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Hello hello!  Hope you all had a great weekend! I feel like the last week has been a complete whirlwind, between our trip to Mexico - which now feels like it happened about 4 months ago - my actual birthday, catching up on work, and some projects around the house. Can I please be back here already?? This was the view from our room, and the porch was so private and lovely... Could be a Corona ad, right?? Seriously the perfect way to ring in the big 3-0. On a different note, our apartment is really coming along! I need to dig out the DSLR camera from whatever box it's still packed in to take some GOOD photos of the progress we've made on the house so far. Remember how I'd painted the living room the wrong color grey? Well I lived with it for about a month, and on Sunday couldn't take it anymore.  I spent most of the day yesterday re-painting, and it's now a softer, lighter, brighter color of grey, and it's pretty much perfection. Here is a progress picture... In t...

Let's talk about paint colors... shall we? Let me start this off by admitting that I had no idea how hard it would be to pick a shade of grey.  I mean, I thought I was going to be all clever with the title of this post, but I literally ended up evaluating just about 50 shades of grey... and that was after I had narrowed it down!! I wanted something light and bright - no yellow undertones, but not too "cool" of a color either.  Just a perfect, clean, true grey.  To cut to the chase, I ended up with Grey Owl, by Benjamin Moore, but ending up with this decision was NOT an easy one... Here's where I started... Yeah... lots of options... too many options... Here's where I narrowed it down to... I decided to do a little Google image search, and found a few that I loved.  Sleigh Bells had been a front runner from the paint chip, but in the pictures it looked really steely and well... silvery.  Just. Like. A. Sligh Bell.  Duh. Coventry Grey really appealed to me as...