I'm glampin' my campin'!

I scored at Walmart tonight! I went down the clearance aisle & helloooo glamping!

Block out, thermal curtains for the main two windows (they only have a clear plastic cover) - $12.00 for two!

Lamp (it's a black shade!) - $5.00!

Silver trash can - $.75 cents!

Christmas lights - $5.98 (not on sale). I bought the wrong ones - these are 'cool white' & I need white white. Will be buying more but will keep these because I can use them somewhere else!

Little black & white chicken is mine, I just borrowed him for embellishment. ;o)

The best part? I've been selling stuff that we don't need or use anymore & I used that money to pay for this stuff! I haven't dipped into our 'responsible money' yet! Winning!

Up next: removing the covers from all cushions & mattresses & give them a good washing, disinfecting all foam (cushions/mattresses), buying foam mattresses to put on top of the foam mattresses (lol - unless in a hotel, I have a phobia of sleeping on top of things other people have slept on!), sheets, & some sort of slip covers for all the table cushions because they are UGLY. I don't do ugly. :)

Can't wait to hit up Goodwill to see what I can find! This is FUN!

We only live once! Live out loud & don't worry about what others think! Took me a long time to figure that out! :)

A glamping we will go!

Have you heard yet of glamping? It's camping, all glammed up! And right now, glamping is HOT!



So cute!







Love it! Some of them are a little overkill, but cute nonetheless! Images above came from Oh a glamping & a camping we will go!

We LOVE to camp! We are tent campers. It gets too hot in Texas, so our time is limited as to when we can go & what we can tolerate. Guess what we bought last weekend? Now we can camp whenever our little hearts desire!



Is she not the cutest? She's a little rough, so go easy on her. :)



She needs a little work.



(Pardon my dirty fan. It's one I keep in the garage & just tossed in there.)

The inside is in really good condition! A little better than the outside.





We love it! And it's ours!

Now I know being it's a pop-up, I can't glam it that much. But I can glam it some, right? Yes!

Someone asked me on Facebook if I was going to paint the walls. Hysterical! :)

It was really musty from being closed up, so we opened it up to air that puppy out. We plan on keeping it open, in the garage, when not in use to avoid the musty smell. Canvas can get pretty stinky. Other than the airing out, we have some repairs to do, a lot of cleaning in & out, & little glamming up & then we are out of here! We can't wait!!

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Pretty in pink.

I love pink. I've always loved pink. Almost all shades of pink, but not mauve. Remember mauve?



Mauve was popular many years ago & I officially got mauve'd out. No mauve here. Just pretty pinks.

But first, I got this bright idea (pun intended) to paint this green lamp shade. I'm not fond of green. Not for my decorating, anyway. I have a forest green (& gold - wallpaper) 'formal' (hate that word) dining room. Seems every color I don't like to decorate with is in this house. And we bought it anyway! Here's my green lamp shade. Love the base, hate the shade.



I had some white paint, so I sprayed it. What a fiasco! This lamp shade is not the typical lamp shade fabric & I had an icky, gooey, freaky mess. I'm going to buy a new one, but for now, as kanked up as it is, I like it better than the green!

A long time ago, I picked up this gold LOVE sign. I don't even remember where I got it - Goodwill, I think. It's just been hanging around because I never knew what color I wanted it.



Until today. How cute would it be pink? So I painted it, too. I'm going to put it in my black, white, gray & pink living room.



Perfect!

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Life is beautiful.

We've already determined (way too many times...ha) that I am redecorating our entire downstairs (& bathrooms) in the colors black, white & gray, with different pops of color in each room. All this is being done on a budget. Pretty much a non-existent budget. It's also been determined that I don't like much art on my walls. I am very, very picky & I don't do 'pictures'. I do photos of my kids, their art work & words. Words. Simple, lovely words. So imagine my delight when I recently spotted these decals while at the dollar store!



Oh yes, sweet little sayings for $1. One dollar! I only bought one to start with & I applied it tonight. Love, love, love!



