Hobbies

Hello!!
It's January.
Which means (to me anyways,) it's that time of the year when there's not alot going on. It's the middle of winter so it's cold and the month is long (31 days).
So far we've been blessed in that no one has come down with a cold or the flu.  Except for me:) Go figure.  Three days of fever and I'm getting a little tired of it!  
So since I'm doing alot of dreaming and conspiring about what to tackle once I'm feeling up to it, I figure now is a good time to put together some of my "hobbies".
Here's what has been keeping me busy and inspired.

I fell in love with pillows of this sort online some time ago, and I found a yard of brown linen, which was perfect for me to make myself some pillows with coordinates from our hometowns.

Drapes for the livingroom.  Makes it feel just that much more like a home.

The bathroom that we got a new counter in finally got painted!  The instant feeling of relaxation from having my purple bathroom back might make you laugh, but to me, it was comfort:) 

And since there was leftover purple paint why not smear it over our bedroom right? 
Just the name of it is lovely... Purple Pashmina - by Beautitone.

(Bedroom before)

And while painting, why not use up the left over yellow from the living room in the other washroom?  To go with my horizontal stripes that I'm enjoying right now I thought an Anthropologie inspired shower curtain would something fun to sew up and make original. The light fixture was in need of some TLC too so thankfully the black spray paint had made the move with us and it was a quick fix.

 

 

 

French pleats

I found this soft Dr Seuss inspired {horizontal stripe} flannel online just in time for the boys to have new pajamas for 2014.

I love pouring over the Micheal Chang colour books for minutes hours at a time. You might be surprised I can even get anything done after all that time wasted dreaming colours. I love colour!