Wish list...

My wish list (seriously, move the decimal to the left one space and THEN we'd be in business. Until then; dreaming.) from Restoration Hardware... if you can't tell I'm really into the Orb style.

 Ok, I'll stop now before I bore you all. :)

In case you were wondering...

where the painting went that I had in my room (when it was teal). I moved it over to my studio (office, craft room, etc). So here's a peek at that...

My Bedroom (so far)...

My bedroom has been one of those project that it took me a while to get it "just right" and it's still a work in progress. This is where it started...

... and then I painted it "Intense Teal" and loved it but found it was very hard to coordinate with anything else that didn't make it look like it was a teenagers room. So...

...I painted it Thunder Gray! (You'll see in future posts that I've gotten good use out of this color) The color really calms the room down (lets be honest, the teal was pretty bold & loud) and makes it much more relaxing.  I love having a white duvet cover and the perfect crisp burst of color (yes, color) but I'm sure at some point I'll get sick of having to wash it at least once a month! For now, it adds the perfect burst of color

Lamp Shades: TJ Maxx  

Duvet Cover: Target

King Shams: West Elm

Euro Shams: Hautelook (no longer available)

Small Gray Pillow: Target

Curtains: West Elm

Mirrors: Target (not the same mirror but something like it)

Catching onto a theme? I REALLY love Target & West Elm. :) 

 The walls are still bare but I'm still on the quest of finding/making the perfect things!

Mirror: IKEA

Decorative Branches: West Elm

(Sorry about the spots...)

I bought this dresser years ago when I first moved to town. 

Still enjoying it as much now as I did back then! 

London calling...

If only I had a place for this in my house!

Chalk paint

Mom had this old, kids rocking chair and asked me if I'd like to repaint it. I was wanting to try out chalk paint (and had a few other "projects" lined up for it) so I gave it a go! With chalk paint there is no prep work (sanding, etc) so you get to start with the fun stuff right away! I painted two coats on it, did a layer of soft wax (seals the paint), distressed it with sand paper, added another layer of wax and am very pleased with the outcome!



2 coats of paint and 1 layer of wax on...

sanding... 



all done!



Something red...

Found some red accents today (at 40% off no less!) and I'm liking the results!

More winterizing...

I have this perfect little window above the piano that I've been so excited to do something with since I moved in so I thought I'd found the perfect idea! Well, it ended up being too much going on up in the window so I moved things down to the top of the piano but I still really like the outcome!

The idea sparked when I was watched interior decorator Rebecca Robeson video "Christmas Decorating Home Tour for Christmas 2012".  She has amazing videos on decorating and designs some pretty ahh-mazing luxury homes. In her entertainment center she made this really neat piece with tree stuffers (it's around 3:30 in the video if you're interested) and I ran with it!

I bought some green styrofoam, tree stuffers (not sure if that's what they are really called), glitter and fake snow.

 Insert the tree stuffer into the styrofoam. I bought all the same tree stuffers because the selection was pretty limited if you don't want to spend all of your piggy bank.

Like I mentioned before my original plan was to set them in the window sill with some snow around them. But with the snowflakes hanging down from the ceiling it just got to be too much going on. I couldn't get the snow "just right" either so I brought out my wire baskets (LOVE the dollar section at Target!). I put the tree stuffers in first and then packed the snow around them. The finished it off with a dash of glitter. A little bit a glitter never hurts...

The end result! I feel like something is missing but haven't figured out exactly what.

Until next time...