Living Room Change #3

So this was before...

I didn't do a whole lot this year. I basically painted the green stripe dark red...

 Found this material at Joann's and made some pillow covers...

 Re-painted my canvas.

 And made some removable covers for these lamps. I'll post a tutorial for the lamps soon.  The original lampshades are so cute... so I didn't want to ruin them... so these fabric covers are just double stick taped on! I'm sure next year I'll be redecorating anyway, so i gotta make everything easy to re-do...

Spring Cleaning

Apparently my definition of spring cleaning is redecorating...   i've lived in my house for two years and every spring i've redecorated... 
this is when we first moved in...

 1st spring I changed to this...

 2nd spring I changed to this...

3rd spring or this year???...  Yes. that is what i'm working on this week!!!  stay tuned for all my finished projects...   I'll just say the green is gone...
update:  my bedroom... branch is done... still looking for the perfect bedding though...

In the middle of a mess...

So when I saw this vinyl branch I knew I wanted to do that in my master bedroom...  I thought oh, I have a vinyl machine, what an easy decoration... but for some reason my husband has put a limit on vinyl... he said we have too much... so this is crazy but I decided I would paint...

1. So I first painted the top half of the room a steel gray/blue color... it's called greyhound from walmart, and i love it!!!

 2. Using a pencil I sketched out the branch.

3. Using a 1inch brush I lightly painted over the pencil...  To make the edges crisp I used a 1inch foam brush and went over all the edges...

Over the past week I've added leaves.... yes it's taken a week... Each day I've added a few more...

 STAY TUNED for the big reveal... Hopefully it will include a new bed spread... thank you Tax return!