Operation Home

So, we had this empty, lonely wall in our bedroom that was desperately in need of ~~a friend~~ some art…

And now we’ve got some…

This piece was created by my mother-in-law, Mac. She offered it up when I’d mentioned that I needed some art in this post. She actually said that she didn’t have room for it and that I could alter it any way I wanted. I briefly considered painting it white, since I thought the green was too bright, but couldn’t make myself do it. It’s just too cool of a piece. And once I set it up on the dresser and let it marinate in my head for a while, I ended up simply loving it as is. The color is off in this next shot by quite a bit, but I wanted to include it so you’d get a feel for the detail and texture in the piece…

And a few more glamour shots…

You can see that I was playing around with the styling as I took pics. I couldn’t help myself. It’s still not completely right, but it’ll get there eventually. I love that the green coordinates so nicely with our bedding. Happy accident, if you ask me. Plus, the painting is modern and graphic without being too in-your-face. And I like the message. Make The Time. To me, this means make the time to just do nothing. Make the time to sit and play and be silly with Lucas. Make the time to enjoy the little things. A good message to wake up to every morning, for sure.

This side of the room is definitely coming together. It’s slow, but it’s happening. I still need to play a bit more with the styling and am still on the hunt for a mod white chair to replace this brown guy….

I don’t often show this corner of the room because it’s just…. so… brown. I’ve had this chair forever and didn’t have another place for it. And although I’m a fan, it’s just not right for the space.

I’ve considered breaking down and simply painting it white and calling it a day. Though, I’ve hesitated in doing this because I was afraid that the chair would take on more of a country vibe (what with it being wicker and all). But then again, this chair has such clean lines that it may be fine.

Or maybe, I’ll just nix that plan and go for something like him…

Overstock

Or him…

Loveshack Chic

And don’t even get me started on this happy egg chair…

Young House Love

(DROOL! If only the thrift store gods would bestow a coveted egg chair upon me.)

I do know that a white chair (whichever route I choose) is definitely the right call for this corner. I recently experimented by throwing a white sheet over him to see what I thought. And it was perfect. It caused the chair to recede visually, which allowed Drex and our new painting to move forward and become the stars of the show. As they should be. Right now all that brown is just competing with itself. So, unless I come across the deal of the century on a kick-bootay white mod chair, I may very well be adding this chair to my “to be painted white” list of items. So, we will see…

So, what do you guys think? Paint the chair? Go retro?

Happy Friday, guys! So, this is my third post (or possibly fourth if you include this post) centering around displaying flower arrangements, so I decided to go ahead and make it an actual series entitled “Flower Power!”. Hopefully, this’ll help keep the posts more streamlined and easier to find (The other two can be found here and here).

As I mentioned in my first flower post, my husband Joey and I don’t usually make a huge deal of getting gifts for each other for traditional holidays, but he’s pretty awesome at surprising me with random flowers every so often. And this was one of those occasions. Ya see, Joey recently got a new position at work that he’d been hoping for. It’s a GREAT opportunity for him, but will lead to us seeing each other less during the week.

So, the other night, I got home from work and decided to go for a jog since Joey wasn’t home and Lucas was with my parents. Which is when I tripped and completely busted out on the concrete. I’m fine, but ended up scraping up pretty much every appendage, plus my stomach. Nice, right? It’d been about 6 months since I’d last fallen on my face while jogging, so it was probably about time anyways.

After sitting on the sidewalk for a few minutes, I got up, waddled back home, bleeding and whining, and walked into the house. Which is when I discovered that Joey had planned a little surprise… Flowers, sushi, chocolate, The Walking Dead, AND he took the night off work so we could hang out before he started his new gig. I had no clue that he was doing this, so it was really nice. And it definitely made me feel better after my recent tumble. Of course, I couldn’t believe that my innate klutziness and gift for pristine timing had allowed me to fall on this of all nights (…nothing like whetting your appetite for sushi by removing gravel from flesh, huh? Yeah.). But, alas, this is me and as I’ve said before, I tend to be the poster child for Murphy’s Law (I hereby dub this “Exhibit A”). In any case, he definitely succeeded in making me feel special and the extra time together was awesome.

As for the flowers, he gave me a large bouquet of purple and pink lilies. Gorgeous. He always picks good ones, I’ll tell ya. I decided that a centerpiece change-up was well overdue, so I grabbed some galvanized buckets that I had laying around the house, a white platter from the kitchen, and a bamboo table runner…

I wanted to keep it simple to allow the flowers to take center-stage and I feel like I succeeded. They’re friendly and purple. I mean, what more can a girl as for? …well, what more can a girl ask for, you ask?? …Why, pink flowers, TOO! So, to spread the pretty, the pink lilies got a little glam makeover with a metallic honeycomb vase…

I love the blingy, glittery vase in contrast with our rattan coffee table. It just happys up the living room to no end. Now, if only I could keep the arrangement here all the time… Unfortunately, having a three-year-old requires glamorous flowers to be relocated to the kitchen island after picture-taking time. Just keepin’ it real, here. I will say that I enjoyed their eye-candy-producing time on the coffee table, no matter how short the period. So, that’s my newest adventure in flower fun. I hope everyone has a great weekend!!