Happy to be Featured!

I was recently contacted by Homes.com asking if I wouldn't mind having my Spring Decor featured along with other blogger's spring decor. Of course I said YES!!

Feel free to stop by, take a look and vote for your favorite! If you voted for me that would be awesome, but let me tell you that the competition if fierce!! We don't win anything, just bragging rights. But it's just fun when someone takes notice of something you create. YAY!
Check it out at Homes.com

Checking In...

Hey-O did ya miss me? I have just been maxin' & relaxin' this week with the family. Sometimes you just need a break from the blog world.
We really have been enjoying this time, hanging out and just laying low.  I was so excited to see Hunger Games and it did not dissapoint!! Did you see it? What did you think?
I also have been cooking up a storm and making freezer meals for the future, along with some yummy cinnamon rolls via The Pioneer Woman. (Although I cut waaay down on all the butter & sugar she says to use (yikes) I  made a huge batch of Enchiladas. Some for us and some for a friend who just had a baby. I stopped by to drop them off and her baby is so stinkin' cute. But I forget how tiny newborns are! Which is amazing that almost 11 months ago someone let us leave the hospital and bring home something that little for us to care for day and night!?! crazy!
Babies are everywhere! My blogger friend Valerie just had a sweet baby boy stop by and say congrats at Bohemian Season. (It's a super great blog too!)
Well I better get back to family time... and netflix instant streaming... and a bunch of magazines that came in the mail...

I am going to leave you with some lovely kitchens I found on Pinterest. Oh the things I could create in these kitchens... sigh.

Elle Decor

House & Home

Better Homes & Gardens

Jennifer Rizzo

We were on a break!!!!

Happy Friday friends!!! (Did you get my blog title reference? Even after all these years I still use Friends quotes. Do you?)

We are just hours away from my husband being on Spring Break!!!!! We don't have anything too exciting planned, but it will just be nice to have him home for a week. However there will be a few things we are planning on doing...


I will be making a couple of recipes from my favorite Magazine


We are going down to Winona, MN (birthplace of this Actress) to visit the in-laws.

And we plan on seeing Hunger Games as many times as we can!




I want to send you off with this video. My mom sent this to me. Hula Hooping is her new favorite past time and she claims it's the best work out ever!
I apologize if you never want to read my blog or be my friend after watching this video.




Happy Weekend!

Entryway Makeover

When we moved into this house, this was the entryway...

And after a coat of paint and some things I found around the house, we had this...

Table: Thrifted
Chair: Thrifted
Lamp Base: Thrifted
Lamp Shade: Target
Rug: Target
Bowl: Marshalls
Candle: Target
Eiffel Tower: Paris! :)
Pillow: Etsy DiyPillows (which I just found out their shop is closing)
Mirror: Garage Sale
Books: Andrew Wyeth (my favorite artist)
Paint Color: There is a fun story about how we came up with the color.

One day we were eating Cape Cod's Salt & Vinegar chips 

and I looked at the blue on the bag, and said, That would be such a pretty wall color! 

So we brought the chip bag to Home Depot and they made us up a gallon. 

Linked Up At:
Happy Hour Projects, House of Hepworths, Pincushion Creations, The Shabby Nest, Five Days, 5 Ways, Love Notes by Lauryn, Bubbly Nature Creations, Anything Goes @ Bacon Time, Tatertots and Jello, 52 Mantels, It's Overflowing, Itsy Bitsy Paper Blog, My 1929 Charmer Blog, Knick of Time, Very Merry Vintage Style, Taking a Time Out Thursday, Centsational Girl, Crafty, Scrappy, Happy, My Romantic Home 

Leprechaun Mischief!

