Showing posts with label Challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Challenges. Show all posts

Sunday, July 17, 2016

Living room decor...My Style

Hello Crafty Friends!

As most of you know we built a manufactured home up in the country on my husbands family property almost 2 years ago.  It has been a wonderful time for me because I finally (after 30+ years) got to do all the decorating the way I wanted.  

When you walk in the front door you automatically are drawn to the wall of windows that show the beautiful view of Blue Mountain that is our backyard.  I wanted to decorate with this in mind and bring the outdoors in.  I love nature and nature's colors so I had a few ways to go in regards to color choices.  I chose to go with tans, browns, teals, blue gray, amber and creams.  I also added and I love dark bronze metals, cherry wood (not the burgundy red cherry color), and java stained wood.  


Made these picture shelves
to fit this particular size and space.

I chose my couch specifically in a off white tone so that I could change the color accent pieces when ever I chose.  This couch is my very favorite piece!  It is extra wide and deep and filled with foam and down feathers.  So Comfy!!  Great to curl up on and read, look out the window, watch TV and sit in from of the fake fire place.  It does heat the whole room plus some, which was great on the snowy and rainy cold weather we finally got this year.  



Hubby got to pick out one chair and I have to live with ginormous speakers and ugly subwoofer!!  (I absolutely HATE these things!!)  He also took the covers off of them because that makes them look cooler!? UGH!  Oh well, pick my battle right?!  LOL!  Of course his friends think that is soooo cooool...whatever!  ;)  I do like the chair though.  

Hubby did a great job picking out this
chair.  

Can totally do without these speakers (the 80's called and want them back!)
But I love my second hand store lamp finds
with the new shade I got for them.  

UGH!!!
Really cute crochet blanket in the basket I am working
on for the couch though.  Maybe I should use it to
cover this ugly sub woofer...hmmmm???

The fabric on the accent chair gave me an earthy feel.  It reminds me of raindrops and fall leaves.  My sister in law was shopping with us and fell in love with the rug which was a spontaneous purchase after we had picked everything else out and it looks wonderful.  

I found the pillow at a retail store and I have always loved this saying,
LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE and it was the right teal color.




 (That's my wine bar behind the chair, LOVE IT!!!) 

We live in middle of the Mother Lode Wine country!  So this will be filled up in no time.  Literally I can go 30 minutes in any direction and hit a winery.  I custom made the shelves and added the wine glass rack.  Still need some idea on what to put to the right on the floor????

Since the dining area is part of the GREAT room I refurbished this garage sale find table and transformed it into a farmhouse table.  Complete with out initials and a heart engraved into the corner. My favorite piece and biggest accomplishment here so far. You can read more about it HERE. Labor of love!!  I love metal art and these were a great find.  

I am not a fan of captain's chairs, so I purchased 2 fabric covered chairs
that went well with the living room furniture and re-upholstered and chalk painted
the other four.  


I have done a lot of refurbishing of some of our old furniture for this house but still need items like coffee table (if I can fit one in there).  When the kids all come home everyone plops on the floor so not sure if I want one.  I really like the cut log look natural style.  

Definitely need end tables with storage and would like a long bench for under the window.  Some bigger paintings for the walls.  This house has lot's of big walls.  Someday I would like a really nice built in looking entertainment center (then I can move the fireplace to our master bedroom).  I have loads of movie memorabilia and Disney snow globe collection I would love to display.  

Love these rustic style pieces I found at Arhaus.com.  Especially the brown wood entertainment center...WOW!!  <3

Check out these pieces at Arhaus.com!




We've had our eye on these end tables I found at Wayfair.com

Well I hope you enjoyed the little tour of our great room decor and style.  

Until next time...

Hugs,
     Terri

Monday, March 14, 2011

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

CDACCC 18, jsl

Hello everyone...

Today I am entering this card into a challenge over at CDAC Color Challenge #18.  I hope you like.



Have a GREAT DAY!

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

By LORi Designs Challenge #7



Hello friends...



Here is my entry for the By LORi Designs Challenge #7.  I used one of her cute little digi girls Hazel.




Have a GREAT day!

Friday, March 4, 2011

CDAC Embelishment Challenge #18

Hello...

Today I am entering this card into the Embellishment Challenge #18 over at CDAC.




I hope you like :),

Monday, February 28, 2011

Friday, February 25, 2011

By LORi Designs Challenges - BLDC6

Hi Everyone....

I hope you are all having a GREAT day!  :)  Waiting for the second storm to work its way through here.  Wow, it was crazy here this morning, but most of the day has been really cold and sunny.  They say we may have snow by morning.  I won't lose any sleep over that, doesn't usually happen here.  Very rare.

I have been working on that idea in my head today, but wanted to get at least one challenge card done.  I am actually going to enter this into 2 challenges.

Here is the card:

BLD, Lori Boyd and STVSKSP14

Recipe:
Digi Stamp Hazel at by LORi Designs
Colored with Copics (of course)  hehe
Background paper made by me.  Thanks to this tutorial from Gina K. Designs Stamp TV
Now off to make the family dinner.  

