thrify finds

How was everyone's Thanksgiving break? Ours was really good filled with yummy food made by my amazing Mother & lots of family time. All the things that make Thanksgiving great! Speaking of my mom, feel free to check out her crafty blog. I recently made her a new layout! :)

Every Sunday, my hubs & I go to brunch at our favorite local hole in the wall restaurant & then hit up some thrift stores. Most of the time I don't find anything, but every once in a while I'll strike gold! Thrifty gold! This Sunday I found this amazing blue vase or jar or whatever you wanna call it. Either way, it's beautiful! I can't wait to put in my newly decorated living room, in the Spring! I also found this amazing glass water bottle, that I actually saw the night before when we went out to eat at Macaroni Grill. I jokingly said to Paul, 'I want one of these. Let's ask to buy one!' Apparently, the universe knew how badly I loved this glass bottle because when we went thrifting it was on a shelf, waiting for me to find it! Thankfully, Paul found it & ran to me with excitement, where we both danced around happily at our thrift find! Ok, not really, but you get the idea.


Aren't they awesome? I've been looking for things to put on shelves in the living room, after I redesign the room in the Spring & I'm so glad I found something to start me off with! I hope to find more things in blues & yellows, the theme I'll be using in the living room. I can't believe it's almost time to go crazy decorator on my living room/dining room & kitchen in the next few months! I'm so excited!

Do you love thrifting too? What's a great thrift find, you've found recently? Share away!

Bathroom goodies.

I never got to share all of the awesome bathroom goodies we picked up when we went to Ikea last week. Here is a run down of everything we got...

~ Orange trash can
~ Two orange bins (tooth brush holder, etc)
~ Two orange towels
~ Two teal towels
~ One lilac towel
~ One white wash cloth
~ Shower Curtain
~ Teal bath mat

I decided to not start the bathroom project until after Thanksgiving. I might start tackling a few bathroom to-do's this week tho since I'll have a little extra time to myself, with the kids being off school & my oldest being away with Grandma for the week. We shall see! Fingers crossed. ha!

Hope everyone has a great week & a Happy Thanksgiving!

hi ho hi ho, off to ikea we go!

Today we made our way to Ikea to pick up the bathroom goodies I mentioned in my last post. I was actually right on the money on how much we'd spend (on our first trip... hehe!) & I got everything I needed. I have to go back & pickup more towels, a new shower rod (to hang the curtain), a new mirror & cabinet for over the toilet & maaaybe a few more decorations and/or frames/art. But, this first trip was a success, so that's all I care about! Everything will fall into place in time.

I also finally picked out which paint colors I'm going to use. I chose Behr Premium Plus | Tangerine Dream & Jamaican Sea from Home Depot. I don't think images do the colors justice, because they are a tad brighter looking in person & just so beautiful! They really pop & stand out. Here is a couple of images I found on google of these two colors on walls.




Preeetty, riight? Love them! It really was love at first sight, no doubt about it. I knew right away when I spotted these that they were the ones meant for my bathroom walls. I also decided on this design for how I'm going to paint the bathroom. The Tangerine Dream will be on the top (ceiling, top of the wall) and then the Jamaican Sea will be the second half, the bead board will be white, as well as all the trim.

Tomorrow I'm going to start ripping all of the tiles off the walls, more on that here. Then hopefully next week I'll be able to go pickup the paint, molding & bead board, as well as other little random things we need to DIY.

BTW, as you can tell my obsession for all things orange & teal has taken over my blog. I had to change my layout to reflect my mood & love for these amazing colors! I also Pinned some of my favorite orange & teal design combos on Pinterest! Check it out! Hope you all have a great week!

Bathroom oops!

Back in the Spring, in the mist of designing my bedroom remodel I, on a whim decided I should also revamp the bathroom, the main bathroom in the house, mostly used by my kids. I stepped out of my element & decided to paint the bathroom in a Mickey Mouse theme, that both of my kids would love... except I wound up not loving it so much. I painted the walls with three stripes, one black (whaaat?!), one white & one in bright red (another whaaaat?! moment). At the time I thought oh man, this is going to look amazing! Everyone will bow at my Mickey Mouse bathroom talents! Yeaaah, not so much. I got all of the bathroom goodies (bath mat, shower curtain, towels, etc) at Target.




See what I mean? Not good. I'll be taking down all of those wall tiles, which will be replaced by bead board & molding. More on that in a second.

After I painted I lost interest FAST! My original plan was to draw a big mickey head on the main wall, the wall you face while using the toilet. Because really, everyone should be looking at Mickey Mouse when peeing, right? WRONG. Bad idea. I subconsciously must of agreed with that because I never wound up doing anything other than paint stripes. Didn't even add one Mickey picture to the walls. I was just so disgusted with the whole idea that I pretty much gave up on that bathroom & walked away from it. Every time I take a shower in there, I curse it. It just doesn't suit me at all!

In the past couple weeks, I went back to that bathroom with some new ideas, thanks of course to the almighty Pinterest & IKEA!

Here are a few of my ideas, that the hubs & I will be working on in the next week... as well as my handyman, aka my dad. Ha!

This is the decor I'll be putting in there, from the amazing Ikea!




Everything else, I'll have to go to Ikea to pick out because I'm really picky & like to see things in person before making a judgement call.

I'm really excited to get this project underway & to be able to share it here. Are you planning on redoing a room in your house? Where do you get your ideas from?

wreath update

After staring at my last post for awhile, the #1 on the wreath started to drive me crazy, so I grabbed my glue gun & went back to work. I pulled the #1 off the wreath, removed all the dried glue & re-positioned that baby. Now it looks much better!

Ahhhh, much better!

DIY: Front door wreath

Recently I was surfing the amazing website that is Pinterest & found this. I instantly fell in love with the idea. I thought about what I would do with my very own creation, headed to Micheal's & Jo-Ann stores & picked up everything I needed. I got the wreath ($4.99) & a new glue gun ($2.99!!) at Micheal's & then the rest of the goodies (flower, numbers & decorative wood ball thingies, about $15 total) at Jo-Ann. Came home, painted my numbers & started putting everything together!

I started by placing the flower & little decor ball thingies where I wanted them.

Then went & painted my numbers using the leftover paint I had from the exterior of our house & waited for them to dry. After they were dry I started gluing everything into place & wah-la finished!

I'm still unsure about that #1 at the bottom. I think I'll be moving him to a different location. Anyway, here is my front door before the wreath.

annnnd after!

The best part about this project is that I can always change it around & add new things to it all the time. This is also my first attempt at making any kind of wreath period, so I'm pretty proud with how it turned out being that I'm a beginner at this stuff.

Have you come across something on Pinterest & thought you'd like to try to DIY? What was it & have you tried yet? I'm always finding new things to do myself! Check out my personal Pinterest here!

My first post!

This blog is definitely a work in progress, just like my house. ha! But, nonetheless, I'm so excited to finally have a place to share all of my DIY ideas and home re-do's. I'm currently in the process of designing my kitchen remodel & living room/dining room re-decorates! I have a lot of work ahead of me but so happy so share it with whoever is following along, reading this little place. I have so many great ideas and plans for my new blog, I just wish I had endless amounts of time & money to get it all done super fast! Time makes everything better tho, because the more thought you put into something the more you'll love it in the end.

Anyway, so glad to finally get this place going! Thanks for reading!