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 :]

Ready for a Change

So I think I am finally ready to do my room. After looking at Brandee's pictures of the baby's room, I might have enough courage now to paint my own room. And then when I think about it...I'm not ready. Then again I wasn't ready to paint my trim either. I might just paint the one wall a darker green for now. And I might tackle my other walls on a snowy day. So much spackeling is involved. I thought it was "stylish" to pin things up with thumb tacks. Yeah...no...don't do that. And that blue stuff teachers use...don't put that on your walls either. It leaves oil stains. Once I clean out my room, half of my stuff will go to my grandmothers for storage. If your reading this Gran...clean out my cubby hole in the garage and my closets at the house :] HeHe. We think it's funny...Pop...not so much. I take up space in his workshop :] Good thing I'm cute.

I also thought about getting a new bed frame. A wooden one. Justin thinks it would make my room look smaller. I like them though. But my dad doesn't see a need. He told me even if my frame breaks, my bed will be held up by all the junk I have stored underneath. He's probably right. I think I have school stuff from the 9th grade living under there. I started a list about the things that will stay in my room and what will go:

To stay:
* Dresser
* Bed
* Book shelf
* Entertainment center
* Desk
* Wicker cube
* Baskets
* Photos and frames

To go in storage:
* My bears
* Various boxes
* A bunch of binders and folders.
* Corkboard
* Dry erase board
* Picture board

I'm always looking for new ways to brighten my room and decorate it. If you have any, let me know :]

I have to get ready! It's Wednesday...so you know what that means....GHOST HUNTERS :] and DESTINATION TRUTH!! yay!!

peave & love.