Spring Break Recap

This week ended up being the most jam packed week of my life!!

We went to the Botanic Gardens and I snapped a quick picture.

We also spent some time at the zoo.

{checking out the monkeys with her Jordy}

{laughing at some more monkeys}

attempting to pose for pictures with friends

and of course some play time at the park.

she is getting sooo big!!

You know I was wanting a new pair of shoes for my birthday, and one bulky orthodic boot was not on my list, haha oh well... what can you do.

Crazy crazy week.

Here I sit not believing another week in march has passed!!

In four short days is my birthday and I am really looking forward to it!

Now before this week can officially begin I need to recap this past week for y'all.

1. I got a quote on having a chair reupholstered. This particular individual came highly recommended and I have seen her work. But with a quote on a club chair totaling $586.00 I screamed!! Thus y'all may be seeing some chair upholstery in the near future. ( Monday)

2. I have been slow moving this week. Why?? You ask, well on Tuesday I did something way dumb and banged my foot into the foot of our master bed. AWESOME!! I toughed it out all week long until going to the dr. Friday and come to find out I broke 2 bones in my foot and the fourth and fifth toes on the left foot!!

3. While staining the floor of our almost finished screened in porch, a ladder fell over which knocked over the can of stain leaving a massive massive mess I will now have to go
Back and sand then re-stain!! (Wednesday)

4. This week would not be complete if our crazy beagle didn't get into some sort of trouble so on Thursday while I was happily planting some new prettiest our little pup found the gate wide open and dashed off on another puppy adventure. I found him an hour later 4 doors down from the house, he calmly walked up to me and I was glad to have him back.... Until that night when my husband noticed him acting funny.




Fastforward to Friday we take him to the doctor they do some crags and bloodwork and determine my dog had a bulging disc in his spine so they do some steroid shots and send us home with meds.

Later that night he goes from limping (drunk walking the dr called it) to unable to walk at all.




For two weeks we help him eat/ drink water and use a towel to hold up his back legs so he can try to use the restroom.

So all in all spring break was more than hectic and I gladly welcome the boring mundaneness of our everyday lives!!





We did make a quick trip to our local botanic gardens!!

And yesterday we broke down and got a membership to the zoo!! Be back later with pics of those trips!!

For sale

Soo my sister is nuts! She wants to give all this great stuff she has away to goodwill and I won't let her. Soo, I think a blog sale is in order.

First up. A pair of Joe's jeans size 27 waist. They are a trouser cut vintage series. Purchased at a local upscale boutique.
Price $20.00







Next up is a Lilly Pulitzer Tote (style name is hotty toddy tote) asking $30.00









Minor ink stain on inside right pocket.

Here is a lovely turn lock Vera Bradley wallet. Retails for $48.00 slightly used asking $10.00








Another Vera Bradley item. This is the Mediterranean white resort pattern in the large cosmetic bag retails for $25.00 asking $9.00

Last up is a coach keychain wallet retails for $48.00 bnwt. Purchased at Macy's. Never used asking $10.00!

Leave a comment with what item you would like to purchase items are first come first serve I will email you a paypal invoice or list in my etsy shop.

Make sure to leave me your email.

To buy or not to buy..

That is the question.
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I have found myself lately DROOLING over this CB2 coffee table.

 

I love it's round shape, marbly-goodness, and the fact it doesnt hold much visual weight.

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Only down side... it's only 12' tall.

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Dare I with a 2.5 yr. old??

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I mean it is marble....

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thoughts greatly appreciated.

Spring Fling

When I think spring I go CRAZY!!

Grass grows, tulips bloom, people's spirits begin to rise, this is when I feel the heavens sing!

I have been wanting to finish up our screened in porch for quite some time.

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Walk down memory lane, shall we??

Our house came with a hot tub, which we removed...

And a really unstable deck, which we removed...

And a coy pond, which we had already removed in this picture and were waiting to fill in...

{pond removal}

Now that the hot tub area is filled in, the pond area leveled and sodded its time to wrap this project up.

We need install the beadboard ceiling, stain the porch floor, paint a few more boards, add some fresh screen, and ... my fave... accessorize!!!

{I am really letting it "all hang out" for yall ps, this work was completed in June 10' and I am just now sharing... ashamed?? maybe... but we are so close to the end now.}

{notice in the middle we were laying out the ground work for a fire pit. this will be removed, great idea in theory but with a 2 yr old chasing your dog... not so much. I dont want to go to the emergency room}

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ps.... see how much shade this back yard has.. thats due to no tree trimming for at least the last 10 years. 

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well that was taken care of on friday by my new hero.... our mr. fix it my mom went to high school with.

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before photos.

{yes we back up to the interstate, no I don't hate it, no its not loud, how do I plan to disguise it?? guess you will have to wait and see}

{we have already removed 6 baby trees on our own previous to this picture... I live in pine needle land!}

mr. bradford pear, I love your shape... hate your droppings and hate your spring smell.

