Decisions, Decisions....

Okay, time for a glimpse into how obsessive I can be.

I picked out our bedroom paint color last winter. (very dark blue) I went online and found these cute Euro shams to coordinate and plan on finding a solid color quilt to go with them. I am pretty sure I can find some neat pillows to complete "the look".

Tick, tock, tick tock....

Flash forward to this month. Our bedroom will be ready for paint Saturday. Sudden panic! I am not really sold on "the look" any longer.

Hours spent online looking at bedding. Find some that I am SURE is perfect. It gets delivered. I put it on the bed for display. Hmmmm, I do kinda like the first look. I really like the new look, actually I REALLY like both looks.

NOW WHAT??!!!

Look #1

Pros.

• I have the paint. (I could use it in the boys rooms, so it wouldn't be waisted)
• Don helped pick the paint color, and he really likes the color
• The sham goes very well with my multi colored Fiesta ware as well as the red office and green laundry room. (all of which you CAN NOT see from our room
• It coordinates well with our white cotton 1000 thread count sheets (just a note, be prepared to become addicted if you ever up the thread count of your sheets.)

Cons.

• I don't know what color to paint the bathroom
• I have yet to find the PERFECT comforter and shams to go with it
• I am panicking about the dark blue. Everyone already says, "wow, you really like dark colors don't you?"
• It lacks "dimension"
• It will be hard to get another color of paint to cover the dark blue when I change things up in say 5 years.

Look #2

Pros.

• I am (currently) really geeked about the color combo
• Excited about the (possibly) gray walls. (sophisticated with a POP!)
• I already have the orange paint for the bathroom from my obsessing over the kitchen color
• Very dimensional
• With this color combo I could pull in our current comforter cover if I needed a change.
• Sale! Free shipping!!
• The gray would be easily covered over, or coordinated with should I change the whole "look".

Cons

• Don hates the color combo (but said it really doesn't matter to him)
• Not really sure what color to paint the walls. Orange seems to be overwhelming. I am not finding a suitable shade of light orange. I HATE peach. I have settled on a light gray for our room, and orange for the bathroom.
• Going to need to order another Euro sham for the back layer of pillows.
• Then there is the fact that I had to purchase this stuff, but I am going to have to find a quilt for the other anyway.
  

P.S. I do want feedback on this issue, however, please do not be put out if my final choice, should I be able to make one, isn't your favorite. Trust me, my other self will be grieving right alone with you!

Am I Being Too Annal?

Okay, quick vocabulary lesson.

Rhetorical question: Things people ask, but don't really want an answer too!
Here's the deal. A friend started a home business. She handed me a thick catalog. I instantly fell in love with THE MOST expensive decorative item. It would perfectly compliment my new kitchen, and the Fiesta Ware I was planning to decorate with. I even had a special shelf under a window by the sink it would be right at home on.

I tried to rationalize the purchase, but even the $20 gift card didn't cut it. But the vase still beckoned me from the now closed catalog.

I told my hubby. (I wanted to bring him in on this so that if the vase did indeed show up at our house, he would know it didn't belong.) He recruited our kids to pitch in and buy it for me for Mothers Day! How perfect!! No guilt, tons of love!

Vase was back ordered. Waiting.... Waiting.... Waiting to order. In stock! SOLD!!

It arrived today and I...... Kind of love it, BUT.... One of the things I liked best about the vase was the slender lines of color all coming together, and the cheery statement of the sunny yellow.

As you can see the vase came sans cheery yellow stripes and with slightly bolder lines. It was then I noted the below statement in the vase description:

As each piece is hand-made, slight differences from pictured item are possible.

So, here's my dilemma, is trying to obtain the cheery yellow worth all the time it will take on the phone to get it?!!

I still like the vase, but I want to have NO regrets on this one!