Our Girly Master Bedroom

I love my husband ever so much. I am so blessed that he lets me do whatever I like in the decorating department. I took it for granted, cause my dad was the same way with my mom. But I have learned that there a quite a few men out there who have a pretty big opinion on how they want things, and definitely don't approve of girly stuff. Kevin is such a good sport. I made our bedroom chamber very very girly and I love it. It makes me smile every time I walk in. And I just love starting my day with a nicely made bed. ;)

So here are the pictures of the newly painted room. It was already a similar shade of yellow, but we had to patch some of the drywall from construction and we added some trim around the ceiling, doors & windows and panelling that needed to be painted white. I didn't want to spend a lot of money sprucing the place up, so I used some leftover flat white as primer for the woodwork and then bought a cheap gallon of white semigloss for a top coat. For the walls, my friend Bethany gave me some leftover yellow paint, it was half full, so I added white, enough to fill the gallon and it couldn't have turned out more lovely. I am so happy that our room is finally finished. I still need to paint our old dresser white, but it's definitely not high on my list of priorities right now. Everything else is the same, nothing new was added I wanted to stay within a budget. Same furniture and linens etc. I spent 11 dollars total. I would like to make a wreath to hang above our bed, it's looking pretty blah as we don't have a headboard. But that is yet another piece of furniture I would rather not lug about if we move. So for now I think a wreath would be quite nice. Not sure what I will use for flowers. I would like to stick some sea shells in there too of course.

Faux Flowers from my Hubby.Where I used to sit with my laptop (Before it Broke) in the chair Kevin got me when we were first married.

What a sweetheart! He knew I would like it, cause it's hot pink.

Part of my Nanna's china collection. "Jackie" The Rabbit that Lily and I made together one Easter.

Vintage sheets from my friend Karen's Grandmother. She was spring cleaning, and knew I would love them. They miss match perfectly with the rest of our bedding.

Painting Like A MAD Woman!

Be back soon. I just gotta get this done. I'm am the messiest painter in the world. Pray for me. My floors are totally disgusting with paint and so am I. I looked in the mirror and said "Hey I thought I did my roots already?!". And what I thought was grey hair was actually white paint streaked through. Nice....real nice. Hope you are all enjoying the beautiful weather. I will check up on all of you as soon as I get back.

Tutaloo

And by the way how do you spell that?

Anthropologie Summer 2003

For Andrea and Erin
I was going to post this back in march, but it is a bit ridiculous. So I saved it as a draft. I have 37 drafts on here that need to be posted. But I sometimes get worried about sharing too much, or sounding "Over the Top", Well I've decided I don't care. You either like me or you don't. So here is one of my obsessions.

I love Anthropologie. I saved my favorite catalogue from Summer 2003. The setting is @ the beach & on boats. Of course I love it. And the style is bohemian and flea market. I have been doing some spring cleaning and trying to declutter my cottage. I just couldn't part with it, so I decided to take pictures of it and put online, and toss the catalogue in with the recycling. Now I can look @ it whenever I want and it's not taking up any space in my sewing room. I love Anthro, but they are too pricey for me now that I am a stay @ home mommy. So now I use catalogues and magazines for inspiration to either make it myself or find the same style cheaper.
I love every page of this catalogue. Pathetic I know, but I had to share, cause I know there are fellow Anthro Lovers out there.

Lily's little hand pointing to her favorite outfit. She' got good taste. She tells me I should dress up more often. I think she's right. I love the glass lanterns.

I was very proud of myself after cleaning out my craft room, I was able to get rid of over 50 magazines. This is the only one I psychotically took pictures of. I'm currently trying to get my inspiration journal onto the computer too. The less clutter the better.

Getting rid of your magazines- of course you can recycle them, But look around, some libraries like ours, take them and sell them for 10 cents a piece. Or you could donate them to a school, they use them for collages and art projects. I used to love making collages.

Sewing Saturday

Most Saturdays I spend with my hubby and the girls doing the typical family stuff. But today Kevin went to Hunter Safety class from 8am-5pm. He got his Hunting licence Yay! And The Girls were playing quite well together so I thought I would bust out the leftover fabric my mom had given me from one of her projects. I had previously covered my bench seat in this same fabric. And thought a matching valence would be nice. Here it is. Nothing fancy but I was so happy to have yet another project finished and some time with stitch, my grumpy old sewing machine. She can be a little tempermental but I love her. I think she needs a little oil.