organizing - i LOVE it!!!!!!

the other day at work, i was talking about how i read a bernstein bears book to my nephew.  and my colleague said "i loved bernstein bears!  the messy room was my favorite!" and i was like "that's MY favorite, too!"  here is a picture of it.

my colleague said "there's the bulletin board - i love that!" and i do, too.  so, when i saw this post, i instantly loved it.  here is the before and the after.

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and doesn't that closet remind you of the bernstein bears closet??

don't just buy from a furniture store!

i'm using this place to write about different art and decoration things i like.  i love apartment therapy, and have been (re-)posting a lot of pics from there recently.  here are some others i like.  different ideas for nightstands.  i am thinking i would love a wine barrel - refinished, but with a cool brand name on it as a nightstand for me.

which one is your favorite?

check out other ideas here.

fun storage idea!

thought this ingenious storage idea for the unused space next to your fridge was a great idea.  i have a step ladder next to my fridge, but maybe someday i'll do something like this...

from here.

what sayst you?

i LOVE this kitchen!

for some reason, kitchens are starting to become my favorite room in the house.  or, rather, favorite room to look at in OTHER people's houses. and favorite to think about what i could have some day.  i feel like if i had an amazing kitchen, i might want to cook more.  ha!  so i was blown away by this kitchen.  what do you think about it?  whats in your favorite kitchen?

if you want to see the "before" pictures, check them out here.

sometimes it works out, sometimes not.

i started documenting my paintings a bit ago, and i'd like to restart doing that.  you can check out some of my work here.

so going back to my painting history.  i took an acrylic painting class and loved it.  i painted a few things in black and white and then we were told to do a homework assignment using just two complimentary colors (e.g. red and green, blue and orange, or purple and yellow).  i chose purple and yellow.  i painted the below chandon wine bottle in my hotel room in phoenix arizona, when i was there for a work conference.  it took me a few hours and is on a flat canvas board.  it is about the size of a piece of paper (maybe slightly larger - 9" by 12" probably).  i used only yellow and purple.  and maybe white.  i can't remember.  i must have.  i quite like it, although this isn't the best picture of it.  i did not paint this from a photo, it is painted from something that was in front of me.

in class around that same time, we were given an assignment to paint fruit.  and i didn't get the assignment, honestly.  it was so confusing to me.  everyone ended up with fruit that was different colors. and i wasn't really able to see all the different shades of the fruit.  so i did this in class on my canvas book.  it sucks, but i'm posting it here anyway.  i might have painted over this, it's so bad.  the teacher had the fruit in class for us.  bleh. i hate this so much.