My addiction to Pottery Barn...

While browsing decorations for BBQ's and the Fourth of July I cam across some pretty cute items from Pottery Barn. I am addicted to their recycled glass collection which just screams summer time to me:

(I can just imagine drinking ice cold lemonade out of a frosty cold tumbler)

This wonderful mason jar mugs:

This cute condiment set

Drink Dispensers

Outdoor Straws colored perfectly for the Fourth!

The perfect table

Pottery Barn has the best ideas for entertaining and party planning!

Fourth of July

We are having a small get together Sunday the 3rd to celebrate the Fourth. We figured it would give people some time to recoup before going back to work on Tuesday. We are planning water balloon tosses, wade pools for the kids and plenty of delicious food. We are looking forward to spending quality times with friends but are dreading the impending Heat (It is expected to be 103! yikes!)

Here are a few of the tasty treats I've come across.

Revolution Berries

What you need:

12 oz. White Chocolate Chips

Strawberries

Blue Sugar

Watermelon Pops

What you need:

Watermelon

Star Cookie Cutter

Cookie Sheet

Popsicle Sticks

Freezer

Red Velvet Icre Cream Cupcakes



New Baby!

It's been awhile since I've blogged... About two months! We've had a lot going on. On March 30 I found out I am expecting agian. I am thrilled.  Whats funny is that we are due just one day later than our daughters original due date, just two years later. Kaitlynn was due on December 8, 2009 and ended up being three and a half weeks early. The new baby is due December 9, 2011! The kids will be almost exactly two years apart!

My husband and I have a little bit of added stress when it comes to being pregnant. We are both carriers of cystic fibrosis and have a 25% chance of having a child with the genetic disorder. If you haven't done research on cystic fibrosis you should! Its a terrbile disease that is currently incurable. Needless to say after the testing, and the stress and the worry we are all clear! This baby is not even a carrier of the gene (Kaitlynn is a carrier although she does not have the disorder). Aside from finding out we are healthy, we also found out we are having a BOY! We are planning on more children so we aren't done but it is nice having one of each right away.

I am currently four months pregnant and am passed the morning sickness stage. I've just started to feel him move and can't wait for whats to come! We've started on the nursery and have the crib set up. The bedding is purchased and all we have to do is finish the decorating.

Here is a sneak peak at what are theme is for this little precious boy:

Pottery Barn Kids Harper Bedding

Pottery Barn Kids Baseball Lamp

Koo Koo Bear Kids Print

Koo Koo Bear Kids baseball bookends

As you can see we are going with a vintage baseball theme. The bedding is a very crisp, clean navy that will be a great starting point for all the baseball accessories. We are going to keep a lot of the baseball stuff to a minimum while he is a baby and add to it as he gets older. We are thinking this theme will be able to grow with him and isn't too childish or corny. I am not a big fan of most boy nursery bedding.

I will post pictures as we get the nursery together. 

My Easter Brunch

I have been perusing the internet for inspiration for easter. I've finally narrowed down my color theme; pink, pale yellow, sage and blue. these things have been my inspiration;

It began with this cute invitation

Photo Courtsey of Itsybelle


I just ordered these straws from the Cupcake Social

I'm going to order these paper laterns from Luna Bazaar in pink, yellow, green and blue to match the color theme.

I think these are just adorable and would make cute additions to any table.

For the how to please visit All You

My easter Deocrating has begun

Over the weekend I pulled out my easter tote and realized I didn't really have any decorations. Actually I had none. All I had was a couple of baskets and a whole bunch of plastic easter eggs. My husband informed me that last year I went crazy with plastic easter eggs in various apothecary jars around our old house. I also remembered that for table decorations for our easter brunch were tulips I had purchased the day before easter. I guess having a 5 month old at the time didn't really allow for much time to decorate.

 So I wanted to see what I could do with what I had and this is what I came up with this weekend.

I bought the branches at costco and I had the eggs. I did something similar in our dining room but I used cherry blossom branches. The pictures don't do the centerpiece justice. It is so much prettier in person!



Easter inspiration

We are just approaching March and Easter ins't until the end of April but I feel like you can never get a big enough head start on projects. While browsing the internet I felt inspired by these ideas. Hopefully you will be too...

Choco Eggs a la Martha Stewart- I saw this last year but ran out of time to try. I think this year I will do a couple of dry runs to see if they turn out.

I love this idea for my entry table. I saw a great bunch of cherry blossom stems at Costco for a really good price. I haven't seen any faux blossoms I like so I think I'm gonna go with the real ones.

 

The project on the left is really cute. The vases are made out of blown out ostrich eggs that can be found online.

Kitchen, Family Room and Entry way re-do.

We moved into our new house in June and since we've moved in I haven't been in LOVE with the yellow paint that is throughout the house. EVERYTHING was yellow. It wasn't so bad when we first moved in but over the past several months it has begun to get to me.

I've wanted to paint and we just haven't had the time. Finally I convinced my husband last weekend to take a trip to Lowe's. We picked out some paint samples and we started painting on Monday. I am so used to painting normal rooms and the projects being quick and easy. This was in now way a quick and easy project. We have so  much cabinetry in our kitchen and built in entertainment center that the cut work took forever!! Last night at about 2 am. we finally finished most of the work. We still have to get to the center of the alcove in our entry way that we want to paint a shade darker but hopefully we can get to that on Monday.

The yellow is the old paint  (obviously) and this is the only before picture I got of this area before I thought to take pictures of the before.

This is the eat in area.

After the paint, before the drapes

(Don't pay attention to the gate, this is to keep in Bailey our 7 month golden retriever)  Our fridge doesn't match our overs or our range and eventually we will upgrade to a stainless steel fridge but for now we are going to use the one we had.

After the drapes

 (Eventually I will get drapes that extend all the way to the floor but at the time I don't want the white curtains touching the ground because we have a puppy who loves to lay in the area. The last thing I want is to wake up and find the drapes ripped to shreads or them covered in dog hair! )

Balloon drape over the kitchen sink. I LOVE this addition. It totally warms up the area. We used to have a picture over the window before and it j ust wasn't working. In the before picture you can see that it defintely needed something.

I need to take pictures of the family room before but I don't have any good pictures of the after. Stay tuned for new pictures of the family later this weekend.

**Sorry if the pictures are blurry they were taken with my iphone**