making our house a home

I just moved back from a year in Guatemala and a month later got married! I was blessed to get to move back to Texas to a wonderful home that my husband had bought for us while I was gone. I love our house, but was ready to start making it home. A few simple touches have helped to make it home! We will start re-doing a room at a time, but I wanted to be able to enjoy it for today until then!! 

Our room was really killing me - needed some color!!! 

So we got some white curtains and added a few pops of color from things that I found at liquidation sales and antique sales

these were the curtains that came with the house, but we found these burlap curtains on sale at World Market and it totally changed the feel of our dining room :) (even though John can't wait to get them ironed)

We also added this beauty from an antique sale to our dining room...isn't it yummy!

its all still a work in progress, but we've made it a home we can enjoy for today...will keep you posted as we keep working! 

simply made chalk-pin board

3.00 garage sale find!

I saved some card board from curtains I bought recently, and simply cut it to fit in the chalk board and apples section of this board!

Took a can of spray paint and covered the green with a shiny black! 

I had originally planned on just painting the top section, but mid-project decided to just paint the card board so that we could have a pin-board! So I painted it this beautiful coral from a sample I bought at Lowe's for 3.00 and now have this lovely pop of color in our kitchen!! 

lovely 'F'

i recently got married and became a Forbis! when we got engaged this was one of the strangest ideas to me, but so exciting...i would be changing my last name...and thus began the collection of F's! 

i bought this F at a liquidation sale for $3.00

with a can of glossy spray paint and about 30 seconds i had this lovely F!

Simply done!