thank you ohdeedoh!

A huge thanks to Ohdeedoh/Apartment Therapy for Lucy's birthday shout out today! What a great end to the week.

easy wall stencil

When I say this was easy that's an understatement. We have a hall wall near our stair case that needed some love and a while back I was in Hobby Lobby and ran across these stencils. They have the registration marks on the stencil so it makes lining up things so easy. Eventually when I got to the strange angles I just began to cut the stencil down to make the painting easier. The whole process went fairly quickly too- done during that lovely nap hour. I will admit I was a little unsure at first but Nick said he really liked it and had me keep going and I'm so grateful for his encouragement because I love the end result. I used paint we had on hand from another project so the whole thing only cost me the $16.99 for the stencil. I should mention that the wall I stenciled on is stucco textured and the lines aren't all perfect and crisp but I actually really like that about it, to me it helps to soften things a bit not having all of those hard edges. SO if you have a big empty wall you might consider giving this a try!

linking up to the shabby chic cottage, christina's adeventure, my uncommon slice of suburbia, french country cottage, romantic home, the shabby nest, tatertots& jello & i heart naptime

dreamy beds from sweetpea and willow

Have you seen the SweetPea & Willow site? I'm probably just slow but boy am I glad to have finally found it. It's definitely good for a little pick me up eye candy! This are images from their bedroom collection found here. Go on, it's ok to window shop...

night-night

spring fresh

Bam! It's here, it almost snuck by me thats how much I've been paying attention lately. If it weren't for some random ad on the radio yesterday I wouldn't have even realized Spring was officially here. Nick and I were in the jungle aka our yard working all weekend. We took advantage of every nap the baby took and that extra DLS hour of light at the end of every day. We must have hauled away 30+ bags of leaves brush and debris from raking out our beds alone it was insane people. I'm pumped though, so ready for fresh cut grass and farmers markets. 

Hope you all have a wonderful week ahead.

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