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?

Remodeling Round Up...Sorta

Yeehaw y'all, it's time for Remodeling Guy's Remodeling Round Up!
I cannot take any credit for what you are about to see.

My beloved hubby has been the busy beaver on this project.

He has turned it from ugly, unfunctional, wasted space into....
A room.


More specifically, it will be our family/schoolroom.

He is amazing! (Uh..no I don't have him sleeping out there. We just moved the spare bed from the music room. Where it was serving as a low couch. Oh yes, we are creative. It will probably serve the same purpose in its new home.)

And he is driven. He has gotten this far in a little over a month. He has done everything except some of the electrical and some of the drywall hanging. Why suffer (possibly maim yourself or blow up your house) when you have a neighbor who is a professional electrician? Why torture yourself (with a pitiful drill) when you have friends who hang drywall for a living (and who brought their totally awesome tools of the trade)?

No, we haven't started painting yet. That will be my contribution. This green is just leftovers from a fit of insanity I had after looking at the dirty, disgusting garage wall that used to be there.

My man knows how to bust out a room! I can't wait for the finished result. But alas, I will have to show that off at a later time because I can't make him work any faster.
What, did you think I was a slave driver?
Git along little doggie.. (how would you spell that anyway?)

WFMW: Not Brushing My Kids Teeth

Okay, before you call child services on me, hear me out!

How many of you ladies like to sit there and watch your children like a hawk while they brush? I thought as much. None of us like to do it and it hardly yields satisfying results..at least in my household it doesn't. Often I end up brushing the child's teeth myself. Which, the whole idea is to encourage good hygiene and taking care of one's body...not having Mom do it all the time.

However, neither do I want my children's teeth rotting out of their heads. What is a mother to do?

Enlist the help of a sibling! I have my sons brush the sides of each other's teeth to get those hard to reach areas. They have fun and keep their teeth sparkling. There is also the competition factor about whose teeth are actually cleaner...more motivating than a trip to the dentist! :)

Not brushing my kids' teeth works for me!

Found In Our Front Yard...

Look at this fellow..isn't his coloring spectacular?

Here's another show stopper!

And look what I managed to capture...a humming bird! We actually have a pair that visit our tree now. I imagine that a nest is nearby.

Just a few of our feathered friends that visited today.

What Is It...Revealed!

In a fit of boredom late one night this weekend, I decided to create something.
My son said it was outerspace.
It was a happy accident.
It took three redos of the G to get to this.

And then I splopped paint...aaaaaaaaaaggggghhhhhh.

Which I then decided looked pretty cool and so I did it some more.

Thinking outside of the box.
Free paint and canvas.
Equals one priceless work of art.

Unique and a bit funky. Just like me!

What Is It?

UFO?

Toothpaste splatters?

Toddler art?

Can you guess?

I'll give you the full reveal tomorrow!

Camera Sneaks

All photos in this post were taken by my boys....sigh...without my permission. Do you think they need a play camera?