{simple french ocean inspired decorating}

Well hello and Happy Sunday to you:)

{I wanted to answer a few questions from my last post...

the paint I used for the bowls was just cheap craft paint in all hues of aqua blue....and the letter stamps were just rubber letter stamps from the dollar bin section at Michaels craft store! Hope that helps!}

I'm not sure about your weather....but it is completely beautiful here this morning! I am enjoying the sunshine, the birds chirping and  my cup of joe while writing this post this morning:)

You know just how thankful I am whenever we get lovely weather here! It just inspires me so:)

I want show a little sprucing I have going on in my home...but first!

Look at what I caught in my house the other day!!!!!!

Poor little guy {or girl}! This sweet little birdie was just flying all over the place probably scared out its wits! I finally caught it and well....had to take a few photos of it!
Then when my husband and I came home the other day...it was in our house again!!
I wonder if it was trying to tell me that we need a little birdie!!
You never know!!

It's pretty darn lucky that my kitty didn't catch it...
Must be one blessed birdie:)

It was kind of fun holding this sweet little birdie....and I think it was so shocked it hung out for about 5 minutes so I could snap some more photos of it!


Ok...onto the sprucing!

We have this bedroom in our home that for the past 4 or 5 years has been a complete junk room!
We tore the carpet out and just never did anything with it!

Well finally we are starting to work on that room! And so I have been thinking about how I was to decorate it!
I think I am going to go with....french chic inspired by the sea!!
Soft and simple with just a few tiny touches of shells and such:):)

So here is just a glimpse of what i've been tinkering with!

...I collect vintage fans and use them in lots of my decorating! I L*O*V*E them! I think they are so cute and happy. Plus all of the ones I own...actually work. Just in case I ever needed them:)

 I kind of want this room to be vintage inspired.
So I made these cute little doily bowls!
So easy to do...
mix plaster of paris with water (about thick milk consistency)
mix the doily in with the plaster of paris mixture....make sure the doily is totally covered with the mixture.
drape the wet doily over a bowl or something and let dry..

That's it! When they are dry pop them off and you have the cutest little bowls!
Of course you could probably sand yours and poke holes where there should be holes...
but I thought these were fine just the way they were:)

I love the doily bowls! Doilies always make me think of my great grandmother! She had them laying on and draped across everything she owned:)
In fact....I inherited quite a few of her doily table clothes!
Maybe i'll have to do a vintage inspired table scape one of these days:)

 I also made the oyster shell mirror out of the shells I collected at Edisto Beach.

So easy to do....
collect shells {whatever kind make you happy}
get a frame {this one is from Ikea}
glue them on all willie nillie hodge podge
and hang it on the wall:)

I love it! I think this room is really going to shape up nicely!
i just need to get my husband motivated to lay the floor ....
{until we can spring for real hardwood floors it's just the cheapy look-a-like laminate flooring...but still better than carpet in my opinion}
and I am thinking of building a super cute little farmhouse inspired day bed!
I found plans here! But I would build the sides just a bit taller:)

And of course...paint it white and scuff it up!

The one thing I know about decorating and life for that matter is....simpler is always better!

You just can't go wrong with simple!

and I thought I would take my color scheme from the muted tones of these sweet little oyster shells!

Soft creams and greys.

Maybe a tiny...tiny...touch of aqua blue:)

Anwyho...I am just so excited to get this room finished! We will have 2 more rooms to go and will have succeeded in taking a straight out of 1976 home into the current with barely spending any $$$$!

So there you have it!
Decorating made affordable and so very simple!

Hope you have a really wonderful and inspired Sunday!
I am off to mow the lawn now:):)

     “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning..."
Joseph Priestley