Shop Til You Drop :]

That's exactly what we did today. Justin and I met our friends Brittany and Jason over in Hunt Valley for lunch at Noodles and then shopping :] Then Justin and I went to Towson and then to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner! Fried mac n cheese.. MMM!! And what trip to CF is complete without cheesecake! Oreo cheesecake is yummy :] OH! did I mention that I stopped at all my favorite make up stores (ULTA, Sephora, and Bare Escentuals) ?! And I bought something at each store! I will be modeling my new cosmetics at work tomorrow from 6:30 am to 3:30 pm :] OH! And I got a new book. I am so back-logged on books. I am reading Bloodlines and then I have Flight and now I have Death of the Day! I am so excited. I wish I could just sit and read for days on end!

Justin and I went into all of the interior decorating stores today (Plow & Hearth, Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel) and we picked out lots of stuff to decorate a house that we don't have with things that we definitally can't afford. But we can dream can't we?! Then we came home and watched Zack and Miri Make a Porno. It was a pretty funny movie. Not hilarious. But funny :]

Off to bed. Work early in the morning :]

New Layout

I thought my blog could use just a splash of color :] I personally love the little punkin. He's cute :]

I had new thoughts for my room today:

Thought 1: paint my trim white again (which will involve a primer).
Thought 2: paint my walls a light tanish color, instead of whiter with a touch of lavendar.
( I think it will look better with the green).
Thought 3: take down the lavendar valances on my windows and put up darker green ones.

So I think that's what I am going to do! For sure. But I am going to paint my accent wall first, paint the rest of the walls, and then paint the trim and the doors.

I want my room to be my own. And I want it to have a comfortable, rustic feel to it. And I don't want it to be too girly so I am going to do away with the accents. So there we have it. I have made my decision, decision made. Of course I will change it about 5 more times. But I'm a woman. What do you want from me :]

Peace & Love.

Phase 1 ... Has Begun

Today started Phase 1 of my room transformation :] The five boards below are the original ones that Brandee and I picked out.

And these are the finished projects. Justin helped pick out the rest of the paper tonight :]

I finished these nine. And one day this week I am going to make like 4 or 5 more, but smaller ones. And once I get my wall painted next week, I will see if they work on that wall or if i should put them elsewhere.

Which brings me to my next point...I am very proud of myself. I bought spackle today for the first time by myself :] AND I spackled some of the holes in my wall. You can barely tell :] How exciting. After payday next week, I will go buy the darker green paint and hopefully get the wall behind my entertainment center painted. Yipee. Finally!! A room to call my own.

My step mom mostly decorated by rooms before because when we moved in with her, the house was hers. But this house is half my dads, and I he really doesn't care what I do in it. He said no funky colors. And I didn't.

That's all for now. Work tomorrow morning at 6:30. OH! And p.s. - stay tuned for Friday :] Morgan, Brittani and I are going to the botanical garden in D.C. Pictures gallore :]