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starting fresh

I’m finally sitting down to blog, boy have I been busy!
This little munch keeps me on my toes, especially with her 45 minute naps! During that time I try to cram in a shower and some food, so hopefully you understand why the blog has been so quiet.

For the last month I’ve been slowly changing up things in the living room. I got really sick of the yellow and sold the ottoman and bought the CB2 Peekaboo acrylic coffee table. Once it arrived I was very underwhelmed, I just wasn’t feeling it for the space and I couldn’t help but picture little Zoe bonking into it in the future.

Anyway get ready for picture overload.

obsessed with my new pillows, the striped is from etsy and the coral fretwork and navy deco are from Caitlin Wilson Textiles

You might also notice I painted the sunburst mirror gold. Doesn’t it look so much better!? Everything looks better in gold (words I live by).

I need to have more fresh flowers in my life.

I had been lusting over this brass tray for a very long time, I don’t know why I waited so long to get it because I think its absolutely stunning.

I decided to go with a more neutral ottoman this time around, it gives me more room to play with colors.

Ummm $10.00 ikea pillow. Yes please!

While at ikea I picked up some Ritva drapes, I love these drapes! Not only are they a great price but I love how the light shines through so beautifully.

I added grosgrain ribbon, such an easy DIY and so chic.

can’t forget to give credit to my little stylist for being so patient while mama snapped away.

PS
my house is never this neat and tidy with ZERO baby toys. I had just gotten the rug and sofa cleaned so it was the perfect opportunity to take some lovely photos for you all. Just thought I’d let you know ; )

Tags: Decor, DIY, gold, gray, Ikea, Living Room, Pillows, sunburst mirror

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Categories Decor, Living Room

The Baby Shower

11 Jul

Hi All!

July 1st was my baby shower, and I wanted to share with you the pretty photos that were taken by the lovely Michele Beckwith

I absolutely loved how everything turned out and I definitely couldn’t have done it without my sister in law and besties!

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My gorgeous besties!

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My beautiful sister in law with her custom onesie for baby girl.

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Seriously obsessed with the cake topper.

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Just some of the amazing ladies that attended the shower.

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My mommy and mommy in law

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Presents for baby girl!

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Oh and not shower related but I love this shot she got of the living room, makes me seriously want the entire house professionally photographed!

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Tags: Baby, baby shower, backyard, desserts, DIY, Outdoor, pergola, pink, vintage

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Categories Baby

demolition has begun

13 Apr

Yay!!

We (meaning the husband) finally took a hammer and crowbar to the old bathroom!

I took some quick shots before he got started in case you forgot how horrible this bathroom looked.

While the husband got started, I documented.

Bye bye ugly ass toilet! Ewww I forgot about the old linoleum we used to have in there.

Both layers of linoleum came up fairly easy and surprisingly our sub floor was in pretty good condition.

Now for the fun part! Breaking tile! I so wish I could have been in on this.

And this is where we ended off, a pretty good start for our first day, which was actually just 2 hours.

The plan is to have it completely gutted by the end of this weekend.

Tags: DIY, guest bathroom

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Categories Bathroom, Projects

Pinterest DIY inspiration

12 Oct

Pinterest gives me more and more inspiration everyday. If only I had enough time in the day to tackle each of these projects.

Like this DIY chandelier, this would be perfect for under our pergola.

Along with this pallet day bed

I would also love to silver leaf a piece of furniture. Like this bedside table

Stenciling some curtains looks like so much fun. I definitely plan to do this soon.

I love succulents and the idea of making them into wall art just gets me giddy.

Next up on my project list is stenciling a rug for our bedroom. I’m a bit nervous about this as it’s not like stenciling a wall where you can paint over it. So we’ll see how this goes.

Oh! and look out for another goodie this week. I made another sunburst mirror because I’m obsessed. ya just a little.

Tags: DIY, Lighting, Outdoor, pinterst, rugs, stencil

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Categories Projects

DIY Sunburst Mirror

26 Sep

One of the many reasons I love Pinterest is finding new DIY projects to tackle. Like this one from Centsational Girl.

Yes, I’m one of the many bloggers DIYing sunburst mirrors. I’m sorry but these are just too much fun to make and not to mention uber cheap.

My husband being a painter I thought it would be most fitting to use paint sticks. Plus I had the added bonus of getting the paint sticks for free. Oh the perks!

What I used:

16 – 5 gallon paint sticks

16 – 1 gallon paint sticks

7″ craft mirror

7″ wood embroidery hoop

11″ square piece of wood

Hot glue gun

Metallic Craft paint

I pretty much followed Centsational Girl’s directions, except doing it a little out of order cause that’s how I roll!

First I did a mock up, just laid it all out!

This is before I trimmed them all, but at least it gave me an idea on how many to paint.

Then I painted all my sticks and embroidery hoop (2 coats), I chose two gold metallic colors.

I spent a couple hours painting on Sunday and I have to say it was pretty relaxing.

The next day, the husband cut the sticks using a chop saw, unfortunately this part was a little out of my league.

I chose to vary the lengths at 9″ and 12″. We also ended up trimming the sides of the square too, because it seemed to show through when I did my mock up.

Now that everything was painted and cut it was time to start the fun part.

I haven’t used a glue gun since I was probably 10 and wow am I hooked again. Glue guns are bad ass.

So with my trusty glue gun I glued the 7″ mirror to the square wood piece and then glued my embroidery hoop over the mirror.

Once that was set I just started gluing the paint sticks around the mirror. I have to admit there was a little cursing and grunts trying to get the sticks evenly spaced but after some help from the husband I was able to get into the groove of things.