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I promise I will update this weekend! Three months is wAaaay too long!!

It will take a while…but we are getting started on REALLY redesigning our master bedroom. Yippee!!

The first step will be to paint the room. Guess what color I’m going with?! Gray! What tha?

This color is called Milestone, and it’s two shades darker than the color I painted the master bathroom two years ago. Made by Behr in case you’d like to go virtually paint a room with it. hehe!

I’m going with a dark color because I like for my bedroom to be pitch black and very cave like. Anytime I have to sleep somewhere too bright, or with too many lights from vcrs, clocks, etc. I tend to have nightmares. So, the darker the better.

So when I started to think about the next logical step after painting the bedroom, I went to bedding. Sometimes bedding is reasonable priced. If you aren’t in a hurry, you can schedule a little time each week to look around ebay or overstock and probably get a good deal. Take time to wander into Tuesday Morning or somewhere and have a look around. Of course, I went to the internet and started to browse to get an idea of what I liked.

I have unfortunately fallen in love with this bedding. The grays and black and whites. *sigh* The cost of this bedding as proposed in the picture is $980. As my husband would say “They are smoking some crack if they think I’m going to pay that!”

So while I can’t afford this exact bedding, I have a good idea of what kind I want, what kind my husband will agree too, and the inspiration to keep looking for something affordable.

If I’m honest with myself, I could probably sew pillows as simple as these, it’s just a matter of finding modern material in central Arkansas. Home of country decor and tapestry.

I told my mom and sister I was going to decorate with black and white and both of them had a gut reaction of “Ick!!”. My philosophy is that I can always add punches of color if I feel like it. If I see orange pillows I like, I buy them and throw them on. If I get tired of orange and all of a sudden everything on sale is cobalt blue, I throw some blue in the room. Heck, I could even throw in some leopard or zebra print if I was into animal prints. But thank goodness I’m not. Anywho, every color matches black and white so I don’t see how I can go wrong!

The next step will be to buy some a new dresser and chest, side tables, lamps, maybe an armoire. I really like modern furniture design and would love to have a platform bed. The dresser and chest will be tricky though, because I realize there is a fine line between that black laminate Dr. Love type furniture and timeless black furniture.

Part of redecorating can go ahead and take place and continue afterward. New wall art! I’ve decided that since the room is going to be black and white that black & white photos of any sort will do the trick. As long as they are all framed the same way, it should work. Now for fun, I’m going to post some examples of photos I might want to have one day. (Side note: Les, yes you can take this as a hint to maybe think of me when you take photos in the future. As in, “oh! I bet Gina would like this in her house”…just sayin’…)

So this will be a design project I actually get to work on…it will probably be finished by next summer considering the purchase of big items like a bedroom suite and hopefully new mattress set, etc.

Hope all is well for all of you!

Just a small update on life. School will start in a month. I haven’t told the kids yet, I can deal with a few days of whining but not a months worth.  I’m ready for the school year to start so I can start back to work, but not anxious because the kids schedule becomes so rigid once it starts. I feel so sorry for them when they have to wake up at 5:30 a.m., get on the bus by 6:30 a.m., sit still at school until 3 p.m., ride a bus home and jump off at 4 p.m., then do their home work, take baths starting at 5 p.m., eat dinner at 6 p.m., then in bed by 7:30 p.m. All in all, it ends up to be about an hour of free time per school day. After five days a week, the toll of not having enough free time wears them out and their tempers are shorter.

I come from a family of teachers. Yesterday, there were three sisters and myself talking about the school year. In Texas, there was a law that allowed schools to chose their own calendar for a while, so some of the private schools now go year round. We all agreed that school would work better if it was year round. That sounds hypocritical when I look at the paragraph I wrote before this one.

But here’s how it’d work if the Colvett women had their way. School would be in nine week spurts, from 10 p.m. - 4 p.m. allowing kids to sleep in later. Studies show that teenagers especially need more sleep than they currently get. After the nine weeks spurt, they would have two to three weeks off for vacations. If the school day itself was shorter, they would be more attentive for each class instead of zoning out for part of the day.

Oh well, just a thought on school.

Yesterday I had a thought as I was driving. What if speed limit signs had an electronic signal signature thingy that zapped the appropriate speed to each car’s computer as it drove by. Each car was equiped with an electronic sensor that would accept the speed and then set the cruise control to that speed. If you had to brake to turn, or to accomadate someone turning, you would still brake like you normally do. Only emergency vehicles would be equiped with a special controler that allowed them to drive over the speed limit. What do you think? Automatic speed cars? No more grannies driving too slow, or teenagers driving too fast? No more rubber necks slowing down to look at accidents on the side of the road? hehe, just watch! 40 years from now and the educational and auto industry will catch up with me on this. Ya think?