i made my spring wreath...

i finally got around to making that spring wreath!

i bought the supplies last week at a.c. moore crafts store

and i happened to go on the weekend of

an amazing sale.

so here's what i walked out with...

i used a 50% off coupon for the wreath

which brought it down to $2.50.

i bought 8 of the robins egg blue, cream, mint green berry bundles...

they were 50% off making them 50 cents each.

$4.00 for all 8.

the spool of ribbon was $1.00

and using every crafters bff...

the hot glue gun...

i hot glued each berry bundle around the wreath

of which i did not take a picture of...

but i'm sure you all know what i'm talking about.

i hot glued two cream colored fabric rosettes that i had laying around...

wrapped the ribbon and made a bow....

and hung it on my door!

and there you have it...

my simple...

robins egg blue, cream and mint green

spring berry wreath!

all for a total of about $8.50ish and change.

not too shabby...

(i was just a tad bit off on my calculations when i mentioned

the total was $5.00 in a previous post...oopsies, my bad).

anyhoot...

the beautiful, lovely & sweet chrissy from

hoot designs is featuring oh, sweetlee me on her blog so

head on over there and take a peek.

she has a wonderful blog and an etsy shop

filled with lots of goodness!

happy monday!

come take a peek...

so i finally got around to somewhat re-organizing my creative/craft room area.

i seem to do this once a year and i've been kinda working on it the past month or so.  

this space is in a somewhat awkward area. it's located in the landing

of our 2nd floor overlooking the family room which we call the library. 

 it's actually quite cool because while the fam is downstairs and i'm creatively 

working i can still be part of their conversation and watching tv with them.

but i really have to be mindful of trying to tidy up after i make a big mess

because it's not like i can shut the doors or anything.

so here it is with a lot of purging, a little bit of organizing and a bit of decorating...

baskets of packing stuff, yarn, fabric, scrapbook paper...

a wall of my favorite photographs that i took...

bulletin board to pin business cards, happy notes, pics...

a few of my cameras...

shipping envelopes...

my jewelry tools...

this table overlooks the backyard...

{this photo only: source via pinterest}

and that's a wrap!
i hope you enjoyed the little tour of my spruced up and reorganized area.
happy friday friends!

my homemade...

with love...

Christmas wreath.

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ornaments....

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family...

love this quote...

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it's up...

Our Christmas tree that is.

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after thanksgiving...

now that thanksgiving is officially over...

i can now start decorating for Christmas!

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much love [window boxes]...

i have a love for exterior shutters.  here's what the shutters look like on my house.  i heart my shutters but i would love it even more if there were window boxes with beautiful, bright colored flowers planted in them...

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like the following pics of homes that i took in charleston.  i love the window boxes that hang right below the windows.

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isn't it pretty?

i do hope to add some window boxes sometime in the near future to add a little more charm to them.

do you have shutters and window boxes on your home?
(linking this post to much love)

how i met my house...

ann nicole is hosting a "how i met my house party".  i'm about 3 days late but i still have a few hours before the party closes.  go check out her site.  there are so many who have joined the party and lots of beautiful homes to look at.

i met my house October of 2006!  to make a long story short, God's providence was definitely evident in uprooting our family and leaving our home state of california to move to north carolina. he moved mountains to get us here and to tell the whole story would be a book of a post so i will just continue with how we met our current home.

anyhoo, mr L. and i flew into charlotte and worked with a realtor i found online.  she took us through so many different homes and different neighborhoods and fell in love with many but it was either over the budget, too far from the school that we wanted our kids to attend, or too far of a commute to mr. L's job.

here were a few requirements in what i was looking for:

1.  a white house with black shutters (just like steve martin's in the movie father of the bride my all time favorite dream home but with a front porch.)
OR
2. a four sided brick house with a porch
a front porch was a requirement so i can have a couple of outdoor rocking chairs.
AND
3. a side load garage
AND
4. a nice size backyard with some mature trees.

well, on the 2nd day of our house hunting adventure our realtor's daughter went into labor so she couldn't bring us around to look at houses so we went driving around ourselves.  we turned into our current neighborhood and loved the community.  there were only 2 homes currently on the market but we both fell in love with this.

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however, it wasn't a white house with black shutters, nor a 4 sided brick house with black shutters but a brick front house with 3 sided hardiplank siding.  we called our realtor and she met us the next day to view the home.  loved everything about it but my most favorite is the black shutters against the brick...

the front porch and the back screened in porch (which was a bonus and not even on my list of requirements)...

and the space for where my 3 teens can bring their friends and hangout which is quite frequent and for extended family when they come to visit.

it's a loveLee of a house but i do look  forward to the time when we can downsize and find a small cottage or bungalow just for the mister and me oh, and maybe for the grandbabies who will be visiting.

perusing...

i drive by this consignment/antiques store all the time and i have always wanted to stop by to take a peek at what they have.  i heart browsing through consignment shops in hopes of maybe finding a treasure that happens to be in my price range.  i did see a few things i thought about buying but i didn't.

i heart this brown leather chair and ottoman...

i so heart this dresser...

heart the wall signs...

i heart this wrought iron container...

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but i really, really, heart this trunk! however,  the price tag was a little on the high side. so i ended up walking out of there without anything in hand.  maybe next time.