new room & some color inspiration

bottom line: i have fallen in love with these colors and i'm moving into a new apartment!!

well i will have lots of opportunities to be creative when decorating my new room in my new place.  and right now i have purchased several vintage accessories for my room but my main focus is creating the bed.  i have bought a vintage wooden toolbox for the foot board and a window with shutters for the head board.  i have my colors but my dilemma is which color to paint what.

i'm thinking i will leave the window white, paint the shutters coral (like shown below) and paint the toolbox the pastel blue.  my bedding is yellow green with a vine pattern.  i've already started stripping the paint off of the shutters and it's not as easy as i thought it would be!!!  but in the end i think my room will turn out great!  :)

♥macknezie

three is a crowd =)

click on image to enlarge and all images are mine :)

if you can't tell, i have an owl collection.

i have scoured all of the local peddler's malls, antique and thrift stores to find more owls to add to my growing collection.  

the truth of the matter is, the "search and find" is the best part of collecting.  yes i love looking at owls but i also love hunting them! it all starts when i walk in the doors of a store that contains many old things that fills my nose with that unique smell of "antique."  it's like a large "I Spy" book.  sometimes i leave a store with bags of owl collectibles and other times i leave empty-handed.  but hey, i know that i have given the store a valid search.  i go into every booth unless the booth is filled with leather chaps, britney spears caricatures, food, or booths which have seriously been abused and are so empty that i can't see how the owner pays the rent on the space.   i'm sort of obsessive when i collect, so it may not be for everyone but if you haven't tried collecting anything, i would give it a try!! but i just love the hunt and the feeling of success when you find a really cute something that would fit with everything else in your collection with its own unique flair.  

recently this has been how i have spent my free time, but lack of money has me pulling the reigns on what shops to go into for fear of spending too much on something that i just HAVE to have.   :)

so until the next post on my owl finds, i bid you good luck with your own collection!!!

♥ mackenzie