I only got two GFG flowers done this week. The truth is....(dum! dum! dum! dum!) I'm out of the plain green centre fabric. I think this brings me up to 49 flowers in total. I have some more hexi's prepped to be stitched into blossoms, but nooooo centres. I stopped into Lens Mills on Monday, but they had NOTHING similar. Met quilty friend Jacqui there, and she suggested Fabricland, but I have a sneaking suspicion I'm going to have to go up to The Marsh Store.
But this means I've been able to make quite a bit of headway on my Log Cabin blocks. Three more logs on each block, and they are done! Boy, did I ever use up a lot of scrap material!
The Simple Abundance Project continues. I dropped off another bag of stuff from my kitchen at the thrift store this morning. Also, I threw out all of the jams and pickles that I put up ...was it three years ago?...yesterday, which was garbage day. That opened up a shelf in the basement. Hubby and Itty Bitty are getting in on the project too. They contributed a bag of stuff from the man cave/music studio this morning, and last night, we dropped off an extra electronic Keyboard at a friend's house. Feels good!
Bathroom Demo/Reno Hell 2010 continues. Good thing I didn't hold my breath about Monday being completion day. The only things left to do: install cove molding, install a light fixture, install mirror/medicine cabinet, some caulking, a little touch-up painting here and there. It's all but done! If I thought I could do the trim myself, I'd do it. Maybe Itty Bitty and I are up to the challenge. Feel like playing with some electricity today baby???
Incidently, the wall colour in the advertisement above --it's called "Rain Washed" is the colour of my bathroom paint.
The next thing I want to locate is one of these chrome rack sort of things that are shown in the two pictures below. I don't know what to call them. But at least I have photos, so I can walk into a place and say, "Hey, have you got anything like this?"
Next on my mind is painting our bedroom. I've hated the wall colour since we moved in, in 2004. It's a dull dark'ish' grey-blue. Think storm clouds, cramps, and broken dreams. It's THAT depressing.
It is a HUGE room - it was once 2 small bedrooms, but prior to our arrival, it was converted into one big bedroom with an enormous walk-in closet. Our furniture is very dark wood. So I've been flipping through decorating magazines, trying to decide on some colours that are a little more uplifting, while still restful. Here's a couple of ads - -
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Cream. Really it was called "Antique White". I like light rooms, and this goes with ANY color of bedspread/quilt I put on the bed, and ANY artwork I put on the walls.
ReplyDeleteMy bedroom has one wall that is a deep lavender and the rest is a very pale cream. Choose something restful. I once painted a bedroom banana yellow and had the most dreadful night. The following day I painted it pale pink and slept like a baby.
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My bedroom is a pale yellow, but I intend to paint it robin's egg blue. I even have the paint. Of course, I purchased it six years ago...
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the rack is called a train rack and Pottery Barn has a lot of nifty looking ones in their online catalog.
Your flowers are lovely!!
ReplyDeleteMy bedroom is wallpapered in a pink toile. Our furniture is also quite a dark wood and the toile keeps the room feeling lighter/more open.
Yellow and I want to paint it white but not stark white but like Linen or something like that. I was going to say Restoration Hardware has those racks but they are really expensive and from the States. I was looking for a store in TO which I thought was called Umbra but I think it's just a product line which has some really neat items like the rack you're looking for. Anyway, I found a website called Urbane.ca which sells the Umbra line and it looks reasonably priced. Good luck with the renos.
ReplyDeleteLovely flowers and I love those 'indoor' pictures!
ReplyDeleteHere is something similar at Sears: http://www.sears.ca/product/whole-home-md-wall-mount-towel-rack/96288620?ptag=1
ReplyDeleteMy bedroom is white - boring! But we just painted the bathroom a lovely pearl grey, and I'd love to have the bedroom that colour. It's very restful.
Colleen
Lovely flowers - hope you manage to get hold of some more of that lovely green fabric. My bedroom's in dire need of a makeover...at the moment the walls are a cream colour and if I were to re-decorate I would probably go with a shade of cream again...I think, lol!
ReplyDeleteSad about your center fabric. Hope you can find a nice substitute.
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