Twelve Roses

After letting the top of the dresser cure, I've decided to place the T.V. in it's rightful home. I've never been a big fan of TV's in the bedroom ever for that fact, but I will admit that my room is becoming more of a multi purpose room from an actual bedroom. The thing is that it's just natrual as we live in smaller spaces to have more functionality in every room (I won't begin to tell you about how I'm trying to fit both a record player and coffee maker into my room.). Rhys had gotten me a set of roses for valentines day which I believe the contrast with the white and black gave such a mood that I had to share.

After putting this room together and a pretty cheap dresser 60CAD. Which echo's everything in the room so delicatly (yes... Marilyn Monroe... Delicate) Eventually in the corner I want to find the perfect large lamp to really play off the room, overstuff it a bit, and then eventually get a record player and a small squar speaker to sit to the left of the T.V.

Compared to lets say six months ago, I think we have come along way (oh, you caught me I'm telling a fib it's been 8)

To now....

All and all, good hard days work and an honest outcome. Although with me not feeling the best lately I'm pretty excited that I even got this much done. Hopefully I'll be better soon then I'll be on my way to finding the perfect lamp for that corner.

White and Blue.. happy Valentines day to you.. (yes a valentines day rhym)

Hard to believe that only this past Saturday I had purchased the dresser. Even with all the chaos that revolved around valentine’s day I had a bit of time to finish up my quick week project (valentine’s days stories to ensue after the before and after pictures). We really lucked out on this dresser – after all it isn’t every day that you find the exact match to your night stands. – after we got the dresser home the first question was to decide on a paint, now the night stands are a midnight black.... but painting the dresser the same colour might have instead of opening up the room created a darker space. So white it was.

Let’s take a look at the before:

Midway:

The fabulous after:

Now, now I do have more after pictures... the only catch is as I was taking the after pictures of course I had Rhys’s present right on the table (for those of you with a finer eye – yes I did put a romantic table cloth on the small bistro table we made here)

We spent the evening watching I love lucy reruns with Rhys while eating pasta. I feel grateful for being with someone so amazing.

I like your drawers...

The last few days I've been swamped looking at the latest "I Love Lucy" - I guess by latest 1950's epesiode I mean. The past few days I've been swamped with painting, turns out when you paint enough you dream about painting - and wonder if the paint will be hard enough to put your decorations on. Or where you're going to send your dresser off to university. Lets take a look at where we left off the other day...

After a few days of hard work, and some pretty awesome Cole Porter music if I do say so myself. Came the birth of a new dresser in starting!

It's so white that it's almost blinding. Well as for me I'm going to keep dreaming of paint and paint related things. Valentines day is tomorrow my dears! May the love of your life (or maybe your love for yourself!) do something amazing, and may you do something amazing in return.  XOXO

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A few months in passing...

It's been a few weeks since my last blog! Alas, an aweful cold has stricken me down and won't let me get up! I wanted to share some of the progress of then new bedroom with all of you while I'm feeling slightly better.

Now as most of you know I have been searching (for what seems like forever) the perfect dresser that I could spiffy up to make just as cool as the night stands! (click here to see the re-vamp of thoses babies!)

I had been hitting the Kijiji website, and craigslist hard, every day I would wake up and look with no luck. There was one dresser (sadly no photo) that I loved but was unable to get before they had sold it to someone else...  but like all good things that come to those who wait, I had found the identical 9 drawer dresser that matched my awesome 1960's night stands. With a little luck the woman selling the item had said she would keep it till the weekend for me! Ready to see it? Here it goes....

This dresser rocks my socks! Finally a place to put all of my books, movies, and anything else that will fit into these drawers (Although drawer organization was never my strong point!).

So of course right when I got home, I began to sand away... not to long into my sanding job I did realize that I didn't have any paint or glue to mend some of the broken drawers. So off to home depot I went; however, being sick and having to take our subway 30 min away from home to walk another 20 in -20 weather isn't my exact idea of a good time. I lead on, coming back with my gorilla glue, paint and brushes. When I got home I went right to work!

