Spring decor!

Here are some of the updates I have done for spring this year!

Just some fun lace tape around a glass votive! 

Here is my bookshelf! This season I decided I wanted it less easter and more spring touches. 

Apothecary jars from home goods! I used beans, paper shreds and eggs!

With the bookshelf I wanted to add some classic pieces with a touch of spring! 

 

I used some local art so we don't have to many pictures! :) 

 

 

 

 

Sorry so dark! I updated cheap target candles with a piece of burlap and hot glued yellow ribbon! 

 

I printed a printable on Pinterest and put it in a frame! 

For my dinning table I bought a tablecloth on clearence and added a runner I found at my nana's house. 

My end tables!

Here are a few things I added to my coffee table

 

Here is what I did to the tv stand! 

Just a few more spring touchs! 

Hope you had a great Easter! Stay tuned for more fun things ahead:)

What a difference 3 years make

The Kiss

Wow! Three years ago today I walked down the aisle with my dad with Darius Rucker's "History in the making," playing in the background. I could never expect the last 3 years to be so wonderful, hard, and nothing short of
 amazing.

3 years ago Matt had just finished his baseball career at TCC and school and was working for a video company. I was working as a nanny and living with my parents. We got married and moved in together (and we thought that would be the hard part). Looking back now I was playing house. We worked and played no real plans. But God had some plans.

Our House

In 3 years I have lost 2 grandmothers, met new family members, dealt with cancer hurting some of the closest people in our life, one move for us, my parents and siblings moving to MT. Getting Sawyer (my cat since high school) back from my parents. New friendships, losing friendships, and even friends moving. Matt getting job promotions. Matt changing careers. Me going back to school. 2 football seasons and 3 baseball seasons of Matt coaching. Planning on moving. Planning to have a baby and then putting both on the back burner. Marriage ups and downs. All with just normal everyday issues. I have been pushed and tried more lately in my life then I ever thought I could handle. But God has a plan and when you make plans God just laughs.

Today, Matt is an electrician and I am still nannying for the same family. We live in a tiny little house in our tiny little town. I would of laughed at someone telling me this will be your life in 3 years. But I take it all in stride and smile (most days) and hope and pray that one day I will look back and be so thankful with my life and how the hardest times also were very happy times.

I am happy to say we have made it through these past 3 years. And here is to Forever more.

Summertime!

I know I know its the 29th of August and just posting these photos! Our summer was just crazy and never got around to it and so here is what I did this summer for my décor and crafts.



A décor plate I found at HomeGoods! Plates are great décor and usually reasonably priced.

 

My favorite idea for summer décor (and super cheap). I found this piece of scrapbook paper and I already had this wood frame in my garage. A little white paint and modge podge (both I had laying around) and TA-DA! Wall ART!!!

 

Matt (technically and legally mine) got his TV this summer! So we had to revamp our entertainment area to fit everything.

 

 



This was a vinyl I found and bought a wood plaque and painted it and hot glued the star fish that I already had!

 

 



Little accessories in beach colors

 



$1 frame from Michael's, paint, free printable online, and a shell laying around and a new décor item!

 

Found a frame at Marshalls with a starfish with a burlap background but it was $16!!! So I bought a shadow box frame with a coupon and had the star and burlap! I like mine way better!

 You can see I have a lot of mason jars I got mine all from my father in law but you can find them at any antique store. You can also find shells anywhere but I found them cheapest with a coupon at a craft store or Walmart.

 



another free printable (follow me on pinterest and you can get all these to)

 



Beachy vase fillers! (moss, random twig things, and rocks)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





I hosted a bridal shower this summer and used these burlap runners but they went so well I might keep them out all year :)



 

 

 

Matt LOVED this sign at HomeGoods!

 

 

 



Made this with a left over shell and wood plaque. Found the vinyl at Artco.

 

Hope you had a fabulous summer! Now to get all this stuff packed up and busting out all the fall stuff!!! Stay tuned :)

My Valentine Decor and a tour of my living room!

Here is finally a tour of my house all put together for Valentine's Day! (Yes its this Thursday)

Welcome to my home.

This is the view of my teapot collection (the drawers are my secret candle addiction)

When you walk in to my home this is what you see. My collection and some hidden 3's! I love to showcase something I love and add it to my decor. It gives that personal touch to a home.

 

I apologize for the blurry picture

 

This table was an old table we painted and the lamp I got at Goodwill for $3 and spray painted it. I gave it a new shade and it works good as new! My Grammy had the same one in her home I saw this Christmas and when I went last weekend her husband gave it to me so I could have a pair and remember her. So I am painting it soon so I have one on the other table.

 

Our entertainment center

 

Eventually we will have a 42" TV its just not here yet.

 

above the TV (sorry for the glare)

This is Matt's contribution to the decor. Baseball (actually there are little baseball details everywhere). I actually do a lot of baseball decorating in Spring. I host an opening day party every year. The baseballs on the shelf our Matt's actual home run ball and grand slam.

 

The pillow is one my mom made us. Its a tree with a heart and our names.

I hope to one day reupholster the desk!

 

 

This is our not at all glamorous couch! (one day we will buy a new one) One amazing decor tip I have learned, pillows! The pillows on the couch my mother in law made with zippers in them so I just change out the cover. Also super easy to wash!!! Since both sides of the fireplace are benches I have pillows on those to.

 

 

 

Depending on the holiday I love to mix up accessories! Change out pictures or just put away a few things and I put out different things. It keeps it less boring.

I love this metal frame! I hot glued magnets to old scrabble tiles and added my own personal touch!

Pre Valentine's day decor

This is our picture wall I decided I had to have one after I bought this sign with the quote "When you get there, Remember where you came from," I had to have it!!! It reminds me no matter where are families are or where we decided to plant our roots we have these people in our lives who have helped us! The pictures are all really special moments and people in our lives. Its our GRATEFUL wall!

Dining Table with the Valentine's day decor

 

 

The entry to my HUGE kitchen

 

I now have 2 new Valentine aprons! Even though my kitchen is tiny I love to decorate it!!!

A teapot that is a candle warmer!!! Had to have for my collection!!!
 

One of my FAV Christmas presents! This line of 50's housewives is my favorite! My dad always gets me their cards and this year he got me the calendar! In love!!

 

This was my tour of my Valentine's day decor! Thanks for visiting!