In the bedroom....

Man, today was one of those days. One of those days that can only be rectified by amazing Japanese food and cold beer. On normal days, I come home and sit on the couch and catch up on a couple emails, check Facebook, and start to figure out dinner, laundry, and the next day. Today I just came home, grabbed my MacBook and sat on the bed in our LOVELY bedroom.

See, our bedroom wasn't always lovely. When I bought this house, the walls were beige. I foolishly picked out a heinous blue for the walls that I swore I would love till the day I died. I actually only ended up loving it for a month or two, and then I just sort of tried to avoid looking at it. Fast forward to a few weeks ago when I picked out the paint color for the bathroom. We bought about a gallon more than we needed, and Kevin suggested that maybe we'd paint the bedroom the same color. Genius! We did it - painted the trim a nice crisp white, and did the same gray on the walls. I decided I had to share the results...there are no before pictures. Suffice to say it was a scary sky blue, and the trim needed to be painted BADLY.

Okay so it's not 100% done. I need to tweak the window situation a little. 

Dresser with gorgeous smoky gray on the walls, and one of my paintings.

Additional dresser shot. The birthday card is from my first birthday as a married lady. Kevin wrote a lovely note to me in it, and I will probably display that card forever. 

After giving it a lot of thought, I finally settled on what artwork I wanted for over our bedside tables - framed printed copies of our wedding vows to each other! Kevin's vows to me are over my side of the bed, and my vows to him are over his side of the bed. Just a little something to remind us of our love for each other, and of the promises we've made to each other. One of the things he promised me in his vows was to support me through all of life's difficulties - man did he ever come through this week! 

Our pretty bedding, an awesome wedding present from my cousins!

The bouquet I carried during our wedding, along with a little porcelain cat I swiped from my mom a jillion years ago, all nestled around one of my favorite pictures of my Papa...

My home-made silhouettes - our little family portrait wall. More to come once I figure out what goes on the wall to the left...

Wedding vows....

Fave Five...

I like to make lists. I like to make lists at work. I like to cross things off from lists. It's pretty fun, you have to admit. Between you and me, sometimes I put things on there that I've already completed, just for the pure satisfaction of feeling like I accomplished more. Don't tell anybody. It'll be our little secret. Here's a list of things I'm really digging right now....

Essie's "Turquoise and Caicos". I cut my nails nice and short, and painted this over a layer of OPI's "Dear Diary", and finished it off with two thick coats of clear lacquer. I feel fancy. It looks like I went to the salon, except usually when I go to get a professional manicure, the little Korean lady who does them usually cuts one of my cuticles too short, and it hurts, and then I vow to never go back (until I do). All the joy of a fresh looking manicure, without the knife-wielding Korean lady attacking my poor innocent cuticles like a jungle explorer chopping through bamboo with a machete. And it's turquoise. I love turquoise. 

This water bottle. You fill it, and as you sip, it filters the water for you! Brilliant! And perfect, since it seems like the Brita jug in the fridge at works mysteriously ends up there completely empty at the exact moment that I'm super thirsty. I ordered mine from our Amazon Prime account, and it arrives Monday! Plus, it's supposedly spill proof, which is really excellent, because I tend to fall over my own feet. True story. 

If I could just magically create an outfit out of thin air, this would be my perfect date night outfit. Casual. Crazy. It's got red glasses. It's a winner. I'd wear this out on Saturday night to see the Hunger Games with my awesome husband. 

This Carrot Ginger Elixir from Shutterbean is delicious, and I swear it helped me get over whatever crazy insane stomach bug/cold/who knows what that I had the other day. Seriously. Try it. Go do it right now. 

KT Tape! Kevin and I have been using this stuff (he's got what we think is paroneal tendonitis, and I have posterior shinsplints) for the past few weeks as we do our couch to 5k training, and so far so good! I will say, though, that once we ran out of our original roll, we bought the KT Tape PRO next, and it seems like it has more staying power, especially when you want to wear it for a few days and not have it fall off after you get out of the shower. 

xoxo have a great weekend!

ps: check out my husband's blog. He's a genius, and he wrote an awesome blog post on how he used C# programming to make our thermostat fancy and automated. It's okay if the actual code part confuses you. It confused me too. Just focus on the concept :)

Shades of Grey....

If I were in elementary school, I'd be all ready to write my "Things I did this weekend" essay.

Let's just say when I moved into my house about 2 1/2 years ago, I thought it would be super cool to paint the bathroom this crazy blue color. Needless to say, I regretted it within a couple of months, and have been thinking ever since about how nice it would be to give the bathroom a sophisticated makeover. Over the course of the past week, our bathroom has gone from a scary blue, with trim that desperately needed to be painted, hardware that needed to be updated, and a big scary set of glass shower doors that were begging to be ripped out....

Here's the after pictures....I'm so excited!

We went with a nice Martha Stewart color for the walls called 'Zinc' - it's a little darker in person than it looks here...

Believe it or not, this shelf was a nice 1970's avocado green until yesterday. It belonged to my dad when he was in high school, and has holes punched in the back of it so he could run wires to his speaker system. 

Brand new shower curtain from Target - you can't really see it in this picture, but it has little flecks of metallic silver all over it. Love it! You can see the fancy new shower head we got peeking up over the shower curtain....

Fancy new rainwater shower head (with a hand-held for giving the dog a bath!)

It's weird to take pictures of your toilet....so I took a picture of what's above the toilet. Pretty scented candles, and a black and white print of Paris that I swiped from our own kitchen...

With the paint being pretty masculine, I wanted to go with something a little more feminine. Pretty vintage inspired glass door pulls for the closet doors and cabinets!

Pretty little vintage inspired drawer pulls....

More of the vintage style glass pulls (I'm a teeny bit obsessed)

A view looking toward the bedroom (and Ruby taking a little nap)

I LOVE the Neptune and Mermaid prints I found for the bathroom! The colors stand out so nicely against the crisp white mat ($16 frames courtesy of the clearance section of Target!)

Mermaids!

I can't get over how cheap these frames were....I just like how they stand out against the dark grey walls....

Keepin' it organized on the bathroom counter! 

So excited that this project is nearing completion! Just a couple of shelves to put up, a few paint touch-ups, and we'll be good to go! Yay for a new bathroom!