Channeling Pinterest

Still obsessed with Pinterest- it really is a great way to take my mind off of work for 20 minutes each day.  Such lovely photos.  PS- going to get a new little hairstyle today...can you tell by some of these below that my mind is completely torn on what to do?

Still Gorgeous

Images from Kate Moss's wedding to Jamie Hince.  Still so gorgeous:

[new] sectional

here she is in all her glory!

Yes, I know the wall photos behind it are totally off centered, we are working on that next weekend.  The husband will also be creating a DIY coffee table made from iron casters and reclaimed wood.  TGHH (thank god hes handy). Once thats in place, the cowhide rug will go back to the center of the room, instead of being shoved into a corner, where it currently resides.   I also need to reupholster the wing back chair, and add a light source to the far side of the room (just ordered an arc lamp, arriving by Friday so problem solved actually).  Finally feels like the room is coming together!   

Fireplace finished (for now)

The fireplace/mantle are finished.  Took me 2 weekends to get it done but now we have crossed the finish line and thats all I have to say about that.  Take a look!

Oh and whats that above you say?  our new sectional!  Best.idea.ever.  This thing is like 3 beds lined up together and yes, I have already fallen asleep in the corner and its only been here for 3 days.  But lets take a look at where i started from...white paint, yes i started with painting the fireplace white...

and i hated it.  It really washed out the room and made the mantle disappear into the wall.  So i opted for satin black paint with a top coat of chalkboard paint- because thats just how I roll. And for all of you thinking that I am an idiot for painting the inside of the fireplace as well- I used heat resistant paint inside there, so unless our fire gets hotter than 4000 degrees, we will be all set!

That Time We went to Block Island...

Once upon a time we went to visit our friends Justin and Mariah in Dighton MA.  We celebrated Justin's birthday with custom shirts and fried egg cheeseburgers, traveled to Block Island where we went to the beach and ate pizza at the best place on earth and shopped and had drinks to live music and met a man with a ripped shirt and short shorts and took the ferry home to find our car had got shit on by every bird in RI and so we drove home and sat by the fire and a huge bug got caught in my hair and the husband wouldnt get it out and we stayed up until the sun was rising the end.

Fireplace

Our fireplace is brick.  Dirty, ugly, nondescript brick colored with stains on it.  With the mantle being a real focal point in our living room, i have been going back and forth for months over whether to paint the brick at all, and if I did paint it, whether to go dark and bold with black, light with white, or somewhere in between with contrasting tiles.  It just so happens that this weekend, I am home alone for 3 straight days.  Danger Danger.  This is typically when I get a little crazy and do projects that the husband wouldnt necessarily approve with (I figure if he is away while I do it, he cant say no).  So whats on tap this weekend?  Oh, maybe a little trim and closet door painting in the master bedroom, and most definitely some ugly brick painting.  Inspiration...here it is: