Light Fixture Time!

Next step in the bedroom makeover was replacing the light fixture. When we moved in, we had a fan over the bed. I'm not a fan of fans in general. I don't like wind on my face. I won't even drive with the window down. David, on the other hand, loves fans. Last summer, we tried sleeping with the overhead fan on a few times. It dried out my eyes. Did not like. So, we agreed that if he wants a fan, he can use the box fan on his side of the bed, and I can keep moisturized eyes. That means the outdated fan could go!

This is the before:

We found this light fixture on Amazon for $64. Which was a steal! When it got here, I was impressed. It looks more high-end than I expected from the photo. The only thing I don't love is the plastic light box part on the underside. I will probably end up covering that with fabric soon, but it doesn't look so bad.

I love the slightly retro look and the modern flair. The brushed nickel finish is perfect with the gray walls and the clean lines make me happy. It's a lot less intrusive than the fan and it opens up the room. It gives off some major, bright light too.

And, David bought me these potted tulips for Valentine's Day and I've been enjoying the pop of color in the room. They make me anxious to accessorize!

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One Window with Curtains!

Woah. One window in my house now has curtains. Actually, it's had curtains for a little bit now, but I did not have the means to show you said curtains. I can probably stop telling you that now, but somehow it seems dishonest to leave it out.

Anyway, we had quite the drama with the curtains. We bought the fabric online and the place that sold it sold it by the half yard. I have never yet encountered such a thing. So, we bought only half the amount we needed for the two windows in our bedroom. I had just enough to do one window, if I added a black stripe to the bottom. I think I like it, although I wish they were three inches longer. I may do something about that still.

For now, I'm loving that I have a window covering and I adore this fabric, which is Waverly Small Talk Blackbird. Heart! Heart! I picked out my color scheme and painted before I picked up this fabric and it coordinates perfectly. Amazing.

A close up, with some folds due to the fact that it is hanging on my window:

These actually whipped up much more quickly than I had thought they would. I wanted to figure out a way to do cheap curtains, but after searching everywhere, I figured out that I could get what I wanted and spend a little more, or get what I didn't want and spend about the same, or I could get what I really didn't want and spent a lot less. I'm scared to add it up though, what with my paying waaaayyy more for the fabric than I needed to pay.

Here they are open:

I have a serious wire problem in my bedroom. That wire is the TV cable. We need to tuck it under the baseboard or something. We have wires all over the bedroom that need some attention.

And closed:

To jog your memory, I painted some leaves on one wall and made over my bedside table. This room is slowly coming together. I bought a new light fixture which I will show you soon. Now to buy more fabric for the other window and make the curtains.

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Smooch Projects

That is the most boring title ever. Perhaps I should add a plethera of exclaimation points after it to boost the excitement. "Smooch Projects!!!!!! Yeah!!!"

I don't think I have the energy for that today (I stayed up way too late reading the last book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and I'm in a melancholy now that I've finished--not that they weren't good. I'm just going to miss the characters and I'm pouting). Even though I think these projects are totally rocking. They are the projects from this video. Yep, finally managed to get photos of them. Go me!

Anyway, here are the cards. Pretty standard, except they glimmer. Glimmer is good.

Then there's my favorite project, the birds on the glass.

Their white bodies are on the front, and the designs are on the back. I think it turned out adorable, and this is going to hang out in my craft room forevermore.

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New Camera! New Camera!

My camera got here yesterday! This was a complicated operation. You see, I normally sit around my house all day, a lot of times in my pajamas, typing furiously on my computer and learning college type things online. Usually, the most taxing thing I'd have to do to get ready for a UPS delivery is get dressed before nine. However, yesterday, I was at my mom's house, helping my cousin make an adorable blanket for her little baby girl who is due soon. She came down from Logan, two hours away, and it was the only day she could come. The same day my camera was supposed to come, with a signature required for delivery.

Yeah.

Five months without a camera. The first weekday in what feels like months I'm not going to be home (this is a measure of how pathetic/college absorbed/unreliable my transportation/my life is--I don't think those slash marks strictly made grammatical sense). Camera going to be delivered. Panic.

Panic solved by David deciding he can work from home for the day.

Phew. So, here are a few of the first pictures I took with my new camera. It is seriously cool. It's a Canon 60D. I'm spoiled, spoiled, spoiled. No shots of Xander yet, but here are some of the younger three (the first few were taken at my mom's house).

Next up should be some craft and some home decor projects. . .

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