It's been awhile....but...

I promise I'm not slacking. I've finally got the guest room in good enough shape to take pictures. I'd still like a rug, or really, wood floors, but that's probably not happening. Putting up crown molding proved to be much harder than I (and by I, I mean Cory) thought. He measured and measured and figured out angles and then cut and it still didn't fit quite right so we had to do some filling in and what not. Decorating too is not just about throwing stuff together--I did that and I'm sure it could look better. However, I like it. At least it'll do given my budget. So come visit us and stay in our romantic hideaway guest room :) :) :)
We had those two prints in other places in the house and the colors just fit--maybe not the "style" so much, but what can you do?? You also see my refinished dresser and $12 mirror. Plus an old pic of some ancestors. And of course the leaf-inspired bedding that made me change this from blue and orange and yellow to green and orange and yellow.
pillows, prints from Michaels in spray painted frames I had lying around. And of course there are a lot of candles in this room. I actually took all of these pictures with just the candles. Those flash thing-a-ma-babbers sure do amazing things...

I also refinished this odd shaped table --I've realized that with the antique glazing LESS is more when it comes to the brown glaze.

This picture on the little bedside table is of me when I was three. In Tijuana. On a donkey. It's one of my favorites from my dad's house.

Curtains! Yay for no mini blinds showing!!!! One of these days I'm going to replace all of our mini blinds with roman shades and have a stinky plastic bonfire.
And the crown molding that looks surprisingly awesome shrunk down and from far away.

We've also rearranged some furniture in the downstairs three major living areas. With the front area being more like a library/front room and the middle re purposed for living/watching TV. The area by the kitchen will eventually be a dining room so I can get a big table and have parties that don't involve people's husbands sitting in camping chairs...
Our new front room with Cory's Christmas present to me. One of those nifty shelves from Ikea!!! We saved $70 by packing up the perfect one he bought me and disassembling and then reassembling one from the as is section. (and again by we, I mean cory...like I can dis and re assemble a shelf :)). I love this shelf because it has 25 spaces--so plenty of room for toys on the bottom two rows. As you see our home has been overcome by toys and stuffed animals. After Harrison cleaned up at Christmas there was no turning back.
Marshalls was having a going out of business sale and we snagged two leather ottamans to use as a coffee table--they also each have two mini ottamans inside. Which of course Harrison likes to push around the floor. Just like he does with his two walkers, fire engine, truck of blocks, kitchen chairs, boxes that are lying around, baskets of shoes, etc.
This room would look much better with new couches. I've been looking on craigslist for the perfect barely used sage green microfiber......

And the TV area in the middle room. The black leather sectional that has hardly been sat on for three years is finally getting some use.
We found this armoire on the side of the road for free and it's been sitting in the garage FOREVER. I stained it black to match the coffee table. It has a lot of scratches but I like the distressed way it came out.


Oh yeah, and I painted the downstairs bathroom. Leafy green instead of cold purple grey.

green spells happy. grey equals death.
Something about fresh clean white baseboards. Oh yeah, and why put toilet paper on the roll when your kid is just going to rip it off and eat it???

And wow that was a long ridiculous post about a pretty boring topic. If you read the whole thing you are a really good friend and I should send you some cookies :) :)