Happy Saturday friends! Just popping in to say hi. I absolutely LOVE Friday nights and Saturday mornings, don’t you? The promise of a whole weekend ahead.
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Happy Friday everyone! I have some fun favorites and clothes to share with you today! We are actually going to start with a couple of my mom’s favorite things. Since I shared pics from her Retirement Party I thought I’d show you a few of the fun gifts she got. My mom’s birthday happened to land the day after the party so we were all celebrating Mother’s Day, her retirement and her birthday. Time to spoil mom. :) A lot of her retirement gifts were so heartfelt. The quilt, the cake, some plaques and personal signs (I need to take pics of it all next time!). She also got a few fun things that are just SO my mom. A few friends went in on this darling Dooney and Bourke purse for her. I mentioned my mom loves yellow. It was a reoccurring theme at her party!
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Last weekend we spent in Utah celebrating my mom’s career in Education. She is retiring after 35 years of teaching Elementary school and being an administrator over Title One. Her friends and co-workers threw her an amazing Retirement Party (I had to share some pics!). She wanted all of her kids and grandkids there and we wouldn’t have missed it! Such a special day for our entire family.
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{Full post on this Outdoor Entertaining area here}
Summer is just around the corner. Can you all believe that? I can’t believe that. Where did the school year go!? We spent last weekend at my mom’s house in Utah (I’ll share more about why soon) and all of the sun and outside time with family made me so excited for carefree summer days! I was thinking a lot about this upcoming summer on our drive home. There are three goals I want to set for myself this summer and I’m hoping that by sharing them with all of you I’ll be a bit more accountable than I otherwise would. :) After all, January isn’t the only time we can set goals, right? Right.
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Ok! Kitchen refresh take 2. :) What a week! My blog has been struggling lately but I think (I hope!) we’re up and running again. Tech issues are never fun, but the good news is that I’ll have lots to catch up on next week. :) Thank you for being patient with me! You all are the best.
Hello hello friends! I’ve freshened up my kitchen a bit for Spring/Summer and I’m excited to share a few new additions with you all! It’s feeling all sorts of cherry around here. I wish so badly I could just have you all over to hang in my kitchen in person! Wouldn’t that be so much fun to have a huge blog party!? If everyone each brought one thing to eat we’d have food galore and I wouldn’t have to cook a thing. My kind of party. ;)
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Hi friends!
SO sorry! I had a post up of my kitchen refresh and I’m having some technical difficulties with the links and had to take it down to fix it! Check back and hopefully I’ll have things working again and my post back up soon!
Technical issues! One of my very favorite things about blogging. ;)
Happy Friday everyone! Made it through the week! Always cause for celebration, right? :) Sharing a few fun favorites today! My lemons on my Spring Tablescape bit the dust. I put half of them in my water that I drank all week and the rest wilted. The lemons on my lemon trees aren’t ready to pick yet so I decided to buy some long term substitutes.
Picked up these cute faux lemons from World Market so I don’t have to keep replacing the lemons in my lanterns. I think they look pretty real. Although I asked my 12 year old if she thought they looked real and she said “they do from a distance mom, but up close they look like something my American Doll would eat.” Well then. There you have it. An honest review of my new lemons. Still keeping them. :)
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Friends.. it’s May. May! I can’t believe this school year is already winding down. I swear it just started! I went on a walk with a good friend this morning and we were talking about May Madness. We call May “the new December” because if you have school aged kids you know that it tends to be one of the busiest months of the year. Just like the holiday season, it’s a wonderful time full of fun activities, but it can also be stressful when our to-do lists and calendars are bursting at the seams.
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Happy Friday friends! Sharing some pictures of my trip to Naples, Florida last weekend! I mentioned in my last Friday Favorites post how excited I was to meet these four beautiful friends of mine in real life. We met on Instagram. Isn’t that crazy!? We met on Instagram and hit it off and over the past year have become so close through IG and text messages and blog comments and phone calls. Sometimes (often actually) we would stay up so late all texting each other back and forth that my husband would just shake his head and call it a night and go to bed without me. :) When Shauna invited us all to her beach cottage for a weekend we couldn’t buy plane tickets fast enough! Before I share a peek at our trip let’s first check out her amazing vacation home in Florida. She completely renovated this house from top to bottom and friends, it is AMAZING!
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I have something new in my office. And I’m really excited about it. When I’m really excited about something I always want to tell all of you. My blog friends. So let’s do that now, shall we? :) You might remember from when I shared pictures of my decorated office that I had my anniversary date sign displayed on my shelves. Love that sign!
Continue reading “A new sign and progress made”
It’s no secret that I love having an organized home. Along with organizing, I also love reading books that inspire me to continue to organize my home and make it a place I truly love. When Melissa Michaels from the beloved blog, The Inspired Room, reached out to me to help share the news about her new book and join a blog organization tour, I seriously squealed out loud. And then did a happy dance. After I picked my jaw up off the floor. Like many of you I’m sure, I am a huge fan of Melissa (and her books!) and I knew before I turned to page one that it would be a favorite.
Continue reading “Simple (and pretty!) Jewelry Organization”
Happy Thursday friends! I’m sharing a simple spring tablescape today that honestly took minutes to put together. My kind of tablescape. :) My friends Randi and Kelley instigated a fun Mother’s Day/Spring tablescape loop so if you are visiting from Janet’s blog (Shabbyfufu) welcome! Hopefully these Spring tablescapes will give you all fun ideas if you want to set your table pretty for Mother’s Day brunch. Truth be told, my Mother’s Day wish is always to eat out so I won’t necessarily be using this tablescape Mother’s Day weekend. ;) But I love Spring decor! And I love having my table decorated for each season so it is ready to have friends over at a moment’s notice.
Before we get started I have to tell you DO NOT look at my built-ins.
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