Can There Be A Happy Marriage?

I spend way to much time looking on the computer for design ideas.  It's a problem, or maybe I'll just refer to it as a hobby.  My problem is I am indecisive.  I wish I could love something and stick with that style.  Here are some examples,

How can I have both in the same room?  I'm thinking of my front room for this marriage of "Hollywood Glam" and the "Traditional Blah".  The first picture I like the "hollywood glam"  (as it's referred as) feel of this room.  And the second I like the colors, I feel this is the color sceme already in the front room. The latter picture is a gorgeous room, but I enjoy the slap in the face of the first.

Oh, can this couple come together in a harmonious union?

Spring Green

My Spring-y piano top, isn't she so green?  Not to much just a little splash to freshen her up.  A little rearranging and something old looks new and fresh.

Now let's hope the weather outside can follow suit and spring up around here.

Boys Bathroom, again

Yet another shower curtain, the last thrift store find was perfect until I brought it home to hang it up and realized it was to short and did not have the feng shui I was looking for. Now, this was found at Ross while buying boys shoes, always on the look out for a good find. It compliments the frog every morning and the frog no longer has to stare at the darkness that was there before, he seems to be smiling now. Luckily for the frog he is having a nice conversation with the lovely curtain and not this behind him.

Darn that Santa, and that blue stuff that stains everything within spitting distance.

Boys Bedroom

This is a real boys room, now I try to get "cool" ideas to decorate his room, but when said boy has so many different interest and is still growing and trying every experience out there. How does one decorate such a room? He is just a well rounded individual, that wants to keep his options open, right?
This is the collection of interest. Let's have an inventory look, skateboarder wall sticker, a guitar picture, football frame, a favorite auntie holding up the Statue of Liberty, a jar of skateboard toy parts, a pinewood derby car. Now the stuff some might wonder about, lava lamp you might say cool, but pink for a boy, well we all know around these parts, pink can be a favorite color for a tough boy. A rock not a cool rock from an exotic beach trip but a rock, it is sweet his brother did paint a hieroglyphics on it for him. And the best yet, an air wick air freshener, now little boys do stink and I'm all for him having a nice smelling room but, when a boy ask for a room freshener, I find that interesting, I just didn't know any type of guy thought about that sort of thing.


Now this thing over here is my attempt of a PB copy, in the PBteen catalog I saw skateboard shelves, how cool is that! I had my ah ha moment and thought to myself, that garbage out in the garage and back yard can become something cool. Not only is it recycling to some degree, it had personal meaning, being his first skateboard and all.

It was definitely loved. And so is my pink loving, nail polish wearing, skateboarding, football loving little boy.

Creepy to Halloween Creepy

Seriously someone had this in their house. I know it was a little creepy to begin with, but with a little black spray paint, it would become the perfect backdrop to any Halloween display.

And birdcage, boring before the black paint. Now, look what I have done with the cheap and creepy thrift store finds.

I think it needs a little more, but it's a start to the scariest and creepiest Halloween collection.

After a quick to the dollar store and a little black spray paint, this is the outcome.

Something to hold onto

I guess it's one of those necessities in a house, and yet so plain and ugly. In a new cookie cutter house everyone on the block has the same one, also.
So, here is the before - plain and boring right?
After a few shakes of the magical spray paint wand or can whatever you may call it, this is the new lovely darker hand rail.

The Life of a Kitchen Island

My kitchen island has yet a new additive to her boring life. After much scouring and thrift store combing I finally found some corbels for the support she needs.
First the bare nakedness of her start in this life of hers.


Second, a little make-up to her face, not much of a change just a little.



Third, her latest addition.

She looks so pretty all dressed up.

Like winning on the penny slots

I imagine this is like winning the jackpot on the penny slot machines, it's a great excitement but maybe a bit small to require a full on jumping and yelling scene.

But hey, I found one, everyone else has one and now I have one of my very own. It may be small but it's a start. It was a thrift store find to top it all off, too.

I feel like summer is over once the kiddies are back in school, but hey better late than never. So, now I can check off one more thing on my to-do list.