Hugs,

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Woo Hoo...

Hello friends...



Today I woke up to a great surprise.  2 of the card challenges I entered over at CDAC were picked.  Yay!  Here they are and what prizes I won.

cdaccc17, smc and I got $15 shopping spree
for stamps at the
Sew Many Card
store

cdacec17, VNDA and here I got
2 free digis and 1 stack digi paper
over at
VN Digital Art
These are chosen by random drawing, so I wonder where all this good luck was at Bunco last night.  haha

This was so exciting.  I love doing these challenges.  And the people over at CDAC are so friendly and supportive.  Thank you everyone for all your kind comments.  It is great getting to know you all.

Thank again, and now for challenge 18!  Got some great new card ideas coming up!  Oh yeah, and remember from one of the last posts I mentioned about that something that I have had floating around in my head...well yesterday I made the prototype and it worked!  I can't wait to share it with you.  I may even make my first tutorial.  (It will be pictures only, I'm afraid) so I will be sure to be as detailed as possible.

Stay tuned!

Monday, February 14, 2011

2 more challenges for the price of one...

Hello again everyone ~

Today has been a very busy card making day for me.  Challenging as well, had to think out of my comfort zone on this one.  haha  This card took a bit of time and planning.  I am going to enter it into 2 different challenges.  One will be DYSU Challenge #6 - Ribbons and the other is Catch The Bug Challenge - Different Folds.

A little bit of background on this card is I used Penny Duncan Creations PDC Center Fold Card Layout you can find in her My Free Cut Files side bar under Cards.  I used the free Bugaboo Stamps digi Clyde.  (He was so much fun to color.)  I wove ribbon to create a background for my digi image.  And without further ado....here it is ~

Clyde colored with Copics.

Hugs,

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

By LORi Designs Challenge #3

Today I am entering my card into the By LORi Designs Challenge #3.  This was a color challenge using these colors:

Here is the card:

BLDC3 and STVSKSP12


Additionally I am going to enter it into a Gina K. Designs (StampTV) Sketch Spotlight Challenge-STVSKSP12 for this sketch:



Hugs,

Friday, February 4, 2011

CDAC color challenge...

Hello again,

2 posts in 1 day.  I have been very busy today in my craft room.  :)  Here is another card I finished for a Color challenge-cdaccc16:

cdaccc16

I hope you like.  Hugs,

Monday, January 31, 2011

DYSU Challenge #4 Patterned Paper

I am entering this card in to the DYSU Challenge #4 Patterned Paper.  I noticed after the butterfly dried that is took a little walk across the flower.  LOL!  It was centered when I left it to dry this afternoon.  Oh well, it's homemade right?

I just used some random paper that I got from The Dollar Tree many moons ago.  (Like many, many moons!)  hehe  Trying to use up things I have.

I also used stamps from
The Stamps of Life
flower2build and butterfly2build
to make patterned paper.


Hugs,

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

By LORi Designs Challenge #2

I don't know why it has taken me so long to get this done...but I did get it done.  I need more hours in my day.  :)

So here it is...my entry for by LORi Designs Challenge #2 .  I love this little guy Tanner...he reminds me of my son.

BLDC2
Recipe:
Lollipop Tanner
Copics
Paper: Basic Grey max & whiskers and craft paper


I am going to start donating my cards to Operation Write Home.  I am so excited to be a part of this fabulous community of giving hearts.

Have a GREAT day!

Friday, January 21, 2011

do you stack up? Challenge #3...

OK, this time I am early...yay me!  hehe  Got in the last one at the very last second.  Whew!

So for do you stack up? challenge #3 I am entering this card:

Recipe:
Digi stamp from: Ella free from Pink Gem Designs
Copics and various pink patterned paper.
Sentiment from The Stamps of Life butterfly2build
Butterfly punch from Martha Stewart


Stay tuned for the next challenge card I am entering at by LORI Designs BLD Challenge 2

Have a GREAT Day!

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

do you stack up challenge #2 Distress It....

I am getting this in at the last minute.  Oops!  I hope I make it in time.  Didn't take into consideration the time difference.  :)

I am entering this card into the do you stack up? 2nd challenge.  My goal is to enter every one of their challenges as they started doing them about the same time I started entering challenges.  I almost didn't make it this time.  Oh dear!


I hope you are having a GREAT day!  I am, the sun is finally out!

Friday, January 14, 2011

Sketch Challenge-cdacsc15...

Hi crafty friends...

Here is my submission for the Sketch Challenge 15 over at CDAC .  We had to use the hostess's digi image and this sketch .

cdacsc15,gl
Enjoy!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

"Sketch Challenge" at Tiffany Doodles

Here is my entry for Tiffany Doodles "Sketch Challenge" TD08.  I used the digi Hydrangea w/ oval from her shop.


TD08
Colored with Copics (YG63, YG03, BV01, BV00, B63,
Y13, RV10 and B32)
Sentiment stamped with Inkadinkado Birthday Wishes
Paper is K&Company Floral Dreams


I hope you like.  :)  Purple and green are my favorite colors.

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