I know someone who did the torn paper bag method on their kitchen floor. The bags were torn into irregular 2"-3" pieces. It looked nice. It's been quite a few years ago, but I remember that it was very smooth on the top, not rumpled, so I don't know what he used to seal and coat it all. Speaking of brown paper bags, I just LOVE the look and texture of them for wrapping gifts and packages to mail. My favorite tie for a brown paper gifts is torn strips of plaid fabric. I also use brown paper bags to make envelopes, by opening and cutting along the seam and using a received envelope as a pattern. I use the BPBs in my art, too, to paint on or collage with or whatever. Wanda in South Texas Here is a link that might be useful: The Bee Hive

Hi All, Beachlily-Glad to help a fellow GW. Prill-You have incredible taste but you've heard me gush about your kitchen. Love that paint choice. Bee-lol. I love that your DS is in Art school and colored blind. Watch him be the next Picasso! Well not with chasing women but with art. elle3- I am all over the place because I have another bathroom that needs to be updated too. DH realizes how great disappearing wallpaper looks and has encouraged me to tackle that next. I need my fingernails to grow back first. Chris-I checked out the rustoleum. Yes, this a possibility. thank you. Arsy- When I get back from my business trip I will post pics of the space and you will laugh uproariously at the hideous wallpaper. Lukkiirish- I checked out Martha Stewart. Pretty colors. Truly pretty. Now what??? help me I am going to keep the wood as is. Because I have another bathroom with the exact same wood that I am going to stain darker a chocolate color. DH is on board with this. I found an inspiration pic and of course the above pics helped tremendously. Thank you for your photoshop and for your own bath pics. I went to Khols today and found marked down these bath rugs. I have no idea the quality but the fact they are a 100% cotton appealed to me and they were super cheap. I also bought matching towels in the light sea green color. Then after I went to HomeDepot. Light fixtures were butttt ugly. I can not see spending $100 on something I only tolerate. I am going to search on line. What do you think? Which paint looks better with the cabs? (Stupidly I picked the colors up before writing them down... I think it is in this order milk pail ML, rainwater, perfect taupe, winter's day and frozen pond Frozen Pond Behr Winter's Day Martha Stewart Perfect Taupe Behr Rain Water ML Milk Pail ML The cabs look so orange in the pic they are far more yellow. Or should I chuck these all and go back to something more blue and less sea glass. I am thinking for the downstairs bath Black, pale blue and white will be the prevailing them so this bath more beach glass classic cottage look... Any ideas would be awesome. ~boxer

Hlove - you're sweet for saying so. The gray will always be a tad darker than I'd hoped in such a small, North-facing room...although there are times of the day/year when it looks more soft and powdery which I love. :) I think you're right about the ceiling. They're painting the cabs today and I think/hope will put them back up tomorrow, they re-paint the ceiling the Friday before Easter so by then I'll know what sort of change would be appropriate if any. The cream color that's presently on the walls/ceiling is BM's White Linen. Since I don't love that color in my kitchen, I just assume re-paint the walls along with the ceiling since the ceiling has to be re-painted anyway. So something less dingy-yellow than the white linen without being white-white since the upper cabs will now be a whiter-white and they don't need any competition! :) I appreciated your advice and did in fact find a white with gray-green undertones! I hope I like it and too late if not cause they're painting now. It's BM's Cotton Balls. I'd held it up along with 5 other whites, at our local Benjamin Moore store, and held it up next to a Fieldstone sample (like our cabs) as well as the Linen White sample and the 3 colors together looked really nice. Thanks again! Michelle16 - thanks! Before I had just Miller Paint's "white-white" (an older color) on all my cabs, and a beige-avocado color on the walls/ceiling. It was pretty but I'd had it for 11 years and really needed a break. Little did I know white kitchens would become all the rage - haha. The Fieldstone was inspired by Sally Wheat's kitchen which another GW member suggested I check out. I loved it immediately and liked how painting the woodwork a darker color with lighter color on the walls was a nice change from the norm (more so at that time anyway, compared to now). I liked how it reminded me of how homes used to be a hundred years ago only then it was unpainted wood vs. a lighter color on the walls. So something very period-appropriate about it but with a twist. ;) In my kitchen, it's a bit darker than I like at times - because of the lack of white since my cabs aren't open as Sally's are, and also cause my room has a LOT of cabinetry and faces North so it's a dark room - but I still love it more than not! And the darkness of it at times (when the room's all cleaned up and there's a pop of color e.g. a black bowl filled with tangerines or something like that!) can look sophisticated. Once my in-ceiling speakers are installed I'm going to feel very cool, having deep, bassy jazz playing in there at the same time as in the living room during a party. With the under-cab lights on dim and a few candles lit, I'll be scattin'! Eandhl - me too! :) Do you have it in your house? I love your short little comment - I wish I could keep things that short but alas...... Daisychain01 - Hi! :) In your picture it's PERFECT (and of course may have turned out perfect in my kitchen) but when I had it fanned out along with the other whites in my hand at the store, the Cotton Balls - much to my surprise - seemed to blend better with the Fieldstone gray color of my cabinets. I can't remember now if the Cloud White was too white or too creamy but it would have been one way or the other, although I seem to recall it was my second choice, then my first, then my second, then my first - haha. I think she told me Pottery Barn uses it too (?). Anyway they painted the cab doors today and then a fresh coat tomorrow morning (Fri.) so as soon as they're up I'll take pics and post. Wish me luck! And thanks so much for including the pic! That bathroom is very sweet.

I would think that if eye makeup is always flaking and smudging, that you are probably starting with an eye that isn't ready for makeup. Maybe you have some oil or moisturizer on your face. You should first put a setting powder on your eye to make sure it's not oily. I always start with a concealer above and below my eye and then set it with translucent loose powder, then I apply the eyeshadow, the liner and then mascara. I never have any flaking or smudging at all.