We moved into Green Lea (that's the street we live on) over a year ago. Actually, we moved in the weekend we returned from our honeymoon. When we first moved in I was extremely motivated to decorate and make this place our home. By the time everything was moved in and the necessities were in place I was worn out. The last thing I wanted to do was make more work for myself. Over the past year I have slowly started to decorate and really make Green Lea feel like it's ours. Being typical newlyweds, most of the decor around this place includes our wedding pictures. Jeff actually said the other day, "JoLee, let's not put up any more pictures of us, ok." But, I feel like we paid a lot of money for that photographer, we just need to get our money's worth and actually use the pictures.
Anyway, in an effort to try and decorate with something other than pictures of ourselves I have worked on a few other decorating projects around the house. Since we are on the topic of the wedding, the first item is actually my bouquet. I saved my bouquet but by the time it dried out and made the flight down to Southern California it was pretty pitiful looking. I decided to shadow box it - see picture above. I took an actual picture of the bouquet from my wedding day and then took some of the flowers that were left and hot glued them around. The ribbon behind is actually the ribbon that wrapped the stems. Who knows, maybe some day I will have a daughter and she can wrap her wedding bouquet with that same ribbon. The other thing I decided I needed to do was get some funky throw pillows for our couches. Our couches are hand me downs from my mom. I love these couches. They are quite possibly the most comfortable couches ever (at least they were in their prime) but unfortunately they are purple. Who has purple couches? I do! After about two hours in Pier 1 I finally settled on these. Please note that these were picked out exactly one week from returning from South Africa - which probably helps you better understand my inspiration. They actually match our throw rug perfectly too.
Finally, back to the shelf hanging incident in which I left four gaping holes in the wall. Well, the hubs returned and like a pro hung that shelf and made my little African animal frame collage come to life. Didn't turn out exactly how I envisioned it but I should just be thankful that it has now been up on the wall for about a month and has not fallen down. I am really starting to enjoy decorating my house to make it a home. Many more projects to come during my
Life As A Wife.
We moved into Green Lea (that's the street we live on) over a year ago. Actually, we moved in the weekend we returned from our honeymoon. When we first moved in I was extremely motivated to decorate and make this place our home. By the time everything was moved in and the necessities were in place I was worn out. The last thing I wanted to do was make more work for myself. Over the past year I have slowly started to decorate and really make Green Lea feel like it's ours. Being typical newlyweds, most of the decor around this place includes our wedding pictures. Jeff actually said the other day, "JoLee, let's not put up any more pictures of us, ok." But, I feel like we paid a lot of money for that photographer, we just need to get our money's worth and actually use the pictures.
Anyway, in an effort to try and decorate with something other than pictures of ourselves I have worked on a few other decorating projects around the house. Since we are on the topic of the wedding, the first item is actually my bouquet. I saved my bouquet but by the time it dried out and made the flight down to Southern California it was pretty pitiful looking. I decided to shadow box it - see picture above. I took an actual picture of the bouquet from my wedding day and then took some of the flowers that were left and hot glued them around. The ribbon behind is actually the ribbon that wrapped the stems. Who knows, maybe some day I will have a daughter and she can wrap her wedding bouquet with that same ribbon. The other thing I decided I needed to do was get some funky throw pillows for our couches. Our couches are hand me downs from my mom. I love these couches. They are quite possibly the most comfortable couches ever (at least they were in their prime) but unfortunately they are purple. Who has purple couches? I do! After about two hours in Pier 1 I finally settled on these. Please note that these were picked out exactly one week from returning from South Africa - which probably helps you better understand my inspiration. They actually match our throw rug perfectly too.
Finally, back to the shelf hanging incident in which I left four gaping holes in the wall. Well, the hubs returned and like a pro hung that shelf and made my little African animal frame collage come to life. Didn't turn out exactly how I envisioned it but I should just be thankful that it has now been up on the wall for about a month and has not fallen down. I am really starting to enjoy decorating my house to make it a home. Many more projects to come during my Life As A Wife.
2 comments:
you are such a good decorator. and i really like how the shelf & frames turned out! great job jeff :)
[i'm just glad now i've found ONE thing you're not good at! after showing me up on go karts, transforming a minivan and/or RV, etc. i was starting to think you were completely perfect.]
Did you quit your blog? It has been a month missy!
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