Posts from — March 2009

I’ve got big plans for the bedroom tonight.

Not those kinds of plans, you dirty birds! Improvement plans. Painting plans. Decorating plans. Well, the painting might wait until the weekend, so that the room has time to air out before we try to sleep in it again, but the paint will be purchased, at least.

To buy
Valspar’s Filtered Shade
Valspar’s Bleached Slate
(2) Poster frames in unfinished wood
(3) Pleated or cellular shades in white, 31″ wide
White curtains (or bed sheets)
Curtain hardware
This kit, possibly, for an interesting pop of color

I should probably also buy some paint and curtain hardware for the bathroom while I’m out. That room needs to get finished up, and if we’ve got all of the supplies on hand, we won’t have any excuses not to do it. Right? RIGHT?

Edit: The colors in those links don’t appear to go very well together, but they look a lot better in the palette from Valspar’s site below. I’ve added in the approximate color in my bedspread, along with the flat black of the bed frame to see the contrast, and I really love it. Let’s hope it looks good!

My friend Alice (of food blog Bread and Honey fame) is trying to build up the experience and funds in order to go to tattoo school, which is required to work in a tattoo shop in Portland, OR where she lives, instead of the usual apprenticeship. To help herself accomplish both of these tasks, she’s set up a website where you can commission drawings for the low, low price of $10! She does most of them in pencil and on brown grocery bags, and her illustrations are gorgeous. Go check out her site and if you’ve got a great idea for a drawing that you’d like to have appear in your home, commission something!