home tour {our master bedroom}.

let me just start off this post by saying: our room barely ever looks like this.  usually, the bed is unmade, piles of clean clothes are waiting to be put away and the girls blankets and dolls litter the floor.  

i do love our bedroom.  i have visions for a few things i'd like to change over the years... i found a tutorial for long, ruffled, white curtain panels i'd like to make for the windows.  our bedroom furniture (bedframe, nightstands and dressers) are from ikea.  they're too modern and dark for my taste, but it's what we have for now.  ideally i would love to find a scrolly, white antique wrought iron bedframe but i don't think they have them in a king size!  and i'd love to find nightstands and an old dresser at a yard sale to refinish myself.  someday.  there's also a large, empty wall to the right of our bed i can't wait to decorate.  i have several ideas in my head for a gallery wall filled with everything that encompasses nick&i.  but that is another project for another day.

nick told me yesterday that i'm obsessed with turquoise.  i really do love it.  and i also love the combination of turquoise and mustard yellow.  we bought our bedding at target years ago, and i love it.  i'd been trying to figure out for a few years what color i wanted to pair with it.  we decided to paint our walls a light grey (smooth stone by glidden).  the accents of turquoise in our room add extra punches of color throughout.

our bed is honestly the most comfortable place on earth.  i'm not even kidding.  we bought this pillow top king sized mattress from friends of ours who had just purchased it and didn't love it's softness.  i remember the first morning we woke up from a night's slumber on our new mattress.  nick said "we slept like a king and queen!"  it seriously is like sleeping on a cloud.  we used to look forward to staying in hotels to sleep in a king sized bed.  now i can't wait to get home and sleep in our bed.  i also love that on saturday mornings it is filled with two little girls, dolls and blankets.  we love bringing the girls in bed with us on weekends or snow days and all snuggling together.

view from the hallway

our bedding: dwell studio "foliage" for target

we bought a set of flannel sheets from target for extra warmth this winter!  love the turquoise ticking stripe

paper bag wreath and frame modpodged with paper doilies for texture

refinished lamp: spraypainted base and paper doilies modpodged to the shade

pretty pillows.  pom pom trim and fabric flowers: two of my true loves.

view into our half bath

yard sale table i refinished

i love the turquoise color, vintage accents and pretty crystal knobs

antique plates

an old shutter given from a friend, birds, thrifted frames and a pretty vase

turquoise accents

love our  bird & floral printed shower curtain: tj maxx

dresser and framed fabric

framed wedding photo and vintage creamer

love this vintage inspired photo of nick&i in this floral tj maxx frame

looking into the hall from our room

 there you have it.  our master bedroom/half bath.  i'll be sure to post updates of my gallery wall project and ruffled curtains whenever i get around to accomplishing those!

thanks for stopping by :)

* if you missed the first stop on our home tour, here is our living room and why i felt inspired to share our home.

paper bag wreath.

a wreath made of paper bags?  yep.  you read that right.

a while ago, i saw this pretty wreath on pinterest and i couldn't wait to try to make a look-alike.  however, between classes for my certification, working part time and my normal housewife-ish duties, i haven't had time to do much crafting.

and it was starting to get to me.

so the other day i had enough of my crafting strike and set off to make my wreath.  i had been collecting paper bags for a while now from the grocery and health food store i go to, and i had a pretty good stash.

with my paper bags, scissors, glue gun, and a wreath form i found in the dollar section at target i ended up with this:

after i finished my wreath, i sprayed a coat of clear acrylic sealer to add a little shine.  i have had an empty frame above our bed for months now, just waiting to find the right thing to put in the center.  i thought this wreath would be perfect.

look who woke up from naptime before i could finish this post?

love my little monkeys.

with the holidays coming up, this is such a simple decoration (i love the brown paper bags for the fall!) or would make a great handmade gift for someone else!  it was super simple and took me no time (or money!) to make.

and i'll never look at a paper bag the same from now on.  hmmmm... what else could i make out of my big paper bag collection??

this post was linked to these *lovely* blogs:

faith, trust & pixie dust
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liz marie
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twigg studios
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a turquoise table.

i have a new obsession: turquoise. i.love.it. i think it's a great pop of color to any room and can transform anything into a statement piece (ex:my turquoise birds).

our bedroom in our new house is in the process of being put together (see our bedroom in our old home here)... but we have a mustard-y yellow bedspread and light grey walls, and i've decided to incorporate turquoise into the color scheme for some extra spice.

when we first moved here this summer, we put together a large yard sale with my sister, my mom and my sister's mother-in-law. i think what was the most fun was looking over each other's items and doing a little shopping ;) i spotted this antique table of sarah's (my sister's mother-in-law) and claimed it immediately. i think she sold it to me for three bucks. awesome.

this is what it looked like when i bought it:

and with a coat of rustoleum's aqua spray paint, here is the finished product, at home in our bedroom:

i sanded it down, primed the top with kilz white spraypaint primer (to cover up the letters), and gave it a few coats of the turquoise spraypaint.

my *favorite* feature of this table are the vintage crystal knobs i ordered on ebay for ten dollars. i have a huge affinity for crystal knobs, and these caught my attention. i love the gold & crystal against the turquoise.

for now, i have it decorated with a few pieces that i love. it will probably change as we work on our bedroom decor, but for now i'm content with this vignette that was composed mostly of things we already had that we can now display.

old white shutters (a friend, free)

brown picture frames (goodwill, $3)

vintage fan (ebay, $10)

bird/tree stand (tj maxx, $10)

table (yard sale, $3)

the perfect pop of turquoise for our bedroom. totally worth the three bucks and a little elbow grease :) will show pictures of our bedroom and our home as it continues to unfold! stay tuned.