Wednesday, June 23, 2010

What's Inspiring Me - on Wednesday!


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 - -





What colour is your bedroom?  What is your best advice on bedroom wall colour?

9 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. My 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.
    Shirley.

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  3. 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...

    By the way, the rack is called a train rack and Pottery Barn has a lot of nifty looking ones in their online catalog.

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  4. Your flowers are lovely!!
    My 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.

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  5. 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.

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  6. Lovely flowers and I love those 'indoor' pictures!

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  7. Here is something similar at Sears: http://www.sears.ca/product/whole-home-md-wall-mount-towel-rack/96288620?ptag=1

    My 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

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  8. 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!

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  9. Sad about your center fabric. Hope you can find a nice substitute.

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