I Love Quizzes

This one says,

"You're a refined Victorian!

You love antiquing or working in the garden when not planning the next fabulous party you're hosting. You love the preparations and presentations of life but this doesn't mean you're shallow -- far from it. You want your friends and family to feel cared for and comfortable. Like a Victorian house, you can be dark with mysterious passages, but for someone willing to look there's always a sunny spot."

It's true. :) 

HGTV's What's Your Architectural Personality?

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Hall Overhaul

Remember that mirror I got in December and hung in the hallway between the living room and bedroom?  I adore it.  And I LOVE having a mirror in that hallway.  The table and stuff in there...not so much.  It was a placeholder, until I figured out what to do in that hallway.

Before

I've also missed having a big art wall in the hallway, ever since I did it a few years ago.  And I adore vintage-looking botanical prints, but each time I try to pull off an arrangement of them, I end up hating it, usually because of the frames.  I have about a half-billion of them, and nearly all of them are black.  

I loved the bronze-y color of this mirror frame, though, and the way it works with the wall color.  And I just happened to have a metallic spray paint that yields just about that exact color.  So...

After

I LOVE the frame color!  And all the prints I found (for free, around the internet. Yay color printers!).  What I'm not sure about is the arragement.  I didn't move the mirror at all, just hung the prints around it.  I think I'd like to slide the whole thing over to the left and put another row of botanical prints down the other side of the mirror to balance it out.   I'll do some more thinking about this.  For now, it was free, quick, and easy, to change it up.  Fun! 

I think my favorite thing is that no matter which way you're looking, the mirror reflects a plant, so it fits right in, hehe. :)

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Success!

As I promised myself, I've hit the ground running after my cruise (after I slept for two days).  SCA's Gulf Wars is in March, and a large percentage of my free time between now and then is going to be devoted to working on my costumes and campsite elements for that event;  but I do have a few things planned around the house.  In fact, last night, after finishing a costume project I've been working on for some months, I hit my craft room like a tornado and cleaned it the heck UP.   I even moved my project board to a new place on the wall (where it'll be more useful), and hung up some new artwork, and a clock.

In the next couple of months, you can expect to see:

• the progress in the craft room, and some more changes to it
• changes to the headboard in the bedroom, as well as the art wall
• a new gallery wall in the hallway next to the living room
• more painted ceilings
• new wall color in the guest bath
• yardwork - can I get the garden going again this year, finally? 
• general house maintenance, including some effort going into saving energy and money on my electric bill, because holy crap. 0_0  

Slowly, but surely.  Incidentally, if you're interested in the SCA costume/reenactment stuff, there's a link to that blog at the top right of this page; or you can visit it here to see what I've been sewing. 

Cruisin'

Whew!  Okay, for a first cruise, that was pretty awesome.  We had a fabulous time both on the ship and in Cozumel.  I very nearly did not come back.  ;)

Now.  Back to business...

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Guess What Time It Is!

That's right! 

It's cruise time!  Six. More. Days.  Four days left in the week, an SCA event on Saturday, and then a Sunday of CRAZY PACKING AND STUFF.


To-Do List: 

• panic

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