Ahh the mess... well if you think this is bad you should see the bedroom :) That's what happens when excitment breaks out in the house - chaos follows. Well, only the first priming layer is done! Back to the grind stone!


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The Golden Glow

Another great week behind us, with the lovely creation of gift tags (click here to read) and the additional heat for this cold winter (click here to read) I can say that this weekend was as smooth as ice (and I can say that because I have fallen yet again outside a starbucks).

For the past few weeks I’ve been slowly adding new ornaments to the tree, a few here... a few there (only on 30%-60% off of course!) To give it this heavenly glow...

So here are a few of the additions to our fabulous tree! The bird was found at Michaels this past weekend for only 7.00$ (regular 14.00$)! We fell in love with it because it was different and had a very beautiful glow (plus it’s angry bird qualities helped a bit).

Once we had found the bird we were off, I was able to find the following ornaments only a few days later. I found a set of golden glass ornaments 2.95 for all three because one had broken at home sense and I was also able to find some large ornaments in gold that had a unique family heritage feel.

The last one that I purchased (or last 10 I purchased) I’m not sure why I fell instantly in love... it reminded me of my mom back in Saskatchewan, The sparkly heart of gold, the glimmering crystal underneath it. It was delicate modern and old fashion at the same time and gave me a nostalgic feeling of home.

As I relax here looking at the hard work of the week paying off, the new ornaments nestling into their tree family... The presents wrapped and placed under the tree gently with care. I remind myself that there is only 15 more days till Christmas! Let’s get crackin!

Baby It's Cold Outside

It’s been a cold past few days, the frost nestling nicely on my downtown window. Anyone waking up would look out the window with a smile, and curl up under their blankets slightly peeking up over the blankets looking outside. Of course, when you lack a duvet for your duvet cover (yes... I have been sleeping in just a duvet cover! Don’t judge me! ^_^)

So this morning when I went out I had only one thing in mind! HEAT! Or at least more heat then I was getting from two sheets and a duvet cover ( I do believe that would qualify as 4 ply?). Of course being on a budget and having the holidays come up I knew that only one place would fit my frugal budget, so off I went to home sense to pick up warmth.

After a bit of hard work and some simple shopping I got my new duvet for only a total cost of 40$! Not too shabby for a day’s work! Of course its synthetic no ducks came to harm during the building of this blanket! So right now... even as I write you this....

I am sitting curled up under the layers of blankets and sheets that is my bed. Looking out the window at downtown Edmonton.

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Christmas Tag

This weekend when Rhys and I went to the malls I couldn’t get over the change in the air even over a few days. December is here and it’s amazing how much people are preparing for the season! I do have to confess something to you. I’m done 99% of my Christmas shopping... yes I am one of those early season shoppers... the kind that shops all year round for the best prices (it’s a sad sad world sometimes). So this weekend after I wrapped about half of my presents I realized that I didn’t have any name tags yet!

This year I didn’t want the conventional name tags, I wanted something special... something that when the gift was given would give a warm and fuzzy (a term my high school teacher used that stuck with me the rest of my life!). So I decided I could make my own tags! With pictures that remind that person of the good times we’ve had (giving them... yes you guessed it! A warm and fuzzy too!).

I simply purchased some card stock from Michaels, and printed some prints of black and white photos from Wal-Mart for a total price of 7.80 cents! (this gave me way to many picture! What to do with all the spares?)

I simply cut out a tag like shape:

Then applied some glue (stick form works the best.... plus you can relive that childhood innocence again!) and stick those pictures on the tags any which way you want!

For this amazing final touch look that simply does send a warm feeling right to the core! In my family Christmas was as much about the wrapping and the anticipation as it was about opening the gift... let’s keep the spirit of friendship and hope alive this holiday season!

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