Hello Everyone!

I have been definetly MIA lately and I am so sorry! We have two weeks before my due date and I am trying to get everything in order and ready for our baby girl! We are very excited (and a little nervous) about the big day!

We received the area rug for our baby girl Ava's room yesterday and it took me a while to decide on what type of rug we wanted to get. Our home has tile and hardwood floors, so we have many area rugs and they are all pretty neutral in color. We have a leather strip area rug in the living room, a seagrass rug in the kitchen and the rest are a beige with some subtle design. I just couldn't decided on an area rug for Ava's room, I didn't know if I wanted color to go with her pink, blue/gray & white theme room or something neutral that would go with the rest of the house and something we could reuse in a different room down the road. I decided on a round rug because I love the whimsical shape for a nursery and I nervously decided on a jute rug, I say nervously because I didn't know if this would be too rough on little feet, but I figured that when we lay her on the floor to play, we will put down a quilt anyway. So I began my search online and found a 6' round jute rug on Overstock.com at a great price and it had many great reviews. Although the reviews were from people using this rug in kitchens and dining rooms, no nurseries-which didn't surprise me, I was a little nervous, but after it arrived yesterday I found it was MUCH softer than I thought it would be! So here is Ava's finished room! (I still need to make a frame for the canvas above the bookcase)

Sorry, I had to include a picture of the two sock monkeys! I hope you have a great day!

-Jessica

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all doing well today! It has been snowing and pretty windy all day. I thought I would share with you some projects I did for the ledge shelves we have in our living room. I had pinned this DIY Pottery Barn Santa Claus Canvas over a year ago and finally finished it a few weeks ago. It didn't turn out perfect but I really like it. I have included the link to the blog where I got the instructions.

 

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I originally painted mine with a silver paint pen but it was too light, so I painted over it with some red acrylic paint. Here is my canvas:

I painted a wooden letter G I had and glued it to a piece of paper and placed it in a frame I already had. I bought the "Let it Snow" sign at Michael's for under $1 and I had some galvanized metal number tags that I placed in the frame on the lower shelf.

 

 Hope you have a wonderful day!

-Jessica

Projects Around Our House

Hello Everyone!

I am absolutely LOVING this weather we are having as Fall is my favorite season! I love everything about Fall including the weather, pumpkins, desserts, Halloween, Thanksgiving and it is right before the wonderful holiday season!

I thought I would show you a project I had worked on over the summer (early) and FINALLY show the results. I decided to do the board & batten treatment on one wall in our living room and wrap it around to the hallway. Of course I didn't use the board, just the batten part. I was originally going to do both but I don't mind it without the board. I used a collection of frames we have and put random things in them including pictures, paintings, our dog silhouettes and one shadow box which had faux butterflies in it but I recently replaced it with a big Fall leaf. Here it is:

Like I mentioned, I wrapped the batten around the corner and down the hallway.

I will start to show you the many projects I had worked on over the summer in the next week!

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!
Jessica

Hello everyone!

I haven't been doing too many things around our house lately because I still get some morning sickness now and then, but it is getting better! We will hopefully find out if I will be decorating our nursery for a girl or boy in the next few weeks! :) Until then I have been interested in making some jewelry for myself since it doesn't require me climbing ladders or caulking/painting a lot!

I am sure most of you have seen this DIY Kate Spade necklace on Pinterest and other website but I had pinned it a while ago and finally got around to making one that was sort of similar. I won't bore you with a tutorial but I will give you the link to the one I used!

http://www.henryhappened.com/diy-kate-spade-bead-necklace.html

Here is the ogirinal necklace:

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I love hot pink but I knew I wanted a red for the Fall and I used smaller beads that what was used in the tutorial. I got the wood beads from the kids craft section at Walmart. I picked out the medium shade wood beads and got the other supplies at Hobby Lobby. Here is how my necklace turned out:

 

Like I mentioned before, it's not an exact match but I am happy with how it turned out! I have saved a lot ideas for some neat necklaces in the future and I can't wait! 

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!!!

 Jessica 

 

 Welcome to our house of many projects! Sorry I have been absent for so long! May was a crazy busy month for us. I am working on quite a few projects around our house right now and I thought I would share with you some of them!

I had mentioned in the past about the patio door we have leaning against the wall in our kitchen and how we will eventually get it installed....well it finally happened! 

  Please ignore the fact that the wall to the right is still not done :) 

I am thinking about painting this door black/gray to match the other door in our kitchen that opens to the breezeway. We will also we building a cabinet to put above our refrigerator once the wall gets done and then build a beadboard surround around our fridge. Right now we are dealing with our old almond-ivory colored fridge in the middle of the room....

Pretty, isn't it? We don't usually have our cereal and other grocery items on our countertop but I can't get to the cabinet directly behind the fridge so I just leave them out for the time being. Also, please disregard my flip-flops and our dogs tiny tennis ball toy!

Of course in true Mrs. Inspired fashion, I almost never finish one project before jumping to the next so here is what I have starting in our living room:

Again, I know those items on that table don't mesh well and they are not supposed to. I had set somethings on that table to get them out of the way and I just took the picture with everyone on it. Anyway, the project I have started in our living room is well painting the walls (notice the color above the MDF board and beginning to add a board & batten treatment to the largest wall in our living room that will continue down our hallway to our bedrooms & bathroom.

Before we moved into our home 3 years ago, I had painted each room and well I think I have painted each room again. I love picking out paint colors and just when I think I found the prefect color I start to paint and regret my decision. This is the case with the color below the board in the picture here. If that is what the color actually looked like in this picture, I would keep it but it doesn't. I thought it was a light tan/camel color but it ending up with too much green in it. I love green but it didn't look right. I just lived with it for a while and I have finally got down to business with changing the color!

Well these our the projects I am currently working on and I hope to share with you the final results soon! Fingers crossed!

Do you have projects you are currently working on or do you have projects that you hope to start soon?

Thanks for stopping by!

Jessica

Inspired Hotel Key Rack

Hello!

A great blog that I read almost everyday is Knock Off Decor because it posts many ideas from different blogs and there is always great ideas to add to my never ending list of stuff I want to make. 

Suzanne from Meridian Road's blog was featured and she put together a inspired hotel key rack like this one from Mothology, but didn't want to pay $62 for it and she knew she could make one that was similar for much less $$.

 

I used the instructions from Meridian Road's blog and changed mine a little with the supplies I had around our home. I did purchase the metal label holders from Joann on sale.

 http://meridianroad.blogspot.com/2010/09/hotel-inspired-key-rack_08.html

Here is how mine turned out:

It's not perfect but I like it!

Thanks for stopping by!
Jessica