She is still alive

My cousin and his wife gave me this beauty as a birthday gift 5 months ago, this morning she was opening up her last tiny bud.. she is BEAUTIFUL!!

We have her in our bedroom and it catches Baby R's attention when he is in bed with us. I guess it must be the bright purple that catches his eye. This has been the first and only plant that has EVER survived in our house... a Miracle!

I wish she could stay with us forever...

We are back

in our old house that is.
Our Tenants ended their lease, which gave us a window of opportunity to move back in. But of course something had to go wrong along the way which lead to this...

  Never a dull moment

Where it all began

Before I reveal RJ's Nursery and Baby Shower pictures I want to share with you where our inpirations began...

My husband and I love the ocean, we live 10 minutes away from the beach, we go boating very often in the summer and two years ago I received my certification for scuba diving (so far I have only taken 3 dive trips). The ocean is so peaceful. In fact 99.9% of our vacations we end up on an island, no snow for us. So when we found out we were expecting a boy, what better way to celebrate with a nautical theme?!?!? Ah... the ocean... heaven. My wonderful mother in law wanted to host the baby shower at her home and asked me to help her decorate and organize all the goodies (I love surprises, but I was so happy to help... I live for this stuff). On one of our shopping trips to Ikea, I found these napkins
and right away the baby shower was planned around this little adorable napkin. I loved the navy blue with a touch of white and light blue sleek modern clean lines. Most of the decorations I tried my best to either make it or find it on clearance, thrift store or recycled. Guest received this invitation that I created to set the mood

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Here is a glimpse of the paper station

 Lobster Cookie Favors all tied up ready to go

 I also made a banner for behind the cake table

 Last but certainly not least was the advice cards. I wanted something personalized and of course free, so I created these in Photoshop. There was some hilarious advice, and others that I look back on and wished I would have listened (for example.. SLEEP as much as you can!!).
One of my friends predicted the date and was off by one hour exact, incredible!

I had a great time helping out with the shower, I wish I could plan parties 24/7.
Next up we will post the decor pictures.
 

New Year... New Beginnings

It has been some time since my last post and I have lots to catch up on.... First off... we have rented our 2 bedroom 1 bathroom home and have moved into a 2 bedroom 2 bath apartment. It took a lot of time to make this move, but we could not be happier. I am closer to work, my husband is going against traffic so he could not be happier and we have simplified our lives by minimizing house work. Here are a few pictures from the first day we moved in (Please pardon the quality, these were taken on my phone)... Kitchen
 
 Living Room / Dining Room

 Balcony

Our View from the balcony, kitchen and master bedroom
 Master bedroom
 
 Nursery

Nursery bathroom

Yup... You read correctly, Nursery. Please let me introduce our precious baby boy...
Baby R 8 pounds 7 ounces 20 inches of love.

This week I will reveal his nursery and other updates, I am very excited to get back into updating the blog. Thank you for being patient with me :)

Hello Bubbles!

I am officially a new owner of the beautiful J Crew Bubble Necklace (found here).
This piece is so pretty and has that girly vintage feel to it.

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You could dress it up

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or even a white tank top with a cardigan and jeans

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Love it! so far I have worn it twice this week :)

craigslist

have you checked out your local CL lately??? There are so many variety of items that either need some making over or some just perfect as is. and don't forget to check out the free category... you will be shock at what you can find. Here are a few lovely pieces from my local area sofa and side tables $300 Coffee Table Free wood dresser Free china buffet Free Dresser with end table $125 I think if I bring home 1 more piece my husband will kill me. all through out our house I have unfinished projects laying around... Sorry hon! Ill finish some up this week :) Hope you have a great short work week,