I made a decion finally!

I picked paint colors! For the bathroom, I have chosen "Pineapple" which is a light yellow that will match the natural light wood of the sink cabinet and the bamboo flooring. I think I'm going to try to use bamboo for baseboards.

For the bedroom, I have chosen "Yacht Club Blue" (then I will go join the Cedar Key Yacht Club! Haha...for those of you not from here...there is no such thing...perhaps a redneck yacht club full of air boats!). It's a bright blue, but not dark or overly loud. I am going to put up some white crown moulding and then put white moulding around the windows. At Home Depot or Lowes I found non-expensive crown moulding that is made out of a PVC material instead of solid wood making it MUCH less expensive. It doesn't really look that much different either.

I hope it all comes together well. Ugh! So much work!!! Just the Wal-Mart trip to buy the paint and supplies wore me out! I have to go take a nap now before I have to go back out later for dinner. I NEED my energy and stamina back!! Grr!!

Happy Friday everyone!!

Decorating ideas?

Well, it's official...my mother signed the papers yesterday, so she bought the place. Ugh. I am so not excited, if you can't tell! It's fairly spacious (though I have nowhere near as much room as I have now...I'm going to be severely cramped!), but it's from the 70's and has ugly paneling and I hate hate hate paneling. It's one of my peeves...up there with slow drivers!

I'm having trouble deciding what to do with my room. I already have my bathroom planned. I have the second smaller bathroom, but I found a sink that I really love with a matching vanity. It's currently sitting in the living room because we are still cleaning the new place and getting all new flooring. I found a flooring for my bathroom that I LOVE! It is textured (it's from a spa line or something) and looks like bamboo!! It's great!! I'm going to paint the walls in the bathroom a light yellow (not pastel, but not bright in your face either).

Here's a picture of my sink cabinet:

I still don't know what to do with my room. It has the ugly dark paneling. I thought about making my own duvet cover and decorating around that, but by the time I buy all the fabric I may as well go buy a new comforter! It's a vicious cycle! I want something fresh and calming (I so need that!...along with some Grey Goose, but it's still in the cabinet...haven't read the restrictions of my new med yet, but I'm still supposed to "limit" whatever that means).

I thought about painting the room a citrus green, but I'm not sure how that would be. I've never been a big green fan and my family has never been a big fan of color...our houses tend to resemble a psych ward...everything WHITE WHITE WHITE. My mother has no imagination whatsoever...she still thinks the velvet tassled lamp shades from the 70's are still pretty and cool...I apparently have no taste. Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of retro, but there is a point where it's just plain tacky! I've always wanted to paint my room a bright blue, but wouldn't I get sick of it?! I don't know!! It's so hard!!!! I like the look of the tans and browns, but I'm trying to get away from the depressing colors that are already there. The carpet I am having put in is called "honey silk" so it's a tannish color...that way anything is going to work with it.

Anyone have any suggestions? I'm so at a loss. I thought about wallpaper, but it's expensive and there is so much to do that I want to try paint first...I can always wallpaper over it.

Anyone is free to come help fix up the place too! :) hehe So many people were, "oh! we'll come help" yadda yadda yadda...haven't seen them.

Packing has been very hard on me and I haven't done much yet. Getting tired so easily, sucks so very badly.

Moving cont'd...

I have started the packing. It hasn't been a whole lot. Yesterday I packed up my desk and a box of CD's and DVD's. Sadly, even taking a light box out to the living room to stack it made me short of breath. I don't know how I will get through it all and it doesn't help that I am not at all excited about it...it just depresses me more.

But, whatever...I'm not going to whine...I wouldn't want to bother someone by reminding them that I am not 100% and am still limited in what I can and can't do. I am getting really tired of people telling me how I should feel or act. I know it's not very healthy, but I'm getting to the point where I just don't want to talk to anyone and I would like to just pack up and move away from here. I can't take it anymore. I really need to just cut the negative, non-supportive, and bossy (that doesn't include my one friend who is bossy to everyone by nature) people out and not talk to them anymore. It's not good for me...I talk to them and then I am in a pissy mood for hours and get upset...which then leads to chest pains if I can't get control of it and calm down. I'm also getting to the point where I'm just so over everything that I don't care anymore and I just feel like getting rid of EVERYTHING. I am just so apathetic these days. I don't even care about shopping. I spent the entire day in Gainesville shopping on Sunday and all I bought was a CD that I didn't even know if I wanted to buy (I did want the CD...just didn't know if I wanted to buy it if that makes sense) with a gift card I got for my birthday.

