Wednesday Wallpaper - A True Story

I'm going to take you on a brief trip back through time today...bare with me...we're heading to October 2010.

It was then that I met the lovely Dean from the uber fabulous blog....

I'd been enjoying her blog and then was pleased as punch when I opened my email one cool fall evening to find a little request.

Like me, Dean had found herself a wee bit obsessed with a particular wallpaper...and in a fabulous twist of fate, it turned out to be a pattern I had also been seriously lusting over.

We both fell in love with said design when this spread hit the pages of Elle Decor...way back in April of last year.

Remember this home belonging to the very fabulous Christine D'Ornano...aka...my forever dream home...aka style heaven...???

Well it was her bedroom, bedroom and dressing room that had both Dean and I spinning for answers...

Le sigh...perhaps one of the most divine patterns ever produced if you ask me...anyhoo...back to the story...

The problem Dean and I were facing was that this pattern seemed very illusive.

Try as we might, neither of us had been able to track that beauty down.

And believe me, we tried.

When I first got Dean's email, I had already spent ALOT of time trying to source it out.

So when I read her request, I decided to give it the old college try again...why not...perhaps a new purpose would help lead us both to the motherland of wallpaper genius.

Only it didn't.

Instead I spend hours and hours finding look a likes that might pass and perhaps could produce the same brilliant mix of brash and subdude...

Only they didn't...not really...not quite the 'real' paper you can see on the bottom left...the others were surely similar but not quite the same...though that deer discovery made me VERY happy...you might see those showing up in my little guy's room...quite adore the palate/pattern.

Anyhoo...I sent an email to Dean with these alternatives, after my search for the real juice had turned up empty.

She was lovely enough to post about it HERE.

The two of us took a collective sigh of disappointment and moved on to other things...until....almost a year later and the magic of Twitter!!!

I was taking a few minutes to go through my newest followers and happened upon the website of the design house....

At first, I was blown away with their portfolio...

And then I started reading their blog posts...and then it happened...holy dangely balls...there it was...

I almost died...on the spot...I kept staring and staring, unable to believe that right there in front of my eyes was THE paper...and it had a name...sweet Jangala Rose/Osborne and Little.

Understandably, my fingers practically couldn't type fast enough as I emailed Dean with the crazy fabulous news...her response went something like...omg...omg....omg....omg...omg...so yeah, we were both a little excited about this...that was a week ago.

And now? 

What came of this tale you might ask?

Well...a joint blog adventure of course...duh.

Me and the lovely Dean are going to order up some of that fabulous....she'll also be posting about this today btw...you can click HERE to see that divinity.

In a small but rather disappointing twist of fate, the original colourway is no longer available...nor is the pattern on the O&L website...hence why I had trouble finding it in the first place...but, samples of the three current colourways can be found {I located these at Tangletree...one of my fave resources for wallpaper samples}...

and the two of us will be ordering one of each.

And in the future...sometime down the road...both of us will be plastering this gorgeous on a a few walls and when that happens, we'll be posting the shit out of it...promise!!!!!

So there ends this tale...a very happy ending that found two humble bloggers pleased as raspberry punch.

Thank you Twitter...you never cease to amaze me!!!

xo