Fabric Love

For a while now, I've had a huge crush on Dwell Studio's gorgeous Vintage Blossom fabric in Jade:

I absolutely LOVE the perfect robin's eggy blue color with the contrasting charcoal and white print.  Plus, cherry blossoms AND white birds!!  This fabric must have been made for me.  I literally could see myself using this EVERYWHERE in my house!

However, I'm going to have to order a sample as I am a little worried that the "jade" may be more green in real life than I hope.  (fingers crossed it's as it looks online!)
I think it would make an absolutely gorgeous set of drapes for the main floor.  I'd need 2 pairs as the living room windows and sliding patio doors are not only on the same wall, but literally a few feet apart, I think that the colors are muted enough not to be too much for the small space!

See? Isnt' it just so pretty on pillows?

Also in my search tonight, I stumbled upon  another gorgeous pillow:

Albeit, $80 is quite a bit more than I usually spend on throw pillows... But I think I just might love this fabric even more!!!

Unfortunately, they don't appear to sell just the fabric.  (Yet... I am hoping) as this would be absolutely gorgeous for our bedroom!  Maybe a headboard or drapes as well?

What do you think?  Has anyone seen the Peacock fabric available for sale??  Let me know!

A New Bed!

But not for us...

I've been having some sleep issues lately, with Finley taking up a lot of room in our bed.  The heat is causing her to stretch out quite a bit and she has been encroaching on my space quite a bit.  I decided it was time for us to crack down and stop letting her sleep with us.

You'd be surprised just how little room there is in a Super King bed with 2 adults and a dog when you're used to sleeping in one.

Anyhow, today we hit up Petsmart to pick up some pills to help prevent puppy potty breaks from killing our lawn even more than it already has, and while we were there, we picked up this beauty:

This thing is HUGE!!  I can curl up in it!

I absolutely love the gold upholstery on the bolsters!  This is a bed I would NOT be ashamed to have on display in my living room or wherever.  I'm glad companies are making dog beds more attractive so that they dont stick out like sore thumbs in decorated rooms!

It's regularly $100, but we snagged this baby for $45 as it was Reduced to Clear!

Best part?

This little girl is a fan!! 

It'll probably take some time to get this 2 year old girl to stop trying to sleep with us, but I am glad she has a nice new bed to occupy instead!

Happy weekending!

To Keep or Not to Keep?

We recently sold out all the final units at one of our condominium units at work.  While we try to sell all our homes and suites fully furnished, sometimes the homeowners choose to purchase them without.  That means, we have to find new forever homes for all the furniture and accessories on display, and I do a little sale.

The best part about running the sales is that I get first dibs on whatever I want to purchase!  Thankfully, she and I are friends and sometimes share ideas so there's often stuff I love in the houses.

I did manage to find a few things that I am contemplating for our place:

First up, is these gorgeous throw pillows:

They have a beautiful nubby, linen like, almost burlapy quality and have gorgeous music notes and cursive writting that looks worn on them.  The back is covered in a pretty textured grey fabric that is pretty much the color I want to purchase a new sofa in.  So while they will look good on our cream sofa now, they should also look great on a grey on.  Plus, they just have that vibe I love so I could probably use them anywhere.

The second item and the one I am most unsure about is this area rug:

It has the cream, brown and blues that are throughout the house, I'm sure really not sure about that lime color...

And of course, I can not seem to get a great picture of it in place (excuse the crappy photos, my new phone usually takes good ones, but I may or may not have dropped it and probably should take advantage of the warranty I decided not to forgo this time...)

What do you think?  Is it too busy?  Are there far too many conflicting colors in here?  Keep in mind that this was not staged, the pillows were all just picked up off the floor and thrown on the sofa.

Wow, I am just seeing how bad these really turned out...  Maybe some day time shots with the Rebel are needed tomorrow...

