hooray for halloween!

halloween is mine and husband's favorite time of year! he likes the creepy and i like the cutesy :) we finally were able to get the decorations up after my daughter's 2nd birthday party (i'll post pics on that later) here are a few pictures to show what we did :)

my lovely "new" door

i have been wanting an old door for some time now. where i live, these are hard to come by. a friend was at a yard sale in redlands, ca (about and hour from me) and found this door being used as a table! she asked if they would sell it to her and now here it sits in my living room :) such a happy girl am i!!

ahhh....love fall!

i decorated for fall a little early this year. living in california (the desert) to be more exact, it's hard to get into the fall mood when it is still nearly 100 degrees. i'm hoping that decorating will bring cooler weather! (hey...a girl can hope right)

i'm way too excited about decorating for halloween this year too, but my daughter's 2nd birthday is october 2. since we are doing an alice in wonderland theme, halloween will have to wait until the 3rd...she'll be having a halloween party next year :)

Let's Find a Cure!!

In late April of this year, my 3 year old niece was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. She now has to get her blood sugar checked and insulin shots several times a day. I cannot imagine what this can be like for a 3 year old. On October 2 my family will be doing a walk for finding a cure for type 1 diabetes. Here is her website if you feel led to make a donation to help with finding this cure. Her name is Arianna Rizzardi. Thank you all SO much!

http://walk.jdrf.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=extranet.personalpage&confirmID=87707095

Before and After

This is now my second furniture restoration piece and I have to say that I am thinking I found a new hobby :) This piece used to be my step-father's when he was a child and he couldn't be happier to have this dresser in his granddaughter's room now. So here is the new piece that is now in my daughter's room. I also redecorated her room today :) I'll post pics of that tomorrow :)

before...

after...

My Little Munchkin

So for those of you who don't know Kaydence, I thought I would introduce her to you. Kaydence is my beautiful little girl who will be 2 in October.

She is seriously my favorite little person in the world. She is SO passionate about everything. When she is upset, it is true saddness and on the other hand when she is happy, her giggles could make even the grumpiest person happy. I know a lot of that comes along with being 2, but she definitely has more personality than I know what to do with sometimes :)

Burlap and Numbers

Lately I have had a newfound love of burlap and stenciled numbers. I keep seeing items like these everywhere and fall in love with them everytime I see them. The numbered pillows were inspired from etsy seller heididevlin, the jars were inspired from Pottery Barn and the wreath was shown to me by my sister in law from a blog that she came across. I love that there are those out there willing to share their creativity to help us get our juices flowing.