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I've decided fairly recently that the wall art in the living room needs new life. Translation: I'm totally bored with it. So! I've been scouring blogs and magazines for some new ideas on decorations. I found a great idea where one lady made a print of her address and last name and put it in her mudroom.

Sadly I have no mudroom, double sadly there are three different last names in our casa. 

So I decided to DIY my own version!

First stop was Michael's for 2 frames at 50% off, two sheets of cool looking scrapbook paper and large sticker letters. (If you have a cricut or silhoutte it would have been easier to cut out the text then to use stickers but they were on clearance and it was basically a first try.)

I fit the paper into the frame and used the stickers to form the first framed image:

And since the idea of just doing one last name didn't really work out I just decided to put "Welcome to Our Home."

And then I hung them up together! I do really like the idea! I think I may try to kidnap my Mom's CriCut in order to make the text a little better because it's not quite as clean as I would prefer for it too look but it's not too bad either!

Here's a little bit further back view:

Total invest: $12.00


Even though I am not 100% on the letters themselves it really personalizes the space and that's what I like. What do you think?

March Before&After: Guest Bathroom

It is the first week of March and I woke up this morning expecting sunshine and flowers to be popping up out of the ground! Not so... Instead there was lots of snow covering the ground. It snowed until about 11:30am. This is probably only the second snowfall we've had this year. Interesting. Yesterday I was walking around without a jacket and contemplating flip flops and today... I'm wearing a parka and dreaming of snowboarding instead of going to school.

Such is the life of living in beautiful Colorado!

Back when I first stared my blog I featured a post about the guest bathroom that I remodeled. Which I was absolutely in love with! It was fantastic! Now 12months later.... I don't so much like it.

Here's what it looked like way before:

I definitely think that the new version looks wayyy better then the old version did. But I can't help but feel like there ought to be a baby boy in the bathtub or something because the color went totally wrong. The light fixture is still great and those little white shelves can never come off the walls. Haha. But I'm not satisfied.

Plus this big ole uglio wall thingy is falling apart. First the shelf fell out and then one of the mirror doors attacked poor Karly. Dangerous it is!

So for March I am going to redo the bathroom (again) and hopefully make it something way more fantastic then it currently is! And something less blue. Way less blue. A lot less blue actually.

I'm joining Sam from The Junk House in this link party!

Accessorize Me Cap'n

I love accessories. Probably my most favorite thing when it comes to any decorating-ness. I just love it. So when I order things off Etsy and then come home and find these lovely things in my mailbox....

I get super excited!

Check out the over the sink wall space area (yeah I know the light isn't centered, that's just how it is) it was so blank! It was crying out for color!

So I gave it what it needs! And it looks fantastic! It's a vinyl wall decal that I ordered and it looks great! It wasn't too hard to put on but definitely recommend following the directions closely. Obviously Lucy was very excited by the new decal as well. 

(Ignore the bad paint on top, I still have to trim out the wall paper) So I've had these three little vases for as long as I can remember. I bought them at Pier 1 roughly close to forever ago. And they always looked great! But they started to just blend into the wall paper completely. White on white...

Here's a little bit farther out.... My pink teapot actually works so much better in the kitchen now then it did before the redo!

So I found these three tiny mini-Moroccan looking lanterns at Hobby Lobby! I love the greens and blues, and of course... white.

They look super cute! Plus they match the new kitchen even better. I love new accessories! It's awesome!

What is your favorite kind of accessory to use? Are a vase addict like I am?