

6. CURATED CLOSET:

• This is the year of the dress. LOVE this comfortable, wear everywhere dress.
• I wore these white pants on vacation and loved them.
• Last week’s most popular straw tote.
• This gorgeous bell-sleeved summer cardigan.
• This V-neck lace tuggless tank top.
• This gorgeous crochet lace top.
• This NO-IRON linen blouse in lots of colors.
• LOVE these slingbacks in prosecco and my favorite summer slip-on sneakers.

7. FUN AND INTERESTING FACTS: What is April’s birthstone and flowers? How is the date for Easter determined every year?

8. THIS AND THAT: Decorating becomes easier when you know a few interior design basics, and I’m here to assist you! Join me at Decorating School, featuring 70 posts and lessons designed to help you become a better home decorator! Get inspired for garden season with 5 Best Small Space Garden Ideas. It’s my favorite way to dig in the dirt and have herbs, veggies, and flowers until frost. Have you named your home? See why Southerners name their homes, and you should too.

9. CULINARY CORNER: Prosciutto Asparagus Bundles: Preheat the oven to 425 °. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Roll out two puff pastry sheets on a floured surface to double their size and cut each into six squares. Toss one bunch of fresh asparagus with 1 TBS of olive oil and set aside. Season each puff pastry square with salt and pepper. Divide and sprinkle 8 oz. gruyere cheese between the squares, then top with a slice of prosciutto. Add 3-4 asparagus spears on top of the prosciutto. Lay the asparagus on the puff pastry with the tops on one of the points. Fold the side points of the puff pastry over the asparagus, sealing the edges with an egg wash to form a bundle. Place each bundle seam side down on the prepared sheet pan. Brush each bundle with more egg wash. Bake in the preheated oven until the pastry is golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Serve immediately.

10. THE LAST WORD: If you are hosting Easter, it’s not too early to plan your menu and table. Get inspiration from Spring Into Easter: Fresh Table Inspiration. And if you are blessed to be invited to Easter dinner, here are a few hostess gift ideas you can take with you.

• Set of 4 blue and white decoupaged wooden eggs.
• Peter Rabbit French Lavender Soap Kitchen Set.
• Fill this rustic bunny candy bowl with chocolate eggs.
• This pretty bees and honey tea towel.

ANSWER TO #7: Lucky girl who is born in April! Your birthstone is a diamond, and flowers are the sweet pea and daisy. Easter occurs on the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox. Now you know.