CandyLand Christmas in our home

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Hello Blog-Land, it’s been almost 2 years. I miss it, I really miss writing to all of you my dearest followers. but life gets really busy when you have 2 kids. But I promised my self, this time I will not stop writing even if I do it once weekly.

Lets have a small recap, now I have 2 boys, one is almost 5 years and the other just turned 1, we moved to a new home so a lot of new decoration projects are on the way, and now I’m a full-time mommy ( I stopped the online shop few months after I had my first son ).

Let me share with you my Christmas decor for this year. I wanted something unique, fun and can be girly to satisfy my love of pink color but yet boyish since the boys are dominant in this house ( 3 boys including the hubby). So as soon as I saw these lollipops ornaments at Hobby Lobby I envisioned the look on my son’s face when he sees Candy-Land Christmas in the house.

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Chairish rug challenge

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When Chairish challenged me to create a room full of color, I couldn’t be happier. I live and breath colors.

To start with Chairish is “an exclusive, curator approved, online marketplace for vintage and used furniture.” One can easily spend hours surfing this amazing site looking for vintage furniture, decor, jewelry and accessories.

So here is my board

I chose this “Turquoise Overdyed Turkish Patchwork rug” because I love all of its different tones. The combination of blue and green make it rich and forgiving especially when you have a 2 year old boy that loves to play “Jump Jump” on the couch. The metal gold base Hollywood Regency Ottoman adds joy to the board. Its bright and fun fabric needed to be toned down by the neutral mid century sofa. In addition, the green tone in the Queen Anne Style Armchairs perfects the room as it matches the rug.

Finally, some accent pieces like this Vintage Gold Bamboo Bar Cart and this Gold Bamboo Chinoiserie Mirror give a sense of completion to the area. The Asian motif Lamp with its green and pink shades tie the room together. And how can a room be complete without some Turkish Turquoise Pillows and some Turkish Pink Pillows.

– Nursery

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My baby is now 2 years old and I think it is about time to share with you his nursery lol 😀

It wasn’t easy to find THE CRIB, since all the cribs I liked were so out of my budget, and the ones I can afford were so basic, so after a long long search, I found THE ONE on Amazon. It was white, sturdy and curvy. Yes you heard me curvy, I don’t know why but I didn’t like the straight lines cribs lol

– Upgarding a bookcase

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I got this bookcase from IKEA long time ago ( when I used to like IKEA style) so after a while, I started getting bored with it.

So after seeing a lot of bookcase with wallpaper added to the back on BlogLand , I decided to do the same, so I bought these vinyl paper from Homegoods and it was a very easy task with the help of my husband. Just remove the back of the bookcase and stick the vinyl and VOILA. Best decision ever

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My Living room

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Hello… Do you remember me??? Well, finally I’m back after a long hibernation. It is been almost a year. Twelve months have passed and it just hit me.

My son is now 30 weeks, and tonight I decided that I should get back to blogging. It is not easy being a mom and I don’t know how the moms out there can handle it. I have just one baby ( God bless him) but I’m so exhausted 🙂

Now let’s get to business. These are edited pictures of my living room. These pictures were taken in November of 2012. It was a very gloomy day like really really gloomy 🙂 so the pictures were not the best because it took a lot of editing to get this result.

– Model Homes Tour Nb 2

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I know I’m so late to write this post, the first home tour was written almost 2 months now 🙂 But I’ve been busy lately and today I’m so sick but I missed blogland a lot and you specially and I couldn’t wait anymore to write this post.So forgive me if my post’s quality is not up to par.

So if you remember the first model home was dark wood color with an orange accent color, this one is more fun color: Fuschia and Green. So here you go, again the pictures are taking with my phone camera

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– Master Bedroom Reveal

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Finally, our master bedroom is finished, I cant say finished but at least I can share some pictures with you. I took these picture about a month now but I didn’t have any free time to edit them.

In this room, you will see some familiar furniture pieces if you are already a follower but now you will see them where they belong 🙂

As you can see the color palette is Black, White, Silver, and Purple. I changed this rug to a purple one but I didn’t take any new pictures, I will soon update these.

You can see how I transformed an old settee into this glamorous purple settee here. And this small silver pillow was made by moi 😉

This Silver Leaf French Provincial Dresser made me so famous on blog land so I cant love it more 🙂 you can check out here the full post about it.

My bed frame is from IKEA and the Moroccan Duvet cover is from Homegoods. You can see here my stenciled wall canvas.

This is also from IKEA, like 3 years ago IKEA was my favorite furniture store, I used to love the modern clean lines decor but now I like to mix and match, clean lines with some curvy ones :)))

You can see my DIY table lamp here and I forgot to take a good picture of my no sanding spray painted black nightstand so you can check the post here

If you noticed I’m taking pictures for just the right side of the room….I will confess I still didn’t paint the other walls 😀 they are an ugly beige color…I purchased the paint color Silver Grey since August yes yes I’m that Lazy …well not just lazy I was thinking should I stencil this steel dark grey wall ( the accent wall) or I shouldn’t since we are renting…and also after I saw how my silver leaf dresser looked great next to a Turquoise wall I started to not liking this much my accent wall color :)))

So I need your help Should I stay with this color palette or Should I spice it up a notch ??? I’m still in the thinking process since August till now lol

And hey don’t forget to enter this amazing giveaway to win a $30 Gift Card from RuleHim so quickly go check it out.

