Last week we made a ton of progress on the room! Lighting is all installed, artwork is finished and hung, I bought a giant fake tree and a pillow. Things are moving right along. All that is left is some putzy decor and finding some more pillows which is my least favorite part of doing […]
ORC Week 5 – Lighting & Art for the living room
Yes, we’re going to talk about lighting again! After last weeks Beauty & the Beast fail, I went to Menards of all places and found two choices. The lantern and the sputnik/globe light. I also ordered these brass wall lamps for behind the sofa. Like my screen shot? I was almost out of battery, […]
ORC Week 4 Living Room – Wood Beams & Lighting in the living room
This week we accomplished a few things! Yeah for us! I still don’t want to show a pic of the entire room yet because I love it and I want to be dramatic. Although I will say if you follow me on instagram, I may have shown a looksi the other day on my stories. […]
ORC Week 2 – Challenges with husbands and furniture
Hello friends. Time for an ORC check in for week deux or two if you’re not french. We had a lot of big changes happen last week, paint, accent wall. carpet and arguing over which furniture goes in which room. To recap, Angela sold a vision of the front room complete with the new sectional […]
ORC – Week 1 Our Living Room – Decorating around a sectional I don’t like
Welcome friends! It’s my favorite time of year, the ORC! This will be my 5th time participating and I can’t wait to see what everyone is doing. Here’s a quick recap of a few rooms I’ve done in the past, one being our Sexy Master Bedroom and another favorite, our Sexy Master Bathroom. Now […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
No, I’m not talking about fall, or pumpkin barf spice everything. I am talking about the One Room Challenge! For this challenge, we will be tackling the front/formal living room. It recently looked like this before I sold my beloved ektorp furniture. We recently purchased a sectional from Costco of all places and I needed a […]
A new venture
Last summer, I had an idea for a business, a space where people could come together to create. We would have a variety of classes and my wonderfully creative friends who all share different passions and abilities in art would be able to share their passion with others. People who want to create but need […]
It’s time for the 3rd Annual No Spend February!
Have I ever told you that I hate the color red? It’s probably my least favorite color. Anyways, after that random introduction let’s move on. February is fast approaching and that means it’s time for a NO SPEND month. This time we will be using all the money we save to pay for our […]
My word of the year – 2017
Happy New Year friends! I have a few blog posts that I usually do around now, including this one, my word for the year. I look forward to writing this post every year. I love New Years and the fresh start that it brings. I know that flipping over a calendar page to a new […]
Life Lately – Flourishing!
Hey friends, I thought I’d post a little update on here, probably more for me than you honestly as I love going back and reading my random posts about life from a few years ago. For a bit I tried to have a personal blog and this blog as well but it just wasn’t working out. […]
