Painting My Bathroom & Vintage Curtains

Usually when you rent a new place the walls have been freshly painted for you. Not my apartment. There are nails in the walls, tons of holes, dirty hand prints and scuff marks everywhere! It is really getting to me and grossing me out. The only room in the apartment that is white, is the bathroom. The other rooms are all this weird off-white almost beige color. Can you see me rolling my eyes? I am not able to paint here. I did take it upon myself to repaint the bathroom white. There were so many holes and dirty marks on the walls that I couldn't live with it and Cody agreed.The bathroom is one of my projects this week. Above you can see a photo of the bathroom. It is small, so very hard to photograph. I decided to use my lime green shower curtain in the space. I plan to put black and white accessories in the bathroom along with my dearly loved Michelin Man. I am having paint with drawls! I crave color! I believe because of all this lack of creative outlet for me, my next house will be OVER THE TOP.

Cody and I may have found a couch. I am kicking myself for not taking a picture of it!!! First thing you need to know about this "couch" is that it is pretty ugly. It is a vintage sofa that is a light turquoise color with a green floral pattern on it. The lines and shape of the couch are very cool. It is also very comfy. The best part is that is it FREE. One of the benefits of being part of the Air Force is there are thrift stores on the base. One of them is FREE. The only reason we didn't bring the sofa home with us is because it wouldn't fit in our car. We hope to have our friend with a truck help us get it this Saturday! The only catch is, it may be gone. I feel it will be waiting there for us though, because honestly Cody and I are probably the only people crazy enough to take it. I was able to bring these curtains home....Needless to say, I think my living room is going to be very interesting looking when I get done decorating it. It will be awhile before I piece it all together. It is much more tricky to decorate when you are on a tight budget and now IKEA is over 2 hours away from me. I am just thankful I have self control when it comes to my VISA card.

LOVE THIS ROOM

Found this lovely eyecandy yesterday and had to share it with all of you....
I am decorating my bedroom in Pink & Orange and found this room very inspiring. I love the pink and orange union jack pillows.

Cody and I are off to the thrift stores again in hope of finding a sofa! Wish us luck! I hope everyone has a great weekend.
Image Source: Design Serendipity

COLORED TIGHTS

I love colored tights but haven't wore them since I was in grade school. lol I find myself not very hip or fashion trendy. I wear my t-shirts and jeans while doing my grocery shopping. I am inspired by people who "dress up" their everyday wardrobe and make an effort to be cute everyday. Today I stumbled across the blog, WHAT I WORE. I found this image and wish I could walkout in this outfit today....Jessica Quirk has a great blog and a great clothing collection. Go check her out! I am sure you will be inspired!

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Our Wyoming Apartment - Kitchen

Since I can't paint my apartment kitchen, I decided to just add colorful things. I decided to use my teapot and pyrex collection as my color inspiration.Then I added some vases and other cute vintage items I already had. The kitties have been "saved" many times. First I had them for sale in my old antique booth. Then they were going to be in a garage sale, but I decided to keep them. Then last week the smaller one fell off my dresser and broke. What would the world do without super glue?

The kitchen also now has a Disney / Alice in Wonderland theme going on also. I have placed pictures of us from our Disney vacations through out the kitchen. The print I designed was inspired by this Jonathan Adler pillow.I prefer really modern kitchens, but I can't have that right now. I enjoy having the personal touches in our kitchen. It's a happy little space.The kitchen is as cheerful as I can make it without painting the walls. I will post more photos soon!

WILD TARGET

Cody and I are back to watching movies again. We are picky, so some nights we spend an hour flipping through Netflix trying to decide on something to watch! Last night we settled on the movie WILD TARGET...We both really enjoyed it. It is rare for me to find a movie that has 3 actors in it that I like and that are the main characters! Bill Nightly plays a hit man, Emily Blunt is a theft and Rupert Grint was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. It is entertaining if you need a laugh. I fell in love with a hotel room that was in the movie. Decorated in turquoise and lime green...I wish I could find more pictures of the room, but had no luck! I looked at Cody and said,"That would be a great color scheme for our living room!" He just gave me this look that said, "You know I hate lime green." Turquoise and lime green are two of my favorite colors! Putting them together just equals = AWESOME! Decorating for me is slow right now since we are on a tight budget and have no luck finding anything when we go shopping. I wish I could paint! It kills me to not put color on the walls! I will own a house again someday. Till then white walls and dreaming of the day I get to look at paint swatches at Home Depot....

Images found at The Broken Project. You can read more about the movie there.

Decor Love - Crate & Barrel

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