Bedroom Butterflies

I know, I'm crazy with 2 posts in one night!

This one is about some projects I want to do. Hopefully soon!

Anthropologie is one of my favorite stores, as I'm sure it is one of yours as well. I love everything in it! So last year I got a bedspread from there. This is a photo of it, from the catalog. That is not my room, but you probably knew that since the photo is outside.


So now I want to decorate my lamp shades to go with this beautiful bedspread. I will post before and after pics when I do it. I already bought the materials for it. I just need to sit down and do it. A headboard is the second project I will eventually take on. Probably just plywood, probably cut to a shape I like and upholstered with fabric that will compliment the bedding and adorned with some furniture tacks or something. Nothing too hard, just need to buy everything and pick out fabric.

Here are a couple more scenes from one of Anthropologie's catalogs that I love. Probably not going to decorate like either, but I love how they made one of the sets with all fabric. The windows and doors are sewn together, even the outlets! Just awesome!


Wouldn't it be great to be one of their stylists or designers??? I'm no clothing designer, but I could help with the catalog! Hire me!

Long Awaited Update

I know it's been a few months, but here's an update of what's been going on for the past month. I had a kidney stone! I never knew how painful they were. They are even compared to labor and are supposed to be more painful than labor. I have mine for about three weeks. Here's what happened.

I think it actually started on a Saturday night, in the middle of the night. I woke up nauseas and with a stomach ache, so of course I thought it was something I ate. I was feeling kinda crappy all day on Sunday, but no major pain. So finally on Tuesday after I got home from work I was feeling slightly nauseas and had a pain in my lower back on the right side. Within probably an hour the pain moved to the front and got so much worse. It felt like there was a knife in my stomach. It got so bad that I had my parents take me to the hospital. I could hardly walk to the car at that point.

Wouldn't you know it, but when we got to the ER my pain was decreasing. By the time I started talking to someone to tell them my symptoms/pain, the pain had already vanished. I figure I was in pain for about 2 hours if not more. But I wasn't sure what was going on. We had a feeling it was a stone, but wanted to make sure. Since I was in the ER I was hoping they would do some kind of ultra sound or cat scan and they did. I got a cat scan and they found the stone and told me it was 3mm. 3mm is the size of the ureter tube that it was traveling through to get to my bladder. So the doctor gave me a prescription for some pain killers and the name of a urologist to call. We left and it was like 12:30 or 1 a.m. Not many pharmacies are open at that time. We drove around Franklin looking for an all night Walgreens. My dad even stopped a cop to ask him if he could find us one! Too funny! The only one was in Bellevue, about 20 minutes away, but we went on so I could sleep that night. I finally got to bed around 3 a.m. and went to work the next morning.

I went to a urologist that day. He told me that usually you can pass them on your own, but definitely at the 4 week mark he would want to do surgery and remove it. I just wanted the dang thing out though. That weekend I was supposed to celebrate my birthday, which was on Monday, Feb. 9. So of course Saturday I was nauseas all day. But I finally got out and went to a movie and to the Cheesecake Factory for some dessert with a friend.

Wednesday was the next day I had some trouble. I woke up with pain and it just kept getting worse. So I stayed home from work because it's hard to concentrate on anything but the pain. Luckily I did have pain killers from the ER. So I went back to the urologist one day that week and we went ahead and scheduled surgery for the next Friday because I really couldn't afford to miss work a lot. With a kidney stone you really never know when it's going to bother you or when you're going to pass it. I was trying to drink a lot of water, but when I'm at work I forgot to drink.

Tuesday I went to work a little late because I wasn't feeling great. I was there for an hour and left because the pain was getting bad. That day sucked. I drank so much water that it made me very nauseas and it all came back up. Every time I took a sip it made me feel worse. Also this whole time I had to pee through a strainer just in case the stone came out. That was I could take it in and get it tested.

So Friday comes along and I hadn't caught the stone, so I go in for surgery. When I woke up they told me that the doctor didn't find the stone. I was like, what the heck??!! But my ureter tube was so swollen and irritated that he put the stent in anyway. A stent is a tube thing that goes from the kidney to the bladder to keep the tube open when there is swelling. I had to have that in for almost a week. I just got it out on Thursday. I won't tell you that story because it is awful (at least to me). Needless to say they just go up there and pull it out, in the office.

So I'm all back to normal. It felt weird with the stent in. When I finally got used to it on Wednesday, they took it out the next day. So then I was a little sore from that. I'm all good now. In a month thought I have to give them some urine and they will draw blood to run tests and see what caused the stone to developed and what I can do to hopefully prevent one from forming again. Unfortunately I have a feeling I will have another one.

I feel so sorry for people who have them every few months. I know I did not feel that great those 3 weeks I had mine, so I can't imagine going through that several times a year. I really wanted to catch mine though and see it. I keep imagining a piece of glass cutting me up inside. That's what it felt like anyway.