The gypsy room - another change

Its been raining all day long today, and temperatures have come down quite a bit... it feels much like a late March, early April than a June around here.  We went to church this morning, to pray and sing, saw some friends that left as quickly as we did after service, and everyone went their own way without much ado... 

I feel so lonely at times.  And it isn’t much to do with me needing friends, as much as me needing people.  I need people, see people, talk to people, say hi to people, and smile to people, and then, hide in my garden again.  I miss my sister and I’m terribly missing dad.  I want to go see them so bad, but things are not quite right in our little world to travel yet, thus, today I’m staying inside, drinking a favorite latte right now and keeping cozy in our cozy room upstairs where I can see the sky whenever I lay down in bed...

I love this room.... sometime ago I decided to change things around here, and give this room another look and another feel to it... I wanted to see a more subtle and peaceful atmosphere than what I had there... a room without the many faces of Frida watching us from the walls at all time...

 

I didn’t want to see all those frames and boho banners and things hanging above our heads either... it was like having an entire audience watching down at us every night for the entire night... besides, the colors were too bright, too orangey; the room too unrefined... I do love color, don’t get me wrong... in fact, many a time I crave color; particularly orange, and I passionately loved this decorating style, but I totally understand that it could also be somewhat gawky and unsophisticated... I guess my soul is divided between a gypsy and... what else?

so I changed everything...

 

 

 ...to my simple look of whites and grays.... with a leafy back wall!

 

 

I had so many ideas for what I wanted to see in that behind the bed wall, for example, I wanted to paint that wall dark... a real pretty dark gray/bluish paint color and then add a shelf to put some plants.  Another option was a leafy removable wallpaper to cover that entire wall back there, but that was above my budget, so I opted for this leafy-green tapestry for the time being... 

The tapestry ended up looking too cheap and too small and not exactly what I had in mind... so I took it down soon and opted for something else...  I will blog about it at another day thought, for now, I'll leave you with some more pics of how my cozy gypsy room used to looked like this past month...  boy this room has seen so much change in these last few years! 

  

Ok... more rain around here.  I just finished having my second cup of coffee.... now to the upstairs room to watch TV!