Splish, Splash

I didn't do anything exciting of note this weekend. Joseph, Oscar, and I did take a small little trip yesterday down to Blountstown to spend Father's Day with my father! After eating way too much, we headed down to the creek for a little fun in the sun. Oscar totally enjoyed his day. He swam and swam until finally I had to make him stop because he was so tired. He loved chasing Brandon and Colton while they dove off the diving board and tried to out-swim Jack to see who could get to the football/baseball the quickest. And it is always cute to see Oscar and Jack in their little life jackets! Here are a few pictures from yesterday.

The drain had been clogged, so the we had to do a little work to get some of the debris outta the way! But if that is the only work I have to do on any given day, I would say it was a good one! It is always fun going swimming in the creek for the first time every year!

Dress My Nest

I have a new addiction. I love Dress My Nest on the Style channel. I think that it is really cool how Thom takes 3 style items and 3 personal items and incorporates it into the room's design. So ladies, do you have a favorite dress, earrings, etc? If so, it is super easy to add touches of your personal style into the style of your home. We are all divas about our clothes, why not vamp up our rooms? I decided to try my hand at this and see what I could come up with. I used J Crew clothes for inspiration and Pottery Barn for the interpretation. I did this solely for simplicity! So here is what I came up with!

See! Nothing too fancy about what I picked, but it was fun. So look to your closet for some inspiration and get to it!

Happy Birthday!

I want to give a quick shout-out to my friends Catrina and Sabrina. Happy Birthday girls! Love you lots and have a great birthday!!

"Goodwill" Hunting

I bought these picture frames a while ago and they have just been sitting there without any pictures. I debated on what to put in them, but since they were in the guest room, I didn't think my guests would want to see cheesy (literally. HELLO bathing suit!) vacay shots of me and Joseph. So, I ran over to my local Goodwill bookstore and grabbed some cheapo art books to look for some pics to cut out. I got 5 books for all of $12. Only three were art books. Got a music theory book and a nice copy of a 1957 printing of Gone with the Wind.

I found a cute picture of a Renoir painting to put in the smaller frame. I didn't really find a picture that I liked for the larger frame, so I decided to put a piece of sheet music to show as a display. I went through my piano books and found a piece that had a bird theme, that went with my room. I know, I know! I'm crazy like that! The music wasn't quite the same size as the frame, so I took some scrapbooking paper and made a mat, so that it would fit. Even thought the sheetmusic came out of one of my mother's piano books, it didn't have that vintage-y, oldie look, so I aged it with tea. Here's what I did for the project.

First, I soaked the page in tea for a few minutes. Then, I set it on a wire rack to dry. Hit it with a hairdryer to speed up the process. Last, I cut my mat to fit the frame and then measured to frame the sheetmusic. Here is the final project!

Some Beach, Somewhere.....

Thought I would share a few pics of my nephew, Barrett from Saturday when we headed down to St. George Island for a day of sun and fun. Don't worry, mother.....no pictures of you will be

posted!

He was pooped from playing and running in the sand. Nothing like a nice snooze on the beach!

Have a Seat

Super boredom can be interesting. It can make you do things that you would never dream of- like taking out a paint brush and some paints and think of things to change. Well, I was super-bored the other day and decided to make Joseph's computer chair a little bit better looking. So, out comes the green paint and wa-lah! A new look to an old ladder-back chair! I know this is boring, but I didn't have anything else to post today. So, you will have to take what I'm giving today! Thought it turned out cute. Much improvement over the old worn out brown wood and now it matches the rest of the room!!

On the store front: I was super excited to find some Lenox Butler Pantry rice bowls at TJ Maxx yesterday on sale for $10/piece. Much better than the regular $18 a pop for one. So I grabbed the ones that they had. Yay me. On a sad note, a little clock I bought over the weekend at HobLob got broken the moment I brought it in the door. Guess I will have to get the glue gun out, even though it does stay together now without glue.

Wish List

Now that my bedroom project has just about come to an end, I am looking for something else to decorate. I want to get a new comforter for our bedroom. Joseph made fun of me and my "beachy" as he calls it, guest room. And for all of that complaining, he would rather spend his time in there than anywhere else in the house! So that makes me want to make our room a little bit more inviting. My walls are a taupe/light brown and the bathroom is a beautiful shade of light blue. I am so over our brown/blue scheme we have going on now and wanted to jazz things up with a navy/light blue combo, AND I do want to keep the blue in the bathroom because a) I love the color and b) I am too lazy to repaint it. So here is what makes it to the top of my wish list for our bedroom. I just love it. It incorporates my two favorite things: florals and plaids! It is a bit fancy and grandma-y, but I like it anyways. I could never be the girl to have an all white comforter and not have it ruined in 2 days. So presently, I am in full search mode for a good, cheap deal on this because I can't afford it from the website or Dillards.....so happy hunting, Ashley! I love how I have champagne taste on a beer budget. But where theres a will, theres a way, right? (not to mention JWB's AmEx card screaming for me to use it) Kidding, sweetie! No need to give me the credit card speech again. Got it. Check. :)