A Major Accomplishment!

I have wanted to repaint my room for quite some time now. I wanted it to be a comfortable room as I like to read in there (it's quiet!) at nights. I didn't want the paint to be so dark that it would get oppressive and cave live when the sun went down. My Momma kept encouraging me to "find a fabric for curtains first and then decide on the color" and so I kept my eyes open and even searched the internet for fabric (just looked at sites Momma had bookmarked).... I was on the point of just giving up and just painting the room when we visited Hancok Fabrics the other day and I finally found fabric!!!

It's the fabric in the middle with the stripes! It has cherry red (which I really wanted)and light pink flowers and the stripe is a "sagey" green!
We were rather worried about finding companion fabrics for it as I also want to make a quilt/bedspread and the background isn't a true white... it's rather creamy.

Upon arriving at home we realized that both of the fabrics that Momma is using in the sewing room are a perfect match!!! Who would've guessed???!!!

And to make things even better, I found that the green in my fabric matches the green in this print that I recieved for my birthday!!!!
So, I'm painting my room some shade of green yet to be determined and am eagerly chomping at the bit to get started!!
I have put off spring cleaning my room until it's time to start the painting process as everything will be pulled out, taken apart, vacuumed under, and scrubbed before I paint!

In other news, my Peonies are coming up! I thought that being dug up, blown around in the back of a pick-up truck for forty miles, and a drought had caused the "to expire" at the end of last summer, but it looks like they are still alive!!

AND, I found a butterfly yesterday!!!! YeeeeHaw!!!! Now if only they would visit my garden....