Sweet Dreams II

I'm still dreaming of my Dream Bedroom, so bear with me as I have a few more pictures to share. Since I now have a good base plan of what I want it to look like, I can next focus on picking up all the elements to bring it all together.

I found this Italian Baroque bed listed on Ebay.

Thankfully, it had already been sold,
for a lot more money than we have right now ($1,500)!

A bedroom, courtesy of Tracy Porter

I love the peacock pillows. Sorry, I can't remember where this image came from :0(


Notice the brown and blue with the splashes of red.

Look familiar?

Thanks for window shopping with me! Since I am car-less right now (that will be a blog post all by itself!), my magazines and the internet have been my only resourse for the last few weeks. Hopefully, things will turn around soon & I'll be able to get some wheels and start scouting for some more items for the shop and start picking up a few things to fulfill my Dream Bedroom Makeover!
Hope everyone has a Happy Wednesday! Hubby is off today, so I can get outta the house for a little while. Toodles!

Sweet Dreams

One day while wandering the aisles of the library, I found a really nice book about painted furniture. It gave me a bunch of ideas. Trying to remember everything in my head these days is just impossible ( I'm just now able to tell the difference between a Transformer and a Megazord), I snapped a few pictures, for my eyes only. Then the other day, while trying to purge some of the plethora of magazines that I own, I found a beautiful bedroom. Since it was just about the only thing in the whole magazine worth keeping, I very carefully pulled the pages out ~ to go into my "Dream" binder. So I figured since I was going to show you that, I would share the other pictures with you also. The following pages are from Painting Furniture: Decorating Ideas and Projects.

A beautiful antiqued sideboard. Not sure if you can see it too well, but the wallpaper is called Mythology and I remember see Poseidon on it. Cool.


I would give anything to find a cabinet and paint it like this! I just love this.

Like the big post on the bed. Again, all the furniture is painted.


Now, I'm thinking this was from a different book. But I would love to have one of those paintings with the big ole farm animal.

Can you tell I'm on a red and white kick lately? Notice the fabric-covered head board and the lace dust ruffle. I've also been noticing lots of things made of lace.

Even as a girl, I would have LOVED to have a room like this!! This is just beyond words.

And now for my dream bedroom set. First let me say that in the magazine they were leaning towards a beachy theme, hence starfish and such. Don't get me wrong, I grew up on the Gulf Coast, nothing against the beach. But I would rather pull the fabrics out and go more...prairie, Texas coast. It's just so hard to put a name on what I like. **sign** Just look at the pictures.

Sorry it's so fuzzy, couldn't get the scanner to work so had to snap a pic with the camera and got backlight. What I am loving is the bed. The duvet, the quilt, the pillows...all of that.
Love it. Love it. Love it.

Oh, did I mention that I loved this bed...*sigh* Sweet blissful dreams.

Kitchen Containers

A few weeks ago, I stopped at a yard sale and found a few goodies. One of the things that I purchased was this old piece of pottery for 25 cents. Too good to pass up but not quite sure what purpose I had for it. After sitting on my desk for a few days, it finally dawned on me what a perfect job it could have. To be the new Cinnamon Sugar shaker!

I believe that it was a part of a salt and pepper set, but there was only one. And it is rather large, measuring a little over 5 inches tall. Here it is sitting with my current cinnamon sugar
dispenser and a normal set of salt and pepper shakers. If anyone has any more information about this piece, I'd be glad to hear it. Now the only thing to finish this project off will be to find some cork stoppers for the bottom.

And I thought that I would share some other pictures of unique containers that I use in the kitchen.

Here on top of my stove, I have my cute little vampire salt & pepper set. I've had these two for a long time and would use them for cooking. But I have since started using a small bowl for salt to sprinkle in the pasta water or to add a little taste. In the tomato shaker, I have Morton's Natures' Seasoning which I love to use on almost everything!

These are in my pantry. I have a vintage sugar and flour containers from the '40's that I use. The sugar container gets used almost daily, since all Dane & I drink is Sweet Tea. The tin in the middle holds my long grain rice, and the container on the right holds Bisquick. I love to make Garlic Cheese Biscuits...yum!

The rice container was purchased a long time ago from Tuesday Morning. I love the "Save the Dragons" logo!

Hope you had fun looking in my kitchen! Still trying to find a home for everything. I would like to start hanging my few pieces of Transferware up, but the only availabe wallspace is right beside the garage door and the wall shakes, so I'm hesitant on putting plates on that wall. And I need to purchase a tension rod to hang up some curtains. But slowly things are coming together to make our happy home.

Saturday Project 3-28-09

Well, I have spent most of this rainy morning playing with my blog template to no avail. Hours of sitting here trying out new things and none of them working, (sigh) My brain actually HURTS. I did get some new music up and started using tags (labels). But the good news is that is has stopped raining and I have some great projects to share with you that I have been working on!