St. Patrick's Day started more like April Fool's Day for me!!! I had a whole fun day planned of Green Cinnamon Rolls, Shamrock Cookies, wearing O' the Green and fun fun fun!! But instead I went to get the mail, turned around, tripped over my husband's HUGE shoe in the middle floor (where did that come from?? darn Leprechaun!)... and face planted into the floor!!! Down she goes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUCH! Thank God I wasn't holding the baby, that would have been BAD!  But it hurt like the dickens and my husband came running and tried to pick me up, but I wasn't ready to be picked up and i just wanted to lay on the floor in my agony and tears. But I started laughing at the same time because I envisioned myself falling and my husband pulling at me to get me off the floor. And that was super funny!
He kept saying, Why are you Laughing???
But really I was in pain. Thankfully  I didn't break anything. My arm and my leg took the brunt of it though and I have some nice bruises.

source

 

Needless to say, I spent a chunk of the day on the couch. I did get around to making cinnamon rolls, but my brother was over and he said Green cinnamon rolls sounded gross. So we just had regular ones and they were YUMMY!

That's all I got.
I hope your St. Patty's day was green and not black & blue!

SPRING SPRING SPRING!!

We are having the most amazing weather here! 70 degrees all week long!!!! Maybe in other parts of the country that is normal, but here in  MN that doesn't usually happen until May! We've been on a lot of walks and a visit to the lake. Granted there is still ice on the lake, but it's still lovely nonetheless. I know Spring isn't until next week and we have St. Patrick's day to celebrate first, I couldn't help but do some Spring decorating. I found the frames at a thrift store. They were U.G.L.Y.!!! But with some paint, they look totally transformed! So NEVER underestimate some old junky frames and paint! Hello transformation!!!!

I had fun editing these photos with PicMonkey. It's very similar to Picnik, so I'm glad I found another fun photo editing site after Picnik goes buh-bye. I suppose I could finally learn how to use photoshop, but I like to keep it real (and easy). I used a feature called Yester-color to give it an old fashioned vintage look to these photos. 

But I also like the other camera effects too...

HDR

Boost

Cross Process

Basic editing

Have you started decorating for Spring\Easter? Is it too early?


Linked up at:
Happy Hour Projects, House of Hepworths, Pincushion Creations, The Shabby Nest, Five Days, 5 Ways, Love Notes by Lauryn, Bubbly Nature Creations, Anything Goes @ Bacon Time, Tatertots and Jello, 52 Mantels, It's Overflowing, Itsy Bitsy Paper Blog, My 1929 Charmer Blog, Knick of Time, Very Merry Vintage Style, Taking a Time Out Thursday, Centsational Girl, Crafty, Scrappy, Happy, My Romantic Home, Dear Lillie, Jennifer Rizzo

A Weekend for Waffles n' Stuff

This weekend I decided to make waffles. I saw a recipe for Pumpkin Waffles  at Whatever Blog and decided it was time to bust the ol' waffle maker out. Do you call it a waffle maker or a waffle iron?? Regardless of what you call them, the waffles were super yummy!!! 

My coveted Anthropologie measuring spoons my husband gave to me for my birthday last year! 

Delish Blackberry Syrup!

My favorite thrift store dinner plates.

I have a thing for collecting dinner plates at thrift stores. If I see a set I like, I snatch it up and add it to my collection. That way if one gets broken it's no biggie! I recently found these polka-dot plates at the Goodwill. They are just so fun and cheery! I walked past them about 5 times before putting them in my cart. I'm really glad I did!

 I really love going to thrift stores, it's seriously one of my most favorite past times. I was in a thrift store yesterday and as I was walking outside, my dad pulled up in his car and was there to do some thrifting himself! It was awesome because we totally did not plan this, nor did he know I was there! This is not the first time something like this has happened. We're just cool like that.

The weather here is gorgeous! And you know Spring is right around the corner and that makes me so happy! Longer and warmer days are my style. (I am so not a winter girl... and yet I choose to live in MN????) Well I guess the Spring, Summer and Fall make it worth it to live in this beautiful state!

Hope you're all having a splendid weekend!