My Little Bubble!

This is my mantle and the frame itself is 41x46, yes it is huge!!! However it is NOT NOT FINISHED!!!! I know this is a HUGE deal for me to post pictures of things NOT finished, but I just love it! I have to distress it and once I do that, it is going to be even more gorgeous! The picture is just "sitting" in the frame. After I distress it, I will hang it, but I love it!!! Many more to come for sure!

Lots of people can make these, but I like to do my "own work" because I have my "own ideas". Ask my mom.... I have always been this way. That can be good and bad (remember the blue jogging suit??)
SO HERE IS THE REAL POST....

I call it my "bubble" because I really do not have to leave my bubble for ANYTHING. NOW that is what I have always wanted!!!! I wanted that in Tampa in Hyde Park, but now I got something even better... Homewood! My Tampa Peeps never did understand why I loved Hyde Park so much but they are all coming to visit me this Fall and I think they will see why very soon!

Well here are some pictures of the little old cottage that I have dreamed about for a long time, this just didn't happen overnight. I didn't randomly pick this place and decide to come here, it has been in the works for quite some time or quite some years. Now if this was MY HOUSE and I wasn't renting it, I would change lots of things, paint colors, kitchen counters and appliances, etc... but I can't so everything I have done has involved the furniture or accessories.... items that we can take WITH US when we move. I just love love love it! Still a few more things to do to the house, but overall, we are getting there. We keep starting projects and changing things every week/day but that is what I love to do. Thank goodness I have a husband who doesn't mind doing that for me. It also helps that I know the most amazing woman who can make anything and upholster anything. (Karen she likes to make us "pillars") My motto... I always search until I find someone or learn how to do it myself. I don't like to give up, LOL. So here is our little place to live in our little "bubble"!!!

My favorite thing is how BRIGHT and AIRY the whole place is. So much natural light. Notice the mantle.... that was BEFORE the big frame appeared so it has already changed within a day that I took the pictures.

I have already bought and changed new lamps, but still same concept

You see why it has taken so long for me to post pictures???? I took these pictures and within ONE day I had already rearranged, moved pictures, lamps, etc.... It is always changing!!!!!

My new chair fabric... horrible picture but it is a very muted, Anthropologie turquoise leopard. I have never seen anything like it. LOVED IT!!!

I thought the chair turned out really cute!!!

I have always wanted a really long hallway with a mirror at the end
Our bedroom suit was completely refinished and painted to a gray with lots of distressing. We changed all the knobs to dark. I LOVED how it turned out. I got all new bedding and wanted to keep it simple. Of course, I added a turquoise pillow in one picture and wasn't sure so I may get another solid white pillow, the key is simple and not cutesy.

Ignore the cords on the wall, those have yet to be hidden. No time for that yet!

I should take pictures inside all the closets, amazing how much I was able to get in them, but they are very tall and have more room than you would think. I did still have to store some stuff outside and in the garage, but I got a lot more inside than I thought.

I just love this kitchen! It is bigger than it looks. If I could only change the countertops to dark and the appliances to stainless it would be perfect!

My cute little desk that was re-done with new handles, a painted top, and of course a new recovered chair

Charlee Kate's room was pretty much left the same as it was in Tampa. I like it all still but it won't be long before she will go to a "big girl room" and everything will change so I kept it how it was until that time comes.

My favorite upholstered antique chair. I have several but only room for this one. I love it! I think mom found me a super small one for Charlee Kate that I can upholster. Oh how that makes me excited!

There is a story behind this swing that I have wanted for years and years!!! The pictures doesn't even begin to do it justice but it is amazing. It is NOT FINISHED yet. YES ANOTHER UNFINISHED PICTURE, WOW! The pillows are yet to come but this will give you some idea about it. It weighs about 150 pounds so it is definitely not the smallest thing, but I don't think we own anything small. Just ask all our wonderful friends and family who have had to pick up our furniture. Not sure how that always happens.

Give me a week or so and there will be pillows and bamboo shades and it will be a whole new place

Our cute little street that I just absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!

I think we just may stay put for awhile. What are the chances that these people will sell this to us to renovate??? Only time will tell!!!!

On top of all the fun we have had this summer, I have been under the weather a lot the last few days and let me just say my husband is a very good nurse! I don't think there is anything he CAN'T do!!!