"A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul."

My poor roommate.

Just about every 3 days,
she comes home to find
that I've moved the furniture

again,

or brought in new pillows,
or hung new wall decorations,

or re -hung wall decorations in a new spot
or shifted something here,
or moved this thing over there...

She's very sweet though,

and just let's me do my thing.

(Please bless my future husband is that okay with it too,
because I can't seem to stop.)

I recently got tired of the tall walls in the living room

being so bare and boring.

I actually kept these Christmas decorations up--

for a lot longer than December,

just to fill the space.

Well, eventually, I couldn't stand it anymore,

and after some blog-surfin'

I decided on this to fill the empty wall...

one of my favorite framed Minerva Tiechert paintings,

and a group of empty frames from goodwill,

all painted mustard yellow.

The color that makes me the happiest in all the world.

(I love it especially with my new pea-green pintuck pillow...

remember how much I love mustard and pea green??)

I also added some Norman Rockwell to the walls,

because every space could use a little 

"Saturday Evening Post" whimsy.

And I'm currently obsessing over "vignettes"
--or little gatherings of pretty things--
from the large list of design blogs that I follow...
so I created my own.
I mean, we have that super cool fireplace mantle right?
Why not put it to good use?


Grateful for:
COLORS.
And sleep.