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– Cutting Edge Stencils- Giveaway

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Cutting Edge Stencils is an emerging company that offers a great variety of adorable stencils. I’ve been “stalking” this company on every blog in the hopes of winning a giveaway. I, however, with my luck was simply dreaming. Now to my surprise, when I opened my email last week I saw an email from guess who? you guessed it: “Cutting Edge Stencils” approached me so I can review one of their products and offer a giveaway. My answer was “OH, yah baby…with PLEASURE.”

The following are some of the main reasons I would use a Cutting Edge Stencil on my walls rather than wallpaper:

1- Stencils are cheaper.
2- They are easier to apply.
3- You can change styles whenever you feel like it.
4- We are renting and it is a well worth investment to make my rental a fabulous dwelling space.
5- You can customize the color.
6- Finally, Cutting Edge Stencils offer AMAZING designs.

Here are few of my favorite designs:

And I found this video tutorial to help me with my first stenciling project.

As for the giveaway, I am quoting the Cutting Edge Stencils’ agent: “we offer one stencil of any value up to $50 as a prize for the winner (US residents only please)– they can choose their favorite from our site – and we’ll ship it for free.”

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– Visit Cutting Edge Stencils and tell me which is your favorite stencil.

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And because the stencils on the Cutting Edge Stencils are amazing, I couldn’t make up my mind. I asked the nice lady to surprise me and send me a design of her choice (I know I will like anything she sends as all designs are adorable.)

This Giveaway is CLOSED

– Model Homes Tour

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Hello friends… Before anything, I want to share with you that today I will have my first guest post. It is going to be on Stardust-decorstyle. I am ecstatic so come on over and drop a line or two 😉 While you are there please don’t forget to check out Olga’s great blog. Olga hails from Greece so she comes with many new original ideas.

So back to Model Homes, last Saturday, the hubby and I were bored so he asked me if I want to check out the new model homes by LENNAR Homes around the corner. Are you kidding me? Do I wanna see model homes? of course I want to. It is like discovering a great blog and hit the “Home Tour” link, well I think it is vice versa , the blogs are like visiting real homes 🙂 But you know what I mean right?

I will stop talking and show you the pictures, but I want to let you know that the pictures were taking using my Samsung cell phone camera , of course I can’t walk around with a DSLR camera 🙂

The first home:

On the right is the living room with cream sofa and orange love seat. The color palette as you can see is : Cream , dark brown and orange …like bright orange. even though I’m not a fan of orange but I really liked it, it made the home so cheery and welcoming.

On the left the dining table and kitchen: I liked that the dining table is round so it can fit 6 people without wasting the space. Did I say how much I love those rattan chairs?

The kitchen with dark brown elegant cabinets was not my favorite. It has white subway tiles back splash which is cool, but I would have preferred if the cabinets went up to the ceiling, so you can make use of every inch in the space and it is always better than collecting dust 😉

As you go up the long and narrow stairs you will see the loft. I love everything in this room from the rattan coffee table, to the Chevron curtains and that antique style movie camera just wow.

To the left, the home office…Guess what I like the most, of course that vintage style vibrant orange color chair LOVE IT.

This should be the girl’s bedroom, notice always same colors through out the whole house but you can tell it is the girls bedroom by the 3 big metal flowers on the wall and the flowers on the curtains ( this can be easily DIYed on any ready made curtains) .

Can be the boy’s bedroom… I love it…I know I am loving everything but this house has very positive energy. It is so colorful ,so Electric, and so Happy…this is the key word …HAPPY. I’m a color person so I cant live without colors.

And finally the Master Suite.

NNNNaaaaaaaa I didn’t like it hahhaha ( kidding). I love this chubby chair it is so comfy, I sat on it, you know I have to try it before I make such a big decision and buy the house 😉

I like how they painted the wall with two tones of orange and then framed it, this way the headboard looks HUGE so the focal point in this room will be the bed ( this can be easily DIYed too). I like also that they used dressers as night stands they way you will have extra storage and who doesn’t like to have extra storage!!! not me

The master bathroom , I know I didn’t take a good picture here this is the only one that I got 🙂 So it was a his and her sinks and a big shower 🙂

So here is the tour for the first model home, I have two questions for you: What is your favorite room and why?assuming the money is not an issue would you buy a model home or would you design your own? Can you have one color palette through out your whole house?

Make sure you come back later to tour the second model home.

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– Oh NOOOOOOOOOOO

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Yesterday I lost my first follower. I checked in the morning I had 302 followers then in the evening I checked then I saw the number 301 follower. Three hundred and ONE…ONE why ONE ??? What did I do to lose that follower? Do followers leave some blogs? why, when, and what???

Then it hit me. It is not what did I do to lose it, it is what I didn’t do. Well, I know (ashamed face) I didn’t write posts on a regular basis. I think maybe it is the language thing that makes me always wait so much time to publish my post (since you know English is my third language) I always keep on writing and editing but from now I should be a lesser perfectionist and stop worrying about my grammar.

So from now on I will start writing posts about everything I like, about everything that makes me say Ohhh, Ahhh and Wow, and hopefully, I will ohhh, Ahhhh and Wow you too 🙂 Like my recent thrifty find, these 2 teacups with vintage romantic look :

I’m a pink girl…Lately, I’ve been adding a lot of pink touches throughout my house, and this color makes me feel so happy! If that makes sense to you then tell me what color makes you happy?