House Love

Ever since we officially signed our second contract for a house my mind has been in design overdrive. This house will be a bit smaller than the first one we tried to buy, so decorating will be a little more challenging, but I'm so up for it! Here are some ideas I've been swooning over. ( Thanks Pinterest for helping me design my dream home right from the comfort of my parents' couch.)

We will have a half bath in our master bedroom and we have decided to make Steven a little pub/man inspired bathroom.

Things it will for sure include: navy paint, funky light, wire baskets, bronze accessories.

 After much discussion we have decided to paint our kitchen a light, happy yellow ( I think). I am absolutely in love with the mix of industrial/warehouse and eclectic chic...I don't even know if that's a thing, but I am obsessed! Do you see that cart? And those pendant lights? Heaven!

If someone could tell me where to get one of those bad boys for my TV stand, I would love you forever. I am a sucker for almost anything mid century modern! Also, I have been oogling over that doorknob curtain holder for probably a year now. I have not figured out how to make them, so I will most likely break down and buy them. Thanks urbanoutfitters for being awesome!

 

I am so excited to have a guest bedroom in our house. I am dreaming about the perfect combination of the two pictures above. Maybe with a few other colors besides yellow. I just love the clean, 

breezy-ness of them both! 

Oh, the great outdoors... I am going to need all the help I can get with this! Contrary to popular belief I am not good at everything. I suck at plants and landscaping. If it's not yelling at me to feed and water it, it tends to get forgotten (oops). I am going to try so much harder though! ( Luckily fall is right around the corner and I can put off planting until the spring. I don't want to embarrass myself right from the beginning!)

This definently isn't all of my ideas, I didn't want to overload you! I am counting down the days until I can give you a sneak peak of our new little home.

Happy Wednesday friends!

Hello, stranger

I just realized I have not blogged in almost a month.... What!? Where has the time gone? Seriously, if anyone knows of something strange that has happened and has made time go by two times faster please let me know. I find it even crazier that I'm off for the summer and am still having trouble fitting everything in. What am I going to do when I go back to work? Sheesh!

I guess I'll fill you in on what's been going on around here since my last post:

Thrifting with my mama! She has Friday's off and we like to try to spend some time together doing things we never get to do.

Working on school plans and trying to decide what I want my classroom to feel like. It's actually really hard to plan a space you've only been in once... who knew! Also, this is my "office" set up in my parents living room with all the essentials. Hopefully we won't be there much longer!

River birthday trip with some of my loves! (Double birthday celebration at its finest) We were out there for 8 hours and we didn't even get burnt! I'd like to take a minute to thank that silly hat and our spf 70. No skin cancer for us! Also, super glad I left my real wedding bling at home and took those super blingy rings instead! No worries about loosing the real deal!

Family birthday Day-O-Fun! I am really into birthdays so I try to make mine last as long as possible. I even got a "birthday" hair cut! haha. But this day we went to church, ate brunch at Ingrids. ( They have a killer buffet on Sundays!), drove around looking at old houses (one of my all time favorites!), Watched a movie with my parents and Steven, took a nap, and had a small gathering that night for snacks and cookie cake!

23 was pretty awesome, but I know 24 will be even better!!

Fourth of July celebration with smores, family and great friends.

Injured husband and sadness. Steven decided he was going to train for the NBA and ended up chipping off a bone and severely dislocating his ankle... Needless to say our routine looks a little bit different now than usual. Poor guy. I have kind of loved being the caregiver, though. That is, when he's not being an awful patient. Luckily, that doesn't happen too often! He's had lots of doctor appointments which means he's also had a few days off. This has been a great excuse for me to do absolutely nothing and watch movies and read all day with him. I guess it could be worse!

Another thrifting birthday adventure with my best friend! She's the only one who loves old rusty, dusty junk as much as I do. Give us a pile of wire baskets, old glass bottles, and some tarnished jewelry and we're like two kids in a candy store! I really love and cherish our adventures!



And now we are just waiting to close on our cute little house, do some updating/personalizing, and move on in right in time for me to report to school! With that being said, these next few weeks and into August are going to be a circus around here. I am going to keep blogging regularly but most likely not everyday until things settle down. I do have a fabulous muffin recipe to share with you sometime this week!

Get Excited!

Our first house

If you read the little "about me and this blog" section to your right ---> you would know that Steven, my husband, and I currently live in a rent house that I love. I mean I couldn't have asked for a better first home. It has a super large master bedroom, in which I had to put a rug to make it not seem so empty, a second smaller bedroom where ideally I will make art and Steven will study and internet. (more on the art room later!). It has a little kithchen and dining area, a lovely living room, and a MASSIVE backyard. I'm really excited about when the weather cools down and we can actually take advantage of it. Horseshoes and fall cookouts are exactly what my soul needs right now, something easy and breezy and not 106 degrees.... ugh.

But back to the house! The first couple of our friends to get married actually found this house. They lived in it for about 2 years and right around the time Steven and I were going to get married they decided it was time for something bigger...PERFECT! It's so amazing when God works in your life and you can recognize it. This was one of the many blessings we recieved during our time of engagement. So after we got everything signed and sorted out Steven moved in. Luckily we were getting married a month later so he didn't really have time to make it a bachelor pad and I could rightfully but my feminine touch in it!

It's interesting decorating for two. Thankfully, I had lived for a couple of years in an apartment by myself almost for the sole reason that I knew Iwanted a time where I could have all the girly things I could ever think of in one dwelling place. SO, with that being said, I was a little more easy going when he said no to floral and pinks. But finding the right combination of feminine and masculine things that go together is tricky!

But here's my advice:
1: find a color pallet that you like and find masculine/quirky things that fit in them
2: change things around a little each week until you find the border of what you love and what he notices.
(I'm not saying be sneaky or manipulative, but I know if Steven doesn't notice it then it wasn't a big enough change for him to hate it...just sayin'.)

These are just some things that I've found to be helpful in getting the perfect fit between man cave and a boutique, haha.

Sorry for the wordy post, I am just really excited to share with you guys the place Steven and I will make our first memories as husband and wife, and even though it won't be the place where we get a nursery ready or raise our family, it will be a place where we raise ourselves and where we learn who we need to be as real parts of society. It will be a place of getherings and family dinners, and lots of love and laughter, and I'd say that's a pretty good place to be.

Please excuse the empty frames, we're not completely settled in yet

I have a hopefully darling DIY project for that white window...get excited!

These are a just a few of my favorite kithen things!



We love books..... a lot.



Map collage! I feel like they're a happy
compromise between masculine and feminine

my favorite table.

There will be more pictures to come! I just wanted to give you a sneak peek into our humble abode.

Thanks for visiting!

Love-Lea