Wisteria Prints On The Cheap!

 

 

Happy Spring!

 

 

It actually snowed when we went home to Virginia a couple of weeks ago.   With snow on the ground it was hard for me to get into the mood for Spring decorating.  Also, time was limited and any major decorating had to take a back seat to other things. 

  

One of the small changes I made was switching out some prints in the foyer for a pair of botanicals.  You may remember these framed prints from a Wisteria catalog a couple of years ago.  I always liked the prints,  but not the almost $200 each price. 

Last Summer Steve and I made a trip to Destin, Florida to see family and enjoy the beach.  I found the botanicals at the local Goodwill and we left the store with both of the framed prints for a whopping $16.00!

 

 

 

I added a botanical to each side of the entrance to the living room.  Now, I am on a search
for two plates with green and red to replace the blue ones there now.

 

I moved the market basket to the foyer and you can see Steve's office in the background.

 

 

I am very happy with my Wisteria prints on the cheap.

 

What bargains have you found lately?

 

Hugs,

Sherry

 

Partying this week at:

Common Ground

French Country Cottage

From My Front Porch To Yours

Savvy Southern Style

The Scoop

Coastal Charm

 

 

 

 



Our Sort-of Entryway and It is Well With My Soul

We don't really have an entry-way in our home. You basically open the front door and are in the living room. When we first moved in though, we tried to use the small wall behind the front door and treated it sort of like an entry-way. It functions fine, but I have some ideas for making it more of a true entry-way space...someday... For now though, we have an old bench that opens up and we can store bags, extra shoes, outdoor chalk for the girls, tennis balls, and all sorts of random things. I'm not a huge fan of how the bench looks but it's practical and until I decide for sure what I want to to here it is fine. On the sign above we always hang a couple of Lillie and Lola's sweaters/jackets that make it easy to grab when we are headed out the door in a hurry and then we keep most of their shoes in the basket next to the bench.

 We also wanted to let you know we have a new "It is well..." pillow cover in our shop:

I hope you all are having a wonderful week! I'll be back next with a new chalkboard print and download.

Open House Party

Welcome to the Open House Party!


I appreciate everyone that joined the party last week, again you showed me what a
creative and talented group you are.  You'll find the link below to join this weeks
party but first enjoy the wonderful features below. 

 



This beautiful bedroom belongs to Sonya at  Beyond The Screen Door.  Don't you

love the sign she made from a pallet?

 

 

 

Delores at  Vignette Design created this beautiful nature inspired table for her

husband and his fishing buddies. The plates are wonderful and perfect for the dinner!

 

 

 

 Kristie at Market Nine Home  added this wonderful clock to her kitchen and talks about

 accessorizing your home.  If you are not familiar with this beautiful blog you must drop by.

 Don't you just love the colors in Carlene's Spring mantle?  Check out  Organized Clutter to

see more of her pretty mantle.
 

 



On to the party.....

Open House Party

 

 

Welcome to the Open House party.

 

Thanks to everyone for joining last weeks party.   There was a great turnout and so many
wonderful links.  I have chosen just a few to highlight .

Enjoy....

How cute is this sign?  Jeanine @ The Concrete Cottage made the sign for her children who
love bacon.

Linda @ Succulent Sisters wrote the sweetest post for Valentines Day.  She married her sweetheart
when he found out he was being sent to Vietnam. She has kept all the love letters from that
year he was away.

Nita at Mod Vintage Life  shared her pretty Valentine decorations.  Love the pink doilies and the
rose patterned china!

Kathleen @ Decor Armore  made this yummy Raspberry White Chocolate Mousse Cups
for Valentine day.

If you were featured this week please feel free to grab my party button in the sidebar.

On to the party...
 

Open House Party

 

 

Welcome to the Open House party.

 

I am so happy you are here and I can't wait to see what you have to share.  You will

find the link to join the party at the bottom of this page.

 

 

 

 

Thanks to those of you that linked to last week's party.  If you are featured this week feel

free to grab my party button. 

 

 

 

Doreen at Hymns & Verses created this pretty Valentine vignette.  Just look at the cute cow!

Freddy and Petunia took a vintage globe and made two unique and AMAZING sconces. 

Okay,  these brownies could become my favorite guilty pleasure.  Barbara @ 21 Rosemary Lane
shared this delicious recipe for Red Velvet Cheesecake swirl brownies...yum!

This beautiful collection of brown transferware belongs to Sarah at Hyacinths For The Soul.  In
this post she shares many of her fabulous containers.

I hope you enjoyed the features this week and now on to the party......

 



Our Valentine's Decorating

I thought today I would show you the rest of the Valentine's decorating we did in our dining room and living room. I was thinking about doing a really soft pink accent color but couldn't find any fresh flowers that weren't bright pink at the places we went so I just ended up getting some white hyacinths and going with a very simple black and white color scheme. And to keep the girls happy I threw in some hearts and the love banner on our mantel that I had not been planning on using this year. I have to admit looking at them they kind of drove me crazy so even though I had the large heart, the heart petals on the table and the love banner on the mantel up for about a week I ended up removing those three things today and left everything else and I like it so much better...I wish I had time to retake pictures. I think it looks better now. I am not sure the girls agree, but hey, when you are 1 and 4 the more hearts the better =)

Over here I used more of my favorite striped straws from the TomKat Studio. This time in gray. And I made a simple canvas for about $4. Seeing how I already had the quote on the chalkboard I decided to have the canvas be more graphic and used the number 14, which has several significances for me, two of which are the fact that obviously Valentine's Day is on the 14th and that Jon's number in college was 14.

In this picture you can see the large tissue paper heart and some little cutout hearts sprinkled on the table runner which are both in honor of Lillie. =) I made the heart last year and wasn't a big fan of it but Lillie saw it when I was going through some from last year and begged me to put it up.

You can see how to make these little mini valentine's cakes in yesterday's tutorial. They have a fun little pink ombre surprise inside.

On each plate was a little cardstock cutout of the word love.

I decided seeing how I had a little nod to Jon in the 14 on the sideboard it would be nice to put a little something in honor of my little valentine's on the table so I added a photo of Lillie on one side and Lola on the other.

And then of course underneath each setting are these chalkboard style placemats that are available to download on our website.

In the corner I have one of our 12 by 20 je t'aime pillow covers.

And here is the love banner that I have since taken down... =)

And on the sofa we have our "Love is..." pillow cover set. We are sold out of them in white but have a handful left in the black ink print that are on sale.

I hope you all are having a lovely week!

Open House Party

 

 

 

Welcome to the Open House party!

 

 

 

 

Thank you to everyone that joined the party last week.  So many great links made it hard to choose just a few to feature.  I am always in awe of your creativity and talent!   If your post is featured feel free to display my party button.   

 

 

Enjoy....

 

 

 

The mother and daughter team of  The 2 Seasons  transformed a dingy basement room

into such a cute place to do laundry.

 

 

 

Have you ever seen a more beautiful collection of pearls?  Check out Faith, Grace, Crafts to see more beautiful vignettes using pearls and lace.

 

 

 

 

If you haven't tried Biscoff Spread you are missing out!   The recipe for Biscoff Bundt Cake with Espresso Ganache was shared by ButterYum.  I may have found my newest addiction.

 

 

 

 

Our Southern Home shared her husband's home office and the changes to the mantle.  Just look at the wonderful equestrian tiles and beautiful wood paneling.

 

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