February Colors of the Month: Mostly Pink with Red, Green and Blue too!

We celebrated Valentine's with our friends a little bit late this year due to winter cold bugs (Come on Spring...get here already!), so my color of the month post is coming a bit late as well since I wanted to incorporate images from our Valentine's Party preparations too!

(Ironically, we'll be hosting a Halloween party on Saturday.  We had planned to hold a make up Halloween party in January after the holidays, but then something came up, so it got pushed back further to this weekend.  Seriously, who holds a Valentine's party and a Halloween party in the same week?  We do.  That's right.  I can't wait to get more use out of our costumes!)

Here's how our great room is looking for one last day:

The fabric 'love' canvas was originally posted about here.

My Christmas card display canvas got some more use!

I finally sewed together the pillow that I wanted to make back in September.

Valentine's Day Party Crafts and Decor:

We used Fimo clay a la Oh Happy Day to create mini hearts.

And we attached some to our Valentine's.

We left some extras for bracelets and necklaces.

We also painted wooden craft hearts...

...and attached them to small wooden clothespins.

I added them to our boxwood wreath that is still holding strong on our front door from Christmas.

They were also attached to our branch tree now that the icicles have been taken down.

I also made a door hanger.  It came with the twine already attached, so I just painted it.  Easy Peasy Pie.

 Finally, we used some card stock that I cut into various sizes of hearts...

...and made some adjustments to our dining room light fixture:

 I just like this picture:

 A Valentine's Party wouldn't be fun without a few snacks and some sweet treats:

I cannot take credit for the beauty nor sugar content of these cupcakes.  That was all Lucky.  And Charm.

And with this post, I've completed a full year of 'Color of the Month' posts.  While it has been a fun challenge and good learning experience, I won't be continuing the tradition.  Instead, I'll be focusing on making more permanent decorating decisions for our great room.  Sure, we'll make some holiday changes, but the room won't be changed out every month.  I hope you have enjoyed the series!!  And don't worry, this isn't the last time you'll see our great room:)!

Belated January Colors of the Month: Blue and White

When I think of January, I usually think of cold weather and lots of snow.  Even though we had a mild January in Minnesota this year, I still chose blue and white as the colors of the month because blue is cool and snow is white.  

Nothing too exciting went on this month in terms of playing up the whole "snowy weather" theme, but that's okay.  I still wanted to post a few pictures of the way our great room looked this past January anyway:).  I only have 1 month to go (February) until I will have completed a full year of monthly color changes to our great room.  Where has the time gone?

I never posted about a little update we made on our dining room chairs that can be seen in this picture.  Do you see the number '3' on the chair?  It's just an address number that we picked up at Home Depot for about $3.  We centered it on the chair and screwed it in to all 4 of our Lucky Shamrock Blue Chairs.  And by 'we', I mean Bill tackled this project.  He did it months ago.  I think I was running an errand while he watched the kids and put numbers on our chairs.  He's super dad-husband man!:)  I love the fun little detail.  It makes me smile:)!

December Color of the Month: Red, White and Green

I went the traditional red, white and green route this year (if you didn't already notice) for our Christmas decorations.  Here are a few pictures from our great room in all its Christmas glory:

The green Christmas tree in this picture is my lovely $1 store gift from Lucky.  She knows I love to decorate!  (And Charm purchased a wonderful little snow globe for me that I love too!)

I love Christmas time, but I'm also eager for the clean slate that January always seems to bring.  2012...we're almost there!

Colors of the Month: Blue and Green

Since our dining room is mainly blue, green and brown, I decided to try out blue and green in our great room as well this month.  I wanted to make both rooms flow together for our big holiday feast last weekend.  Even though blue and green are not traditional Thanksgiving colors, I challenged myself to make it feel like fall anyway.  Here is what I came up with:

We hung the sunburst mirror from this post.

And these antlers are sprayed gold (the same spray paint color as our front room sunburst mirror.) and are the antlers from Duke the first, our master bedroom deer that bit the dust.

This entry table turned desk is new to our great room.  We are enjoying it in this new location as it makes a great blogging station for me while keeping an eye on my kiddos at play.  We simply pull over a dining room chair when we're using it, and we're good to go!

Here is my paint chip art and my new wreath.

I don't know why the factory cart looks so yellow in this picture.  It's not in real life:).

So there you have it!  A blue and green great room for November.  I'm so ready to make some changes for December now.  Bring on Christmas!!