Cool Stuff: Skylar's Lace Pattern Stencil

Seven-year-old Skylar Montague is one very lucky little girl.

Not only does she have a beautiful, talented, and big-hearted mother (My Marrakesh's Maryam Montague), but she lives in a breathtaking home in exotic, faraway Morocco, where her bedroom floor just got this absolutely dreamy custom lace stencil treatment.

Now Royal Design Studio's Melanie Royals, the California artisan who helped transform Skylar's floor, is selling the stencil pattern she used to create it. The 27-by-39.5-inch, two-part stencil can be applied to floors, walls, ceilings, or even furniture.

It's $199 right here.

Cool Stuff: Moroccan Table at Target

I just saw via Another Shade of Grey that Target is rolling out a huge new collection of Moroccan-style furnishings and accessories, so I clicked on over to the Tar-jay site to check it out.

The look they're featuring is a little dark and heavy (and, let's be honest, a bit "hippie") for my current mood. But I did spot this cute octagonal table for just $40.

I've been looking for one for awhile, with the idea that I'd spray-paint the whole thing in high-gloss white, hot pink, lime green, or some other shocking shade (maybe Maryam of My Marrakesh's "Majorelle Blue"?) -- a la the Garnet Hill tables, below -- to highlight the table's great detail and to give the piece a bit of mod-glam style. But I've hesitated up until now to "deface" a true Moroccan table in this way, or to part with $128 for Garnet Hill's cheerful version.

But for $40 and a can of spray paint? I'm all over it.

You can find the Target table here, and the complete line of Target's new "Moroccan Mod" offerings here.