Thoughts on Inspiration and Decorating

Wow. I hadn't realized that it had been almost a month that I haven't blogged about anything!

Life has seemed so busy as of late.

I have been busy.

Soon I will have pictures to show you what I have been busy doing.

I have been painting. And sewing. And in true distracted homemaker fashion, none of it has anything to do with my master bedroom makeover, or our family room remodel.

I drive my husband bonkers when I start up a project and finish it halfway. And some of you out there wouldn't dream of doing that. But I have to work while I am inspired. If I lose said inspiration, you can kiss completion goodbye. (Which is why I am extremely grateful that God gave me a man who is driven to completion. If I were in charge of the family room remodel, we would still be at the studs stage. Because it takes strong vision to see the finished product through all the dust and sweat.)

So I started sewing my bedspread out of a gorgeous piece of fabric. As I laid out the top half of the duvet cover on my bed for a test run, I realized two things:

A) The fabric looked really masculine laid out on the bed. (Which was weird because it didn't look masculine to me before. It was the perfect blend of masculinity and femininity, or so I thought anyway!)
B) Sleeping under it was near impossible because it was so NOISY! Hubby vetoed it as a bed covering.

So now I have a gorgeous piece of fabric that doesn't have a home. Sigh. Homeless fabric is so frustrating.

Rather than dwell on that failure, I decided to become inspired in my bathroom. One evening and several sore muscles later, and I fell in love with my bathroom all over again. It is now a soothing deep blue teal color (I would show you pictures but the batteries in my camera are dead and I have been too busy to go buy some more).

And one good piece of inspiration deserves another...

While out shopping with a friend this weekend, I came across a sheet set that would make perfect curtains for my sons' room. And it just happened to match the OOPS paint I had gotten at Home Depot a couple of months back. Cost for the paint: $5.00. Cost for the curtains and accessories: $8.99.

So yesterday was spent repainting our sons' room. And our boys are immensely thrilled with the new color. We rearranged furniture at the request of our oldest (who is very much like his mother in the fact that he likes to rearrange furniture) and culled toys that were unloved.

So while de-inspired for my bedroom, I managed to become reinspired for two other rooms.

My next project to start and finish is my kitchen.

Do you decorate according to inspiration? Do you get all excited about a project and then not finish because you ran into a major snag? Or do you push through and find inspiration in a different way?