Anyhow. I'm still not sure what to do with my room. I ordered a tan-ish carpet so it will go with whatever I choose. I think I want something cheerful (to help offset the oft-pissy mood). Something either slightly beachy/palm tree or with crisp, calming, and cheerful color. Those colors will also match my bathroom. My mother bought my sink/cabinet and vanity today. It's a light natural wood color and the doors are the slotted ones (think shutters)...it's very Tommy Bahama feel and I am getting a flooring for the bathroom that is slightly textured and looks like bamboo. I'm a little excited about the bathroom.

As I was looking at my apron fabric I got a good idea. I don't have the patience or a quilting machine to make myself a comforter, but what I can make in about an hour would be a duvet cover!! I could then have a couple of options that I could change out. I was actually thinking that my favorite apron fabric (the green paisley) would make a really pretty duvet and brighten up the room. I also found a pretty damask on Sunday that has a really pretty citrus green pattern on a white background. I don't know!!!!

Black and White Damask Wallpaper

Here's the Black and White Damask that I found. The room is on the small side (at least what I am used to) and has one long wall that is basically closet and the only "whole" window still has a window I think, so I'm debating whether or not doing the entire room with this will be too much or not. The walls I have seen with Damask really don't look as busy when they are on the wall, but I don't know. I'm usually pretty adventurous, but this wallpaper isn't that cheap...apparently damask is some sort of contemporary luxury paper or something...I think it's just an excuse to charge more if you ask me, but they didn't. But with the whole room done in this, it also brings into play the wall decoration aspect too. I wanted to put up a couple of the frames with multiple 4x6 pics of friends, etc. and then black and white pics/art. I want simple, clean, and non-cluttered. Yeah...I know...that would be a miracle for me, but what can I say?! Haha

Weekend randomness...

I had a pretty good weekend. I was able to spend both days with friends, which I don't seem to get to do very often lately it seems. Yesterday was the Collector's Fair at the Museum of Natural History and Mark was showing his pig collection. I am also a big fan of the floaty pen collection. I've seen most of the collections before. Some of them are just strange...potato mashers, spatulas, and many other random things! I also went to see Valkyrie. It wasn't too bad even though I hate war movies of pretty much any kind. It had Tom Cruise, so that redeemed it. :)

I also went to Lowe's and looked at wallpaper and paint samples. Teresa just painted a room in her house and it looks amazing! But that's not why I was looking. So...I'm not even going to go into it, but it looks like there is a chance (probably pretty darn close to 100%) that we will be moving to a place closer to town. I am so unbelievably not happy about it or the place, but my mother will own it and I guess when she kicks the bucket I can bulldoze the place and build something better. Anyhow, it's a long story and to make it short...the move is going to happen and I am so pissed off about it that it gives me chest pains. It's not ideal and my space is going to be probably at least 1/4 of what I have now...probably closer to an eighth. Anyhow...the place has lots of paneling and I ABHOR paneling with such a passion!! So...I was thinking of wallpapering my room...no don't think ugly doctor's office...think black and white damask (the black and white part of my blog background). I'm thinking that or papering it with that "blank canvas" stuff that covers the grooves and all, but can then be painted...or I may get my brother to cover it with the plaster stuff and then painting it. The room is tiny...about the size of my current office. My books are going to have to go in storage...probably shoes too. :( Color wise I am thinking of a dark/bright blue...probably with white trim. I want something happy and clean feeling. Or I thought of soft colors with happy black and white pics...kind of French romantic, but I'm leaning towards the blue or the b/w damask wallpaper.

With my bathroom I am pretty sure I want to to the bottom half with white wainscotting (spelling?) and either a light yellow paint on the top or a light yellow and white stripes on top.