Decorating The Shed...

Well, it's about finished. It's been months of cleaning and more cleaning and plenty of painting, but it's finally time to decorate! (A stomach virus ruled my life last week so not much was accomplished.) I've moved some furniture out to the shed (still can't bring myself to call it a shoppe) and I've begun to take some of the things I've made out there. For days I've gone out there to putter around and try to bring it together. I have been experiencing a bit of "decorator's block". Yesterday I finally figured out the reason for this...
Along with the items I made I also had some gently used Christmas decor I wanted to sell. These decorations from Christmas Past were definitely jinking up what was supposed to be my "happy" place. I don't really like traditional Christmas colors, you know like red, green, gold or cobalt blue. Uh no...
Give me the vintage colors of pale pinks, aquas, silver and my favorite color of all, white. If my whole cottage could be white (and it will be one day) I would be thrilled. I do become obsessed with different palettes of pastels from time to time but I'm so fickle that it only takes about a week or two before I'm dreaming of whites again. Just wondering if any of you have this same dilemma of if it's just me?...
Back to the shed. I finally decided to take the decor that was making me walk around with a frown out of the shed and price them really low so hopefully they'll fly out of my life for-evah. I guess you're wondering if I don't like those colors how I ended up owning these things? Maybe, maybe not, but here's the reason. My ex-mister really liked traditional. And that's all I have to say about that.
I'm so glad that JD doesn't give a tiny rat's patoot about anything to do with decorating! "That looks nice" is his total contribution to decorating dialogue and I only get that if and when I ask. Love it.
So I'll be going back out there today and hopefully doing a little more arranging and thankfully JD's two oldest daughters will be here on Friday and will have some input. I'm hoping to unofficially open up shop on Friday, we'll see. I have a little more painting to do way up high behind the shelf but I need some help with some heavy items up there. I do okay on ladders but I'm thinking I won't push my luck on trying to move those things down alone. I'm also very spastic so I don't have a lot of room for playing around...
Meanwhile back at the cottage...

Here's a little looky-loo at some of the colors I'm working with right now. Yes that's a splash or red you see there. But not to be used with dark green and you can take that to the bank...

I'll try to remember to take some pics today and get them posted. Y'all have a great day!