A few new pieces....

SOME SHINY NEW GLASS.........

A few new pieces of mixed glass pieces for the entry way table, I really liked the variance of glass and staggered height of each piece, I'm really happy with this little collection. I had originally got them to place next to my wine holder but they are better displayed here (for now anyways...) The color accents the overall Tuscan theme of the house.

My new Pottery Barn wall hanging Hurricane Candle holders found a nice new home next to the mirror in the entry way. I had bought these to go in the breakfast room and when they arrived they were really BIG and too powerful for the breakfast room, but worked perfect here in the entry way. I added some greenery to add some dimension to the glass. I really love em!!!!

Just added some "happy" color to my dining room centerpiece. Finally found some nice reds and shades of pink and mauves to add to this arrangement. Adding the color really woke it up and added some pop to the centerpiece, I'm really happy with it now and have a big enough investment in all this floral, time to move on to something else now... such as finding a nice rug for the dining room, let the search begin, I ordered a swatch of the Pottery Barn Adeline rug, but it was sooo Green, looking for something with ivory, reds and golds... :-)

Master Bath project.....

FINALLY, one room painted just the way I had planned. Benjamin Moore Shaker Beige on the walls and Kwal Swiss Coffee on the ceiling and Restoration Hardware The Right White on the trim and doors. Nice warm color on the walls now, this color seemed to cool the red in the cabinets and added a gentle relaxing feel to the room. I love this beige and plan on carrying it onto the Master Bed room..... I'm so please with this project, just a few accents remaining to tie it all together, a window topper for the window and a few thick, plush white towel around the tub... Hummm, I'll have to get my Pottery Barn Catalog back out.... :-)

Making of a pretty floral centerpiece

I had a large collection of floral piece that had come out of these "torches" I bought about a year ago. I didn't want to go spend the $400 for a new centerpiece so my creative mind went to work. First I acquired this bowl for $3.00, yep, the art of negotiation is still alive.... The other materials required were a styrofoam circle about 2 inches thick, bag of spanish moss, clear gel glue and about 30 minutes.... Glue the styrofoam ring in the bowl, now place the floral pieces in the styrofoam - saturate it with glue so that the floral pieces dont come loss. Make sure its all balanced for all angles. Now add the spanish moss, make sure there is glue 1st and then add the spanish moss........ Wow, a beautiful and formal looking floral center piece, all using the materials I had around the house..... Now if I catch some addition pieces on sale I can add, but I think it's looking pretty good right now, and thrilled that I didn't have to spend a fortune to get this wonderful floral centerpiece!!!!

This painting project is a one way path to my destruction!!!!!!!!!

Too much HGTV is not a good idea....... So I have now painted for the 3rd time. Settled on one step up from Kilim Beige to Nomardic Desert........ At this freek'n point I'm too exhausted to even think about the color, its perfect. I'm totally committed to leaving it for at least 20 years or so. I NOW HAVE PAINTING OUTTA MY SYSTEM. Just to recap, I started with Restoration Hardware Latte, turned Green on my walls, went to Restoration Hardware Cappuccino, turned to whirled peas, went with SW Kilim Beige, turned peachy on my walls, settled on Nomadic Desert - nice shade of chocolate milk.............me finally happy (for now at least)........ I'm too tired to even think about changing the color, it's freek'n PERFECT. I just luv the guys at SW, they are so patient and don't run out the back door when they see my coming thru the door. My DH (dear husband) is so sweet and full of compliments.............so looking forward to closure on this project.

Wow, my 1st blog EVER.

Well I wanted to share some of my stories about my new home, some good, some sad, some just down right irritating. Over a year ago me and my husband and daughter moved into a brand new custom built home, yes, a dream come true for all of us. This meant we had reached a very signification milestone in our lives. All the while during constuction, I gained many things, I gained knowledge about windows, shimming, roofing 3-tab vs. single tab, oh and the list goes on, I have such a wider base of knowledge now, I think I could have an intelligent conversation with a contractor now. Not only did I gain construction knowledge, I gained 50 pounds during the 9 months of construction, I think being pregnant might have been easier... :-)

My biggest challenge of moving into the new house was my husbands continual comments of "oh I cannot wait to see how wonderful my wife decorates the house", talk about dumping a load of bricks on me, the pressure was on. Did he think I had some wonderful power about me, something he saw in me that I had NO CLUE, as I was totally CLUELESS where to start in this house. So what did I do, NOTHIING, thats right I really showed him! So for the past year the house is beautiful but not living up to its full potential and that is why I started this blog. To share my stories of how I'm going to create a house into our families HOME. (so the 1st things that have to change around here are getting rid of the white walls)... I have been painting for 3 weeks now, yes, when I say "I" its just me painting....... maybe its best that way, being the perfectionist that I am, I wont have to worry about somebody not doing it right. anyways, I now have most of the living area walls Sherwin Williams Kilim Beige, with accents of SW Latte and and ceiling of Swiss Coffee. Swiss Coffee just sounds YUMMY.... So these paint colors were not easy in the picking.... Someone asked me the other day "how long did it take you to pick a paint-color", hum, that answer is down right scarey, the answer, a year and a half ....... and many cheeseburgers in between. Honestly I have close to 50 paint samples in a cabinet. I found Kilim Beige by some wonderful act of God.... So this in of itself should set the stage, 18 months to pick a paint color.......OMG.......wait it's really like ........OMFG......

pic of the Latte...... and swiss coffee