My Boudoir Part 2

OK, back as promised...here are some additional pictures of my little haven that will hopefully give you a feel for my decorating style...at least in my bedroom. I notice it changes from room to room!

OK so in this picture you can see my fancy curtains that match my fancy hamper...oh wait, it is laundry day so pretend the hamper is NOT there..then there is yet another tassel hanging on my armoire. I'm SOOO obvious am i not....??

My marriage bed, you can't really tell in these pics, but my walls are not white, they are beige. Builder's beige actually, i was thinking about painting the whole room maybe half the green tone from my bedspread...whattathink? Oh... i made some of those luscious pillows. Makes you want to just jump into my bed, doesn't it? Before i move on, a word about my headboard. once upon a time my headboard had a groovy mirror in the center with really neat-o- glued- on metallic gold strips on either side of it. when this started looking a bit outdated i bought some great suede-like brown fabric, really thick batting, and just used a staple gun to secure it from behind. I'm thinking it may be time to update again. maybe some chic black...??

now my bathroom area...not so chic here. thinking maybe paint the cabinets? or remove them altogether and replace...i hope my husband doesn't read this...

and lastly my two most favorite things in my bedroom. On the left here is a wonderful jewel encrusted frame with the neatest quote that my dear friend gave me as a gift. On the right here are the flowers from my daughter's funeral that i dried and preserved in this glass thingamajigger. I had a little plaque with her name and dates on it made up at a trophy shop, but as you can see it does not wrap around the cylinder shaped glass. it has been 5 years and it is still beautiful.
Once again folks, thanks for letting me share..

My Boudoir

Here's some pictures of my cool bedroom and the window treatment in there.

Yes that is a tassel hanging from my ceiling fan at the top of this picture!

So i found the 2 outer curtains at Ross and the color is similar to my bedspread, a sort of brownish green. I separated the valance from the panels and had to add a little extra fabric at the top of said panels so i could rehang them. The rust colored curtain i found for about a dollar a yard so i just made a couple of panel with them and this is also what i used at the top of the green outer panels. its concealed by the valance so i figured,'why not?' the sheers in the center i found for $5.00 a pair @ garden ridge. they're kind of crinkly, i love that.

then my absolute favorite part would be the beads that i got at JC Penney to go over the sheers. i love,love,love my window treatment.

Anyone who ever comes to visit always comment on my curtains. It really is love.....

Tomorrow I'll let you see the rest of my room, so stayed tuned!!

Jailhouse Rock

well the drama continues....my son Josh was arrested Thursday for shoplifting and i have decided not to bail him out yet..it has been hell. He calls me several times a day crying and begging me to get him out. i just think he has to play by society rules like the rest of us. this has been my worst fear. I used to worry that since he kept trying to get away with stuff here at home, it would result in him landing in jail when he tries to pull that stuff as an adult. and here we are.
we are leaving wednesday to visit my oldest in san antonio and watch him graduate from the air force.
On a lighter note, i was thinking i would share with you all the window treatment in my bedroom. i was going to say 'my boudoir' but i'm not feeling that cool. at least i'm not eating everything in sight!

thanks for letting me share.

Oh...before i forget, i doing a giveaway on a sweet ladies blog starting tomorrow. it'll be customer choice so all you have to do is leave a comment telling which tassel you would like to win and one lucky person will get their wish!! here's her blog.

Lunch

I had lunch today with my son Josh. It was pleasant, he looks good and he graduates from high school this year. I am proud of him and I continue to hold him up in prayer. i still have hope.

Monday, Monday

Anyone remember that song from the Mama's and the Papa's? i remember the song, i just had to look up who sang it because i was a wee one when i heard it.

So i made a light box this weekend like someone suggested to me on one of the etsy forums i visited last week. i still need a big clamp on light for the top, so once i get that i'll be redoing all my pics in my shop and adding new ones.

I didn't get as much done this weekend as i would have liked because my gallstones acted up.

do i sound old or what?? at least my corns behaved themselves...hehe

i am finishing up a purse i am making for a dear friend and i hope to complete some tassels this week as well. i just need to watch what i eat.

my son Josh has called several times, and he's back to his "i want you to do this", "i need a ride to such and such" etc. i missed a couple of his calls on saturday, for which i feel really bad about, but i don't want to go down this path with him either, which is why i haven't called him back, i realized last night. i do feel back though because i don't want him to think i reject him altogether, so i will call him back tonight. i stayed up last night trying to remember when i had Josh at home and he was just josh. before he decided to take that alternate path. it has been a while.

so my oldest son, Sean, called last night and we got to talk to him for 13 minutes this time. I can't wait to visit him in 2 weeks. partly because i miss him, and partly because i can finally have my gallbladder removed when we come back! Ha!

here is my airman(as they refer to each other at boot camp)

isn't he a cutey patootey?!!

Halloween Pics!!

So my absolutely favorite blogger that I faithfully read everyday (except the weekends, makes for great Mondays trying to catch up!) is asking about Halloween costumes on her blog and so I had to take out the pictures of what I really do here at work! If she reads this blog, I want to apologize now for all the grammatical errors she is bound to find on this blog. This blog is more like my personal diary, I just wish there was a grammar check button.

So, on with the show!! First up......

My office last year. I didn't even place in the contest...and i even bought a brand new toilet seat for the occasion!! I was the 'Royal Flush'..the gal from downstairs named Toni won. You can see why. There was also a smarty pants, a cereal killer, and the 401k advisor standing behind me.

