I WANT IT!!!

I obviously haven't posted anything in a trillion years.  Let's say I have had everything I wanted and didn't have to live "vicariously" for a while.  That'll make my husband happy (if he believed it for a second...)

But I want this!!!  Jenny from Little Green Notebook (my favorite design blog) is doing a giveaway for a Win8 tablet and a brush stylus, with the Fresh Paint app.

Yesterday, she did a post about how much she loved using Fresh Paint.  I was so excited by the idea of doing a project that Jenny has done, without having to get off the couch or get dirty or clean up anything! Anyhow, I borrowed a windows 8 laptop and downloaded Fresh Paint right away.  I even tried to look up how to make a DIY brush stylus, because I wanted to get started immediately.

Here's the result.  I didn't use the wet paint option, but I just painted over the picture.  It was so much fun.  I loved it.  It's my daughter's cat Jasmine, and I will have it printed for her room.   I hope I win this so much, but I am afraid that if I do, I will never get any work done.  I have a pile of paintings I would like to do next.  (if I had the tools, hint hint)

FAB-U-LOUS!!!! Beekman Boys

Once upon I time I bookmarked this soap, mostly 'cause I am a sucker for a great logo.  Also, extreme pushover when it comes to goats, so I've got that goin' for me.

Add some pigs

Not to mention a llama named Polka Spot, cheese (I love cheese), Farmer John (loves his goats so much it makes him cry!  My kind of farmer!)

Not enough?  Insane mansion straight from my dreams...

Check!

Gay reality show?  SOLD!!!!

THE FABULOUS BEEKMAN BOYS!!!!!!!

Just started on a Discovery channel subset, Planet Green.

Love, love, love, love, I am in LOVE!

IKEA takes a lot of flack for being "IKEA".  It carries with it connotations of cheap and immature, something you use until you become a "grown up".  I will tell you that I have a very love/hate relationship with IKEA.  I love the catalog, it's arrival is one of the best times of the year.  I hate the store!  They never have what I want, I can never find a person to help me, and I usually leave my cart in frustration at the end, with out going through the line.  But here is what makes it all worth while.  I love this bed.  I want to completely redecorate both of my girls rooms around this bed.  It's amazing!

PS, it's the IKEA PS Veranda

I need 3 dollas

Craigslist is an amazing resource

Why didn’t I think of this before?

Little girl wants her wall to be purple.  Her headboard is a soft aqua (but UPDATE, the bed is turned sideways now, in a daybed fashion)  and the other large piece with color in her room is her kitchen (which I was gonna link to my blog post about, until I realized I never posted it! oops, next up DIY play kitchen), which is kind of a bright peachy, pinky, slightly coraly color.  So I did not want to paint bright purple walls and end up looking like a mish mosh out of one of those dated “How to decorate a Kid’s room” books.  The plan evolved to this, use a lilac paint with a Moroccan tile stencil.  This post is getting too long, I am boring myself.  Looked everywhere, couldn’t find stencil, then thought of Etsy, stencils found.

How to steal this idea, while being totally lazy.

Lauren, from Pure Style Home clearly has much more energy than I do, probably from still being “20-something”, and she is putting it to good use!  I love her kids nursery.   
purestylehome via design*sponge

Specifically the “canopy”.  So here’s what I figure.  If you are lazy like me, and don’t mind black vs blue (which could be a deal breaker in a nursery, but maybe not in an older kids room), I think you could fake it with this…
paisley black table cloth

It comes in a 60” x 110” for only $70.  Of course if you have more energy bubbling up inside (or don’t want black) you could do it with this…
Cutting Edge Stencil

From Cutting Edge Stencil on Etsy.  Not exactly the same, but close enough.

Somebody, please tell me why I don’t live…

HERE.  no, not you.  Only people that get it.