Can I tell you how much I love blogs? Because I do. There are adorable household crafts, jewelry making challenges, and there are tons of cute and adorable people with cute and adorable houses making delicious food that motivate me to dress well, craft often (okay more often than not), cook more, and redecorate my home a little bit.
Perfectly harmless right? Well this weekend, my husband was about ready to ban me from the blogging world. All because of a few innocent little curtain rods that needed .5 billion screws. Should I start from the beginning?
Kerri posted her curtains on flickr. Not that I’m blaming her at all. Her beautiful new dining room just reminded me of all our plain windows. It was like Kerri had these pretty frosted cupcakes, and I was sitting there with this muffin. A muffin is delicious, don’t get me wrong. But a cupcake with pretty frosting (funfetti perhaps?) is always better.
So I discussed my plans with Cale; we’ll rearrange the bedroom, which is something we’d been talking about doing for months now. Then we would hang curtains on our windows, centering one big set of curtains behind the bed. He thought it would be a great idea, so off I went skipping to Target, where I cursed Target for being remarkably un-cute. I ultimately found my super adorable curtains at World Market (as if I wasn’t copying Kerri enough!). I came home feeling inspired and charged with this decorative electricity. There was no stopping me. I rearranged the entire room just in time for Cale to come home for his job: the curtain rods. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve hung many a curtain rod in my day. I’m all for feminine empowerment, but did you just read that last sentence? I rearranged the entire room, which included vacuuming under the bed, reorganizing under the bed, moving the freakin’ bed. I was tired.
Let’s just cut this short and say: Cale did not appreciate hanging the curtain rods and has requested that any future blogger projects not include screws, unless you plan on buying him a drill.
Are we understood blogging world? Because I love you too much, and I believe somewhere in my contract that I signed for Cale to hang the curtains included a clause that requires me to disclose that information. No more screws. Got it?
the new bedroom. Please ignore Cale’s messy nightstand, it’s now clean.
new bedroom #2
As with any furniture rearrangement, we’re convinced that it’s so much bigger now, etc. etc. But I really believe it compared to the old bedroom. So yay for successful attempts at maximizing the space in our itty bitty one bedroom cottage.
Our bathroom also got a little sprucing up.
How about a new curtain made out of World Market napkins
And yay for finding a great painting under your bed while you’re cleaning it out!
In a very desperate attempt to get my husband to forgive me after the curtain rod debacle, I made hand squeezed orange juice and french toast the next morning.
A feat easier said than done
French toast a la Alton Brown with a few modifications: super hearty whole wheat bread, substituted soy milk, and added some cinnamon
Okay he’s pretty darn cute. Whatever. As long as he doesn’t get cat hair anywhere near my french toast, he’s safe.
So our weekend started out insanely uneventful, but really was pretty sweet. How was yours? What aspects of the blogging world have permeated your life, and even, maybe, your marriage?
Thank you OH so much for making me crave french toast beyond all reason and for making me NEED cloth napkin curtains RIGHT. NOW. (That’s my slightly jealous way of saying, you rock, I’m jealous
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Haha, poor Cale! It’s so funny that the blogosphere requires a drill…
And your place is super adorable! It looks so cute and cozy!
Hahaha, i have a feeling me and Natali are going to be taking a trip to World Market for some napkins to make curtains! Those are just TOO freaking adorable, I love!
Sooo, this post just makes me want to come visit. I really think you guys should rent it out on the weekends as a bed and breakfast! It’s THAT cute, seriously. I love the new bedroom arrangement!
(help me with curtains, thanks.)
You have to try french toast with the Ezekiel 4:9 cinamon raisin bread or any cinamon swirl raisin bread for that matter. Unless you hate raisins of course.
And I seriously can’t believe you hung curtains without a drill! I can’t even imagine. Every single time we’ve done it has definitely required a drill.
