Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Princess Party...4 year old style!!

Well, it's been a while since my last post, but things have been quite busy around here.  The hubby got a new position at work, so we've been trying to get used to the new hours.  It is nice because he now has weekends off, but I don't get nearly as much accomplished around the home because of this...we are too busy enjoying our time together!  Anyway, our daughter recently turned 4 and I have been quite busy with the big birthday bash, but I'm glad to announce that it is over and my home is slowly recovering.  She wanted pink princesses, so instead of going with the easy Disney Princess theme, I decided to glam it up a bit. 





Everyone had a great time!  We rented a bounce house and there is a playground right on the grounds so the children were worn out afterwards.  Now, I can return to my attempt at organizing/decorating/maintaining my home!!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Original Art Display

So, I love to decorate my home, but I like to change things a lot too.  There is nothing worse than paying a lot of money for home decor and then being totally sick of it by the next year.  I have been trying to find creative ways to save money, but keep my home trendy at the same time. 

One thing about me is, I HATE white walls, but trying to find great wall colors that will go with a lot of different decorating styles can be quite challenging.  So, I found a paint color that looked gray with a hint of blue for my living room.  The paint swatch looked PERFECT!!  Gray can go with anything right?!!  My husband does not allow me to paint walls because I apparently don't do it correctly (this is fine because I despise painting anyway).  So, I return home from work one day only to discover that my entire living room is BLUE...not gray with a hint of blue, but blue!!  How could this happen?  Well, apparently we should have only purchased a small sample of the paint because 2 gallons and $50 later, we were stuck with this BLUE living room.  Country Blue!!  If any of you watch HGTV the experts always suggest sampling colors first, but we don't listen.  Shame on us!  Anyhow, I was not about to purchase more paint and go through the headache of moving furniture around for a 2nd time...I had to make the blue work.  So, we did what we could, but there was one huge blue wall that still needed to be tackled.  So, we bought a book shelf to hide the wall. 

It still wasn't quite tall enough; there was still entirely too much blue showing.  Now we needed art work, but we are hoping to sell our home soon so we didn't want to add any additional holes in the wall, and we didn't want to spend a lot of money on a piece of art that we may not like a year down the road.  So, I started looking through my 3 year old daughter's collection of art work.  She brings home at least 3 paintings a week from preschool, and I just add them to a tote in the closet because....what are you supposed to do with them?  Let's face it, there is only so much fridge space.  Anyhow, a lot of her art work is really good and completely frame worthy.  I then found all of these cheap frames from Ikea...if you've ever been to Ikea then you know you can get a boatload of frames...any size...for under $20. 


And, by leaning the artwork against the wall, not only did we add depth to the display, we also eliminated the need for nail holes. 


By adding a homemade piece of my own (the monogram N) and the 8x10 photo of my daughter, we now have a contemporary and eclectic display of original art work.  It is a completely non-country style, but yet  it works with the HORRIBLE blue wall!!!  (please ignore all of the additional clutter because the bookcase that saved my living room has now become a catch-all)

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Welcome to the 21st Century!

It seems as though everyone is involved in social media these days.  I feel a little behind.  Facebook, I can figure that out.  Twitter, not so much.  Blogging, here is my attempt.  I've always thought that my life would make a pretty great reality show...I mean, how much more exciting does life get than taking care of a little red-headed girl every day right?!  Besides, what's so interesting about the Kardashians or any of these other celebrities.  The only difference between them and me is the dollars in their bank accounts...well, maybe a few other things.  Anyhow, no reality TV show producers have called recently, so rather than post the details of my every day life complete with hourly schedule as my status update of Facebook as so many others tend to do, I've decided to create a blog.  Please stay tuned...more exciting things will be happening soon!!