Colorboards

To the complainers: I will not apologize for being blog-absent. I was traveling for work for about a week, then it was catching up, then it was laziness.

I've been thinking about how I want to decorate our bedroom lately, and here is what I've whittled it down to. Both color palettes are Danny-approved (he has to sleep there too, so no frou-frou stuff), I want to know what you guys think. Feel free to comment your thoughts!

Option 1

Option 2

I nicked these from a wedding website, so please disregard the invites and what have you in the images.

Rug in Action

Le rug. 

We are still needing--need, need! Not want I say!--a real coffee table, side table(s), lamps, art to fill our frames, and some element of a dresser/storage/stand type thing that we can put a tv on. Who has the money for all that at once? I should look for a sponsor. 

 I won the work lottery today! Which means tomorrow there will be a new 21.5" iMac on my desk! And it also means I will be doing lots more work on it... And keeping the clunky PC at my side too. 

So. I know you've all been wondering what I got my mom for Mother's Day. Answer: Lady Gaga's cd Fame Monster, of course! Hey, before you go passing judgement, she specifically requested it! I'm not forcing my music taste on anybody. Yesterday I get a phone call from her and all I heard was "Caught in a bad roooommmaaance!!!!!!!" blaring from the speakers. Like daughter, like mother.    

Beverly Hillbillies 90210

The truth: We ghetto-ed it up last weekend. Again. 

We ran down to Ikea in SLC to get some couches for the second weekend in a row. Not exactly our idea of a good time but what do you do when only one couch will fit in the car, and shipping them would cost more than the couch itself? 

We twined the couch in, then used bungee cords, then bungeed the hatch down all during a random blizzard that lasted just a few hours. Freeway noise aside, just the wind whipping and rattling the plastic packaging on the four hour drive home made us both want to permanently plug our ears. I told Danny we were the "Beverly Hillbillies 90210." I couldn't remember which was the hick show so I melded the two. Having never seen either, it's an easy mistake to make. Of course, he made fun.

Beverly Hillbillies 90210: A little drama, a little scandalousness, and a whole lot of white trash.

The finished product + some art I want to replace + the Persian rug I now dislike. It's hard being fickle.

Okay, so the second one isn't a couch but a loveseat.

I think they look great for being from Ikea, and the fabric wrinkles will go away quickly with use. I love the fact that I can slip the covers off and wash them, or just get a new one for when I'm feeling especially fickle.

On an unrelated note, I blew out the speakers in the back of my Camry listening to Lady Gaga. Whoops. To my credit, the volume dial never indicates if it has reached its max. Listen to Monster, Alejandro, or Dance in the Dark--you'll blow your speakers out too! Love Gaga.

Yellow is for Spring.

I painted our kitchen table yellow. At first I faced opposition, then Danny said he was humoring me, then went with me to buy the paint all the while mumbling that my whole life is based upon "whims." This wasn't a whim, this was necessary. A yellow table is necessary.

How do you think it looks? I feel it's spring-appropriate. Cheery. I don't feel like I'm going to get sick of it any time soon either.

I had a bit of trouble with the distressing. Any tips for distressing the edges? I've never refinished or painted anything before, I feel so very domestic.

More distressing. The milk glass bottle I found at D.I., the ampersand from Anthropologie, flowers from Danny, and the framed poster with the unfortunate glare is something Mother Teresa and I picked up in Paris a few years ago. The cake stand in photos below is from Pottery Barn and was a wedding gift from the Thawley's.

Happy little Danny face. "At first I just thought you were being controlled by your whims, now I think you're a genius." He loves it.

Doesn't that fruit look scrumptious? We ate all of it. Except the lemon in the middle. It got hard.

Some Valentine's Day bounty from Heidi's Fudge. I'm not a fan of caramel apples, but these are the best I've ever tried! The apple pie flavor is delicious--it's the perfect mixture of homemade caramel and white chocolate with cinnamon and sugar. Mmm!

All I really ever need: Coke, a treat, flowers. In that order.