Day 4: Studio!

Ahh, yes, finally finished!
Before:

 

After:

 

 

I am so happy with my new space! It took only an idea, some creativity, a layer of paint, and one week to accomplish it.

First, I had to empty the room. It was a disaster to say the least. Two days were spent on removing everything.

Next, I had to find paint. The room originally had a yellow/creamy colored wall, ceiling, and rug. It was a boring flow of colors. I knew that I wanted for it to stay bright, and I didn't want to do so much that it took away my time from other projects.

And I am on a strict budget!

So I went to the garage. We have about 1,000 different cans of paint, all of which are different colors and less than half full. Joy.

After looking for awhile, I discovered that apparently our favorite colors are yellow and cream. Exactly NOT what I am looking for.

Finally, I found a white-white that was half-full. With that color, I painted the trim and the door. This dramatically cleaned the room up. It just looked fresher. Next I had to find a color for the ceiling. I found a light blue/gray color but only had about a quarter of a gallon.

Problem solved: Mix the rest of the white with that blue!

The end result caused a great contrast in the room without drawing attention to itself.

Now for the wall color:

This was something that I did have to buy.

A perfect blue is what we decided on and it totally changed the room.

Room=Painted

Next on the list was on what to bring into the room. We already had a beautiful dark desk in the room,(which was in the White House at one point I think! How cool!)

We had a very old chair and mirror which we decided to use as our Pinterest projects! Who doesn't love Pinterest?!

This is before:

And this is after:



 

 

We brought in an old table that we found and some bookshelves.

One more Pinterest project completed this room:

Before:

 

After:

 

The colors are much prettier in person I promise..my camera is rude.

 

So that about covers it. My studio is awesome(:

 

Always Lots of Loves,

M

 

Day 3: Paint Wars

Breakfast: boiled egg, pineapple, grapes, bread.

This breakfast was delicious and had me feeling full for a long time. It also put me in a good mood! Deffinately a keeper.

But breakfast will not be the point of this blog again, I promise!

This is about paint. Paint paint paint.

 



 

My studio is coming along, slowly but surely! I have painted the trim white-white. I love how clean it makes everything look. I am also trying to use the paint that we already have from other projects so that I can save some money(budget!!!). We had a tiny bit of white and a tiny bit of light blue so I mixed them! They had to be the same brand and type of paint or they wouln't have mixed right. But it turned out perfect. With this color, I painted my ceiling and one wall. It seems more like a silver-blue more than light blue, but it still looks great!

So I had to decide on what color I wanted for the other walls.

I walked around Lowes with the paint stirrer that I had used to mix the paints so that I knew exactly what would match(: I was torn between green and blue. Both colors are beautiful and I couldn't decide. I think that I had 6 different color swatches at a time trying to choose!

I had absolutley no idea what I wanted so I let my mom suprise me. Blue!

While I was there, I picked out a color swatch that would stand out in the room. Apricot/Coral. I am planning on painting old bookshelves and a dresser to give the room more color. Tomorrow will be paint day. Yay!

 

Refresh, Reuse, Repaint.

Love-M!



Day 2: Oatmeal

Breakfast needs to be something yummy. It is the first meal of the day so why should we ruin it? Breakfast gets our systems moving and when our systems are functioning, our bodies are happy. A lot of people thing that breakfast is a waste of time, and often substitute it with a multivitamin or one single grape. Nope, that is not breakfast. I am not a breakfast person, so it needs to be interesting if I am going to eat it. I find that it helps, if I have time, I like to be creative with it. If something sounds fun to make, I am more willing to actually eat it. I'm also a really picky person when I get up, I don't want something that is covered in sugar, like cereal or syrup. I want something healthy but very yummy.

This morning, I tried oatmeal. Oatmeal is not my favorite, but I don't think that I have a favorite breakfast food besides bacon and gravy, and both of which are not within my healthy guidelines of the moment.

So, oatmeal. It is plain....and boring. I think that we all agree that it could use a touch of sweetener. So just a little bit of honey will fix that. Now we have a little less boring oatmeal. But still pretty bland. Fruit. Fruit is the perfect breakfast add-in or add-on. Half of a chopped apple on the top adds fruit. Let's add cinnamon for flavor and a tiny tiny slice of butter for creaminess! YUMMY.

Oatmeal=Dominated

Eat healthy!

Loves,

M



Day 1 (officially)

So...Day 1 is officially completed. I have successfully refrained from McDonald's...I instead ate at Bojangles and rewarded myself with ice cream at Dairy Queen! Feeling good!--or not. I blame it on my brother. My sweet, innocent, brother convinced me that we should make it a goal to spend EVERY last dime that I have on food. And what do I do? Well I accept the challenge of course! Who in their right mind wouldn't? So let's see here, being healthy is not starting out on a good note. There is always a Day 2, right? (: Procrastination--we all suffer. But let's all forget about that for now.

