More decorating

I have been doing some more redecorating in the house. Some of it is changing things around, some of it putting up new things where something didn't exist before. Basically, I have just been having a darn good time putting holes in the walls.

This is in the bathroom, above the toilet. I painted the canvas, and the flowers are towel holders from Hobby Lobby. I'm not sure how well they are going to work...they won't go flush against the wall. But they look cute. And not nearly that crooked in real life. Pay no attention to the blue in the corner. That is just something we are working on memorizing....Romans 12. I am terrible at memorizing.

This is in the corner that leads into the kitchen. The shelf is from IKEA, and it holds my cookbooks and some canisters and such. The crosses all came from Hobby Lobby, most were on clearance.

This is in the kitchen. I got the C on clearance at Anthropologie in the Fashion Mall in Indy(I think it was meant for a children's room) and the vases at CB2.

I bought these shelves from Target last January, with Christmas gift cards. I just finally figured out how I wanted them hung. The bottom shelf has our wedding invitation in a frame, and the little frame has the monogram that Andy made for our wedding programs. The other frames are empty. I haven't decided what pictures to put up yet.

And I rearranged this bookshelf that Andy's grandpa made for him. On the top, I finally finished up my flower arrangement (it had looked haggard for so long) and figured out what to put around it. Then on the shelves I just did some rearranging. I might change out some of the frames....I think I would like it if they were all black or white wood frames here. I might move the metal somewhere else. We'll see.

Finally getting somewhere

Since we moved into our house last September, I have been slowly working on getting the house decorated. I'm sure it will take a good bit longer, but this week, I got two things finished--window treatments in the bathroom and on the door to the backyard. Both of the projects cost less than 5 dolllars, and took less than 15 minutes to complete--if only everything could be so easy!



Bathroom window:









And the kitchen door: I think I want to paint this door white. The outside paint needs to be redone as well. It's peeling pretty terribly.

My next projects:

-Hanging crosses on kitchen wall

-Fillling vases on cutout btw kitchen and living room

-Hanging living room shelves, decorating

-Painting kitchen cabinets white

-Start looking for monogram letter "C"s to hang on living room wall

From spring to summer

Our front door had a makeover this morning

From spring....

...to summer

I saw a wreath very similar to this one at Target yesterday....for 60 dollars. Instead, I spent 13 dollars at Hobby Lobby and pulled out the glue gun. I think it looks all right...and I think I'm starting to develop a real attachment to my hot glue gun.

Getting it together

When we first moved into our house last September, the landscaping was pretty eh, whatever. We knew we wanted to do some work on it. Here it is when we moved in.

Then, we had an unfortunate plumbing incident in October, that left an 18 inch white pipe sticking up in the middle of our yard. The plumber said he would be back in a few weeks to fix that. It's June. He hasn't been here. He wasn't the best...in fact, I could do an entire post on the inept workmen we have hired to fix our house....and the things they broke. But that's not the point of this story.

Come March, after months of no rain, we had monsoon like storms. And we figured out how well our yard did with water. Or how NOT well. Because it was terrible.

So with all of these things, we realized we had a lot of work ahead of us in our yard. Our first project: to extend the flower beds in the front for appearance, and to put in new beds along the back and side of the house to help with the drainage problems.

Today, after literally months of work (making lines, killing grass, taking care of killed grass, buying topsoil, adding topsoil, transplanting/splitting plants, buying new plants, and mulching) we finished those beds. And here are a few pictures so you can enjoy our handiwork. Or just so I can.