Getting my Tiaras in a row...

Yes I will admit I have full blown

Royal Wedding fever...

What's not to be excited about???

A wedding....beautiful flowers..

a show stopping wedding gown

Oh and let's not forget that

this young lady is about

to become a

PRINCESS!!!!

Isn't that every little girls dream!

(royalwedding2011news.com)

At this point however I have

accepted the fact that my invitation

must have gotten lost in the mail

so therefore I am preparing to

watch it from the comfort of my own couch,

instead of my usual seat next to the Queen Mum

at Westminster Abbey...

(brideuniverse.com)

I will be rising bright and early at 4am to start

watching the coverage....no tivo for this one!

This must be watched live!

My tea and scones will be served by

my handsome butler.....

after that he can go back to sleep! 

(does anyone want to take a guess on the likelyhood of

sweet husband actually getting up to serve me tea and scones...

something about a very hot place and it freezing over..right!)

(flickr.com)

Of course I can't wait to see the dress!

As for my own...it will probably be a nightgown...

maybe i'll throw on a big hat for good measure..

(aisledash.com)

After they say I do...i'll put my tiara on! 

Because...well....why the heck not

I'm thinking it would be fun to make the

 rest of the day all about weddings...

so after the wedding is over

I may head on over to the market and buy

some beautiful white flowers, a nice dinner,

a yummy white bakery cake and a bottle of champagne

(littlebittybakes.blogspot.com)

Then come home set the table with my wedding china

and have a lovely dinner with my family and then

pop in our wedding video..I think it would

give the kids a good laugh! 

See the little ring bearer in this picture....

he brought his girlfriend to our house for Easter! 

YIKES....where did 13 years go?

Yes this is our wedding photos....yes this is sweet husband....

and yes this was the longest train I could find...could I have

found a longer one I would have bought it! 

As it was we picked the church according

 to how long the aisle was and if the train would fit down it.

I'm making that up...well sort of...

I just love love love a good wedding....don't you!

They always make me cry! 

Throw in a Princess and all the Pomp and Circumstance

and I am completely over the moon!

Let the Countdown BEGIN!!!!!!!

Easter Totes

This week I am in full

Easter gear.....

There is lots to do before Sunday!!

Yesterday started off very early

painting picture frames...LOTS

(yes Ann yours was one of them...finally)

I found this frame while at a yard sale this weekend...

painted white and hung on the front door

it makes a cute message board



After that I spent the rest of the day

working on totes for all the kids

to hunt eggs with....

Last year we had sand pails

This year I found these cute tote bags
at the dollar store...can you believe that...
the dollar store!

 

 

But I just couldn't leave them plain...

so I took fabric and cut out

bunnies, butterflies, turtles and fish.

Added a ribbon and the child's initial

 

And this is what they look like after...

 

 

Butterflies and bunnies for the little ladies...

 

 

Fish and turtles for the little gentlemen...

 

 Now i'm off to make tissue paper pom-poms....

so i'd better get hopping!!!

 

 

Forever Furniture

Do you have a piece of furniture

or maybe even a few

that you will never ever no matter

what part with?

Well I found a piece of forever furniture

and I will never ever no matter what

part with it!

Here is a sneak peak

Before I show you the rest of it

I want to take you completely around

the living room so you can see how it fits in

I'll start here...

the is the hallway that leads to the kids bedrooms...

opps you can see part of my shirt in the mirror! 

I really try not to do that...but sometimes I slip

This is moving around towards the fireplace





This glass bookcase is very close to being painted white...

maybe i'll get to it after Easter!

And here it is.....all 7 feet high and 72 inches length of it!

It's humongous!

Doesn't it look like it came out of Anthropologie...

Can you believe I found it at Goodwill

Who in their right mind would give this away??

I love love love it!

Even the keys that it came with

make me giddy...

they are so ornate and heavy. 

I almost cried when sweet husband

handed them to me after he went and

bought the cabinet for me....he really

is a good guy!



Continuing our 360 degree views...

This is heading towards the kitchen and dining area

Who knew you could pack this much furniture into such a

small space!  But that's it I don't think I could squeeze not

one more thing in here....well maybe if I try really hard!

Thanks for taking a tour with me..I know it was picture overload.

Trust me I would have liked to show you

every drawer and door that's on the cabinet...

it's just so beautiful! 