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plus you were a mere 18' from my house so you had to go.

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disclaimer: I am very well aware only a small portion of my porch is white, I am only sooo tall and felt unstable on a old shaky ladder so we hope to take care of all of that ugly brown withing the next 2 weeks!!! I promise we are not "in the ghetto/ white trash" 

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please don't judge my abrupt halting of project... I am waiting on muscles and manpower to help me wrap this up.

all my limbs piled out at the street.

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I went to grab my recycling bin this morning and a nice man was collecting the neighbors trimmings{city sanitation worker, he informed me he would move my heaping pile to the top of the list!! U ROCK MISTER and deserve a city employee of the day award!!!!!}

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Within 2 hours this is what baby and I watched for a good 20 minutes.

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see, all government workers aren't bad!!

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Now, back onto the porch...

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Here is something we found hanging from one of our pine trees when we purchased the home.

{this is the chandy taped off and ready for spray paint}

Our plan for our screened in porch is to have a very "Key West" feel. 

We are wanting to white wash all the flooring, ceiling, spindles and bring our colors in through our furniture and accessories.

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Think turqouise, yellow, orange; very bright and tropical!!

So a turqouise chandelier was step one to put some pep in my step and get me ready for spring!!

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I hope to have this hanging for the reveal, but I am finally seeing some headway on this project and it feels good!!!!

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Time for some inspiration photos...
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Shall we?

artwork for outdoors?

holy dream house... you make my knees weak.

{source unknown}

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{decorpad}

{via decorpad}

{via country living}

{via decorpad}

Hopefully we will have this spring bug stay with us so we can get our space looking like this in no time. 

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What are you working on this spring??

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spring cleaning anyone??

A Review and A New Company

First of all allmodern.com (via) CSN offered me the wonderful opportunity of doing a review on an item.

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 After searching for nearly a month I finally found the perfect item. 

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An indoor/outdoor doormat for our screened in porch!!

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The best part... it is made by my new favorite company........

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Dash and Albert

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I got this awesome diamond pattern rug in denim for $13.00!!!

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I have had the rug for close to 3 weeks now and moved it to inside our front door, you know.. to "test it out"

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Verdict.... ITS AWESOME!! does a great job of hiding dirt, (despite its white) and doesnt catch on the bottom of the door. 

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It would stay here permenantly but... I went ahead and took the plunge on this guy.

{can't WAIT to get him in!!!}

now... onto that new company....

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Had a neat encounter at preschool the other day. There was a sub in my classroom and I am always excited about meeting the new person I get to work with. Within minutes of meeting I discovered Karen owned an ADOREABLE hand painted ceramics company.

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She makes just about everything you can imagine.

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LOVE all her greek stuff!!

personalized dishes

she also makes precious tea sets.

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Her items are sold all over the country and I feel so fortunate to be able to meet such a talented lady!!

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Be back later tody with some new additions.

An Award!!!

I recieved an award!!!

The award comes with a few rules.  No worries, nothing too crazy.

1. You must link back to the person who gave you the award to let them know you accept;
Thanks  for the award Lessons of a Newlywed

2. You must share 7 things about yourself; and

3. Pass the award on to 15 recently discovered bloggers and let them know about the award.

Now without further ado, here are seven awesome things you may or may not have known about me.

1. I greatly despise doing the dishes!
2. I LOVE to bake!!
3. I used to want to be a professional photographer and "the dream" was to photograph the pipeline surfing tournament in Hawaii {can we say I watched the movie Blue Crush every morning before school??}
4. I am deathly afraid of roller coasters, spiders, and mice!! DEATHLY AFRAID!
5. I get stopped all the time and have people tell me I look like Elisabeth Shue, like once a week... its wierd.
6. I am well known for my uber corny jokes.. ie, have you heard about the new circus in town? its IN-TENTS!!
7. When I met my husband for the first time he paid for me to get into a concert on campus at Alabama then within 5 minutes of being in the door I totally blew him off.. {harsh i know, i now regret this.}

Now onto some of my new fave reads....

1. Dixie Delights. 
2. His Holy Hill
3. Not Your Average Southern Belle
4. Ten June
5. Gus and Lula
6. The Savvy Speechie
7. Hoot Photography
8. Design-aholic
9. For the Love of a House
10. Franks Funny Farm
11. Kentucky Mama
12. Less Cake More Frosting
13. Life on Dahlia Lane
14. My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia
15. Old Days Old Ways

Thanks for all your inspiration!! I just love each and every one of you!!

Chic find

So found this great little table in Ballard Designs spring catalog!!

I am needing something small and round to break up the modular lines in my den

While in the process of looking for this table I came across a new blog!!

*this girl has got such great taste!! Lemme tell ya!!

She found this exact table I had been looking for at Kohl's!!

Isn't it great!!! And here is the best part!

Not too bad paying $30.00 instead of $139.00!!

That's my chic find of the week!!