New Curtains

I forgot to post these pictures from last month!

I got these curtains for the kitchen and have had them hanging that whole time. BUT, it wasn't until I took these pictures that I realized that the set on the left were hung wrong!!



Here is a close-up.


I got them because they matched the wall paper that was already there and I knew that I couldn't afford to change that. :)

I haven't forgotten that I am supposed to be decorating my house! It has just taken me a while to find the perfect curtains for our bedroom.

But I *did* find them and here they are.


Aren't they beautiful? Now I just have to find a comforter to match!!!

I forgot to post my challenge this month for the Decorating through the Year challenge!!

Since I have been sick for most of the month, I decided to make the whole house my project!

Actually, I decided to hang pictures throughout the house. I called up my sis and we hung almost all of them!

We are soo good! ;)

This is hanging in our front room









This is hanging in our kitchen eating area.












These are things that people made for us. The one on the left is part of our wedding announcement. The one on the right is a cross-stitch that my step-mom made for us.









I love this picture. It has all of the wonderful names of Jesus on it.










This is just as you come down the stairs.










This is one of those things that I bought to make the other house look better while we were selling it!! It was a clearance item and I just fell in love with it!

Second thoughts

I am having second thoughts.

Maybe third and fourth thoughts as well.

I am not sure why I thought I could do this. Especially on my own. I have never really done this on my own before that it didn't turn out horribly wrong. I am just not good at this. ANYONE, that knows me will attest to this. It is just not a gift of mine.

Would you like to know what I am talking about?

Well, I joined the Decorating through the year challenge and now I am worried that I have gotten myself into something that could go terribly wrong in a matter of minutes in the paint store.

I am challenged when it comes to picking paint color. I do not do it well and usually someone has to come in behind me and fix what I have just done! Seriously. There is a famous pistachio green color that will live in infamy in my family. Once I put it on the walls, my dh said that it looked like someone had thrown up on it. It really did.

So, fast forward to today. I painted the spare room and now I am scared. I am not sure if I like it. I was going to do two tones of brown for the walls; but, do to budget constraints I chose to just do one. And I don't think that I like it.

See what you think.
Here is another one:

I am not sure if the color is quite right. I need someone to come over and help me!!

I have to put the second coat on later this afternoon, so I guess I am stuck with it. Maybe I won't paint the next room!

It is beginning to take shape

When my sister was here, I put her to work helping me with the spare room. We took the boxes to the storage room and put a dresser in there. I think that I will be getting a mattress from my brother for the bed and I bought curtains and picked out paint. We were busy! I did go over budget on the room because I had to buy curtains. I will actually have to buy curtains for the whole house since there were none when we moved in.

But anyway, I started taking off the border today and hopefully will finish that this week. Here are some pics.






The start of taking off the border!




These are the curtains! I really like them. They are reversible with stripes on one side and a light flower pattern on the other. They will match the brown tones I picked out for the paint. I am excited to get this finished and show it off to everyone!

Another Challenge

Well, I didn't think that I had enough to do, so I joined another challenge! It is a challenge that is going to help me declutter and decorate my entire house, one room at a time. We pick a different room each month and focus on it. The trick is, you can't spend more than $30-$40 for each room! I have picked the first room and it is...The spare/guest room. I picked it because I think that it will be the easiest!

Here are the before pics...

This is the 'bed'!! We are waiting to get a real mattress for it, but until then, we are putting an air mattress on it! There are also extra boxes and toys in hear that need a home.






These are some of the extra things that are just sitting in this room waiting for someone to figure out where they go! :)






This is the closet! It is full of all of the pictures, shelves, and other things that should be put up in the rest of the house! I guess they will have to go somewhere.





I am really excited to do this and get my house decorated and warm feeling for the family and our guests.