 But I'll spare you all of that!

What forever piece of furniture do you own?

P.S.....because I completely forgot to tell you

and some of you asked...

Cooper is a Maltipoo...they are a wonderful breed of dogs.

Hypoallergenic and they do not shed. 

Plus they are really smart

and have great personalities!

Puppy Love

Our house has been completely turned

upside down! 

All at the paws

of something that weighs less

than 3 pounds.

May I introduce you to

Cooper Jack Davis

This is Cooper and I

He really doesn't like to sit still....it's very hard to take his picture

He is always on the go!

Thanks for stopping by and meeting the newest addition to our family!

My embarassing thrifting story of the week...

For all those times when I'm in the

right spot at the right time

and find the perfect item...

well this week was the complete opposite

It wasn't my finest thrifting week ever....

even the monthly antique show stunk!

Needless to say my mood has reflected

this bad thrifting streak

I knew it was going downhill when....

and I can't believe i'm going to share this

story...but here it goes

I was shopping in my favorite thrift store

and they were putting out on the floor

this absolutely gorgeous beyond my

imagination white grandfather clock...

HUGE!!!

 I go on over to check it out...

It's perfect....really beautiful

and a VERY VERY good price.

So I go and find the nice guy who works

there and tell him I totally want this clock...

so he writes me up a slip and we talk

about the clock and how awesome it is...

and then it hits me...

WHY IN GODS NAME WOULD IT

ONLY BE $29.99????

Yep you know where this is headed...

All of a sudden this wave of heat and nausea

overcomes me....

 I think I read the price wrong!

So I casually walk over there...

OH NO.....it's

$299.99 not $29.99

Now this is where I would

like to be able to tell you that I told

him that I had read the price wrong and

we had a good laugh over it....

But instead I chickened out

and told him I just didn't think it

would fit where I was planning on putting it...

Which truly wasn't a lie because if I had

told sweet husband that I bought a 300 dollar clock

from the thrift store you can guarantee it wouldn't

fit in the box I would be living in once he showed me the door!

Moral of this story....if it sounds to good to

be true...it probably is!

And I really need to get glasses...HA HA

So instead of bringing home a lovely new clock...

this sweet little Gardenia tree is the highlight of

my thrifting adventures this weekend!

Maybe next week I'll have better luck!

Going Green

Maybe it's the Spring Fever talking

or the fact that Kerri told me about

 this pretty pillow she bought.....

Either way I am really into the

color green right now....

and not just any green...

but BRIGHT green

Looking at these pictures i'm realizing what a

horrible job the maid did of tucking the sheets in

at the foot of the bed...someone really should fire her!

Please oh please fire me...I have so many better things to do



This is the pillow that started it all

Can you believe it came from Walmart!



Since I just couldn't ignore the bathroom

I found this soap dispenser at Target...Love it!

Now I just need to find a shower curtain

The green really makes the room feel fresh

so glad Kerri told me about that pillow!

Now I must go find that maid and tell

her to take the rest of the week off...

she deserves it!

Linking up to

Beach Bathroom Picture Walls

This project was totally out of my comfort zone!

I have always loved the picture collages

that I see in blogs and magazines....

but I could never bring myself to do one in the house.

It's just so much random-ness in one spot..

 it goes completely against my personality disorder

of having to have everything lined up and symetrical

But I wanted to do one...so I thought perhaps

if I stuck to one color frame, black and white

pictures and a theme for the photos

I might be okay

(some of these pictures aren't the best..

it's hard to take pictures in a small space

I had to stand in the bathtub)

First thing we did was go through mountains of

pictures that we have taken over the years

while at the beach and picked out our favorites

Then we took a quick trip to Ikea and

bought 28 picture frames in two different styles

and two different sizes

Ikea

Ikea

After copying the pictures in black and white

and placing them in the frames we mapped

out the wall with pieces of paper cut

to the size of the picture frame

To be honest I was totally going to skip this part..

SOOOO glad I didn't! It made everything

so much easier.

What's that saying?

Go big or go home

So I fiqured if I'm going to do it..

I might as well go big!

So we continued the frames around the bathroom

And we have more room over on this wall

So when I buy more frames we can continue around



It's taken a little getting use to

But now I love the picture walls

I'm so glad that I went out

of my comfort zone and did it!

p.s Daffodils are out...go get some!