It’s December 5th. My Christmas tree… ZERO decorations.
I usually have my tree up and ready to go the day after Thanksgiving. Not having my tree ready by now makes me so sad. It’s not because I’m all bahumbug either… Christmas is my holiday and I still plug the tree in every morning when I wake up and every evening when I get home
Time. It’s just not on my side.
I’m planning to remedy the situation tonight… But maybe I should just keep my fingers crossed that it gets done before Christmas.
I’m linking up with Kelly from Kelly’s Korner today for her Show Us Your Life series and today is about hanging pictures.
Anyways, if you follow my blog regularly, then you’ve seen this wall about 40 times. If you’re new here, I’ll tell you that my picture wall became my weekly pregnancy update spot 🙂
So here’s the wall…
I just find random frames that have a unique color, texture, shape, or whatever. I added the D at some point along the way to break it up a little. My plan is to fill up the wall a lot more than it is now, but it’s been a slow process between finding frames I like and having pictures to frame! I think the pictures will be easy now that Kennedy is here though!
And just to reminisce a bit… Here’s 39 weeks at the picture wall!
Thanks, Kelly!
I have always loved pulling the Christmas decorations out of the boxes and remembering when we got something or how much I love it. For this reason, I prefer to keep our Christmas decorations pretty traditional and use the same stuff every year. When we got married we didn’t have any Christmas decorations aside from some ornaments for the tree. This worked out perfectly though because we bought some decorations our first Christmas together and each year we add a little more. My mom, sister, and I also have fun getting up early the day after Christmas to get all the stuff on sale.
David and I both agree that less is more when it comes to decorating, so we keep it pretty simple, nothing overdone, and I think until we get a bigger house we’re just about set. If you remember, you saw the tree and the mantle in these posts, and here are a few of our other decorations.
If you read this post then you know that I’m not a fan of Santa and don’t decorate with him at all, except in the office. We have a little tree and this wood figurine that I think is a Santa, but it’s David’s and he’s kinda cute so I allow him. He looks more like a lumberjack anyways 🙂
That’s our house around Christmas! I missed a few things here and there, but you get the idea.
Happy Thursday!
Linking up with Michaela Noelle Designs for the Christmas Cheer link up!
I’m not really sure what my style is or what I would call it.
I like vintage elements and pretty much anything distressed
Source: frenchlarkspur.blogspot.com via Sue on Pinterest
I love the Belgian style
Source: bjdhausdesign.blogspot.com via Linda on Pinterest
but…
I also like bright, bold colors and patterns
Source: moreofyou.tumblr.com via Jennie on Pinterest
I don’t like anything too modern… might as well be a jail cell in my eyes.
Source: bogoraya.com via Jessica on Pinterest
Confused as I am? I saw this signature style quiz over at Young House Love today and of course was intrigued. According to Ethan and Allen my signature style is… Romance and Vintage. I took it twice 🙂
Honestly… I can agree with that I think. According to them… Romance is inspired by distinguished European furniture designs and delivers bespoke charm minus the fuss. It’s a fresh take on pretty that harmoniously blends carved woods and handcrafted finishing details with dressmaker fabrics. Layers of rich texture, curvaceous silhouettes, and antiques-inspired accessories complete this enchanting look. Vintage is a visually engaging mix of color and texture. A masterful display of the art of juxtaposition. Its thoughtful, collected vibe springs from a peaceful coexistence of seemingly unrelated elements. An eye-catching interplay of sunwashed fabrics, distressed finishes, and bold and graphic patterns add an element of surprise to any room.
So go take the quiz and figure out your signature style or styles 🙂 Happy Thursday!
Lately, I’ve added a bunch of interior design, organizing and home decorating blogs to my daily blogroll and now I’ve been bitten by the DIY bug. For the record, I’m totally excited about it. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ve spray painted a thing or two in my day and all our house projects are DIY, but turning something from a thrift store into something totally awesome was a foreign concept to me. So without further ado, my first “major” DIY furniture project.
First, I fell in love with this wall color for my office
Source: potterybarn.com via Melissa on Pinterest
Then, I decided I wanted a white desk to brighten up the room and I found this at pottery barn
Inspiration… Check.
We started with this. No, not pretty, but I liked the size, shape and functionality.
We dragged the desktop out to the garage and traced the old desktop onto a sheet of MDF.
Any Bachelorette watchers out there? Yeah, we’re dorks 🙂
Anyways, after tracing, David cut it out with the saw.
Then we added trim, filled gaps with wood filler, and cut a hole for cords
After this, we moved onto the desk itself. We sanded, late into the night, and then primed and painted. We sanded with 150 grit sandpaper and then we painted some more.
After ALL that, the desk looked like this
So we added the new handles.
Finished product… and a sneak peek at our painted office!
The best part is that it wasn’t $1,000 like the Pottery Barn desk. It was less than $50! I think I can officially say I’m hooked on DIY projects 🙂
Happy Monday!
We recently changed our bedding… it may or may not be the 3rd time since we got married two and a half years ago. Anyways, this is the bedding I want to stick with and decorate the room around so I began the search for the perfect paint. I wanted the paint to match some of the pillows from the new bedding. Easy enough right? Wrong! I am not colorblind and I have never had a harder time finding a paint to match what I was looking for. I got to the point that I was pretty sure the pillow was changing colors!
We started with paint color number 1. The swatch matched the pillow perfectly so we went and bought a gallon of it. I was excited when we got home and immediately tested it out on the wall. Ew! The color that matched perfectly looked like clay. It was way too orange and pretty dark. We were lucky enough to be able to return the paint.
So we moved on and picked new swatches. We brought the pillow with to the store just in case the lighting was weird at our house. Since color 1 was too orange I wanted something with a little more gray and less orange. Again we found a swatch that seemed to match the pillow. This time we were smart and bought a sample of the paint. Good call because color 2 was wayyyy to gray and didn’t match AT ALL!
Third times a charm right? So back to the store we go with said pillow. This time we looked for something with less gray and less orange. Again we found a swatch the seemed to match perfectly so we bought a sample. When we got home I tested it and did a little dance because Pony Tail is the perfect color!!!! We haven’t painted yet but I’m excited to show off the finished product.
The pictures don’t show the colors perfectly but hopefully you get the idea. Lesson learned though… I. heart. paint. samples.
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