Bedroom redo

So, this is my room now. I can't seem to find a picture of how it looked before, but I can say that it was a dark olive green, which, at the time, I loved. After about 2 1/2 years of dark olive green? Not so much. I have come to the conclusion that, despite what I thought I liked, I really love white (or whitish) walls.

Now, this is not an easy confession to make. As my mom will tell anyone, I have LONG given her a hard time about her obsession with white. I would tease her when she said she was painting a room a "color" that was the palest possible shade, and thus "a shade of white." The only way I could explain finding the perfect shade of off-white for my walls (which my mom has been hunting for her entire adult life) is: divine irony. Yep, I'm sure God found that very humorous. :)

I can't tell you how incredibly liberating it was to 'fess up that of all the photos in my "decor file" (more on that later) the overwhelming majority of the rooms had white (ish) walls. Therefore, I should have white walls. *ouch* The style and accents were so different from my mom's style that I had automatically rejected white walls along with much of what I associated with "mom's style." Thankfully my decor file set me straight and I will never again stray...

...now to paint over that horrible blue in the office. What WAS I thinking!?!?

Magazine Page Starburst Thingy

Alright, here's what mine looks like:

I put my foot in there to give an idea of how big it is.

On the tutorial where I got the idea they had done the tubes all the same size and they were straight, not cone-shaped. It looked cool, but kinda flat and too uniform for my taste. So, I decided to do cones of various sizes and then to layer them (some of them don't reach all the way into the middle and thus stick out further on the edges). Also, the site I looked at had wired them together. That just seems like a pain, so I'm going to cut out a big doughnut shape from some sturdy carboard and hot glue my tubes to it.

That said, if you want to duplicate it all you need are some old magazines, a glue stick, some cardboard and a hot glue gun. Roll the tubes with the torn edge facing you so that it'll be on the inside, with the clean edge on the outside. Experiment with different sizes of tubes and cones. You could also do this with cute scrapbook paper, newspaper, old book pages, anything you can think of for a uniquely "you" look. :)

I'll post pics of my bedroom once I have this hung up, i.e. next week!

Okay, okay...

So it's been two weeks not one, and I'm determined to get better...

Bedroom is coming along, but I'm not done with my project yet. In fact, I haven't worked on it in, um, two weeks. But, I made this today:

And I've been really enjoying my yard is this fine weather. Here's some flowers, just for you:

And, yes, we'll be trying to update more often (ahem, WEEKLY) because we are THAT cool, and I know you really wanna know what we're up to: