House to Home

Real quickly- I wanted to throw out that I'm glad several of you really enjoyed reading my last post about friendship- and I even recevied a few emails about how good it was for you to read.  I wanted to clarify though, incase it wasn't as obvious as I had thought, that my primary point of it- was that even if we move on through life and our friends don't seem to be there for us....don't give up on them, necessarily.

Ok!

When you live in a fairly small apartment- it's so easy to grab whatever furniture you can afford and throw it together and call it messy stylish. But since moving into our new place, it's become painfully clear that our furniture is quite mismatched- and not in a cool way.

I have had this urgency as of late to make things happen. To get new furniture, to finally paint the living/dining room, to really bring about my vision of "Home".

We're doing little things, step by step, to make our dreams reality. It'll take some time- but I feel like once I see our house as "put together"- I'll feel so much comfortable having people over...and overall, a stronger sense of pride.

I don't have everything quite figured out- but here are some of my inspirations.
(all found on Pinterest- you can follow me here: http://www.pinterest.com/mandajsven/ )

A Stamp

As part of my 25th Birthday present from my Parents- Mom gave me a Year's Subscription to the HGTV Magazine. 

By far, one of the best presents I've received. I literally look forward to checking the mailbox at the first Week of every Month..

 

So there is one area in particular that I've had lots of ideas for & I think I've narrowed it down to what my primary idea is.

 

Here's the space.

 

 

 

And here are my Pinterest Inspirations

I want calm & classy.
Right now, we rarely sit at our dining room table. The room isn't inviting, I hate the paint color, and it's just BLAH...am I right?!
I'd really like to do built-ins on either side of the window- for extra storage and displays and also a bench seat undearneath the window.
I'm totally at a loss of what color to paint the walls though.

Thoughts?!

Whim

The other day a Friend & I decided to try out a little something we had found a Pinterest (feel free to follow me! Button on the right side of blog.)

We bought cheap (Dollar Store!) Porcelain Dishes & Permanent Markers (Both Sharpie & BIC).  We did find that the BIC Permanent Markers worked much better- the Sharpie actually seemed to rub off when washed.

We wrote quotes or drew pictures and baked our dishes at 350' for 30 minutes.  Let the dishes cool and BAM!  Awesome, unique dishes. :) 

Until next time, be crafty!