Mercury and Burlap

So today I discovered some awesome finds! I was browsing TJMaxx and came across a large array of mercury glass vases and containers, my heart jumped with joy and then I started having a heart attack when I saw the price: $4.99? $7.99? HOLLA WHAT!? Let's just say I'm not usually a TJMaxx cart user but I was all about the cart today. I bought like 20 of these things. My house is going to be decked out with mercury glass, oh yeah.

Mantle awesomeness!

Also, my burlap curtains came in today for the living room. The combination of this mercury glass business and then my much anticipated etsy purchase arriving was just too much! Here is the pics of the curtains, lighting is not that good because it was night time. I'll post better ones in the daylight, but I just couldn't hold back!

Cute littel ruffle!

Beautiful! Can't wait until my VERY much anticipated pillows come in. More pics to come! Thanks for stopping by to enjoy my new additions!

Officially Thursday

Well its past midnite and I'm still up...again. I have too much on my mind to get any decent rest these days it seems, so why not share some of my never ending thoughts!

So my new couch is coming hopefully this week. Its from Simple Pleasures in Marietta Ohio (my fav fav fav store of all time). Its a slipcovered apartment sofa (aka smaller size) from Lee Industries. Key feature to that statement is SLIPCOVERED so I can wash the fabric in my washer like only an true OCD sufferer could appreciate. Here it is.

You can't really get a feel for the drape on this picture, but the slipcover just gracefully hangs off of the frame. I lusted after this couch for over a year and can't wait to get it!
These pillows will be added of course, you have seen the fabric before:

My go to girl for my pillows and interior fabrics is the wonderful Heidi Devlin of etsy.

I'm probably going to add another jute rug like my parlor room to mimic the appearance of carpet, since my floors are all hardwood. I figure if the rugs are the same in both rooms it will flow better.

I have to take a picture of the coffee table because it just makes the room. Here is something similar.

A french vintage industrial cart (there's my element of "man" to my room!)

I'm still a little torn on the chairs, once again. I like leather chairs, as I've said over and over again. But I also like a slipcovered club chair as well.

I can't wait until its done!!! I will be posting 100,000,000 pics of course.

And to finish the day off right, here are some lovely things I've been admiring.

I'm having a heart attack over this dress.

Oh if only.

Good night everyone!

New Restoration Hardware

Today I got the new restoration hardware magazine in the mail. I'm not really into the whole modern industrial look, however, little touches here and there I'm liking alot. I have the habit of making rooms look too "femimine" if I'm not careful. I'm attracted to a lot of antique curvy lines and light colors. I've found that if you add in an industrial style piece it can make the room balanced. Not too feminine and just enough masculinity.

Could this be the leather chair I have been forever searching for? If so I would be getting it an more of a cognac color. The second picture gives you a better idea of the size. They look small, but I think I like that!

Loving this iron bed, and also love these old style trunks, although I think I would prefer a real vintage trunk versus the reproduction.

Here is an inspiration from country living for storage with vintage trunk and suitcases. Loving it.

New slipcovered couch should be in soon!! I'm kind of getting excited for Christmas and think I'm going to put up two trees this year. One in my sitting room and one in my living room I'm working on now, hopefully it will be in a good state by Christmas!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Updated Pics

I started this blog over 6 months ago and then kind of forgot about it, but now that we are making a great deal of progress with our home I thought it would be fun to document it all! Here are some pictures of the house so far, still a work in progress :)

This is our living room / sitting room. If you look at my first post you can see my inspiration puc. I think we did a good job so far! I took the ideas of the wall color, curtains, pillows and tried to make it my own. We plan to get some distressed leather chairs eventually, but still haven't found the perfect set yet.

Some of the dining room looking into sitting room.

Dining room.

Bedroom is REALLY not finished yet. But I like the way the bed looks.

More pics later!