Summer Shoesies and Satchel Bags!

Thank you all so much for your help and input on my last post, I really appreciate all your comments and some of your beautifully inspirational links and so...I went for it!  All 4 walls, and even the painter who had advised me not to do it, thought it turned out well!  I am getting a picture rail put up to break up the colour a bit.  I think the white paint work will be really pretty and fresh with it but I have to wait until next week so pictures after that :)

Until then I am sick again, so I'm entertaining myself with this very cute new magazine, Mollie Makes that my mum found for me (the first edition is selling for crazy prices on Ebay) and this Rose Lemonade is gorgeous! 
Do you see the photograph of white peony roses in the background?  I am hoping to frame it and put it on my new coral walls, I received it as a giveaway from Heidi at La Isla Blogita

Thank you so much Heidi, it is a beautiful photograph and I love having something unique to put on my walls :)

I have struggled finding summer sandals this year and last.  I really love how tan leather can look with dresses and jeans in the summer but didn't want anything too gladiator style and nothing that hurt my feet!  I picked these up in Urban Outfitters by brand Ecoté and can't believe how comfortable they are, no blisters at all and a beautiful shade of tan.  The ankle strap can be removed too, and they are on sale for £18 right now.  I wore mine in the rain, twice (stupid Irish summer) and may have slightly destroyed the soles a bit so am very tempted to pick up a sale pair I am loving them that much!  This is my new H by Henry Holland satchel bag which matches the sandals perfectly.  I love the stripes and muted nautical colours, the little gold clasp and the cross body strap leaving me hands free!  I hadn't bought a handbag in the longest time and this one was just so simple and cute I was drawn to it!  I will definitley be using both these things all summer, well...when it doesn't rain

I have some fun pictures of a forgotten sunny day I meant to post forever ago that I will do a post on in a few days.  In the meantime, stay healthy and happy! xox

Vintage Inspired Wall Paints - help appreciated!

Firstly, hurray!  Blogger is back!  I'm not sure if you expereinced difficulty but I couldn't sign into my blogger account for the past 2 weeks, and then when I could I could not comment on any blogs.  It seems to be resolved now (fingers crossed)...anyone still having problems with your comments coming up as 'anonymous', just uncheck the keep me signed in box on the Blogger login page :)

With that out of the way, may I ask your advice?!  I am getting my bedroom painted on Friday, the first time in a long while.  It is currently cream.  After a childhood of coloured walls and patterned wallpapers, my teenage self decided cream was the sophisticated way forward.  I suppose cream was innovative and 'minimlaist' (ha) about 8 years ago.  However, even if I wanted to keep it cream now, the walls need freshening up!
 I think I may have confused myself with a multitude of sample pots and the current splash of colours on my walls makes me look unsound of mind, I am worried to show them to the decorator!

I decided I would like a pink for the room, but thought something dusky and fairly neutral...adult pink, not sugary pink!  I bought sample pots in elegant names like Blossom White and Rose White, then realised I might as well be painting the walls cream they were so faint. 
I tried Farrow & Ball in Calamine but it ended up looking lilac on my walls, as did a Dulux paint in Satin Bow and even a dusky rose, seemed to have a very blue undertone.
After a weekend spent in DIY stores, I decided I was sick of neutral, sick of beige, sick of pinkish creams or hot pink and nothing in between and on a whim, I bought a sample of this!

And guess what, I think I love it!  Adult pink, muted and chic seem to have gone out the window but do you think it could work?  From Crown's Le Petit Palais range, Roseraie is a beautiful pinky coral without a blue undertone in sight, I would paint it up to the picture rail which is white and I think it will make my painted furniture (white painted bed and dressing table) really pop.  I'm hoping because it is vintage inspired it isn't too brash looking :) 

A picture of Roseraie (French for rose garden) as a statement wall in a nursery

Sometimes, bold colour is required and gut instinct has to be acted on.  My room has looked the same since I was 15 so I feel I need a total change.  But if I get cold feet that this will look too orange and scarey, my safer second option:
Farrow & Ball's Pink Ground, which has dried quite light but I still love the earthy tone behind the pink.

It wasn't until today I realised why I might have been inspired by these shades.  I visited Cuba in December, truly one of the best holidays I have ever been on.  On our last night we stayed in the most beautiful hotel in Havana and our room was amazing!  3 huge windows with wooden shutters that opened onto a balcony, a rocking chair, dressing table, beautiful tiled floors and it was painted pink.  The room was so beautifully decorated you didn't even instantly notice it was pink which I liked.  I went looking through my photos to find a picture of it and realised it looks so unmissable pink now, and that it is infact three shades of pink: ceiling, walls and a statement wall.

I didn't have any other picture, sorry boyfriend!  He is attempting to close the shutters by the way..

I also think the Roseraie shade looks similar to the beautiful Hotel Ambos Mundo in Havana, round the corner from where we stayed so perhaps I am trying to inject a colourful dose of Cuba into Belfast!

Any thoughts?  I am the most indecisive person in the world, but now I have decided I need a change and the decorator has a date, no backing out. 

Do I go for it and paint the whole room in this beautiful shade, confident that my white picture rail will break it up, do I paint it as a statement wall (even though I am unsure about this in a small space) with Pink Ground on the other 3 walls, or would you go with Pink Ground and leave Roseraie to Cuba?

Help!