Sweet Thank You and A New Wall Color

Friday was dark and cold winter day.  No sunshine Ugh!
 I heard Buddy barking at something outside the living room window.
Then the door bell rang.  A sweet delivery guy handed me this beautiful vase of flowers.

The combination of these flowers smelled amazing.  My whole house smells like a floral shop.  

The colors were so soft and pretty.  The attached card said "I wanted you to know I am thinking about you and hoping you begin to feel better soon".

They were sent to me by Diana from
 Nana Diana Takes A Break Blog.

Diana and I become friends years back in blog land and made a connection.   She and I are  now a wonderful friends.

Thanks Diana for always sharing your caring heart and gifting me with your friendship.  This was truly a wonderful surprise.

This is the current color of the walls in my living room and dining space.  I like the color but with the new direction I am going,  I felt  the color of the wall should be lighter in color.

My dining chairs are a light beige.

This is the fabric of my chairs up close.

This is the pottery barn swatch of the new sectional that is being made up.  It is more cream in color too.   I want to soften the wall color to blend with the new furniture.

I like the wall color of our bedroom.  More white with just a touch of gray.  As you can see on a gray winter day it is hard to capture a nice pretty picture to share.  The walls look more gray without good natural light but they really are more white with a touch of gray.

I had a full gallon of the Gallery White bedroom paint.  Yeah! Zero cost to paint the walls.

Here's the lid information for the Gallery White color of Behr paint in case any of you like this color too.

With all the snow we are getting this weekend we will be stuck at home.  Good opportunity to paint the walls!!

I will show you the difference the lighter color of paint will do for this room.

The Gallery White will be lighter and brighter and will pull my creams, grays and whites together nicely.

As soon as we get the walls painted and some of my decor back up on the walls,  I will show you how that is coming together in my next post.

Still trying to be patient while waiting for the new sectional to come in to complete the new spaces.

Have a great weekend.
Kris

New Old Desk Re Love

Hello Sweet Friends.

The Brain Fog is lifting!!!

Let me thank all of you for coming by my last post. Sharing your wonderful information on some natural things you have had success with treating your autoimmune issues was so helpful.

I was hesitant to use my decor blog to write something so personal that I have been going through.
  With all the caring and informative comments I  am glad I did. 
I have had so many warm and wonderful caring comments along with personal emails full of wonderful information.

I am amazed at how many of us suffer with some of the same issues.

I have been a mess for a few weeks but am hopeful with some new things to try,  I will get to a better place with my fibromyalgia.

So from the bottom of my heart I love all of you taking time to share your experience and what has worked for you.
Hugs to all of you for your helping me and others.
Love our blogging community.

OK!!! Now onto the re love of an old entry way table I bought on Offer Up.  I got this to make into a new desk for my office area.

This is the cherry wood table I got on offer up to re love into a new desk for my office.

Here it is sanded completely down to the natural wood.  Thank you sweet Terry for having the patience and sander to get this accomplished.
Love that man!!!!
I was hoping the color of the wood would be more natural and not so red like you see in the picture. 
I really wanted to leave it natural, however with all the red my only choice was to paint it white.

So I painted it with one coat to allow some of the wood to come through with less of the red.

Here she is all painted and pretty.  My little design assistant Buddy has his bed under my desk and loves to spend time there while I am on the computer.

In my three in one room this is the little corner of the room that is my office area.

My little cherub pen holder.  You can see in this picture how the wood does bleed through just so slightly.  I like this look.

I put the original hardware back on.  I liked the gold tone to the hardware.  I am looking for something sweeter and cooler for the desk drawer hardware.  For now these will work.

I love my Best Mimi Ever framed piece that I got from my sweet grands.

This is an old vintage curtain rod that I hung vintage baskets on to hold the little things over my desk area.

I like to use the vintage frames and baskets to organize my desk area.

So there you are.  This is my little space where I read your blogs and read your sweet comments on my blog posts and answer your emails.

Thank you for taking time to stop by.
Have a great rest of the week.
Living room is coming together and I will have some more to show in my next post.
Hugs,
Kris

Very Personal Post

Happy Sunday.

Normally I use this blog for decor crazy and my home designs.  Today I thought I would share something very personal here on the blog.

I normally would not want to do this but I thought maybe by sharing my personal story here it might help some of you and help me with more information and help.

I know with all the changes I do to my home a lot of you refer to me as someone that is never idle and is always moving and doing things.  That is so true about me.  

The personal part I am going to share is I fight through a rough autoimmune disease that can really be debilitating.

It is Fibromyalgia

Here is the Webster Dictionary meaning of Fibromyalgia.

fibromyalgia

 noun

fi·​bro·​my·​al·​gia | \ˌfī-ˌbrō-ˌmī-ˈal-j(ē)ə  \

Definition of fibromyalgia 

: a chronic disorder characterized by widespread pain, tenderness, and stiffness of muscles and associated connective tissue structures that is typically accompanied by fatigue, headache, and sleep disturbances

I suffer with it all.  

It comes and goes in my life.  

I have noticed in the past year I have had

 more flare ups than normal.  

I use to just move through the pain and take

 Advil or Aleve on occasional flare ups.  

In the last year that has not worked and I 

have worked with my doctor on some of the

 biologics out there with FDA approval to

help.

The good news about these newer drugs is

 they work well to keep the pain and fatigue

 under control.  

The bad news is they have harsh side 

effects.

  

The one that I suffer from is brain fog and

 memory loss. 

 While the medications were working for the

 flare ups

I was living in a fog and not remembering 

much of anything most days.

At first I thought it was just turning 60 years old and senior moments happening!Then it became more and more harsh for me.  Not a good way to live life when I have my mom's care and babysitting my grand girls and living a pretty active life.

My mom had an important test at the hospital and I even talked to her the night before on what time I would pick her up etc.  That night when I went to bed I forgot competely and did not set my alarm and my mom called me at the time I was to be at her place to pick her up to see where I was.  I have never done anything like this.  I am always early and never late and very organized in my life. 
 That was just the icing on the cake for all theforgetful moments I had been having on a daily basis!

I decided to wean myself off the biologic and cut the dose.  The good news is that the brain fog and memory stuff is so much better.  The bad news is I am in so much pain.  There are days I can hardly walk.  It effects my feet, ankles and achilles.  
This is the most frustrating part of my life.  So I am reaching out to all of you today to see what natural therapies might be out there and how they might be giving you relief.

I have been doing a lot of research on the CBD oils and exercises help.  Yoga is a big one but I am just not a yoga kind of gal.
The CBD oils are getting really good results.  The issue with those are you have to be careful to find a reputable company that is making these oils here in the USA and are not scammers.  The prices are all over the place for these.  I do see my doctor at the end of the month to go over some alternatives.
  I hope she may have some tricks up her sleeve to help me get off the drugs
 and more into natural or off brand Rx's that can give relief without the harsh side effects.
At this point for quality of life I am willing to try anything that might work with in reasonable perimeters.

I know medical marijuana is the big thing now.  I do not think I want to go in that direction but am willing to try the CBD oil with out the chemical that cause the high in marijuana.  I am crazy enough to have that to deal with!

So if any of you suffer from anxiety, arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome etc. etc. and have tried some natural help I would love for you to leave me a comment andinformation here on the blog.

Have a great start to the new week.Hugs,
Kris