When we first moved into our new home last September, one of our first priorities was our main hallway. We replaced the trim and baseboards and added crown molding to every room and main hallway. On Pinterest, I found a cute way to cover up our ugly hallway air vent. Home Depot online (I could never find any in-store) sells these decorative aluminum sheets (36 x 36) for just $32.98. We got the sheet and made our ugly hallway vent much more[Read more]
Not finding out the gender of our second child was pretty easy because we lived in a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom house with no space for a second child’s bedroom AND life was very busy because we were planning on moving throughout my whole pregnancy. That meant that most of the nursery decorating decisions were removed from the equation. We moved into our new house two months before Leo was born and naturally, the second we moved in, it was game on for getting the Baby’s[Read more]
I finally got around to taking some photos of Luke’s nursery. We originally had that room painted blue and were going to keep it blue regardless of if we had a girl or a boy. I wanted his room to be bright, cheerful, and fun. Gino had a lot of input and in the end it turned out just right! View from the doorway. Wall Decal from Etsy. Lots of books to read in a bookshelf from Ikea. I made[Read more]
I finished painting the railings on our deck today and I am quite happy with the way they turned out. Gino isn’t sure about the lights underneath, so if you like them, let me know and together we will try to convince him to keep them! I am also quite proud of my cute little cupcakes. I baked cupcakes to bring to work tomorrow for a co-workers birthday. I am not know for my baking skills so I did use[Read more]
Last year for Christmas I drew my brother David’s name for our sibling gift exchange. He was a little bit difficult to shop for so I decided to make him a photo collage with letters from his name and frame it. I took some photos of letters with dimension and style around town and cropped them to show just that letter of his name. I also wrote the location of where the photo was taken on the back. Turns out[Read more]