I can't wait to go back & purchase gobs more. More for me, more for my kids' rooms. More for happiness.

Because I was searching the dollar store (Dollar Tree, to be exact) for a specific back-to-school item, I had to go to several different Dollar Trees. And I noticed something. The bigger the store, the bigger selection of wall decals they have! Yip!

So there you have it. Go get some! Liven up your walls! Express yourself & your life with words! On the cheap, to boot! Winning!!

And have you heard?

Life is beautiful!

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I MADE IT TO IKEA!!

That deserves all caps because I have waited a very long time to get there! Ours is about an hour away, so even though I've wanted to go, I just never got around to it. Instead, I lived vicariously (drooling) through everyone else's Ikea posts! Until, until, this weekend! My husband needed bunk beds for a photo shoot he has this week & we exhausted all Craigs List ads, all online garage sale ads & just had no luck. So, out of the blue & on a whim, we made our way to Ikea! Now that I'm incorportating black, white & gray into our entire home, I could not wait to see all the beauty!!

By the way, Ikea is, um, very crowded on a Saturday afternoon. So we made our way in & we made our way up & walked the complete opposite way of the provided arrows. I'm a rebel like that. :) I loved everything! And the prices were amazing! But where are the dishes? The linens? You know, the fun stuff? It wasn't there & I was very disappointed. Sadly, I even vowed not to return. Sigh.

Then, we had to go downstairs to pay for the bunk beds & a twin bed I bought my oldest son. We hopped on the elevator & exited out the back & not the front that we had come in. What? I am easily confused, I was new to the store & at this point, I was just wondering if I would ever see my home again. But wait. The elevator went down & when the doors opened - what to my wonderous eyes did I see????????



WAHOOOOOO!! Another level with all my heart's desires!! I think I may have done a few cartwheels, as my husband passed out because he thought we were through. Bwahahaha! Oh no no no we weren't through! I, was just beginning!!



But alas, it had been a long day, the kids were tired, so I made a mental note to return & get "this & this & this & that & this & that & this & this & this..." & I picked up a few things along the way. I couldn't leave with nothing!



(No bags. I didn't really like that part. But, ok. Next time I'll buy a $.60 Ikea bag. :)

First time I have purchased a pillow insert, too. I really like the concept, though, of simply changing out pillow covers so I think I'll get quite a few more. I just happened to have another 20x20 pillow here at home that didn't sell at the garage sale, so I shoved that in another new cover. Winning!!



I haven't distributed the beautiful, broken, decorative glass yet (my OCD kicked in & I couldn't decide which color to buy, so I got all three. Black, gray & white! Gorgeous!).

I put my new, delish stuff in the front living room, which is really 'my' room, & this room is going to be black, gray, white & PINK. Heck yeah! Pink, baby! Why not? I love pink! And it goes swimmingly (ahem) with black, gray & white. And after all, it is my house! Rules schmules!! As I make more progress - & get all the school supplies you can't see delivered to their appropriate schools - I'll be showing the entire room.

This, is JUST, the beginning!!

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Baby steps to black!

Transitioning our home from browns to blacks is pretty much happening at a snail's pace! With all 4 of my children starting/returning to school in a week or so (sniff sniff), I'm going to have a lot more time to work on projects. Which is good, because I have way too many! But I did get one more thing painted a few weeks ago.

This clock sits above my desk (those walls will be a beautimous shade of gray some day soon, I hope), so I yanked this puppy down & gave a her a nice, glossy black finish.



I didn't want to have to tape it off, but ultimately, to keep the paint nice & clean, I had no other choice. Was a bit monotonous, but worked great!



And here is the finished product! Love it! Love all this pretty, pretty black!



Two little paint projects down, 50 to go! I have yet to return to thrifting since I decided to change colors. Cannot wait to return to see what I can find in my new colors! Maybe I can squeeze some thrifting in tomorrow? That would be good! Heck, that would be great! Does thrifting excite you like it does me? I LOVE IT!

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