*assumes TV announcer voice* 

Welcome to the first episode of Operation Vintage Makeover!!!

*applause* 

*Announcer: And now, here is your hostess, Catherine AKA Farm Lassie!!* 

Hey y'all!! 

I don't know why I originally named this Operation Vintage. After all, the makeover is the key concept!! 

Oh well. I'll just chalk it up to temporary insanity. 

Anyway.....

So, I've picked out my color scheme for my new bedroom. 

The trim and carpet is going to be a creamy ivory color. As I probably mentioned, I hate white. It attracts dirt wayyyyy too easily. The reason why I'm going with a creamy ivory is because I want to match my current bed set and be complementary to any dark pieces of furniture that I pick up. (More details on this reasoning will be discussed during furniture posts). 

The walls will be a light/medium shade of purple. While my favorite color is bright sky blue, blue also happens to be my parents' favorite color too. Hence, 3/4 of all the walls in our house are painted blue. 

Needless to say, I'm sick of blue walls. 

So...upon a recent trip to Lowes, I snagged every single paint color strip that was remotely purplish and different shades of cream (which was interesting, considering the flourescent lighting). 

After coming home, I sorted through them in the natural light to see which purple shades looked good and which ones looked *bleh*. I also took the time to match the cream to the headboard. 

Turns out...the cream was the easy part.   

Here is a photo of all the paint strips that I'm still considering:

And these ones right here are the ones which I eliminated (too dark, too light, too blue, wrong cream, etc. A lot of these are stacked together.)

To paraphrase an old Lowe's commercial, "How in the world are there so many purples!!"

This is about as far as I'm going to go with the paint chips for now. I can't really finalize colors until after I get my room cleaned up. 

I'm not going to show pictures of my room right now in it's present state because it would horrify everyone. Literally, it is totally trashed right now because of all the college crap that is still in it. When I do the before and after pictures at the end of the project, you will understand what I mean. 

Even though I'm disappearing for a vacation very soon, I decided to get some work done on it. The bulk of what happened this week was cleaning out all the old clothes that I haven't worn/am too big for/other uglies that I've been stashing away. I had about 3 different spots that I was storing clothes that I didn't wear. I figured it was about time to get rid of some. 

At first, it was only two bags. 

Then it grew to three. 

Now it's up to four!!! 

Well. Technically it's grown to 4 1/2. There's a partial bag that is off camera that may join it's mates later. 

But at least my closet, dresser and clothes storage units at least CLOSE PROPERLY. 

Now to tackle the rest of the junk....

Old-fashionably yours, 

Catherine