The Creative Exchange

I am very excited for today. It is finally link up day for the creative exchange. When I heard about this amazing idea I knew I had to participate. For those of you who have no clue what I'm talking about let me give you a little info:

The wonderful ladies of the Grant life, Covered in Mod Podge and Covered in Grace came up with this idea for bloggers to be paired with each other and swap a homemade gift or craft supplies.

 We emailed them letting them know we were interested, and once every one's name was in we were paired up with our partners....

I was partnered with Veronica from  Adventures of D and V. I really don't think they could have paired me with anyone better. I was excited when she told me her favorite room in her house was the kitchen. I have never made a craft for my own kitchen, but have always wanted to. I had the perfect thing in mind. While on our family vacation, I found the perfect silverware to get my craft started!

Here is what I started with:

A piece of scrapbook paper (with some of Veronica's favorite colors)

A old fork, knife and spoon from an antique shop in Georgia

Martha Stewart Pearl finish blue paint

Martha Stewart Satin finish grey paint

Some wooden letters

A shadow box

Glue 

and

Paint brushes

and here is the finished product:

I really hope Veronica will love it!

I can not wait to make one for my kitchen...

again a huge thank you to the Grant life, Covered in Mod Podge and Covered in Grace for putting this exchange together. I look forward to participating in future exchanges!

New Home Design: Part Two

Today we was home inspection day and it went perfectly. There are no major problems. Praise God.

So we are one step closer to closing day!

And so tonight I bring you Part Two of our new home design.

The Den

This is the den as it is now:

and this is what we will be doing:

Here is the color pallet and I will be finding some other colors to throw in the mix

We're keeping the wall color they have now

This is the rug we will be ordering from here

I believe that the focal point of the room is the fire place so we will be painting it the citrus green color from the pallet. 

This is what we are thinking for the couch

and I will be looking, at thrift stores, for two non-matching chairs for the den. 

I would really love for one to be a wing back chair shaped like this

I will probably reupholster them, but I have no idea what fabric yet. If anyone has any suggestions as to fabric for chairs, curtains and pillows I'll be open to them! The perfect fabric has to be out there somewhere.... right?

The more stuff we find for the den the more excited about it I get, but I am still most excited about our bedroom.

Only 43 days 'til closing!

Happy Tuesday.

Room Make Over Time

This week my sweet bridesmaid Casey came to visit me from Panama City! We got to make sure her dress fit and also went to my wedding dress fitting. I loved having her here for support! She couldn't stay long and I miss her already but she will be back in less than a month. 

That means the wedding is a month away!!!

Time is flying now... this makes me very happy

I'm trying to focus on wedding stuff as much as possible now and wait to get all involved in baby room makeovers until all that is over but I just cant help myself! So on Friday Stephan and I will be headed to Ikea for this crib(ignore the mattress and bedding inside)

   

{SNIGLAR Crib}

And these shelves 

 

{MAMMUT Wall shelf}

While we're there we will also be looking for curtains, possibly a rug and then I'm sure we'll pick up some nick- naks too!

I'm so excited about our trip and I can not wait to start putting everything in baby Nichols room.

I've been feeling pretty crafty lately so today I made this for above his bed

 I'll add his name to it later....

I'm planning on painting two more pictures for his room of some funky trees so more to come later!

I sure hope he likes them!