Home Sweet home

So, a while back (like beginning of May!) we moved to a bigger apartment and I started trying to "decorate" a bit to make it feel more like a home than a student apartment! I never posted again about it, however, because it is an ongoing process. But I got a bunch done last week and I'm excited about it so I thought I'd post about it!

My Living Room:
Colors: Cobalt Blue, Burgundy, Cream, Mahogany Brown
Found the pillows at Walmart. Loved them! :)
Middle frame is a mirror (you can see the pictures on the other side of the room in it though)
Kamryn gets framed twice because she is the only one (and I'm working on doing nice family pictures in the next couple of weeks) :)




Kamryn's Bathroom:
Colors: Bright Pink, Yellow and Orange; Beach Theme
Found the beach theme at Target! Love it!
Found frames at Ikea for cheap. Printed pictures at Costco.




My Disney Kitchen!
Disneyland kitchen...multiple characters and colors.
Frames have Disney scrapbooked pages in them. All Black frames.
Still looking for fabric to make curtains and tablecloth because right now the room is bare! But I was happy to finally find 12x 12 frames for some of the pages I had made!





(ignore the messy table!) :) haha

And my VERY FAVORITE and what I have been searching and searching for! (the perfect theme for my bedroom...)

Theme: Hawaii Beach
I found the bedding for our new large bed online at Domestications.com. It was on sale too so I HAD to get it! (Then I splurged for wall art and curtains!!) :) haha


I LOVE it though! It makes my heart and spirit just lift every time I walk into the room! I need to get an actual curtain rod still and I think we're going to paint one wall just to make it feel that much more "exotic" :) But for now, I have a great reason to make my bed every day! :)

Pictures I am missing: My bathroom and Kamryn's room.
My bathroom is still in the making. Nothing to show yet.

Kamryn's room, however, I am surprised I dont have a picture yet because it has been done the longest! In fact, I thought I had posted about it already. But it is also Hibiscus flowers and bright colors (like her bathroom). Bright green, yellow, blue, and pink. And I found a border that I put up around the ceiling. It is very cute! :) I need to take a picture ASAP!

It has been so fun decorating and creating rooms. Now the challenge is keeping them clean and adding little bits here and there that I find as time goes on! :)

Blog under construction!

So, I'm going to keep posting for the next little bit...but my blog is somewhat under construction as you can tell! :)

We're doing some major ... "re-decorating" of our blog page! Hopefully "renovations" are done soon!!

Happy Blogging!

Blog Header

I just wanted to do a post about the picture in our header because it is amazing to me what technology can do.

We have a friend who her and her husband just adopted a little baby girl earlier this year. They went to a studio and got portraits taken, and one of them was SO precious. The dad had the naked baby snuggled against his chest, and mom was cuddled in with them but behind baby and then mom was kissing baby and dad was kissing mom. It was so so cool .... so the other night my mom and dad and Ryan and I tried to recreate it.

Well, Kamryn is a little older now than that baby was and is so "intense" that she wouldn't cuddle up to dad very well. (I should post some of the funny shots we got!---Maybe next time I'm on my computer...I'm at work right now) Anyway we decided to do another pose--one where she could cuddle with mom as much as possible--this was the best we could do! It turned out pretty cute!

Then, Ryan found a tutorial online to make photos professionally sepia on photoshop and did it in about 15 minutes!

AND I had really yucky hair that night--lots of wispys--he photoshopped them out! (Thank heaven!) :)

And then last night I had fun while he was at work, decorating it up for a blog header!

And Tada!
(Isn't technology awesome!?! 2 days without professionals and we got this!) :)

I love it. I have always loved sepia pictures--they kinda remind me of "country" stuff--ya know?! Country love, cowboys, etc. Ahh..so romantic! :) It really does give me a warm fuzzy feeling when I look at it though---it's so me.

Anyway, now I just need to create the perfect background for us. Any ideas from you creative people out there, let me know! :)

Re-decorating...

I have recently had the desire to decorate our front room and make it more "home-y" than just a student apartment! (Even though that is totally what it is!!) :)

My mom bought me slipcovers for our couches for my birthday and they FINALLY came last Thursday! Yay! :)

I decided to use blue, cream and brown/tan in the living room because our black and white picture of Mt. Timpanogos temple on the wall is mounted with those colors.

After I put the slipcovers on, the yellow pillow also looked good on there...so I think yellow may be added into our color scheme as well! (I've always loved blue and yellow together!) :)

Now I need to get some shelves up and curtains...we'll see how long that takes! :) Maybe our next house... :( (because unfortunately we still have a student budget, despite what I want to do with our house!) :)