Today I thought I would share a few of my favorite pins. I’m laid up on the couch right now with some horrible head pain and possible sinus infection so looking at some gorgeous spaces is my medicine for the day.

All of these spaces have white walls with pops of color except for one.  I am obviously drawn to gold and blue as almost every pin has one or the other color in it.  I love geometric pattern like the ceiling in the first picture, pins five and six have awesome walls and even the furniture in most of the pics like the last one and the one with the blue couch.  The one thing I oddly enough don’t want in my house is white walls.  With four kids and two dogs I feel like white walls would soon become some sort of crazy looking canvas of hand and paw prints mixed with cheetoh, peanut butter and chocolate chip stains.  I need to remind myself how the IKEA ektorp couch experience worked out for us and now I will assure you, my walls will NOT be white anytime soon. Do you have white walls and children?   Have you gone insane yet over the smudges and dirt?  Am I too anal?  Ok wait, don’t answer the last question!

Your furnace will quit working on the coldest day of the year.

Last week my husband had lasik eye surgery and we paid the $3100 out of pocket for the surgery. The money will be reimbursed through our med flex account but that won’t be for about a month.

While waiting for the furnace guy to come, I spent some time browsing pinterest and finding pictures of things that are cozy and warm.

I did pin these super cute slippers but they just didn’t seem very cozy.

Then I found my slippers from Wal-Mart and yes, they are cozy. I know, not as cute the ones above but they are warm, fuzzy and were only $12.

This hat was listed under my search of cozy things on Pinterest….if it gets cold enough I might just wear this or maybe if we decide to play that we live in Russia.  My kids are always pretending they live in different countries.

Typing the word “cozy” into a Pinterest search will turn up something interesting, guranteed. Like this gun…..I’m not sure cozy is the word I would use to describe it.  Strange would be more like it.

The house is at 64 degrees right now and has been most of the day so it’s not really all that chilly in here, I’m just thinking that tonight if our furnace isn’t it fixed we will either be popsicles in our beds tonight or looking for somewhere warmer to sleep.

I have had a busy few weeks but later this week I’ll share the new family room look and other rearranging that I’ve done.  What have you been up to this week?  Are you motivated to your home clean and organized or are you still struggling to find motivation after the busy holiday season?

Happy Thursday everyone! I’ve been busy working on some posts but nothing I can post right now.  I really wanted to share with you today some pins that I have found recently that may help with your Christmas shopping.  Especially if you have a person  on your list that has everything or is hard to buy for.

But first, we interrupt this post for a special Public Service Announcement:

Now onto the gift ideas!
This sleeping bag is perfect for that outdoorsy person in your life.  Maybe they like camping deep in the woods with no one else around.  This would be a great disguise so they don’t get eaten by a bear in their tent.  It could also be used for a rug in your home in the off season.

Are your children tired of playing with their Loving Family Dollhouse or Barbies? Maybe it’s time for this one, the Hoarder Dollhouse.

Just think, there is no cleanup after they are done playing with it!  How easy is that!  Maybe it will also teach them if they don’t pick up after themselves, this could be their real house one day. 

Have that single friend or relative that just wants someone to cuddle with at night? Here’s a perfect solution!

No bad morning breath to wake up to either!

Have someone looking for an Apple computer? Maybe your teenager is heading off to college in the fall and they want a mac. Here you go, a cheap and easy solution for that expensive person on your list.

Here’s a perfect gift to put under the tree just for you. A sweater that you can hide in, especially when those creepy relatives want to give you a big wet kiss. Or maybe you’re embarrassed that your fruitcake didn’t turn out this year. What better place to hide than in your own shirt yet you can still have that drink you need.

I would not recommend wearing this if you need to make a quick getaway, it looks hard to run in.

Finally, if you are doing more of a homemade Christmas theme this year and you’re good at knitting or crocheting, why not make a pair or three of these?

Stylish and cheap, they even have belt loops and pockets!

Ok, for reals people I have all these great pins that make me laugh and I just had to do this!  Do you have a board just for things that make you laugh?  I do!  Some are inappropriate but they make me laugh and there’s nothing better than a good laugh at the end of the day!  I’ll be back with a real post soon!

I am so excited to share this with you this morning.  Since moving in June, I’ve been working on a few rooms but have never really had a flow or one piece that just represents the color palette for this house.  Well this pin pretty much has it all. The gold, black, blue, white and coral all together and I love it! We have a winner! DING DING DING!

I finally figured this out yesterday and I’m so happy. I’ve been unsure of what way to go with so many things and now I know! Here is how this came about.  I was a bad girl yesterday. I started out putting up lovely green frog tape around the doors in my Master Bedroom and it was going along swimmingly.  I was planning on getting that nasty oak trim painted with primer and then hopefully another coat of primer later in the day. I was interrupted by the bub’s waking up so I stopped taping and we went down into the kitchen for some breakfast.  Then I happened to walk into the dining room and had a thought, what if I brought the original buffet back into the dining room and moved the black one into the basement? From there the rest of the day just went right to the dining room. I had the hubby help me bring up the buffet from the basement and immediately I liked it in there. Then I decided it needed a paint job because it was pretty banged up from moving. Another aha moment, I have coral paint in the garage and what if I painted the trim around the edges gold? Maybe the black lamps from our bedroom would look great on this buffet. Maybe Pinterest has something to help the hubby visualize this color scheme. Of course they did and I was a pinning fool.

The Dining Room Pinspiration and I LOVE this first picture:

Here is some of my Pinspiration from yesterday for our Master Bedroom with the navy walls. I can’t wait to paint the white trim today. For reals. Unless of course I find something else to distract me.

 The cloffice was the starting point for this color combo of blue, gold, white and coral.

The Powder Room and Family Room are also already joining in the color palette togetherness and I didn’t even know or try it! I love when that happens!!!  Obviously the family room needs a lot of work yet but it’s a starting point! 

Do you have a color palette for your home?  Does it all mix and mingle together?  Now my only question is, would gray cabinets in the kitchen just throw this all out the window?

I’m linking up here, come join me!

Hello friends. I’ve been a busy little beaver around here the past few days but unfortunately I have nothing to show you, yet. Soon though if everything goes according to plan, which it almost never does.
While talking with my mom on the phone and describing something I am going to be doing soon, she said “I thought gold/brass wasn’t in style anymore?”
Well, I think it’s coming back in a big way and even more fun is mixing it in with other metals. Here are some examples of gold and brass I’ve pinned recently and I have to say, I’m loving it!

So what do you think?  Is gold coming back?  Have you used it in your house recently?