Spring Dresses

I love Spring and I love Anthropologie...so I thought I would do a post on Anthropologie's Spring Dresses.

Love this for a little black dress.

So cute.

This is one of my favorites!!!

I wanted to get this one for my cousin's wedding...if it wasn't for the price tag.

This is the back of the dress, but it was more fabulous than the front and what makes the dress in my opinion.

love it.

The way they wore this one is so great.

This is also one of my favorites.

I Hear Wedding Bells

It's been a lot of Wedding talk lately...probably because it's spring, two of my cousins are getting married, and a very dear friend just got engaged.

And since I always say I would like to redo a lot of my wedding, I thought I would just post a couple ideas I really like.

I still would wear my hair up and very simple. Like this...

or this.

I love his suit and think a light blue-grey would be so springy.

Love the dress and the hem and the shoes...all things about this picture I love...except for the wrinkled pants...hmmm.

I don't know who you would get to do this for you...but it is a fabulous idea.

Something blue...love it.

And yummy looking cakes.

Happy Spring!

Being married to a mason, I see brick and stone in a completely different way now. I appreciate an all brick house, curved brick walls or arches, detail like herringbone, etc. So, I thought I would do a little post about brick. I thought about doing stone too, but decided I will save it for a separate post.

I've posted this picture before, but still love it.

It's always fun to have a little brick in a kitchen.

Or a lot of brick in a kitchen.

love the brick with the chandelier.

so pretty

I'm always asking Jarod...could you do that? He used to say, 'I'm not sure...probably'. But the more experience he has gotten, the more he says 'yep' to answer that question. I remember I asked him recently about this next picture, and he hesitated, but still said that he is sure he could figure it out. I don't doubt him at all. Every obstacle that he has come to, he has always figured it out...such a talented guy.

Isn't this so pretty?

Like the little bit of it here.

I love slurry coated brick! One thing Jarod says we might have to do some day.

Functional.

love it.

Be Inspired

I was talking to my cousin today about decorating. I was saying that sometimes the best way to get inspired with ideas is to start with something you love. We were talking about her bathroom, so for example, I was saying if she had a shower curtain, or knobs, or a light fixture that she loved, then she could work off of that.

Most of us can't just picture a room done and decorated...sometimes we need a little inspiration. A common phrase I hear is, "I thought I'd paint this room orange (because they like orange)...but not sure what I will do with the rest". Instead, maybe you should find something with orange in it, if orange inspires you, and decorate around it.

(I always have to give the side note that I have never studied this...it's just my personal taste, experiences and failures...so take it for what it's worth.)

So, here are some examples of what I am talking about. This person maybe found this chandelier and LOVED it and decided to decorate around it. Or had the couch and wanted to decorate around it. Or maybe the whole room was inspired by the drift wood coffee table? Or maybe they loved blue, but instead of painting the whole room blue, they used it in the couch.

Another example...maybe the person who decorated this room loved the floor and decided to decorate the whole room accordingly. Or maybe they had the table and wanted to make the room work according to it. Or maybe the stove was the inspiration.

I'm not saying you can't paint a room a color you love...just know where you are going from there.

Or this headboard. I also love how if you have something amazing...like the headboard...you make everything else simple, so people notice the headboard and it becomes the focal point.

Inspired by the light? the tile? the shower curtain?

Maybe a throw?

Or wallpaper.

a painting?

I'm inspired by these chairs...and would decorate a room around them.

Do you have something you love? Be inspired by it.

I will try to do a post on spaces, walls, rooms that I have decorated around an inspiration.

God is God

God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to. -Elisabeth Elliot

Will and Oliver's Day

Yesterday, I decided to color eggs with Will. I didn't do Easter eggs or basket last year, since I thought it a waste on a 2 year old who wouldn't get it or appreciate it...I'm fun like that.

Will was so careful...

but we did have a couple who didn't make it.

Then Mr.Oliver decided to get into crawl position.

We lost the dirty shirt...pictured above.

He does plank better than I do.

With his Daddy.

I am fun like this...I torture my kids by making sport of them.

Me and Wilski

Thought I would post some photos of me and my little Wilski through the years.

Then a couple of my other sweetheart.