You might remember me talking about my PUC's - Projects Under Construction. Well, this year, I hope to complete 40 of them. Some are easily completed, others will take the whole year. One of the ones that will take the whole year is a 9-9-9 Challenge of books to read. The challenge: To read 9 books in 9 different categories in 2009 for a total of 81 books, but you can have at least one book overlap in each category which would give you 72 books. But I'm going with 68. It's still 9 categories but I've adjusted the number of books read to something that I feel I can do without stressing to much.

One of my projects for this year was to get new lampshades for my pair of vintage marble lamps. I was lucky enough to have my MIL ask me what I wanted for Christmas, so I received a giftcard to Lowes, and after the first of the year, I picked out two pretty shades. Then the next step was to paint the two endtables that the lamps sat on.

Here you have the lampshades, the endtables and just a few of my books!

The tables were originally white and pretty dingy. I have been trying to come up with some kind of style that I think I would be happy with and also Hubby. He doesn't understand my fascination with the old things, but I thought that the blues and greens would add some soothing tones to everything.

It's hard to see from the above picture, but after painting the endtables blue, I added a dry brush technique with silver paint. I love it!

This is one pf a pair of vintage drapes that I've held onto. For now, I have literally used thumb tacks and attached them to the wall, but lately, I've been thinking about using one to make a comforter for the bed and using the other as a shower curtain.

And the next thing that I started working on was an interesting technique I saw at 2cre8art. I haven't totally completed the task because I haven't used the wonderful background to make any ATC's or anything, but I love the technique!

I have a confession on this one. One of the steps is to use a spray bottle with water to dilute the colors. I didn't have an empty one, so I poured out the contents of a bleach/water solution and then rinsed the bottle, but didn't think to rinse the nozzle part. So when I sprayed, I got bleach water which turned some of the paper pink. But, hey, I meant to do that ;0)

I used one of the vintage hymnals for this technique also with some other vintage pages. I have some of the hymnals fpr sale in my Etsy shop if anyone would like one. I just love feeling the paper in those books!

Bottle Decorating

Well, my OWOH giveaway is doing better than I expected! And I believe that the whole event has taken off more than Lisa ever imagined! I can't even keep up with all the giveaways! I'll have to sit here for H-O-U-R-S to get to all of the bloggers involved in this! But I would never spend H-O-U-R-S at the computer, nope, never! I need to update my original post, but I will say here that I gathered up a few more items and will draw some additional names to give more stuff away. This has been so much fun for me! I have discovered so many awesome, new blogs. Gotta get that sidebar updated. Thanks to everyone who has stopped by here to say "Hi". I hope to see some new faces popping in to check up on things.




I have some items listed on Ebay, if any of you gals are in need of some really hip, cool, vintage clothing. Or guys. If you're into that kinda thing. :0)
I have a bunch of coats & jackets that I should have listed prior to winter, but we were moving & things just got away from. Ya know how that goes.



Okay, I love this here blog. I know I haven't been a good Mommy & updated as much as I should, but I do love it and want to really make it special. But I have a confessions...Yeah, some of you are going to be saying, 'Well, duh" but I finally got an account with Facebook!!! And I L-O-V-E it!! I have gotten reconnected with so many of my old friends from High school, Middle & Elementary school!! It's been a blast! If you are on there, come by & be my friend! I check that more now than I do my mailbox. But this little blog is my first and will always be special to me. Especially now with OWOH.



I did some decorating the other day. Tried to work on the Master Bedroom. Ya know, get it nice & romantic. Huh, yeah, with two kids & three dogs! Did I ever tell ya that all three dogs sleep in the bedroom with us? On the floor, until one of us gets outta bed, then in like two seconds flat, up they go onto the bed. It's pitiful!

But I did manage to get some pictures on the walls and some really pretty picture frames for some photos of the family. My good friend Rachel took some great pictures of Gracyn wearing a beautiful dress & I printed one out & framed it. On one blank wall, I hung some of my Italian pictures and a little shelf with knick-knacks.

And my bottle collection!! Do you like my old, antique, leather bottles? Do ya, do ya?

Guess what? My grandfather made them!! He likes to tinker around, and lately he's been doing these bottles. He knows I sell stuff & he asked if I thought I could sell these. But I told him I'd love to have them. Sad thing is, there is not telling what kind of bottles are underneath!!!

Baby's Room

Just wanted to take a few minutes & share some pictures of the newest family member and some of her world. Heidi sent the sweetest sign for Gracyn. I love her signs, you can always find one for any occasion. Thank you Heidi {{hugs}}
Here is her crib. It was Dane's & was originally a dark cherry but I sanded it down & painted it a pistachio green color. I found the beautiful quilt at Marshall's.
And here is her big pink bear from her Aunt Angie. On the wall is one of my favorite finds. I wanted to do a mermaid theme for her but didn't want it to be too Disney feeling so I decided to go with seashells and more natural colors. I found the beautiful seashell mirror at a yard sale in our neighborhood about 6 months ago. And it was only $5!!! Gotta love that!