vignette [vin-yet] noun
1. a brief evocative description, account, or episode.
2. a small illustration or portrait photograph that fades into its background without a definite border.
3. any small, pleasing picture or view.
I am a complete sucker for vignettes -- tiny little photographic glimpses of people's beautifully decorated interior and exterior personal spaces. I can get lost on Pinterest for hours pouring through "small, pleasing views" of what professional decorators and average folks are doing to make their spaces a reflection of their individual style.
Vignettes in retail shops, if done well, have gravitational pull as they draw customers to feast their eyes on all the shiny, colorful things that they must purchase. Ava Grace Gifts in Holloways Plaza, Simsbury has the art of the vignette down to a science! (A must see & shop gift store for vignette addicts like me!)
This morning while sitting in my living room drinking my coffee and watching the news, I glanced around and thought, HEY! I have little vignettes, too! At least I can capture them on my camera so it looks as if I do! So, I grabbed my Pentax, pushed the clutter out of the way, and snapped some photos of the more aesthetically pleasing little vignettes I had created in my decor.
1. a brief evocative description, account, or episode.
2. a small illustration or portrait photograph that fades into its background without a definite border.
3. any small, pleasing picture or view.
I am a complete sucker for vignettes -- tiny little photographic glimpses of people's beautifully decorated interior and exterior personal spaces. I can get lost on Pinterest for hours pouring through "small, pleasing views" of what professional decorators and average folks are doing to make their spaces a reflection of their individual style.
Vignettes in retail shops, if done well, have gravitational pull as they draw customers to feast their eyes on all the shiny, colorful things that they must purchase. Ava Grace Gifts in Holloways Plaza, Simsbury has the art of the vignette down to a science! (A must see & shop gift store for vignette addicts like me!)
This morning while sitting in my living room drinking my coffee and watching the news, I glanced around and thought, HEY! I have little vignettes, too! At least I can capture them on my camera so it looks as if I do! So, I grabbed my Pentax, pushed the clutter out of the way, and snapped some photos of the more aesthetically pleasing little vignettes I had created in my decor.
 My mantel with my boyfriend's first camera and one of my first original pieces of artwork hanging above it. |  I love this dried boxwood topiary, I can't kill it! |
 My white sofa (I have no business owning anything white, much less a sofa!) and the mirrored stars I hung for Christmas... 2 years ago. |  A dresser I picked up off the side of the road. |
The other side of my mantel. Love that wire wall hanging, my best Big Lots find yet!
Now, the cool thing about vignettes is that they are little, tiny glimpses into people's living spaces. You can't see what lies outside the frame of the shots. Judging from the photos of my little spaces, you might think I'm a neat and tidy girl. I'm not gonna lie... I am FAR from a neat and tidy girl. I'm a girl who likes nice things, but hates dusting them, vacuuming them, Windexing them, washing them, organizing them... you get my drift? I wish I was more disciplined to have a clean and tidy house but the reality is, I choose fun time over cleaning time every chance I get. My sister's boyfriend says, "Sandy, your house is lived in." He's right, it IS lived in. It's lived in and loved in and at age 50, it's highly unlikely I will become a slave to cleaning it now. So, I clean when the mood strikes and, in the meantime, I enjoy the vignettes.
Here's what it looked like beyond the frame:
 Clean laundry rarely ever makes it from the dryer into the drawers in the same day. I call it art. |  Those bags are slated for Goodwill. They've been there about 3 weeks. They act as great draft stoppers! They're staying there til Spring. |
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