new additions

We are loving the door that my dad installed for us that was in our barn. Jesse painted it gray one day after I sent him a link on Pinterest, and I love the blue-ish tint. It goes with the poster print we found a couple weekends ago, and with our new rug. The many pillows that came with our couch are soft and comfy but it was a little much having them all, so I put these ones on:

And put the gray couch ones on our window seat:

It's much comfier to sit on the bench now, and I like the gray with the blues in our sun-dining room. I also hung our super-bright-but-we-love-it tree that we bought when Jesse first moved in a few years ago. Who knows if it will stay in this room but I like the brightness for now, especially as it gets grayer and colder outside...

And last but not least, I ordered flannel sheets for the winter! Jesse and I both grew up in old, cold houses and luckily we both like sleeping when it's cool. But unlike him, I never realized the magic and coziness of flannel sheets when I was younger; instead I would get my hot water bottle ready and jump into bed, waiting forever (it was probably a minute or two) for my freezing bed to warm up. Whenever I slept over at my cousin Caitlyn's house, it was always so cozy and warm, and I now know it was because of flannel sheets! So thanks to the L.L. Bean catalog that we've been getting each week it seems, we have new comfy sheets:

Pippa approves. She is also taking up more and more of the bed.... she used to fit on the bottom blanket.