rose-colored glasses...

I've had a sheer curtain up on the back patio door for awhile now but wasn't ever really okay with that because it doesn't make me feel..."unwatched" at night. :) Some of you know how my imagination is and that sheer thing just wasn't cuttin' it -- I always felt like someone could still see in and see everything, especially at night with lights on and such. It's not like we even have anything behind us -- just a bunch of trees and semi-developed land (I think the plan is to put something back there eventually so they've been out there with big equipment from time to time, but nothing is being built so far), but it is what it is. I can't help how my mind runs away sometimes.

So, I've been keeping an eye out for a different curtain/window treatment to go on the back patio door. I've not been diligently searching but when I find myself in the "curtains section" of any store, I usually will browse to see what I can see. I've been looking for something in the sheer "family" but with color so that I don't feel so...um, exposed at night.

Well, I finally found a really fun, printed, somewhat sheer curtain that had some of the colors I'd been wanting to use in the kitchen/dining area, but something that wouldn't look bad from the front door with our furniture, etc.

The photos really don't show the real look/colors of the fabric; I took the photos about 4:30pm-ish today so the sun is at the back of house shining in. The main color is brown with olive green, mauve and reddish-pink dots all over. It's fun. I think it will work for now.

new "outlook" on life...

Oh.my.word. Exactly 2 months since my last post...I didn't really have any idea it has been THAT long. I'm sorry, peeps. Those of you who still check the blog, anyway. God bless you for being faithful to check, even if I'm not faithful to post.

In my defense, though, there really hasn't been much going on with the house lately. We did make one small change, however, in our master bathroom. I haven't really shown any photos of that room of the house since we moved in, primarily because I really didn't know how I wanted to decorate it. We're just using a shower curtain we already had and "making do". I think I have an idea of how I want to decorate it now, but I haven't gone to see what's out there that will fit my decor idea. I promise I'll post photos when it's complete.

The recent small change that we made was to replace the mirror in there with another that has a cabinet built in. The mirror that came with the house was massive and really nice, but just flat on the wall. With the extreme lack of storage space in that bathroom (we don't have a nice closet like in the guest bathroom), Jeff decided that we needed to create some space ourselves by hanging a mirrored cabinet up in place of the flat mirror.

I would like to preface the photos by saying that he took care of this during the day one day while I was at work. So he's the one that took the before and after photos. The before photo is horrendous with all the stuff out on the counter, etc. (something I would've cleaned up before taking the photo) but Jeff says, "I was proving a point. We needed the cabinet." Point taken.