This was me the year before...sure i look like a poor sweet little old unsuspecting lady who has lost her Precious. All morning i walked around whistling saying, " Here Precious, Precious!! Here puppy, puppy............

I hope you weren't chewing any gum when you scrolled down. Would you believe i still didn't win?? My manager came up to me and told me that this did tragically happen to an older larger lady from her church. I did swallow my gum when she told me that, but the tears came in REAL handy. Talking about tacky??

As for my first year here at work, i dressed up as a shiny new bumblebee...get it, 'Newbie'. Oh i so do crack myself up!Believe it or not, i didn't win then either. I am so misunderstood.

Prodigal Son

If its not too weird, if anyone reads this...please say a quick prayer for my son Josh. I really feel like he is at a crossroads right now in his life, and he needs to know God is real. He never called me back, but we had decided to meet for lunch this weekend, so i will call him by the end of the week.

Also for this weekend, i thought i would take some pics of my bedroom. I really LOVE the window treatment i did myself in there and the decorating is...well..you be the judge.

Etsy Forum Fanatic

OMG!! no seriously...i stumled upon the Etsy forum the other day...and i am hooked. i mean, forget my farmville, forget my family, i am just soaking up EVERYTHINGthat i am coming across and learning TONS. I case you haven't noticed i figured out how to make a facebook page for my etsy store and how to add it to my blog------>
anymore and i will need another blog to work out another addiction!
On a totally different subject, my prodical son who has chosen to move out because i wasn't cool with his getting high, called Sunday night and wants a relationship with me & God. (hopefully not in that order, but probably) You see, he and his best friend were out conducting a drug deal when his buddy got shot in the face with a 45. He survived, had to have his jaw replaced with a metal one, but he is alive. My son had to drive him to the hospital, he was only 5 feet from the incident. I hope. hope. hope. this is what will finally reach him. Getting arrested didn't, living in poverty with his drug addicted biological father didn't do it, watching his little sister die from cancer didn't even wake him up. It's been one of those things that i've had to just pray and LET GO. not near as easy as it sounds, not near to proclaiming a victory, but i will accept hope.

Diningroom Do-Overs

So i actually started working on the curtains in my dining room about...last May. They started off being only the green outer curtains with a cream colored sheer in the center. Unfortunately i couldn't find any pics of that, but you can kind of see what i mean from these pics.

So i found this great striped fabric that went well with the green, read a few blogs about hanging your curtain higher trick so they give the illusion that you're windows are taller...then i found some really gorgeous trim to add to the joined pieces and....WA-la!!

Now, as you can clearly see, i still have those dull sheers hanging on 3 of the 4 windows. On the 4the window i basically just used some neutral creme fabric that i have LOADS of and i hot glued the 2 bands of burgundy ribbon onto it so we can tie them up and give it a balloony type of look.

So what do you think?? i already have the second center minus the hot glued ribbon complete, and it wouldn't take very much to finish the last two. I absolutely love the outer curtains, but the inside, oh it'll do. Not super sold on it, but committed nonetheless..

As for the chair with Travis on it...kind of a family joke. No there is no one called Travis at our home..

so how good would my habitat for humanity store hanging lamp look??

Briana

Briana Marie Brennan

5/8/98-7/22/04

This is how i saw Bri in my dream last night.

Bittersweet Dream

I dreamed of Bri last night. It is always so bittersweet when she shows up. I had come into our living room through the front door and she was just sitting there on the couch. She even had hair short and curly, and she was informing me that i had just missed a call from my grandmother that is also passed away, but i didn't think of her like that in my dream. I told Bri thank you for the message but please don't die on me again because i didn't think my heart could bear it. I think at the look of confusion on her face i began to explain to her about this other place and time where she died and the pain was too much. i think i may have woke up enough to interrupt this dream then i slipped back into nothingness. My Briana was a sunshine of a child. She died July 22, 2004 when she was only 6 years old. She was diagnosed with stage IV neuroblastoma when she was just 20 months old. For 4 1/2 years she battled this aggressive cancer and she sure did give it a good run for the money. She had so many close calls and bounce backs that her pediatric oncologist called her the cat with nine lives, because in her words Bri ," just keeps coming back". It seems kind of pointless to share her many victories and miracles we witnessed because we now know how the story ends.
maybe one day i will muster up the courage to tell her story on my blogs, but not yet. It will most assuredly be a trip for me.

This was her last Easter with us. This was a dress I made for her that was a mini miracle in and of itself. I always made her Easter myself because she was my only girl and how fun is that to make a fru-fru dress for Easter. This paricular year we were not only strapped for money, but before she left to Memphis for treatment with her dad, she told me she wanted a rainbow colored dress this year. You can imagine the horrible images that crossed my mind of bright muti-colored ribbons and how was i going to attach them to a dress and pull it all off tastefully?? So i walked into our local hobby lobby hoping against all hope that i would find something i could work with. So at the CLEARANCE section, i found this sweet fabric by Daisy Kingdom that not only has a soft spectrum of pastel colors, but it even is adorned with Easter eggs right on the fabric. All i had to do is make it into a dress. AND, you guessed it , there was just enough fabric for such a project and a bit more for a matching dress for her baby doll. I felt so incredibly blessed, it was so meant to be. I think i may have paid a couple of dollars for it as well.
So was that depressing?