We were out shopping today, mainly because I saw this great little table at Crate & Barrel… We used to have a little glass table that butted up to the couch that we loved. It was space saving and convenient. We also don’t have traditional end tables, so it’ nice to have a place to set a beverage while you watch TV. Sadly the cats broke that table and we have been looking ever since for something similar. I thought that little table in brown would be perfect.

Well, once we got there we kinda loved the green. It’s just so different! But, to go with the green we obviously had to re-toss-pillow. Of course. So we did. They also had these great striped pillows with the brighter green as well as some of our other colors. The old pillows never matched anyways so I figured we should try them out. So here is the before picture (old camera, obviously):

UPDATE: The new pillows didn’t make the final cut. So sad…

And one more, closer…

Is it too bright? Too different?

I like it, I think. Richard is not totally sold on it. 

‹ wish i hadn't asked!

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This in itself is probably not blog-worthy. I do it everyday, right? Well come on! Of course I do! OCD, remember? Anyway. This is worth a post because I have just realized that for that one room, our bedroom, there are 16 pillows that go to the bed. Does the seem like a lot? There used to be just 10. Ten still seems high though.

So you know we just got new furniture in there. We still have the same bed, but new bedding that actually goes with the room. It is a California King size, so it’s big. However as it stands today we have three euro pillows, two king size pillows that are placed on the made bed where I think you’d normally put your actual ‘sleeping pillows’ be we do these just to look at so the pillowcase stays nice. After those there are the king sized pillows inside the shams that go with the comforter. Is that where normal people stop? Well we keep on going with 3 decorative pillows in a bold color. Finally there is the dec pillow to match the comforter. We actually have 2 more of those that may or may not go on the bed that day. That’s 12 to thirteen pillows right there! None of them are actually used for sleeping!! All of that comes off at night before bed!! We have 3 other pillows that are used for sleeping…

Is that crazy? The guest room that is rarely used is no better. The 6 pillows on that bed are just to look at. We have the 2 sleeping pillows for that room in the closet.

I just did some quick math. It seems we have about 33 pillows in this house. That includes decorative and functional. How gay are we??

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