[color kreyv]: Yellow

Yellow can be tricky. Finding the right shade and pairing it in the right combination is key. I actually really like it in subtle tones or small doses...except for when I was in first grade: I liked it bold, and I liked it ALL OVER! Are you ready for a  stroll down memory lane?  Come with me, won't you? 

Per usual, I asked for a new room for Christmas. My mom (bless her), let me pick out my own wallpaper.  Picture it: white with a yellow floral pattern on top, separated by a bright yellow chair rail, and then the bottom had a coordinating pattern with a subtle, shiny pearl finish. To contrast the wallpaper, as well as coordinate with the green leafs, my carpet was forest green. I had a super pale yellow dresser with an oval mirror, a brass headboard with lots of curls in the design, and white bedding. It. Was. Awesome.  A few years later, I started to add peach, because peach and forest green were the "it" colors, and, of course, I had to have a daybed. A few years after that, I asked for new wallpaper and new furniture. Well, actually I sold all of my furniture and got a queen-sized four poster bed. (Mom, I am SO sorry I talked you into letting me sell that adorable, probably really expensive furniture…but thanks.)  Shortly after that, we moved, so I got another new room.  I lived in that house for a few years, and then I went to college, moved a lot, and got new rooms. And then I got married, moved a lot, and got new rooms. I'm totally seeing a pattern here, and I'm very scared for my husband. 

image from Sara Gilbane Interiors

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What $1300 Will Buy You

Remember that one day when I took my Mr. Hubs' car to the dealership, and it needed over $1200 worth of work done to it? And then, the very next day, I got a ticket for $100 and a picture of me running a red light in the mail? And, remember when I could have sworn that when Mr. Hubs opened that piece of mail, he kind of grinned, because he was happy that it was me and not him this time? Remember when I made that grin go away as soon as I reminded him that this was the only ticket I'd gotten since we've been married, and that he's had...a few more? That was my Friday and Saturday. Don't even get me started on everything and anything else that I could have spent that money on. Car problems and tickets are definitely at the top of my list of things I hate to spend money on.  So, what will $1300 buy you? For you, any one of these three things. For me? A red light ticket and car repairs. Ugh. You win some, you lose some, right?!

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Holy Gorgeousness

Raise your hand if you want this ridiculously incredible, insanely gorgeous, amaze- balls, I'd give my left kidney for, dresser. Are you all raising your hand and shouting, "MEEEEEEEE!!!" at the top of your lungs? Yeah, me too.

image from Traditional Home via Alice Lane

I'll Take One of Each

These dressers are absolutely fabulous...especially the first one. Holy amazing! I would take it even though I don't have a place for it. It's just one of those pieces that you would make room for. Don't you think? 

Then, there's the second one. Oh, how I'd love that for Stella's room. I'm secretly thinking I want to paint Stella's turquoise armoire. The reason it's a secret is because I really want the hubs to paint it, but I don't dare mention it. I have to time these requests, and he just helped me with another project. Oh, and he's painted it three different colors for me since we've had it. (Details, shmee-tails.) I guess I could always do it myself. Nah.

And, number three. If we ever have a boy, he is getting a kelly green dresser. That's all there is to it. And yes, IF we have another baby, and IF it's a boy, his nursery is already designed. Don't worry, if we ever have a girl, her room's designed, too. Yes, I'm that crazy prepared.

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image from Oh Joy! via Apartment Therapy

image from Young House Love

Where in the World?

I am loving all of the map decor I am seeing. You know, it really might do me some good to have some of this in my home. I shouldn't admit this, but I don't know where anything is anymore. It's like I had to take the "End of the World Test" (identifying every country in the world)at the end of freshman year, and then I never needed to know it again. Don't get me wrong, I usually know the continent the country is located in, but that's about it. Totally embarrassing. I blame it on my lack of traveling. Yes, that is why I am geographically challenged. I need to go on more vacations, and no, as exotic as it is, Salt Lake City, Utah does not count.

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image from New England Prepster

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image from Rosebud's Cottage via Pinterest

Pinterest Pretties

I was a little late getting on the Pinterest train, but oh, how I love it! Here are a few little bits of eye candy that I found on there a little while ago. I am so in love with these dressers, and I would especially like to replicate the ombre one in the first picture. Isn't it to die for? The only thing I need is a dresser, a room to put the dresser in, and another person in my house to need the dresser. Hmmm, I'll have to work on that.

image from Knock Knocking via Pinterest

image from The Beautiful Soup via Pinterest

image from Feathered Nest Interiors, LLC via Houzz