Lakers, Yarn Pom Pom's, & Valentine's Decor.

A couple weekends ago, Joel took Eli to a Piston's/ Laker's game.  It was an early birthday present.  Eli was SO excited!!  Joel was functioning on very little sleep due to all of the snow plowing, but managed to squeeze in a few hours before waking up early for the 1:00 game.  Here are some pictures I took before my boys left and then ones Joel took at the game with his phone.  They had a great time!!!

While the boys were gone, Isabel and I made yarn Pom Pom garlands.  We had fun making them while watching some movies.  

We put hers up in her room...

and mine on the mantel in the LR.

I don't usually do much valentine decor, but making those pom pom garlands got me putting up a few other things.  Here's what our house looks like all "decked" out for Valentine's Day:

Yup... that's it.  Simple and sweet.  :-)

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

I haven't blogged in a while and thought starting back up with some Christmas decorations would be a good idea.  {I love this time of year!}

An old pepsi crate full of candles in ball jars, fresh greenery, and vintage ornaments.  

The red hutch in all its Christmas glory!

The real reason for the season...

Our cute Christmas countdown calendar.

And last but not least, the tree!

E's Bedroom Tour

I have a son who L-O-V-E-S sports! This kid is obsessed with baseball, football, and basketball and knows all of the players and stats. He loves to watch games with his Dad. I love his passion and love how he will always share this common interest with his Dad. So, it just seemed fitting to incorporate his love of sports into his bedroom. Here is a tour:

Click here to see how I made the PLAY BALL "sign."  

I recently found the two wool blankets at an Antique market and they were perfect for his bed.  The blue one with the orange "W" is an old stadium blanket and has someone's name embroidered in the corner.  I paid $35 for both, which I thought was good for wool.  I was able to wash them in my washing machine and lay them over the kitchen chairs to dry.  

Moving along...

We collect sports pennants for his room and hang them up using the 3M sticky tabs.  We're about halfway there.

The Detroit Tigers trash can that you can see to the left of the dresser below used to be my husbands.  The dresser was passed down to us by my parents.  The wire magazine rack to the right was from Marshall's and holds all of my son's Sports Illustrated for Kids magazines and other sports books.

This red bookcase was originally from Lowe's (several years ago) and came unfinished.  I painted it red and here E keeps a lot of his collectibles and treasures.  The framed picture on the top of the bookcase was a picture E drew for his Dad's birthday last month.  It's his dad playing baseball.  :-)

That's it!  I really love his room and it is fun to see the walls filling up with the various pennants.  

Linking up at:

Play Ball!

I'm getting my crafting mojo back on!  Yay!  

I recently saw a cool fall decor post that I pinned using paper mache letters.  {You can see it HERE.}  I pinned it not really knowing what I might do, but positive I would try something similar.  And then I got an idea for my son's sports themed room.

Would you like to see what this pile ended up looking like?

Let me tell you how I got there....

I simply lined up the letters how I wanted them, 

 then hot glued them all together while eating some candy corn,

and spray painted them with 2 coats of paint.  {I used Krylon's True Blue.}

Then I attached them to my son's wall using the 3M Command sticky tabs.  

Very easy and not too expensive.  I got all of my letters 30% off at Hobby Lobby and then used a 40% off coupon to buy the spray paint.  You could do so many things with this!  :-)

I'll show you around the room soon... just got to complete a couple of things.

Thanks for looking!

I {heart} gallery walls!

Happy Monday!

We have been in our new home 3 weeks now.  We are still slowly making it home.  I think this is the fun part, making it home, but I do get impatient and want to have everything done, like now!  I also have a tendency to change my mind a lot and so I am trying to take my time to make the decorating decisions. 

I knew I wanted to have a gallery wall tho, and so with our many picture frames, I started putting together a layout on the living room floor, and changed it around a few times.  My hubby so kindly put everything up for me.  It's a lot of little details and he did a great job!!!

Here are some pictures:

Before

During (totally staged!)

After

I LOVE this wall and am soooo pleased with how it turned out.  Great job babe!

Kids Bathroom Redo.

We recently finished redoing the kids bathroom.  It was time for some new paint and a new shower curtain.  Here are some before pictures:

The green paint was getting old and the cute alphabet shower curtain had served its purpose.  

Here's what it looks like now:

So, we did a little more than fresh paint and a new shower curtain and I LOVE it!!!

Here's the low down:

PAINT: Dreamy Clouds @ Lowe's

SHOWER CURTAIN: West Elm

MIRROR: World Market

TOWEL HOOKS: Lowe's

TOWELS: Kohl's

PICTURE FRAMES: Katie Brown @ Meijer

PRINTS: via Pinterest

{Joel made the towel holder and it turned out just like I wanted!  I'm thinking of painting the vanity white... if I get ambitious.}