And lastly, this sweet beauty:

I have wanted a subway/bus roll art FOREVER now, but just couldn't justify buying one.  So I thought (several times) about making one.... but never got around to it.  Since I managed to snag this one super cheap thru the sale, I figured what the heck.  I absolutely love it, but the spot I planned for it, on the little angled wall right when you walk in the front door, is also the spot where the ottoman to sit and put your shoes on is.  And unfortunately, this baby is a lot longer than I thought, so if you were sitting on the stool, you'd smash into it with your back and most likely knock it off the wall... :(

So instead, I am trying it out in the upstairs hallway.  I currently have it leaning on the little table up there until I decide it's staying so I don't put holes in the wall. Seeing it in picture, I'm pretty sure I love it, but the table HAS TO GO!!

Anyhow, let me know your thoughts!  I'd love to hear what you think!

What on Earth?

Since things have been super crazy for me lately, I have been "posting" (or so I thought...)  from my cellphone over the last month....

I finally had a chance to log on today, only to find that NONE OF MY RECENT POSTS ARE ONLINE!!  And Blogger has completely changed and I am completely LOST!!!

Not sure what exactly happened, but I must not have set it up properly on my new cellphone.  Woop woop :( 

Anyhow, it's been a little crazy with me working a ton.  I took a contract job for the entire month of April ON TOP of my full-time job that kept me busy busy. So I was excited for May so I could finally get some much needed stuff done around the house (which we did and the posts got lost... so I will do a brief little re-cap of what we've been up to:

In a bout of productivity one afternoon about 2 weeks ago, Cory got the following done:
- raked the grass (about half our entire back yard is completely dead.  I guess that's what we get for getting a female dog....  :(

We'll be getting out the fertilizer this week to hopefully try and repair some of it, but will most likely be ripping it up and putting in new sod. 

**Note: we are also going to try those vitamin pill things that apparently help neutralize the urine ph levels.  Friends have said they work**

- light bulbs have been changed throughout the house's interior and exterior (that was mostly my doing, but I will help Cory take the credit)  One of the bulbs however had been out for I'm guessing 2 years... This made a world of difference, let me tell you!

- the screen on our rear screen door was replaced after it was damaged by both cats and Finley scratching at it last year.  This is now the second time we've done this.... we decided to shell out the extra dough for the heavy-duty "pet screen" this time and so far, so good.  But time will tell as the weather actually gets nice enough for us to have the screen door open and the animals to get the urge to go out more.

- He also pressure washed the entire house, deck and lower patio and I think even the driveway!

- the metal door sweep on the screen door has finally been installed properly so I don't come home to little paws sticking out from under the door at me.  He also tightened the frame so it doesn't bang around now when you close the door.

- new weather stripping was applied to the front door (this was a little late but we're all ready for NEXT winter now...)

Those may seem like simple, every day tasks to some, but with him working 14 hour days often, it's a big feat for me to get him to do one of those things usually, let alone all of them.

We both worked this weekend and I had a birthday outting so it was kind of wash weekend, but I've got tasks planned for the whole rest of the week, so expect something new each day!!

What have you done to get your home ready for Spring/Summer?

Pretty little thing - April

I'm not sure if I ever shared my favorite Christmas gift with you... Cory got me a watch that I'd had an eye on for a while and I absolutely LOVE it.

The strange part was that I asked for it, and I hadn't worn a watch in almost 5 years!!! Now, I am checking them out all the time and have a whole bunch more on my wish list!

What I love so much about this one is that its sooo different. The tortoisheshell and the gold are so perfect together. Especially considering I never thought I'd ever wear gold jewelery cause someone told me it clashed with my skin tone once. Guess it's true when they say to trust your gut :)

1st Easter

My nephew was born on Easter last year, so this weekend was the first year we could shower him with gifts. I had a ton of fun doing so. Especially since we were celebrating his bday early as well since he was in town and all.

Unfortunately, I wasn't feeling well and just so busy so there weren't many photos taken but I did manage to snag this one of him with my phone. Love it! Hope you all had a great weekend!

Dream Bathroom

The other day at work, I helped our interior designer source some photos of all white bathrooms in order to win an argument and came across THIS BEAUTY:

Unfortunately, in our rush to meet a deadline, I saved the photo incorrectly on my work computer and somehow wasn't able to trace the image back.

If anyone knows the source of this image, could you please let me know so that not only can I properly credit it, but also get some more information on the cherry blossoms!!

Loving me some all white bathroom!