$10 Deals and Discounts

The photograph above shows the white little side table I snagged for $10.

I placed it in the corner of the entrance to the bathroom &

topped it with a floral arrangement I made.

I love having a discount at JCPenney,

I got this adorable little blue lamp for our bedroom 

which badly needed a light.

Excuse the trash can, 

But this is a side table I snagged, also for $10.

I have plans of painting it a light gray or white.

It even has a snug little drawer, which I plan on painting

with an accent color or lining with a design. 

Photographs of our new love seat and rug to come!

Head Board Dillema

I've been back and forth on what to do for a headboard.

I really want a unique, DIY, headboard.

Here's the wall I'm talking about in our bedroom:

The orange/red wall.

Some ideas I've had.

- Using a room divider / screen

- Putting up a wall decal

- Mounting a large canvas print of the 

two of us from our wedding in black and white

- Making a headboard, lined with foam and fabric

I found examples of some of these choices:

These are wood squares, lined with foam and
fabric then mounted to create a headboard

Here's a small glimpse of how its made

These are just square prints alined above the bed.
( I love that retro seat/shelf at the end of the bed and
YES those are drums as side tables!)

Distressed wood planks, mounted together and painted

Using room dividers/screens for a headboard.
Really pretty.

And this is pretty much amazing. 

This is also a fabric lined headboard,
the wood panel was just cut in the shape. foam liner glued and stapled,
then the patterned fabric was laid over. 

I do apologize if the photos shown above are anyone's personal photographs, I saved many pictures into an "inspiration" folder and did not consider the sources. I retrieved these images all from Pinterest. 

Hello I'm Jesi, and I have a problem...

I'm so addicted to Pinterest. Every chance I get, I'm on there. I've even made a folder on my desktop of inspirational pictures for my blog and home design. 

One idea I do have though, that I didn't get from Pinterest is what to put on our wall above the couch. I want a ton of white frames, different sizes to be scattered all over. And every frame will have a hot air balloon print inside, all with a faded vintage style. I figured the different colors will help tie the room together and well, I just LOVE hot air balloons. Then I can squeeze random frames with quotes about love, family, scriptures and so on. 

I do apologize for how disorganized this post is going to be, but I figured I'd post some inspirational pics:

I was looking for things to put above our bed and I thought this was a
nice & simple design. (obviously with our initials)

This is along the lines of what I was thinking for our living room,
but I don't know how I feel about the overly organized.
It's surprising really that someone who's as OCD as I am,
thinks that some chaos is a better route.

I've also had my eye on the empty wall in the kitchen.
Also painted the same accent tone as the wall in the living room.
I think Im going to use this as my inspiration for the kitchen and
put up some shelves. Decorate the shelves with frames, flowers and etc.
I could even stack three different frames that spell out E.A.T

More ranting to come! 

I'M IN A PICKLE and I HATE pickles.

I'm trying to be thrifty and buy some used furniture on craigslist

( obviously going to check out the stuff first )

but I can't seem to judge if the love seat I have my eye on will match my patterned couch.

I know things don't have to be too matchy-matchy 

but I don't want my house to look like a thrift store gone wrong either.

Here's the pictures from the post:

I was interested in the area rug and the love seat (not the big couch)

Here's the area rug

Here's the love seat

Please take note that our kitchen and bathroom all have that shade of teal as decor.

So, here's our living room at the moment.

I was hoping that the rug would tie things together since it has

beige stripes with blue stripes.

So my idea is to place the love seat going at perpendicular 

position from the closer end of the couch in this picture. 

(so if it were placed there, you'd be looking at the back of it) 

Then to pull things together, I was thinking of putting that patterned pillow

on the teal couch to create a good balance/contrast.

MY OTHER PICKLE

So far everything in our home (furniture, frames) consists of 

black or dark wood.

I so badly want a brighter home with white or light gray accents 

and have had the thought of painting all of them.

This is the side table that Im thinking of painting a matte gray.

Here are the CONS to doing this.

1. Our kitchen table we JUST bought is black with dark wood panels for the top.

Painting this would be difficult and also I don't know if I want to paint such a new table.

2. The trim on that couch matches our side table perfectly as is.

3. I don't know if gray will offset the warm accent walls too much.

Then again, this shows how gorgeous gray and warm oranges look together.

S O U R C E

Busy Bee that is me.

My goodness its midterms already! I just registered for next quarter and Im almost through with my midterms. So far (I think) so good. Between work, freelancing, getting our new place ready and school- I hardly sleep now. 

I woke up this morning around 4:30am to finish up some homework before heading to class and taking the midterm test. Oh my! 

On a side note, even though Nick and I are being slowpokes moving into our new place- we should be ready to sleep there within the next couple of days. 

Essentials we need:

King sized bed sheets

Pots & Pans

Dining table

Room lamps

omigosh I WANT THOSE BED SHEETS!

Lovely things today:

- I got a thank you card for my pop & step mom for letting us stay with them after the wedding.

- Im going to drop off some beautiful flowers for my wonderful mother-in-law for her birthday in a bit.

- just started following a new blog dedicated to all things turquoise in home decorating!

A wonderful start!

So I had the best shopping spree today.

They upped the discount I have at JCPenney's to 25% off!

(since I work at the portrait studio)

plus they've lowered all their prices to coupon prices

= $150 spent < bathroom & kitchen essentials CHECK!

I also had the most therapeutic cleaning frenzy ever!

I used comet on everything I could!

I even scrubbed the doors and wiped down the light bulbs.

That lovely bathroom rug on the floor has memory foam
It's like giving my toes soft kisses

The soft blues and teal is all around

Like this new gorgeous shower curtain!
I'm in love!

Also, this brilliant idea I had turned out as amazing as I had hoped it would.

Its just some decorative rocks in a small vase.
(total cost = under $5)

And it wont have the nasty scum at the bottom of the jar that makes me want to throw up.

The Kitchen!

So that rug cost me about $10-$12

Light blue everywhere!
Look at these gorgeous matching bowls, plates and mugs!

Whole set cost me about $25





Our Possible New Home

Nick and I found a great place. Its a small 1 bedroom, stone tile all over and the walls are two toned (beige and with copper-red accent walls). The location is exactly where we wanted too! We put our application in today and were hoping for an answer soon!

Now, I know I shouldn't get attached just yet- but that's just not in my personality.

SO! I've been looking into decals for the walls. Since I can't paint on them- decals are the best answer. And I fell in love! They even have bed frame decals and the outcome is beautiful.

There are so many options for this and I dont think I'll ever be able to decide.

The color of the wall that the bed would be against is the copper red-

So im thinking the decal should be a light beige, that way we can change the sheets to whatever color or pattern we want.

I LOVE the birds on this next one.

I also want to put a decal above the toilet, on the accent wall of the kitchen and on the accent wall of the living room.

I have a feeling this blog will turn into my home-decor blog.

Im sure Ill have a ton of DYI projects in my future!

Scrapblock Decor

Super easy and gorgeous idea that I KNOW I'm going to be using once Nick and I have our own little home to decorate to our hearts content.

Wood panels, Scrapbook sheets, Watered down craft glue and distressing ink
and whatever supply you prefer to hang it up

You can even add photographs to it to make some homemade picture display