Life Lately.

 We have had a pretty crazy month!

 1. July 4th decor! ♥

2. DIY chalkboard

3. Ridin in the tractor with my honey while he works

4. Out for a walk with Charlotte

5. DIY firecracker blocks

6. My beautiful "Happy Saturday" flowers ♥

7. Gabby & I out fishin

8. Charlotte & Uncle Gabe watching the duckies.

9. Me and him

10. Memorial Day. Katie Nicole Ogden ♥

11. Takin me for a ride in his big Red tractor ;)

12. Memorial Day. Spending some time with our Wacko.

Easter Decor a Little Late

Easter has now come and gone and I have yet to share some of our cute decorations! The thing that I love most about having our own home is being able to decorate it :) Even though it may stress me out sometimes (Am I silly for stressing about this? Please tell me I'm not alone! ha ha) I love making our house feel like a home. So, here it is-

the spring decor gets to stay but bye bye Easter!

Now bring on Summer! 4th of July is my favorite holiday and I can't wait to decorate!

;)

Hello Spring ♥

I made this cute banner yesterday out of paint chips from Lowes.

(I took this picture with my phone, so sorry about the poor quality)

Easiest craft E V E R!

I added it to my porch for a little extra color!

I'm just about done with the rest of my Spring/Easter decor and I am LOVING the way it makes our house feel!

Bring on S P R I N G ♥

Milk Can Make-Over

I have been wanting an old antique looking milk can for my front porch for a while now and all the ones I found to buy were SO EXPENSIVE! I was a little shocked that they were that pricey. When Gabe went to change the locks on his dads shop he found 2 and brought them home for me! I was pretty excited about it :) Thanks babe! I wish I would have taken a picture before we sanded them so you could see the whole transformation but just picture something like this.... but more rusted and worn.

...not quite my style ;)

So naturally I got on google and started looking for some ideas on how I wanted to do ours. I found these 2 pictures as my inspiration:

 

 I enlisted the help of my cute husband and we started sanding them down..

then washed them really good,
primed them

and painted each the color I wanted!

The paint only took about an hour to dry-

 which I appreciated since I was really anxious to get these finished!

Once the blue can was dry we dilluted some of the brown paint with paint thinner, lightly brushed it on, and then used a rag to wipe most of it off to give it a dirty/antique look. 

We did the same thing with the brown can, only we used a creamy white color.

 I am very happy with our end result! 

What do you think?

Saturday Crafts.

During the rain/snow storm Saturday I worked on a few little Valentines crafts.

I love this holiday and I love decorating for it even more!

Oh and I just have to share how adorable my husband is haha he sat with me for an hour and helped me make those little turquoise rosettes ;) with a drill even! He is so sweet and I'm so grateful he was willing to spend his Saturday afternoon making ribbon flowers with his wife! ;)