Your breakfast looks so delicious! & tell Cale that if he doesn’t like using screws, he could always just use duct-tape. I guarantee if you put your heads together, you can construct a pretty sturdy way to hang the curtains without screws. Duct tape owns any kind of decorating frustration.
Just a thought. :]
Ohhh, now I wish I had a small window to cover in cute napkins, haha! The bedroom looks awesome! I wish I would finish some of my darn projects already…
I totally saw that pic of the french toast the other day (twitter, flicker??) and had no idea what it was, but knew it was something delicious!!! Mmmm.
I love your home… but I sympathize with Cale. I hung a shelf this weekend without a drill and I wanted to hurt myself for coming up with that idea. I don’t know why I think I can’t justify the purchase of a powerdrill.
Blogging is indeed dangerous. I have been having some wildly random food cravings lately, and seeing things like French toast will cause me to think about that, and only that, until I get it. Miraculously, despite seeing (and obtaining, and proceeding to hate after three bites!) brownies, cupcakes, mac n cheese and lord knows what else, I have lost 10 pounds, which makes no sense at all! I think the universe is trying to tell me to keep eating and baking.
I seriously want to make a pair of those napkin curtains dang it! I think i’m going to make some for my mom’s small window in HER bathroom so I can enjoy them from time to time
I have to know what creature is in that terrarium on the dresser in your bedroom! Snake? Hermit Crab? Frog? Lizard?
Also I am so jealous of the fact that you have a TV in your bedroom…if I had one of those maybe I could actually get my husband to initially fall asleep IN OUR BED, not the couch
That french toast and OJ sounds sooooo goooooood. seriously. I want to come visit your uber adorable cottage and have you make me delicious breakfast while I lay in bed watching tv with your cute cat.
NO?
oh. ok fine.
I loved Kerri’s project too; thankfully I don’t need to hang curtains (right now) otherwise I would have been shopping and cursing at screws and screwdrivers.
The new bedroom looks fantastic; sometimes I like nothing better than rearranging a room and realizing that I have SPACE! Hope Cale is recovering nicely from the project and won’t ban us completely from your life =)
Morgan, you know you’re always welcome.
As long as you bring Maddie so I can steal her.
Jimaie,
Gecko named Tinker Bell. LOL. She doesn’t make the blog too often.
Looks great! WIll you come and do my house now?
The new curtains look amazing! I’m impressed and especially loving the napkins-turned-curtains in the bathroom! Nice work!
Love, love, love the curtains in the bathroom! Will have to remember this for whenever we have our own home again
Your bedroom looks adorable! Congrats on the upgrade! Seriously looks so cozy and relaxing. Makes me want to take a nap! Curtains really do make such a big difference! Those napkins you used as curtains are the cutest things OF ALL TIME! Eeek! Love the pattern! And that French Toast looks soooo yummy! And fresh squeezed OJ?! Wow! Sounds like the perfect breakfast! Cale is a lucky man! And your cat is soooo cute! Oh, and thanks for the link love/ lil shout out!
lovely, lovely, lovely… all of it!! I want to make some napkin curtains too…
This post made me laugh about Cale threatening the blogosphere. Your bedroom is lovely and bright! I love it!
Along with your other comments about “the toast”, it also made me salivate even though I JUST ATE! I have a veggie cookbook that I love love LOVE and I gotta share my “Good Grains Pancakes” recipe with you. Loads of wheat germ goodness!
This post also makes me angry I don’t have more households to decorate. Grrr…
Beautiful all around, miss!
My whole kitchen-makeover that I’m in the throes of is all for the blog (and my well being, it’s crying for a refresher) and Mister has been thoroughly amused by my shouting down the stairs for him to take before pictures before he does anything lol
*lol* Mostly just me threatening him that if he doesn’t behave, I will post an embarrassing picture of him on my blog.
My husband threatens me and my computer all of the time. Luckily right now he is obsessed with adding cool things (different plug ins) to my blog. So he can’t argue too much. I’m on when he’s on.