A Punch of Color.

Hey everyone!

I hope you all had an amazing Thanksgiving weekend!

I know we sure did, minus the fact we missed our family.

We spent the day with great company though, our good friends have family close by so they had a big thanksgiving dinner up in New Bern and invited us over.

The food was amazing.

I probably gained a bazillion pounds, no biggie.

Recently my friend Brittney got into Pinterest and she stumbled across a pin about a thankful tree,

it was the cutest thing ever:

You wrote down on little pieces of paper what you were thankful for then tied it on the tree for everyone to see, it was a nice homey touch!

All she did was go into her backyard, find some twigs from trees,

cut them up & throw them into a vase, then she cut up pieces of paper, made a hole for the string and viola!

On another note,

As I've hinted at in my past posts we are currently in the process of redoing our master bedroom.

So far it's coming along great!

The first thing to go was the paint, the people that owner our house previous to us were really into the 

"one wall one color and the other wall the other color" fad.

Which is beyond me because I can't stand it. 

Maybe it would be okay if they hadn't done it in every room of our house.....

Well thanks to pinterest all the walls in my house 

minus my bathroom downstairs that I still need to paint, are all grey.

Grey is just so neutral and goes with everything, just like white, so you can't blame me for falling in love :)

When it came time to choosing colors for our room it wasn't much of a decision.

Last Christmas I got the cutest bedding ever from my mom as a present.

It looked great with my red walls there, but I wanted a more calm feel in our room so we painted our walls grey. 

The bedding is black and white, made by the country living brand.

Black, white & Grey. Not the most eye catching color scheme.

So here comes that "Punch of Color".

Naturally we chose red because it looked so good in my room before.

We just wanted it to be less bold as it was in my old room.

Well I didn't know how I wanted to bring in the red, until I stumbled across this beauty on Lejeune Yard sales:

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{Close up on the detail }

I personally didn't like the choice of nobs on the vanity, they were really flimsy & just looked cheap.

Even though spray paint is my go to for everything I decided to pick up some new nobs instead.

I've been look for a vanity to put in our room since I had a built in one at my parents house.

I couldn't help myself after I saw this one.

I loved the detail that was put into it.

And I got it for an awesome price! Along with the fact that it had already been sanded and everything.

All it needed was some new nobs & Paint.

There was no doubt in my mind that this lovely piece needed to be red.

And if I do say so myself, it was a great idea.

Take a look for yourself:

After:

I love the different color mirror against the red & black vanity.

The detail in the vanity is so much cuter in person! 

I can't even begin to tell you how much in love with this piece I am 

You can't tell in the picture as much but the nobs have a detail on them that suits the vanity well.

I thought the nobs looked better than those old pulls that were originally on it.

I love my vanity and the color it brings to my room! I can't wait to show you all the finished result of our bedroom, but there is still some work to go. Until then I hope you all have a fantastic day!

Xoxoxo

Jordynluise

Progress in the master

So far so good, I can't wait until our master bedroom is done! I have high hopes for how it will turn out. But so far it is looking a bit white washed with all of the white.I'm planning on adding red accents in the room to play off of all of the masculine colors that are already in there (grey, black &white). 

I had the pleasure of spending most of my weekend painting my dresser, the one I mentioned in my previous post. It was a complete monster but it was completely worth it. In my opinion it looks twenty million times lovelier white with some distressing! Here are some before and after shots:

Before:

I loved this dresser ever since I first laied eyes on it, 

the only thing was I hate that orange looking wood color.

But now it is a lovely white color that is exactly my taste:

After:

I feel like by making the piece white it highlights all of the detail in the dresser

I can't get over how cute the detail of this dresser is!

The hardware perfectly matches my other dresser that I re did, 

it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside just thinking about it :)

it's love <3

On another note...

While at my friend Brittney's a few weeks ago we decided to get in the spirit of Halloween and explored an abandon house down the road from her place in New Bern.

While we were there we found so many goodies that we plan on going back for this weekend. 

Salvaged wood galore, old windows still intact, old doors that would make a persons heart weep. Or maybe that's just me? Who knows :) 

Here's a few pictures from that night:

the creey staircase...

the detail on the awesome door I'm going back for!

Is it weird to say how much in love I am with this completely ruined house?

From the crackle paint, to all the exposed wood?

It was truly amazing.

So many bricks! My mind was racing with different things I could possibly use them for.

Yet when I got home I couldn't think of one thing I could do.

So I will be turning to Pinterest.

I loved the look of the worn paint on the walls,it makes me want to try crackle paint! 

I think I just might have the perfect piece of furniture to try this on in my near future.

Have any of you used crackle paint? The idea of it has always been intimidating to me.

But I think I've fallen hard for the idea of it.

Oh did I mention we went to a cemetery as well?

Yeah, North Carolina cemetery's trump Seattle's on the spookiness factor.

many of the headstones were chipped and had fallen apart.

us girls were gushing over how beautiful they looked with their mossiness textures,

we wanted to take some pieces home that had broken off but decided that was bad juju.

the details in the cemetery were just gorgeous!

I loved the look of the moss! I think I might need to find a project to do inspired by it.

Well that's it for my picture overload,

I can't wait for all the projects that will come of our findings. 

What did you do to get into the spirit of things for Halloween? 

See any good scary movies? Go to any creepy haunted places? Do any fun activities? Do tell :)

Btw, please check out my Facebook page and show off some of your own projects by posting on the wall!

xoxox Jordynluise