A family gallery wall ...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE frames... it's really more of an addiction!! I see one and dream of it spray painted and have to have it. I try to fight the urge - but the frame always win! My husband may have noticed the abundance of frames and told me that I need to find away to use some of them before I buy more. I humor him and let him think I listen when he gives me HELPFUL suggestions - but I was totally going to use them DUH!!! :) So thus we created the FAMILY gallery wall... its a great way for our kids to remember some of our family that we don't get to see very much.




Our hallway is super narrow - and that makes it hard to get a shot of the whole wall.


Here are some of my favs... I threw in some older pictures too like this one of me and my brother when we were little. LOVE IT!!


The picture on the top right is of me and my brother and sister with my Grandpa ( my most favorite person on this planet ) he passed away about a month ago and I had these old pictures of us blown up and enhanced as a gift to my brother, sister and dad!!! I smile every time I walk by it - It is good to have such a sweet reminder of how important family is!!!

H to the O

I have had this idea saved for a looooong time.. I found the image at odd girl out - she has seriously inspired me to try new colors and ideas in my home. I love her house and would ask to come move in if I thought my husband could take care of things here with out me :)
Here is hers....



And mine....


I found the letters at Michaels, I could not find numbers to fit so I used this little frame I also found in the $1 section of Michaels...
P.S do you spot the little bit of halloween in this picture - my son loves hiding these little grey rats everywhere to try and scare me.

Birthday trip to Ikea

This year for my birthday we took a girls trip to Ikea.. here are some of the fun things I scored there :

Ugh.. sorry about how dark these pictures are- my camera is sad and about to give out on me!!
Been dying for this zebra canvas for a long time.. my mom bought it for me!!


Love this cute little bowl.. had to have it!!


Cutest frame ever.. I took it home painted the glass with chalkboard paint and the frame with aqua paint. It's the perfect spot for little notes :)

my new yellow dresser...

So not so much new.. but new to me :)
I found this baby at the D.I for $25.00- I actually had a very hard time letting myself buy it for that price!! My husband convinced me that it was a very solid piece and wouldn't need much work to restore it to it's awesomeness.. so I went for it!! Good job babe.. you were totally right!! Sure wish I would have been patient enough to take a before photo.. ugh oh well!!
SO here she is


I am still trying to figure out how to decorate the top. and I am so in love with all the storage space this offers!!

Our family canvas....

When I saw this ADORABLE idea from Tiffany over at Making the World Cuter I about died. I knew I had to have one.. like immediately!!!
Here is how it turned out...


I am in LOVE!! I drew the stick figures.. I used a lot of help from google images. Then I scanned it into my computer and played around with it in photoshop. I am thinking these would be the cutest gifts... who wouldn't love one? !!
I sent it to Canvas People and was so stoked to get it in the mail today :)

Yummy Yellow

I am having a love affair with yellow!! I don't care what anyone says.. I LOVE IT!! Ok i lie.. I totally care what you guys think.. so tell me you like it :)



It looks like it was made to be best friends with my yellow pillow!! I think it fits in nicely with the colors in the room!!

My photo gallery shelves...

I am in LOVE with my new gallery shelves.. I want to marry them!! They cost me a whole $5.00 to make and that makes me giddy!! I found the plans here
Most of my frames are from the dollar store.. I had to do a lot of spray painting but it was totally worth it!!



I love this subway art from eighteen 25 so I had it printed off at Costco and put it smack dab in the center of the whole mess!!


I had to show you a picture of some of my most favorite people .. and the reason why I want to display all my fun photos!! I may be a little bias .. but those are some seriously cute kids :)

Some more changes to Elley's room...

So I have a magor decision making problem- or maybe I am just a women and that comes with the territory.. but I have already changed things around since my last post...
If you remember my previous post - I had shown you my picture ledge that I made for her room.. well I took it down and did this instead....


I made the banner out of some scrap fabric - I actually go through my kids closet and if they have anything that is to small but still in good shape then i save it to cute up later... most of this fabric was from some little sundresses that my little stinker has grown out of it.. the others I bought really cheap at Walmart.
I love that we were able to find a cheap tv mount at IKEA- it cleared a lot of room to have it hung on the wall. But do you know what I don't like so much - the cords hanging out under the t.v and the huge honkin dvd player just sitting on the shelf- still workin on this !!!
The storage units are AMAZING!! Seriously.. half of those bins are empty I am so excited that we have so much room to hide her stuff :)We got them from IKEA- I was really surprised at how reasonable they were - the storage towers were 64.99- and that includes the bins!!! I can't remember how much the center unit was - we bought that like 2 years ago..



I knew I wanted to hang this old window somewhere in her room.. I kept it empty for a while because I just had no idea what to do with it.. Then I stumbled across this freaking amazing blog that gives you free art that you can download. I just printed them out at Costco.. seriously people go check it out.. you will love all the cute little prints they have!! I freaked out an ordered way to many and now I have no idea what to do with all of them :)



Here is her little bed.. guess where its from ? If you guessed IKEA then you are so smart:) And guess where the bedding, bed canopy,nightstand and flower light came from? Did you guess IKEA again? You are so GOOD!! I can't help it ok - they are so cheap there!! It's such a nasty trick- everything is so cheap there that you convince yourself you need way more then you NEED!!
The bed was only $30.00 and the light was $10.00, the nightstand was $25.00 and the canopy was $20.00!!
Not sure why I am telling you guys the price of everything- maybe I need you guys to help me justify what I spent!! I need you to enable my shopping habit and tell me I got such a good deal!!! :) By the way you guys are the coolest!!!