I began working on my "studio" today! SO exciting! So far I have all that was in the "little room", as we call it, removed. It is now a shell of a space. It looks an awful lot like an empty canvas to me. It is sitting there just waiting to be changed into something wonderful. I am trying to decide on a paint scheme>=/ The space has one small window, an awkward closet, and old carpet. It is going to take magic to turn it into a perfect space. But I am bound and determined to do it.

Lets see what else my fun day consisted of---a BREAD MAKER! Yes! We got a bread maker today! Whoo! I will have to report on how well bread making goes. Could be a complete disaster, but I am sure that my mom and I will have a blast learning how to use it. Oh, meet my mom:

Mom!!!

 Best woman in the world, by the way. Together we have tackled couponing(I only help cut them from the Sunday papers every now and then, but I like to pretend!), making homemade/natural solutions to everyday products that hurt us in the long run, planting flowers, planning my wedding since I was 3, and finding some way to be different. I am not a cookie cutter!

So mom-meet reader, reader-meet mom. Introductions and what-nots.

Okay, now leaving the bread making-machine-doo-hickey-thing behind and moving on to 3:00. Who doesn't love volleyball? I LoVE it! I was able to play on my school's team for an amazing 5 years, but then something awful happened, I graduated. So, of course, like any logical person would do, I found a way to be on the team again! Why yes, I am the assistant coach! Go Knights! Currently we are in the middle of the season, and have lost our fair share of games. But these girls are amazing. They know what sport they are playing and they love it. They have honestly been such an encouragement to me. (And been a big part of my MOTIVATION!) So today's game was loud, obnoxious, and somewhat irritating. But it was close. (We lost)=,(  After the game was when we decided to eat Bojangles's out of food.

This was Day 1 of what I am not so sure I am trying to accomplish yet. How about setting a few goals:

1- Eat healthy, but yummy food.

 

2-Finish my messy studio and get to work!

 

3-Somehow make it through college.

 

P.S. I have no idea how I have managed to not talk about my sweet, cute, kind boyfriend yet! Boyfriend doesn't describe what he is to me at all though:( I need a new word for it. He is my best friend, I am his partner in crime.We love each other more than Noah and Allie, Johnny and June, or Cinderella and Prince Charming.

 

P.S.S.S.S-These pictures were robbed from google. Who doesn't do it?

Day 1 (technically)

Hi reader! (That is, if you exist out there:)) In my life, I have discovered several things, or I just pretend that I discovered it. I find myself thinking a whole lot about random stuff that probably never crosses other people's minds. One of these things as of recently is motivation. Motivation is something that is hard to come across these days...I remember the good old days, playing in creeks and being stung by bees. So far in my life, I have had 3 stages. I was a kid, then I was a teenager, and now I am trying to grow up. I am still a teen, but only number-wise, I am convinced that I was born old. Some people tell me that I have an "old-soul" and I don't doubt it for a second. I love my happy, old-person self. You have to love yourself in order to happy right? I couldn't exactly go around being happy if I hated myself, although on occasion I really do think that I am ridiculous and I want to ask myself, "Really, like really? What is wrong with you?" This sums up me: My favorite thing in the entire world is sitting on a porch swing drinking sweet tea with lots of ice in it and listening to the birds. It seems to me to be the place that God intended for me to sit. That is my little piece of heaven.

  Anyways, back to motivation...It is rare in the world today. Or rare in my life at the moment. I guess that I am spoiled with praise. I am not a selfish brat who thinks only of herself, I can assure you that. I am just use to achieving my goals and being congratulated. And at this point in my life, there doesn't seem to be to much achieving at the moment. I have just started college and I am taking all of my classes online, it is a real challenge to me because I have never had an online course. I attended a small school and had the EXACT same teachers from seventh grade to graduation day. It has been interesting and challenging to say the least. Next on my list is a small little thing on the side that I like to call my job. It is called "Products By M". I am so excited to begin my own business, but it has been so hard! Well, of course it has been hard!! I am starting from ground -0 and working my way up. It has been so much fun doing everything that is involved, but I have been discouraged all at the same time. Several things have been easy because I know exactly what I am doing. But others, not so much. I can only hope that I can get organized and take a breath of fresh air! AND SOON!

On top of all of this fun stuff, I am trying to stay in shape. I love to be healthy because my body just feels better. I love the days that I run and I don't feel like I am going to die, I just run because my body is happy and loves it. But there is always a but...I am definitely NOT in shape. I eat, and eat, and eat, and eat just a little bit more. Yes, I realize that I must eat, duh! Everyone has to eat more than a bowl of rice to survive. But I can eat an awful lot and it is close to catching up with me and tearing me apart, one french fry at at time. Did I say that I think that I am chemically addicted to McDonald's. Yes, I believe so. I am cranky when I don't have it. And when having a series of nightmares, I dream that our McDonald's is being torn down and that is the first thing I think of when I wake up...I know there is a problem. But it is a happy problem(: I <3 McDonald's. But I must stop! No....more.....fries! (Can you tell that I am having a tug-of-war battle right now between the goodness and being healthy?:))

So here we go, Day 1 at 1 am. We will see where this goes....to infinity and beyond!

Jeremiah 29:11