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Spring Planting Update

A few weeks ago I posted about the flowers around my mailbox. I promised to keep yall updated to see how they were doing. Well here’s the photo I took yesterday morning as I was leaving for work (photo taken with cell phone out the window of my CRV so please excuse the quality).

Clearly the day lillies are doing great! The snapdragons are kinda being lost in the shuffle. I’ll take a photo tonight of the flowers in the pots on ouor front porch. I think they aren’t doing as well after all the rain we got Sunday/Monday/Tuesday.

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Twitter Home Tour

A couple of awesome girls in the twitter universe came up with the idea. I love checking out other peoples homes & getting ideas, so I joined on. Our house is definitely not model home quality, but its ours and we like it.

Let’s start with our foyer. I couldn’t get a good picture of the overall, so here’s my three favorites from the area: dried flowers from my bouquet, wedding portrait, & wedding Bible quote & favorite beach wedding photo.
This room is a disaster. It was an office/junk room. Husband’s trying to turn it into a “man room”. It’ll eventually be the nursery (who knows where all the stuff will go then). Yall only get a brief glance.Next as we make our way down the hall is our guest bedroom. This is almost the exact same room as my college & right post college room. But I still love my Chi Omega owls & photos.When we moved in, this bathroom was awful! Multiple layers of wallpaper + boarder. The paint turned out brighter than I wanted, but I love how this beachy bathroom has turned out.
Now our bedroom. We’re still working on a headboard~ first couldn’t find one we like, then all too expensive. I think we found one just last week~ my Dad’s cousin offered her extra for $50!! The jewelry tree in between the windows is very special to me. My mom made it out my her mom’s costume jewelry!
Our bathroom is bad. Needs to be painted but one wall needs to be resheetrocked due to prior owners. But this is working for now. (PHOTO TO COME LATER)

Back down the hallway to the foyer. Take a left & you enter our kitchen. We redid this about a year & half ago!
The dining room & den are one big room but we have divided by couches. This is were we spend most of the time & from where I blog!
Hope you’ve enjoyed Suz’s home! Now go check out the other lovely ladies of the twitter home tour!

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Spring Planting

I certainly do not have a green thumb. It might be olive on the verge of brown, but I’m working on it!

I was inspired though after the weekend visiting my parents & I brought home some spring flowers to add color around our mailbox in between the day lilies. Here’s a phone I took from my phone right before Easter. They’re continuing to live & actually thriving! I’ll take another update photo later this week.
For Easter Nana gave me a knock out rose bush. I was nervous about roses. They sound hard! I was kinda thinking it wouldnt make it, but its survived the week so far! Tonight I replanted it into a bigger pot as per her instructions. I’ll take a photo of that soon to show my green thumb results!

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Christmas Decorating!

I made an unexpected trip to Midlothian this past week to help my parents and grandparents decorate. I went after work and made it home in time for dinner with family including my brother & his girlfriend. We then decorated the living room & more formal Christmas tree.
The plan for Saturday was to decorate the stairs in the AM, then get a tree, decorate the outside then decorate the tree & rest of the inside. But that plan changed because of the rain & SNOW (it didnt stick but was still pretty to see)!! So instead we decorated the inside then Mom, Nana & I ran a few Christmas errands. I can’t wait for Christmas morning; I might just have pick out the Kitchenaid stand mixer I’ve dreamed about at Costco with Nana!!!!! I’ll update with pictures from my parent’s house and of my mixer Christmas morning. Until then look at it from the Amazon picture. 🙂I left Sunday morning and kept up the decorating spirit at our house. I put up the owl tree, decorated the tables & mantle. We got our tree from Lowe’s and I think we picked a good one! We finished decorating the tree late Sunday night.
My grandparents & Bocce then stopped by our house on the way home Monday. Jason & I left work and did a few projects. Nana & I made bows & hung pre-lit wreaths on the windows & front door.Jason & Pawpaw gave our mailbox a major makeover. They sanded off the peeling paint, repainted white primer, put on a new rubber box that won’t rust and redid the hanging numbers. It looks awesome!

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New Kitchen!

Here’s a few pictures of the improved kitchen. We stripped the wallpaper, cleaned off the glue, primed then painted it using Valspar’s Creamy Oat in the kitchen/bath finish. We added the knobs on the cabinets and also new hardware for switches and outlet covers.
The new curtains fabric came form Calico Corners. We got it for a steal (originally $20/yard and bought it at $4/yard!) and bought too much because I couldnt remember how many & how big the kitchen windows were. Since we had a lot of fabric left over, my Nana’s working on bar stool seat cushions and a table cloth for our dining room table.