The Valentine’s Day Mantel

Valentine Mantel

The house is all pinkified and ready for Valentine’s Day!  Well ok, just the mantel is pinkified and I love it. I love pink.  I’m certain I need my own pink room somewhere.  Where that will be I have no idea, but it’s nice to think about it. :) Anyway here’s the mantel! Valentine’s Day [...]

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The Christmas Mantel

Christmas Mantel

Well, hello there!!!  It’s been a while, yes?  I’ve missed you all so much, and before I show the mantel I want to thank all of you for the sweet comments, emails, tweets, and Facebook messages about the pregnancy.  I am feeling much better these days and am trying to get back in the groove, [...]

Pottery Barn Winner!

Hey everyone! Well we almost made it to 500 entries, but I’m sure you can still do plenty of damage with $100 at Pottery Barn. :) So the lucky winner is… #103 and that’s Karina! Congrats!  Please send me an email and I’ll put you in touch with the Hometalk team. Thanks for entering everyone, [...]

Hometalk Giveaway to Pottery Barn!

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*This giveaway is now closed* Wheee! I’m so excited about this week’s giveaway to Pottery Barn! And today it’s courtesy of one of my sponsors, Hometalk. Hometalk is an online resource where you can get oodles of information about all kinds of home improvement questions answered right at your fingertips.  The site is run by [...]

A Sea of Glass…The Summer Mantel

Yellow Flowers Mantel

Y’all know how much I LOVE redoing our mantel right?  Well it was time for another switcheroo since summer is almost here (yay!), and so I wanted to bring in some bright cheery colors, and since I can’t get enough of yellow these days, yellow and aqua is what landed on the mantel this time. [...]

Embracing The Wood {And A Mini Kitchen Makeover}

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Happy new year everyone!  The new year around here is bringing some much needed de-cluttering and organizing and it feels so good.  I am determined to get rid of a lot of stuff that I am no longer using, accessorize less, and just enjoy simplicity.  I still will have accessories, but hopefully in a less [...]

Deck the Mantel

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Ho ho ho!  It’s definitely beginning to feel like Christmas now.  We’ve been busy ever since Friday trying to get all of the Christmas decorations up, but I’ve learned when you have a toddler, you have to do it in increments. :) But I did manage to get the mantel complete so that’s what I’ll [...]

My Fake Mantel

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Yesterday I showed you all the awesome mantel I scored at the Pottery Barn outlet.  Now today, I will show you her all fancied up for Fall.  :)  I just want to kiss it! Do you want to kiss it too?  Too bad! :) I am SO in love with having a mantel to decorate. [...]

A Spontaneous Trip

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Over the weekend we were headed to the local outlet mall to buy me some clothes.  But somehow we did something totally out of the norm and took a little 3 hour road trip to the BIG outlet mall, with baby and all.  We literally did a u-turn on the freeway and just started driving [...]