Rarrrrrr...........

Today I am giving you some more journal pages that kind of wrap together nicely with the 1 Cor. Challenge.I made the decision to re-do our bedroom. Right now it is a cluttered mess. My dresser is WAY too big for the space. What I'm going to do with all the contents I have no CLUE. We are talking about knocking out the wall into the closet and doing some IKEA kind of wall cabinet/clothes storage thing. This will take time and money. But a smaller dresser just wouldn't work for my stuff, our Rob's stuff if we traded. He is very fond of "his" dresser. I'm concentrating on the positive. Like making a cute slipcover for the ottoman/stepping stool for the Dog. Since the bedspread is all one color, which is NEW for me. I normally go for flowers, multi-toned. I decided I needed to add spice somewhere. Pillows will also be made and dressers painted. I would LOVE to have a sitting area in the room but I am fairly certain that will not happen unless Nate Burkus comes to my house and helps this project along. So where does the team work come in? Someone has to help me paint!It is important to me to make it relaxing, romantic. Not the cluttered mess it is. Filled with stuff I don't know where to put. I have NO problem sleeping in the room. I have a problem not wanting to look at it in the light of day. Nothing about the room calls me except my heating blanket for a nap.
I went for wild. It is so not me, and yet I secretly want to bring that side out in the bedroom.
I refused to buy a pattern. I couldn't read the darn things. I just decided how I wanted it to look and prayed I could accomplish it. Keeping the cat off it while I was pinning it was the hardest part. Until the sewing started. Doing corners was a nightmare. It isn't perfect. But it's all mine! Hubby came home Monday and scuffed that the sink didn't get emptied and the laundry wasn't started. I said "EXCUSE ME!" Then he laughed and said "I know, I saw what you did today. It looks GREAT!" He was teasing me. Thank goodness.Now it's the most popular piece in the house!

As I mentioned before I spent some money at Kohls on things for Rob's enjoyment. It was REALLY hard to walk right past the new brightly colored tee-shirts.

Nope, I went out of my comfort-zone and bought pretty things that frankly I see as a waste of money. In my head I think "Ok, you wear it once the mystery is over, you can't wear it again, then it's like Oh that one again." But Rob said it this way. "It isn't that I see it again so much as remembering the last time you wore it, brings back memories and THAT gets me going."

Men have weird minds. So it's all good. I feel better. Which leads to this journal entry.
And one last thing, Kerry over at Colored with Memories, gave me this Award.
It is given out to blogs showing an "Investment and belief in proximity - nearness of space, time and relationships". It's a good thing SHE told me that cause I can't read Spanish? Our is that French? See I wouldn't know, it could say I smell like dirt but with the little butterflies on it nobody would think it said that. So Thank you Kerry! It was so kind of you! I just wish all you bloggy friends were in close proximidade to me!!! Then we could get Cupcakes. More on that later.