Cute Creativity...

These wooden blocks were hand-painted, lettered, and dressed up with 4 corners of mini-crystals for subtle bling...really a cute idea.  Lena created this and it hangs at Dad's house over their entertainment center in the living room.

The guest bathroom gets a makeover!

I've been wanting to add some color to my house...nothing too crazy but something other than the tan, taupe like color called "Kilm Beige" that is throughout the remainder of the house.  So when I went to choose a color for the bathroom it took a few tries.  I did make sure to stay in the same saturation level as the taupe so that even when the color changed from room to room it wouldn't be so vibrant or different that it'd come smacking you in the face.  On the little paint sample cards I went across the color spectrum but stayed on the second tier to ensure equal saturation.  I finally settled on a grayish lilac purple color called "Sensitive Tint".  It looked really good accented with grays to dull it down and not make it too girly or eggplant colors to add a more jewel-toned richness to it...as you can see, I did both!  The master bathroom has hopes of becoming "Livable Green"...pictures to follow (someday)!  :-)

Tweaking a good thing to make it GREAT (for me anyway)!!!

I found this decorative metal tree at Home Goods and it was the tree itself that originally caught my attention but to my dismay it came in an antiqued coppery-gold color that did NOT match anything in my home but I just couldn't help myself.  I bought it and headed strait to LOWES to pick up some spray paint!  After a few coats of a semi-gloss black it fit right in to my existing decor!