Top of the morning to you!
I had a fabulous 8 hours of sleep last night! Wheeeeee. No nicky nicky nine door antics. This is progress.
My Vegan Overnight Oat Parfait was killer this morning. I feel like I haven’t had one in forever!!! Her Mix-A-Lot has been getting all of my love and adoration lately.
Carob, Cacao, & PB Vegan Overnight Oat Parfait
Ingredients:
- Carob Vegan Overnight Oats (1/2 cup oats, 1.5 tbsp chia seeds, 1.25 cups almond milk, 1.5 tbsp carob powder)
- Peanut Butter Banana Soft Serve (1 frozen banana processed with 1 tbsp peanut butter)
- 1/4 cup Rice Crisp cereal (for layering)
- Cacao nibs (for layering)
- Carob powder, for garnish
- Homemade raw chocolate, for garnish
- Unsweet. coconut, for garnish
Directions: Make the carob Vegan overnight oats by whisking the ingredients together in a small bowl and leaving in fridge overnight or for 1-2 hours. In the morning, Make the PB Banana Soft Serve. Layer the soft serve with the VOO, cacao nibs, and rice crisp. Sprinkle with carob powder and coconut. Add two chunks of homemade chocolate and enjoy!
This was incredible! I love, love, love the rice crisp added as a layer in the middle. Same with the cacao nibs. So crunchy!
My Simple Decorating Trick: Pick a colour scheme!
Ok, so last night I promised you some decorating footage!
On Sunday, I realized that Eric and I still had gift cards that were given to us for wedding gifts almost 2 years ago! We had gift cards to William Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Winners, and Crate & Barrel. I asked Eric to come with me and he said he ‘trusted me’ to do it alone. aka…he hates shopping! So I tackled it myself like a champ. One of my favourite things to do is decorate, so I didn’t mind.
We finished renovating and painting the family room in Fall 2009. And then we left it. No decor, no colour, nothing on the walls. We were scared.
It occurred to me that the reason why we never ‘finish’ decorating rooms is because we never develop a colour scheme to guide us.
I thought the colour scheme of chocolate, lime, and lemon would look awesome together (with yellow and green being the accent pieces). I picked those colours because there is a lot of chocolate already in the room (couch, wood, bricks) and I picked yellow and green because there are some engagement pictures I want to blow up that have yellow and green in them. The room naturally has lots of green in it with the large windows and the trees in he backyard too.
Now that I had three colours in mind, it automatically narrowed down a ton of options. I didn’t feel overwhelmed as I usually do when looking for home decor. I just scanned the stores for those three colours and it was so much easier!
One great way to add accent colours is with fun and bright pillows…
The two pillows on the right are from Crate and Barrel and the one on the left is from Wal-mart.
I got 6 so far and might pick up another 2 or 3 as I see fit.
I love how something as simple as pillows can transform a room!
Then I bought some accent pieces to add to the room…
This lime green pot is from Winners and the faux fruit are from Pottery barn.
Love this sculpted piece from Winners.
Also both from Winners!
The lemon tree is from Pottery Barn (sorry the pic is blurry!)
Right now all of that stuff above is on the fireplace because we don’t have any family room furniture aside from the couch and the Ikea coffee table.
My plan for the fireplace is to remove the large picture on top and add a print with the accent colours to give it more of a pop of colour. Maybe one of our wedding or travel pictures would work there?
I would love to purchase a nice coffee table, corner chest, and small table, but that won’t be for a while. I drooled at all of Crate and Barrel’s furniture…they have some gorgeous things in there.
What I am focusing on right now:
1) Prints for walls (see below)
2) Coffee table
3) Decorative Curtains
Something is definitely still missing to pull this room together!
We will also eventually be putting hardwood on the floors and removing the carpet.
I want to do prints of a few of our engagement pictures. I am going to pick some with the most vibrant green backgrounds. Luckily we have a lot of engagement pictures with bright green in the background so it works perfectly! I am going to do one huge one and 2 smaller ones.
I also want to hang curtains, but I find it so difficult to figure out what would look good!
