Valentine's Recap

This year we went with a really simple valentines. 

Nothing better than some good ole quality time.

 

We obviously put our pinterest mailboxes to good use.

(ac had a blast finding some goodies in her little box)

Since a 3 yr old was dining I decided to do an elegant kid friendly set up. (i am laughing at typing that really... basically a gold charger can make you, as an adult, feel as if you are indulging in a fine meal. haha)

This was our first holiday having lil bit eat on her new plate. she was Overly excited about this.

 

And what pink holiday is complete without some lilly and of course a Pinkaliscious book, namely Pinkadoodles. I am just as excited as lil bit is!!

 

My very sweet husband did something unconventional when the baby was born. Since my favorite florist was closing on Saturday right as we were headed into the hospital he decided to sign me up for the flower of the month club with Holidays flowers. Basically you get a small bouquet of flowers every month for 12 months. He got my first bouquet yesterday and I am in love!! 

And the best part is a fraction of the cost to having a monthly bouquet of fresh flowers every month!!

I can't wait!!!

Hope you all had a lovely evening with the ones you love!

Valentines decor

In my usual DIY fashion I added another polymesh wreath to my collection this year.


Found some hot pink almost fuchsia mesh at hobby lobby and made the same style wreath I made like when the baby came home from the hospital.

I had the love sign left over from last year. ( was a kohls clearance piece for 1.00) added just the right pop I was needing!!

Inside, we have our pinterest valentine mailboxes.

And on my scallop chalkboard I added some 99 cent chipboard letters I found at target.


Now time to prepare the menu and add some bows to my loves little happies!

Early onset Spring Fever

I don't know about you but it seems we have hardly had a winter at all. Since sweet boy has arrived we have had more weather in the mid 50's than we typically even have in march!!

With all these warm days I am getting quite antsy for spring!

Typically (in selfish fashion) I look for things for myself I have been wanting to "freshen up" with for spring. 

Well now that there will be two little ones in my life I can not help but drool over decadent things for them.
If you can't tell I am currently obsessed with anything personalized

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And just for fun.
I have GOT to find a space in my home to make a "mantel" How cute is this easter mantel?

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valentines breakfast

For Valentine's Day I grew up having a big breakfast. Daddy would always buy something special for the girls and Mommy would always buy something special for my brother. That night my parents usually went out.

I would LOVE to carry this tradition on in our house so in similar fashion we began our own version of this tradition.

Here is what we did:

The milk was given a serving of pink food coloring :)

 

We made Red Velvet Pancakes and sprinkled them with yummy powdered sugar

Last year was a very simple breakfast!

We then exchanged our valentines and lovies we had purchased for each other. 

I hope to take more pictures this year and share some new things we are planning on.

Back to life

Recently Casey and I were driving around neighborhood in our part of town. We found this house with weeds 5 ft tall. It was a grand house, very southern and very classic.

It had been abandoned and just so happened to be open when we went to peek in the windows.

Here is what we saw when we walked through.

Why am I showing you all of this? Well long story short we thought we wanted to purchase this house and rehab it. The home was already under contract when we called to inquire about it;(

Either way, I want to show you what I had in mind. So dream with me for a few minutes.

The den

how great would a dark fireplace be in this room?

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Downstairs Halfbath

The bathroom tile has come back in style.

And how cool would this look in this space?

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If you look closely in this picture you can see the ceiling in the kitchen is caving in. (there was bad roof damage in the back of the home)

we went far enough in this home to go back and measure to see what we could do a complete kitchen overhaul on this space. We had two main layouts in mind.

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This one is my absolute all time most favorite.

Just breaks my heart someone would leave this home like this.

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This layout would have required us to rearrange some plumbing but would have been just as lovely.

This is the living room. Complete with lovely green carpeting!

It would make an awesome playroom.

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otherside of the living room

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I mean seriously?? How fun?

The entry with hunter green marble flooring.

on the left side this is what I would like to see when walking in the front door.

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We think someone ripped the carpet off the stairs

And a small bench and picture to welcome you into the home

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Cute gate leading to the courtyard

wish I could find the pic to the courtyard but it seems to be missing. it has the same layout as the one in the pinterest picture. soo amazing

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And the back door area.

oh how precious would it be dressed up with outdoor cabana curtains?

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how cute would this be at christmas time?

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And here is the dining room.

Assuming there was more damage to this room. This is the foundation for the flooring.

(thank you pinterest for making it sooo easy to pull inspiration pics together)

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I would even plant some boxwoods and hosta along the front walkway.

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Thanks for dreaming with me.

Valentines Ideas

Last year I SUPER slacked and I don't think I even blogged our valentine's day. So I wanted to share this year to give you some fun ideas of stuff to do!!

 

Here is everything clustered together before I was able to figure out what I wanted to do with it all!

First thing we did was buy a few fun accessories
We found the cupcakes at Pier 1.

Guess what ?? they brought them back this year!

click on image to go to their site!

Then I collected a few of the Round Top Collection hearts to put our valentines in.

I wanted to do something original for treats for our MDO friends.

Instead of paper that would be trashed and too sweet candy mommies may not let their little ones eat we did heart shaped marshmallows!!
 All of the children enjoyed getting something different!

A banner of love

Okay so...have a confession... I like to make things really really difficult on myself.

ie.. handmake a banner without a die cutting machine! TRUTH!!

Anyway, it turned out to be quite fun so here are the steps if you so choose to join me in making one.

Here is what I started with.

note: what you think you are starting with and what you acually may end up using tends to change!

Step one:

Use the circle tracer and make your circles for the background, the cut out circles.

 Step two:

Find a needle, thread and crepe paper. Use a weaving method to thread the paper and slowly gather. this will create a ruffled affect in the paper.

*glue the backsides of the ruffle medallion together with craft glue

Step three:

Glue the center of the medallion together and let sit for a few minutes, then glue the outside edges of the medallion and dip in glitter along the outside edge.

Step four:

hot glue on chip letters, hot glue medallion onto "backer" paper

(I used the remainder of the letters of a box from a christmas banner I made)

Step five:

this was the point where I realized I needed a second background so I dug in my stash of scrapbook paper and found this stripe. I used the outer edge of my tracer to scallop this paper and cut it out.

 then hotglue the background to the other pieces.

Step six:

punch holes into the corners of the backer paper and string letters together with either ribbon or twine.

Step seven:

Hang and enjoy!