A New Bed Quilt and Some Outside Pictures!

Greetings Prim Pals!

I am finally on summer vacation and very excited!  There are lots of things on my to do list, including getting lots of pictures of my primitives for my blog and facebook pages.  :) 

Before I get started with the pictures of my new bed quilt and my outside prims, I really could use some help!!!  I can't seem to get my header to show the whole picture!!!  If you can help, I would greatly appreciate it.  Didn't know if any of you were experiencing the same difficulty I have been.  It is sooooo frustrating. 

Alright, on to the pictures...

My new bed quilt came from Wal-mart, it is Better Homes and Garden.  I thought it was a great match to my new wall color.  For a while now I have been looking at trying to get a prim one, but have found that they are really expensive!  So... I was very excited to come across this one, and even though it is not a true prim quilt, it matches my prim decor quite well.  So what do you think?  :)

Here are some pictures of the primitives that I have outside this summer.  It seems like it is always changing from year to year, especially as I go and find more goodies at the local auctions and garage sales!  One of my newest items is a hand cultivator, which I have been hunting for several years to find.  And wouldn't you know it, I found one at an antique shop that has been closed for 3 years!  The dear owner just happened to be outside mowing and let me in and asked if I was looking for anything in particular.  When I mentioned the hand cultivator, he said he had one and had actually knocked it off the wall in the barn a couple of days before.  This antique is in great condition!  For some reason hand cultivators are getting harder and harder to find and when you do, they are not always in the best condition with their handles and cultivators broken and or missing.  So, as you can imagine my excitement to find the one I did!!! 

Here is my hand cultivator...

The next picture is of something I found in our basement (cellar) a year ago and my dear hubby fixed for me a few weeks ago.  I was really excited to come across this because the farmhouse that we live in is the one that my husband's paternal grandmother was born and raised in.  This is part of the family heirlooms!  Neat huh!!!  Grandma is 91 years young, which makes our house well over 100 years old!  How amazing!!!

Here is a cute lil' wagon that I found at a garage sale this year.  I have often thought of wanting one and this was a little different than what I had in mind.  The wagon here has the wooden sides that remove, the kind that we had when I was child.  What I was thinking about was a metal wagon, but this one caught my eye because it is different.  When I first saw it, I could imagine putting a planter of flowers in it.  :)  How cute is that!!!  I just love it...

A picture of my new garden flag that is on a hook outside the back entrance to our farmhouse.  I love it, don't you.  What is so nice about this flag is the fact that it is not supposed to fade in the sun, which is really nice because I certainly have had many fade in the past.  Got this one at our local Pat Catan's store. 

Finally, I will leave you with a picture of my favorite planter that I had made this year.  Verbena flowers are my absolute favorite and if you know anything about me, red is my favorite color!  I just love this planter that my dearest friend Debbie made for me.  :)  Debbie owns a greenhouse and boy oh boy do I ever spend hours and hours there looking at all of her goodies! 

It looks like one of our barn cats has made its way up to the back door and found a nice spot to nap!  I certainly was keeping my fingers crossed to be able to get a picture.  Luckily this one didn't wake up.  LOL 

Have a beautiful day! 

Hugs and blessings,

Stacey

Our Bedroom Makeover

Well prim gals, this is the color that our bedroom WAS, UH HUH! No joke! Talk about wanting to scream everyday. Pink is NOT one of my favorite prim colors. For a little girl, maybe, but then again, I probably wouldn't paint it this color anyway if we ever have a little girl. Okay, I know you are all wondering then why in the world was it painted that color? Was it a little girl's room? Nope. Were you crazy when you painted this room? Nope! Alright, the reason the bedroom was painted this color has to due with my husband's ex-wife and her love of odd colors and style. Let's just say that I have had a lot of work to do around our wonderful farmhouse, and yep, there is still a lot of work to keep me very busy for a very long time to come. She loved what seemed to be crayola crayon colors, as you will see in the future in other rooms in our homestead. This is certainly a little bit much for myself, but that was her and what she liked. So, when my husband came home one day from work, and well, you see what she had done to their bedroom?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!! YIKES!!! was my reaction when I first came to visit Scott when we were starting to date.

Thankfully I finally got the bedroom painted over this past Labor Day weekend. What a relief it has been to actually get excited about decorating it for us and making it reflect our lives now. I will be sharing pictures of our bedroom a little bit at a time, because I took pictures tonight and was not really very happy with them. The new color on the walls seems to be a bit different in each picture, so you will have to stay tuned as I reveal more pictures of our bedroom. I really hope you enjoy the few pictures that I have to share with you now and am looking forward to sharing more with you real soon.

So, what do all of your bedrooms look like? I would love to get some more ideas on how to make our bedroom more prim perfect. Come back again soon as I will have more pictures from the daytime to share with you which will hopefully give you a better picture of the color that I chose for us. Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings and Perfect Prims,
Stacey