With the purchase of our first home came major excitement followed by major work. We've lived in our home for a little over two years and have lived through any renovation work we have done. We've mainly done everything ourselves with the help of family and friends. Since we have some big home remodel projects on the horizon I figured we'd take a look at our home remodel update and Honey Do List to see what we've accomplished these last two years and what we plan to tackle in 2017. As a little refresh the house we bought is a ... Read more...
Baby Shower for Baby Adney
A few weekends ago we had my baby shower for baby A. I have to start off by saying a huge thank you to my mom and mother-in-law for coordinating and co-hosting. They did a fantastic job! For my theme I decided I wanted elephants. I scoured Pinterest for hours looking for inspiration and I found so many cute baby boy baby shower ideas using elephants. I loved these little cookies so much and I was so happy when my mom found someone who could make similar cookies and cake pops. Image from Pinterest can be found on my Pinterest ... Read more...
DIY: Living Room Makeover | DIY Fireplace
I can't believe we've lived in our home for almost two years now and we've already done our second living room makeover! I feel like on the first go round, we just did the basics to make it livable for us. I couldn't stand the dark red walls!! I mean, I would never have been able to stand looking at them all day. The reclaimed wood wall, did come after the paint job but was our first DIY project in our living room. Painting the discolored wall heater cover was also something I did early on because I really didn't like looking at it. ... Read more...
DIY: Elastic Hair Ties
This was probably the quickest and easiest DIY project I've ever done! For my baby shower I wanted to give a useful gift that the women who attended would use. I love my elastic hair ties, but buying enough for 40 women was a little more than I wanted to spend, and I saw a post on pinterest that gave me the idea to make some elastic hair ties for my baby shower. Steps on how to make your elastic hair ties: Image from Something Turquoise. I found some super cute elastic on Amazon from a shop called, Sunshine Shoppe ... Read more...
How to Get Old Hunter Boots Looking New Again
Here's the thing about Hunter rain boots, they last FOREVER!!! I've had mine since probably 2008. In the Bay Area there aren't too many opportunities to wear them since the weather is typically really nice, of course lately with El Niño it's been raining a ton, which we need, so I am super happy. So because I knew I was going to be wearing my Hunter Boots a lot more often I wanted to bring them back to their natural rubber boot shine. I wasn't sure if that was even possible, but it looked like so many people I know who have had their ... Read more...
