Everyday Magic: Boys, Blooms, and Blue

So this past weekend was super uneventful. With half of the house having colds and it being a typical pacific northwest January weather pattern (cold and wet) We hung around the house.

So I finally tackled painting the powder room. For the last 10mons I am sad to admit it has been covered in a blue color that looked great in the store and on a paint chip but when I put it on the walls of my low lit room, "tropical spray" looked more like a Miami night club rather than the soft robin's egg blue I was hoping for so after at least 10 different samples smeared all over the walls I finally found a more modern blue that I really love. "Buckland Blue" has my me very happy, I have gone into this at least 30 times today. I think I might even carry it into my family room which is way overdue for a new color.

So can you see my attempt at glazing? I did not know realize at the time that I need flat paint for the stripes to show up in my low lit bathroom. I am learning the hard way that lighting indeed affects everything. So, with having 3 young men in this house there is no way that I will have flat paint in a bathroom. I hope you get the picture and that I need not go into further detail. So, long story short I really like the stripes but too bad you can only see them with a flash or lighting strike. I am now in need of new accent pieces for the shelf here. The small painting that was here no longer fits, so now that I discovered Hobby Lobby has on line shopping I am sure this will be filled in no time flat.

This is the first artwork that my husband I bought together. I love it here. I would have never thought to hang such a big picture here but it looks so great as you walk past the powder room.