Paint Projects.

Last week I finally began to feel motivated to paint...something that I have been wanting to do since before I even moved in. This was not just a product of procrastination, mind you, but a color choice block. I love turquoise...I am drawn to it. But, since my last house was all in blues I thought that I should try something new. New province, new color. But.... I really love the blues. They calm me. But, I thought that I should try something like burnt sienna--some rusty shade of orange. A color that would be warm the house during those long cold Manitoba winters.

But, in the end, I chose the color that made my heart flutter.... pretty much the same shade as my last house. This was unintentional. I started with about 14 paint chips on my wall. Over a period of about a week I whittled them down to 2 choices -- a blue and an orange.

I was astonished when I started painting that the color was indistinguishable from my last house. I guess that means I really like it.


I decided that this was also a good time to refinish my counter stools. I really liked them white, but I have nothing white or light maple in this house and they stuck out too much. I hated seeing chairs, chairs, chairs everywhere when I looked in my Dining Room.
So, much to Ryan's disapproval, I painted them black.


Much better, I would say!
My Kitchen went from this...


To this.

And, my Dining Room went from this...

To this...I made the curtains out of a cream muslin. They are light and airy and scrumptious! I love them... And, they were super easy to make because the cloth, being muslin, has it's salvaged edge the same color as the fabric. It blends right in, which means that you only have to do a hem on the top and bottom. Then I used ring clips to hang them from.

In fact, I love them so much I think I may make some for my living room...

I needed a piece of art to put above my hutch, so I went to a local shop and looked around. I was drawn to this little guy. I almost didn't get him because the piece was ridiculously expensive.... but, I guess not too ridiculously expensive because he ended up coming home with me...

Much to my delight!

I love crows. I don't know if you can tell, but he is wearing cowboy boots and a feather cloak!

And, his color's work great in the room...

And, yes... We finally got our lawn in! It took them almost a month to do 'er...

I'll post some pics of that in a couple days!

Happy Canada Day!