Vacation

Hi everyone, I will be on vacation with my family for the next week!  Talk to you when I return :)

~  Kim

Craigslist Fail

  I have been on the hunt for a sofa bed  of some sort to go in my makeup/guest room.  I have looked at futons, click clack sofas, pull out sofas, and daybeds.  I really wanted something like this modern daybed from West Elm.

...or this modern sofa bed, sometimes called a click-clack sofa.  I like that I can still have a coffee table, but I felt bad making my 56 year old mother sleep on a fold-out sofa bed.  Which led me to a daybed.

So the other day when a black metal daybed came up on my Craigslist search, I jumped on it.  I already had a mattress so the $75 I offered the woman on the $100 listing seemed reasonable to me.  When I arrived at the woman's home the daybed was taken apart and all of the hardware was in a plastic bag.  She said that there were a few screws missing but that she had put the thing together so many times, it was really easy.

  I take my daybed home and when I am unloading it from my truck I see that some of the metal rungs (I guess that is what they are called) were not connected.  It was a cosmetic issue but still, I was like great I bought a broken daybed.  I convinced my husband to help me put the thing together and when we laid out the hardware we were short like 5 screws.  There was actually bread bag zip ties holding the bed rails together.  My hubby was not to happy to say the least.  I had to drive to Home Depot and spend $8 for more screws.

This is the daybed put together, I haven't even bothered to put sheets on it.  

So I hate the daybed for multiple reasons.  It's too high for me to put a coffee table in front of it, it's not in the greatest condition, it squeaks and sinks when you lay on it.  It's just not the "vision" that I had for this room, so I'm back to square one, but now I am just the proud disgruntled owner of a daybed.

{I have been waiting to find the perfect solution to this dilemma before I do a proper reveal of the room...

still on the hunt}

~  Kim 

Inspiration Friday No.21 ~ What I want right now!!

Hi everyone, Happy Friday!!  This is what I am loving on Pinterest right now.

This zig zag chiffon dress...

from my closet that looks like this...

and wearing my super cute dress to go have lunch here...

Mykonos, Greece

eating something like this...(ah man, Pinterest makes me soooo hungry!!!)

and kinda random but how cool is this kitchen?!...

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!

                              You can visit my boards at Pinterest.

                                                                 ~  Kim :)

Garage Sale & Spray Paint

  Remember my garage sale finds awhile ago?  Well my sister-in-law found some cute 

stuff too, she scored this wall art for $2.

For $2 and some left over spray paint she made it into this... 

a lovely piece of artwork with light distressing.

She needed some artwork in her newly remodeled bathroom, 

I think it fits in nicely with the beachy decor.

And best of all...she texted me this picture yesterday from 

TJ Maxx that she found for $20!!!!  That is an $18 savings, score!

She and my brother-in-law found this totally cute set that
someone was getting rid of for free,

I can't wait to see what they do with it!

Thank goodness for spray paint!!

~  Kim :)

Link Party

I linked up to Miss Mustard Seed's furniture party.  Go check it out!

http://missmustardseed.com/2012/07/furniture-feature-friday-link-party-favorites-2/

~  Kim :)

Inspiration Friday No.20 ~ Pinterest Lovin'

  Here is some inspiration for your Friday!!

You can see all of these and more over at my Pinterest page at

http://pinterest.com/kimp3128/.

 source

 Southern Living

Yummm!!!  I need to make this.
Avocado & bacon grilled cheese.

Etsy 

This had me laughing.  A splash pad for your backyard, cheaper than a pool it says.  Wasn't this called a sprinkler when we were little?!?

Happy Friday everyone!!

~  Kim :)

This is huge ya'll!!! {makeup stuff}

  In my professional life I had a huge first, one of my bride's from last year had her wedding published in The Knot wedding magazine for Fall/Winter 2012.  

I can not even lie, it is very cool to see my name listed with 

all the over amazing vendors from her wedding!!

Such a beautiful wedding!!!

You can see more at 

http://eleisetheuerphotographyblog.com/romantic-lovely-hermitage-museum-wedding-in-norfolk-virginia/.

~  Kim :)

Striped Wall Update Decor

  You know when you are getting ready to have a party at your house and all of the sudden you need to finish at least two of the things that you have had on your "to do list" for ever but all of the sudden it has to be done right this minute???  That was what I was doing on Friday before our annual cornhole tournament on Saturday.

  This (pic below) is what our wall has looked like since I painted the stripes back in February.  The same mirror has been up since we moved in 2 years ago and the pictures on either side I stole from the bathroom after trying plates that didn't quite cut it....so the bathroom has been pretty much bare since then.  I didn't love the pictures but I left it like this, for a long time, longer than I would have liked but I just didn't have the drive to replace it all until Friday.  And then it was compulsive that I do it all right that second!!!

  Now after a little TJ Maxx shopping trip there's been some much needed changes on this focal wall.  In came a new mirror, and two new pictures, and the console I purchased at a garage sale recently.  The mirror has been switched out with a more rustic finish, the ornate silver finish mirror went into the makeup room, and the pictures finally went back into the bathroom.

Here is how it looks now!

With the addition of the new, bigger artwork...

 and a new rustic, painted mirror that style fits way better 

than the shiny mirror that was there before....

 and the el cheapo console table I scored for $2 bucks!

So after a long wait I am kinda lovin' the changes that have been made and I couldn't beat the $2 console table...still can't believe that!!!  And to top it all off, I painted OVER the coral paint samples that were ALL OVER the bathroom, put the pictures back up and it looks back to normal in there now.  I think I'm kind of over the whole coral paint now that I have a hot pink room!!

~  Kim :)

Link Party

I linked my makeup studio update at DIY Showoff and The Dedicated House... go check it out!

~  Kim :)

Inspiration Friday No.19 ~ Makeup Studio Update

This "Inspiration Friday" post is more of a recap of what I've been up to this week.  I have been a very busy girl getting this makeup studio/guest room finished.  I'm am not quite done (but let's be honest, I am never done with any project that I do!!), but before I do a proper reveal I just wanted to give you some snippets of what I've been up to.

I literally laughed OUT LOUD when I opened this can of paint! 

That's it for now!

So sorry that I keep posting the "Inspiration Friday" posts late...this whole summer thing has thrown me off my game!!!

So is anyone else like this...why when we are getting ready to have a party, I feel the need to buy new things and get my "want" list out of the way in like one day???  I have been meaning to replace some pictures in my dining room for months and never did it, now today I am running around like a crazy woman trying to find some.  Why, why, why do I do this to myself?!?

~  Kim :)