Ideas?
I really dislike the hunter green blinds that are up right now. I would like to keep them up though because they were custom made and they are good when you need to block out the light. I would just like something to cover them up.
I also haven’t showed you the other side of the room with a fireplace. I will do that in another post.
Today’s question: Do you have a favourite room right now in your living space? Do you have a favourite colour scheme or colours that you are drawn to for home decor?
I am also looking for a colour scheme for the entry way and eventually dining room. Right now we have Biscuit by Sherwin Williams on the walls of the entry way, but that is it.
I’ve got a busy day of work and I am going to squeeze in a run at some point. See you later and enjoy your day!
I would get rid of the green blinds and hang indian cotton sheers at either side – layer a pure white one with a lime green one underneath.
I like the picture setup on the wall behind the couch – keeps it simple and uncluttered!
I love decorating too! My hubby and I just picked out a new wall colour for our living room. Can’t wait until its painted, and then I will run wild with accent colours!!!
I love your oats pictures and the one today looks amazing!!
So the chocolate that is garnishing the oats is the same you use for the raw chocolate chips??
It almost looks like there is a cookie layer on one side, or cookie crumbs or something… I really want to make that, that chocolate piece looks amazingly good, I want that on my oats too!!!
You are great with decorations, oh my, I would love to have a friend close to me with those talents, I am terrible at decorating and I would like to have my house look nicer than it is now (pretty plain!)
Ana
ooooh I love the new additions! Green is my favourite colour!!!
Love the new decor and color scheme! Chocolate and lime green look great together and your house is beautiful! My bedroom right now is my favorite, the color scheme is raspberry, lime and white. I love it for right now but I am addicted to buying new bedding and redecorating. I think there are Pier 1’s in Canada and that’s a great place to get fun decorative stuff :)
The overnight oat parfait looks amazing! Your living room is absolutely gorgeous. I love the color scheme with the chocolate and lime green! That is definitely one of my favorite combinations. I also really like a blue and chocolate color scheme. My friend’s bedroom is those colors and it looks so nice!
Your home is looking great!!! Some green curtains (that match the green pillow) would definitely add a little color and brightness to the room. I love all the new nick-nacks you purchased…The room will look incredible as soon as you tackle the decorating monster!!!
This room looks great Angela! You have done a great job. I love how you can see all the green trees through the glass windows/doors and this matches your colour (not a spelling error: we are odd in Australia!) scheme too. Do you have to cover up the glass?? I think it looks fantastic without any curtains or blinds….so bright and natural looking! The pieces you have chosen complement each other so well.
My colour scheme is red, black and white with touches of silver/grey. My whole house is decorated in these colours….even our dish cloth is red!! I agree that once you know the colours you are looking for, it is so easy to decorate. Can’t wait to see more rooms of your lovely house! :-)
The chocolate garnish looks amazing.
I love the french doors. I think your plan for the wall pictures looks really good. I really enjoy your posts like this.
Hi Angela!
I’ve been a quiet reader for a while but thought I’d comment now, since when looking at your picture I immediately saw white/light green curtaines (don’t know why I was thinking thick stripes but of course some nice print would be great too), something like the colors on one of the pillows you bought.
Thanks for the inspiring blog, reading it is definitely one of the highlights of my day! Keep up the good work!
Greetings from Finland,
Anni
Your breakie creations continue to surprise me and leave me speechless! Delish!
I love making my meals special to and really, truly enjoying them.
Your room is certainly coming along. I think the pictures really will make it. Can’t wait to see the finished product.
Why that VOO looks sooo goooood! I’m gonna have to look into that homemade raw chocolate :)
And your house looks lovely, by the way!
LOVE the greens!! And I like the ideas of the prints. The coffee table I got last Christmas would look so good in there – I went with a Big round one, two levels – the bottem is solid wood – the top is trimmed in wood, but the center of it is tiles…..greens are the main colors – I am in love with it!!! I could email you a pic if you like?? [email protected]
That parfait is GORGEOUS! I need to try that some day.