officially obsessed

if you know me then you know that it's not hard for me to get obsessed with a book/movie series. even better when the books become movies. harry potter? check. lord of the rings? check. my inner nerd comes out with a vengeance. i can quote all 3 lord of the rings movies beginning to end. and while i LOVE the harry potter movies the books are where its at for me.

so i was up reading for 3 hours last night!! what? twilight of course. i am hooked. this book is so good, GOOD i tell you!!! the buildup of sexy tension is palpable, high school or not. i couldn't put it down, i had to force myself. then as i lay in bed i just imagined all the mysterious, foggy, rainy forest surrounding these characters and how and when they would kiss?!!

so i had to flick through flickr to find some washington area rainforest images...oh and an image of edward and bella...behold..vampire hotness...

so have any of you jumped on the nerdlight bandwagon?

and the winner is....

yep. this is the winner. i think its the softest in color and i think it has less of a western feel than the others. can't wait to get it and put the room together and then take pictures for blogland! thank you everyone who left an opinion, it meant a lot and it really did help me make my decision.

sexy bedrooms

i have been wanting to do a post on this subject for a while. i myself do not have what i consider to be a sexy bedroom. not really sure if i want a sexy bedroom. for me i think i want, first and foremost a serene and calm and comfortable bedroom. i think some of these bedrooms have all that AND sexiness. i also know that sexiness in anything is a matter of opinion. i mean some people think i am crazy when i say that i think gordon ramsay is crazy sexy. or crazier still when i tell them i think the evil, ugly guy from 'lost' is sexy. i know! even i can't figure that one out.
so here, in my humble opinion, are some sexy bedrooms for you to get your freak on in.

here we have elegant sexy. look at that window and the view. voyeur sexy. plus that bed is huge and smooth and soft looking. nothing distracting you from the sex in this room.

this is cougar sexy. she is rockin' some young dude's world in this room. those lamps look like gigantic anal beads. plus she probably has the real thing in those bedside cabinets.

the fire. the window, again. i'm starting off in that chair and ending up on that smooth, soft taupe and purple bed.

nothing much to say here except that bed is screaming for afternoon humping.

this looks like someone's sexy guest room you need to annihilate before you leave.
turkish delight. many lovers in this room at one time. veil dancing. all that.

extremely naked in here for good contrast. and rain outside. and some hot scottish guy inside.

that light on. those shoes ON!

drunk one night stand sex. but amazing nonetheless.

satin-y green and dark walls. yes. yes! YES!

ok so. what do YOU think?

images from elle decor, marie claire maison and living etc.

saturday house tour

southern living magazine featured a cottage makeover on a budget (my favorite kind!!) and here is some of that tour. the house belongs to haskell harris and she says she based the paint colors in her home on a bag of gourmet marshmallows saying, “They were the softest, most sophisticated colors I’d ever seen . . . I based all the paints on those marshmallows.” she painted her porch floor gray and white stripes. and notice the swing chains are covered in some kind of jute or something. its all about the details.

i LOVE the look of that gray grout with subway tiles.

gray grout again

here she just had mirrors cut to fit some flea market frames. love the pale pink walls.

here for the full article and a few more pics.

3 things for you to do this weekend

first...find time to be quiet. just still and serene. think about all that you have and not about what you don't.

second...hug the people you love and tell them so.

third...make this for me.

have a great weekend-xoj