Pictures from the Past

Recently I have been going through our wedding photos.  It has been just over a year since that magical day.  Looking through the pictures brought it all back. 

It's funny how you can feel that it was ages ago and yet you can remember all of the feelings of the day like it was last week. It's so powerful to look back at them. We had two flower girls and two ring bearers, looking at how young they were is really the only indicator of how long it's been. All of the stress that led up to our wedding day was worth it a million times over, but during the whole process I probably had about twenty melt downs.  Ugh I don't envy anyone the planning process. But that is hardly memorable now. Looking at the pictures, all I remember is love and excitement like I've never felt before or since. 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde office

My most recent project has been painting our office.  Like the rest of the house, it was/is a pale orange. I'm not kidding you every single room in the house was the same color, except for one accent wall and an accent cut out. Yes it was as ugly as you're thinking. 

Look at this beauty, the ceiling matches the walls. yippee my favorite!

Yikes posting this made me realize I need to organize this desk!

Slowly I've been working on ridding the house of this color.  The color itself isn't bad, but I ended up hating it because it was everywhere! Not only on the inside, the outside of the house is the same color.  I can't help but wonder what was going on in the last owners' minds when they did this. I'm sure everyone feels this way occasionally. Because of the huge desk I was only able to paint one side of the room at a time, so  it reminded me of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 

Here's the finished side which would make it the good one...ok so I had to look it up the good guy is Dr. Jekyll so here he is.

 It also made me think of siblings who fight over sharing a room and put tape down the middle.  My memory of it is probably from the old tv show Sister Sister, since I didn't have a sibling until I was nine, I have no personal experience. I always wished I had a twin who I could share a room with and fight over said room with. Sadly I didn't. But here is the progress so far.

Here's the gorgeous transition.  It shows a more accurate depiction of the new color a neutral gray which is Pebble Stone from Behr.

When the whole room is finished I'll show it.

The Beginning

Here goes nothing.  After two years of following many talented bloggers, I have finally created a blog! It's a bit intimidating since I have been following so many for so long.  Yet, I could no longer hold out.  I'm going to use this blog as a record of my life and a way to share my newest projects.  No I'm not a talented crafter, but I do love a good before and after.  Oh my, the things you can improve with paint!

I suppose the title isn't exactly self-explanatory.  My husband and I love poppies, our wedding theme was California poppies. It dates back to our early dating days.  While on a walk six or seven years ago, yeesh is that possible? am I old enough for that?!?! anyway... my then boyfriend who would later become Mr P and P pretended to pick one after I goaded him into it since it's illegal to pick them here in California.  Ever since it has been our thing. See our wedding cake...those are California poppies as our topper.  Our cake decorator did a fabulous job creating them for the first time ever! I couldn't decide on a cake topper for the longest time and then my mom had the wonderful idea of it being meaningful with poppies!

And we honeymooned in Paris which was amazing.  I still miss it.  We spent two glorious weeks pretending to be Parisians in our studio in the Marais.  If we could, we would go every single year. We are hard core Francophiles. At one point I even considered getting a tattoo of a fleur de lis, but I wimped out. ouch!

So here begins the adventure...