It's about time...

...for me to show you our new place right? Gah it feels like it's been FOREVER since I've done anything on here. I miss you guys! I *think* I'm ready to get back into the swing of things...

So here it is. Our new place!

When you first walk in you enter the dining room. Nothing fancy.

View from the door into my new office area... I LOVE all the natural light that this apartment offers!

We sold our old couches... Come on who wants to move two couches up to the second story? Not I said the fly! When things calm down a bit and we get our cash flow situated again we'll look into purchasing new ones. For now we use the vintage love seat.

The kitchen is my absolute FAVORITE room in the house! It's HUGE! There is a TON of cabinet storage here, which is great and hard to come by in most apartments! Plus it's decorated with a bunch of vintage goodies!

 

Want to know a secret? The "shower curtain" isn't really meant for a shower... it's two window curtains!

Our bathroom is painted the same color as the kitchen, which is a golden butter color. Didn't think I was going to like it at first but it's really growing on me!

So there it is... well minus the bedroom anyways. Because let's face it... The bedroom is usually the LAST room you complete right? Anywho... Later this week I'll show you all the nity gritty, and some Pinterest ideas that I've utilized in the new place!

I'll be linking up to some of THESE awesome parties!

{Re-Post} How far we've come!

This was my very first blog post... Ever.

Since at that point in time I only had like 2 subscribers I decided to do a little re-post!

Monday I'll show you how it looks now since I've changed it again since POST NUMBER 2!

Our little house has come quite a long ways! Check it out!

"So almost two years ago my husband and I moved from Dallas to the piney woods out east! It was my first time moving to the country and I was a little nervous! While looking for a house in my husband's home town we stumbled upon this little cutie! I know I know it looks like a mess in this post but wait till a later post and I'll show you all that we've done to turn our first place into our home!

G giving the thumbs up!

Living Room and Dining Room

Kitchen

Master Bedroom

Master Bath"

Needless to say this baby was a HOT MESS!

P.S. Do I even know what a period is (.)? It seems everything I write has an exclamation point... I guess I'm excited ALL the time! Haha!

Drop Cloth Curtains!

I've been working on sprucing up around the casa lately! This weekend I made canvas drop cloth curtains! I must say... I LOVE THEM! Plus they are uber cheap and easy to make! Double Whammy!

I'll tell you how I made them but I don't have pics... Sorry I was too excited to get them done! I forgot the "process" pics!

Steps:

1. I bought a canvas drop cloth from Wal-Mart- (A 6' x 9' was like $10)
2. I brought it home and stuck it in the dryer for a bit to loosen it up. (In hindsight I might have washed it first but I didn't have the patients!)
3. While it was drying I measured the windows. (I would LOVE to have full length drapes but it's not functional for us the way our couch sits so I measured from the top of the window frame to the bottom of the window ledge. It turned out that 6' was the PERFECT size! Wewhoo less sewing! And across I measured from the right side of the window casing to the left side of the center- So they would overlap a bit when closed)

(Sorry for the music notes... Arrows were HUGE!)

4. Next I hemmed the sides that weren't pre-sewn.

5. Then I measured off some stripes. (I did an 8" stripe every 9") Taped them and went to painting ( I used left over paint from the accent walls)!

6. I let them dry for a couple of hours hung them up!

 

(Check out that sexy car in the background! Haha)

I love the texture they add! And they actually block quite a bit of light!

Plus they are completely custom and match my paint!

So what did y'all do this weekend?!?!?!?!

Living Room Makeover!

  Remember when I told y'all in {this} post about how I was feeling overwhelmed by all of the beautiful homes out there in blogland?!?! There were soooo many great ideas out there that I just wanted to live in each of y'alls homes! I didn't want to re-do mine I just wanted to pack on up and move in with y'all! Haha. Okay NOT really. But I did want to create a more mature home for G and I.

The teal walls and records weren't exactly feeling very grown up.

{Best picture I had of the records on the wall. Excuse the "fish" face!}

{My craft corner before}

So we got to prepping and painting...

And now we have our new living room!

I hung up my {chicken wire window to picture frame} as the new focal point! G got our new trunk coffe table for FREE from a lady he works with! I also painted my black hutch white!

We hung old family photos on the record wall! We still have a ton of space for more!

{Hint hint wink wink family!}

And now my craft corner is more suitable for living room storage! I still need to figure out what I want to replace the Chevelle sign with...

One more look at the before and afters!

There is still work to be done like hanging curtains and touch up paint but I think it's a heck of a lot better! What do y'all think?? Any suggestions? Anything y'all would have done differently?