Inexpensive Bathroom Decor

My bathroom colors are gray, yellow, and white. I have had a hard time finding decorations in those colors, so I came up with this inexpensive artwork. I found the material at Joanne's and bought it when it went on sale. I cut out cardboard in three identical shapes and glued the material to the cardboard. Lastly, I hung the three pieces on the wall using pushpins.

In all the project cost less than $7.00 and took less than 30 minutes to complete! It was a very easy project to do during Katlynn's naptime. I'm very excited to have some artwork on my once bare bathroom wall!

Shutterfly Birthday Invitation

Shutterfly.com recently sent me an offer to get 10 free greeting cards! I ordered Katlynn's birthday party invitations through Shutterfly.com and was able to get the 10 invitations for only the cost of shipping and handling. I know that our family will love an invitation with Katlynn's picture on it!

Toddler Birthday Party!

My daughters birthday is on October 19. I have been looking forward to decorating for her party! She is going to have a fall themed party. I was having trouble figuring out the exact color scheme (because I still want the decorations to look girly) when I came across this dress. I love the brown, pink, and orange. I think this is the perfect inspiration for her birthday party! Now I have a lot of work to do in preparation:)

Fall decorating at my home

I have almost finished with fall decorating at my home! I wanted to share pictures of a couple of my decorations with you.

This is the centerpiece on our dining room table. I have a lot of burlap for some reason, so I incorporated it into many of my fall decorations!

This is the table in our entryway. I love the huge sunflower!

More Autumn Decor!

Here are some more pictures of my mom's autumn decorations. Her home is so beautifully decorated! I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I have:)

This is an arrangment on one corner of her kitchen counter.

This arrangement is on her kitchen island. I think the sunflowers look so beautiful!

This is how she decorated her front door. As you can see it has been such beautiful weather here in Michigan that we have been able to leave the front door open. I love this time of year!

This is a birdcage that she has on her porch. My daughter loves watching all the birds at "Nanna" and "Bumpa's" house. She was able to see very tiny baby birds in one of my mom's birdhouses in their yard. It was fun to watch the baby birds and their mother!

I love this arrangement that my mom put together on the side table. The wreath looks so nice with the flowers, pumpkins, and sign nestled in the middle!

Here is the front view of the same end table.

This is her window sill and a small bench in front of it. There's a picture of my daughter when she was just a baby! I can't believe how much she has grown!

Now that I am inspired by her fall decorating, I need to go home and start my fall decorating!!! I love decorating for fall and for Christmas. I am so excited about decorating in my new home!

Autumn Decorations

My daughter and I are in Michigan right now visiting with my family. I wanted to show off some of my moms decorations. (My mom is a great decorator!) I'll post some more pictures later when I have more time.

Isn't this a great arrangement for your window box!

This fall arrangement is in one corner of my mom's kitchen.

I love my mom's use of decorative jars! She always has pretty decorations in the decorative jars.

This is my mom's pantry door. She repurposed an old screen door for the pantry door! I love the basket with the sunflowers.

Here is a chandelier that I bought from a Restore this summer. It was pretty ugly, but I could see the potential in it.

I cleaned the chandelier up and painted it silver. Doesn't it look so much prettier now? I have it hanging in our master bedroom now. I am working on making our master bedroom elegant and romantic. It still needs a lot of work though!

Bedroom End Tables

I have been searching for end tables for our master bedroom for awhile and have had a hard time finding what I wanted. Since our master bedroom is so small I wanted to find small narrow end tables that wouldn't take up too much space. My mom gave me the idea to use shelves instead of end tables. I found these shelves at Hobby Lobby a couple weeks ago and they were 1/2 off. I love to find a great deal!



Also, I got some material a couple of weeks ago to make a headboard for our bed. You can see the material draped over our present headboard in the above picture. My husband is going to help me cut a piece of plywood into the shape I want for our headboard. We are then going to cover the plywood with batting. Finally we will cover it with the material. I will be sure to post pictures of it when we are finished (unless it looks awful - in that case I will destroy all evidence that I tried)

I am so excited!!! I have been saving up money for a new computer and was finally able to buy one this week. Our old laptop was on its last leg and was very frustrating to use. I am looking forward to blogging more now that I have a nice computer (a computer that is fast and doesn't turn off on me if it is bumped at all like our laptop did).

I wanted to share some pictures with you of my daughter. She was having fun posing for the camera last night and this morning.

Here is a picture of my husband, daughter, and our new puppy. My husband likes to let the puppy inside in the evening when he gets home. Maybe its just me, but I've never been a big fan of having pets in our home:)

Katlynn is modeling the brand new boots that we bought her from the thrift store yesterday. They still had the tags on. We were both very happy with such a great find!