poll: what should I do with my living room?

Decisions are my enemy, and you're my best friend... so I'm glad we have developed this fantastic relationship where you can help me decide REALLY EXTRA LIFE CHANGING decisions.... like which dining room table/chairs I should get. 

Every night for at least two months, I lay in my bed [during my only "me time"] and try to find the perfect set and I don't think "perfect" is going to happen in my budget. So here's what we're looking at. 

You know my living room is purple and turquoise, but my kitchen is green, and the dining room is inbetween. I've decided I definitely want a black table of some sort and green chairs, but I can't decide which shade or which height. This is where you come in. [I put a vase that is similar to one I just got so you can see how the colors will hopefully flow, along with other artwork etc.]

This is your typical dining height table [this one expands to get longer] with a really light "celery green" leather chair or a lime green microfiber one.

This is "counter height" which is really only a couple inches higher, but to me it seems cooler. Again, a cloth true-green option, and leather lighter option. 

In my head, the lighter colors would be an easier, more fun transition with colors, but now that I put these together I'm not sure if that's entirely true. Also, it's impossible to find a green chair with black legs. The C option is the only one I wouldn't have to paint to match the table. 

I'm trying to class up my apartment so which option do you think best does that? 

I know the tables are plain, but a girl's gotta save SOME kind of money! I figure the chairs make more of an impact... right or wrong?

Have I told you lately that I love you?

love,
elizabethany

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crafted: painted fabric canvases

It's  been a month and a half since I moved into my new place, and I haven't put up a single piece of decoration. Normally that's the first thing I do, but I really wanna make this place look nice and not like some college student's first apartment. I've been looking all over Pinterest and magazines and EVERYWHERE looking for ideas, and I still don't know where I'm gonna go with it, but I decided to make something for the awfully bare walls.

I went to AC Moore on Sunday when they had an extra 25% off everything in the store, and got a bunch of 16x20 canvases for $2.50 each! HELLO BARGAIN! I've always wanted to have some to play with, but there's one project I've been wanting to do.

Some people cover shoe box tops with fabric as decoration... I wanted to take that one step forward and paint a quote or something on them... then I decided to cover the canvases [kinda defeating the purpose of them, but I can always take the fabric off] and paint simple silhouettes on them.

I suck and didn't take pictures during the process, but that's because it's so easy.

NEED: 

• Canvas or shoe box
• Hot glue/gun
• Fabric to cover your canvas or top [$1/each if you get swatches]
• Simple acrylic craft paint
• Paint brushes

DO:

1. Iron out the fabric if necessary and place it on top of the canvas.
2. Glue down the sides, doing about two inches at a time and alternating sides. Make sure you pull it a little so it's nice and flat.
3. If you need to, pencil an outline of what you want to paint on. 
4. Paint.. and then love!

After I hung them up, Nugget and I both decided I should have made bigger ones... but they'll do! And I'm hoping they'll look 100x better as soon as I get some new furniture in this piece.

Also, my walls are not nearly as pink as they appear there, but for some reason my pictures always have a different tint in each place I see them.

So they're not the most artistic things ever.. but they're personalized and fun! I might end up redoing them on different fabric, but these were the only options at the time, and they'll totally work for now, don't ya think?!

love,
elizabethany

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real world 29 is headed to san francisco! see the house and first roommate thomas

Time to kick back into Real World stalking hunting searching mode! Thanks to Vevmo for once again finding the location and letting the world know that MTV is headed back to Cali... San Francisco!

It's doubtful it will be able to live up to the original season in San Fran since it was probably the best ever [and if we're being honest, I don't know if any "back to" season has been better than the first], but you know we'll be keeping tabs and watching alone.

THE HOUSE: 1244 Sutter Street, 32,000 sq. feet of goodness.

There's a PDF for the place with the realty.

It's super old, but looks like it has a lot of potential... and we all know BMP can work some magic on these buildings. I can't wait to see how it looks in the end!

And thanks to his friends [and him, really] for being idiots awesome and tweeting about his departure, we know Ft. Worth native Thomas Buell is on his way.

 -he's 21

-Sigma Chi at University of Texas- Arlington

-this is his Twitter

-this is his Facebook

-and THIS is his casting video

I'm honestly so shocked by how blunt they were on Twitter that I wonder if this is actually a decoy like the ones they sent to DC. It'd be smart of them, but it's not like we wouldn't figure it out eventually.

There's a lot of pressure on this cast to save the series.... so I hope they picked well! I'll be on top of my game trying to find out anything I can during filming. I've got someone who coincidentally works near the house and has friends who live next door to it. They are fully aware I expect some goodies since I can't afford to fly out there.

As always, holler at your girl if you find anything out or see something suspicious! All of my contact info is right over here and I'll totally respect your anonymity if necessary.

Let the fun begin!

love,
elizabethany

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