Always Blooming: Design&Decor

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Happy Harvest - outside

This is our first year putting fall decorations in our front yard! It's so cute!

My little weekend project. Our gutters have had a little leak for the past year or two. The leak as allowed water to drain directly down a section of our bricks creating a mildew stain. I assumed it would be difficult to remove and procrastinated cleaning it. To my surprise it was extremely easy to scrub off. All I needed to do was soak it with water to soften the mildew and then use a soft cleaning brush to scrub it. I wish I would have done it sooner.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Before and After : The Happy Harvest Edition

2012 Before Picture

2016 Happy Harvest after picture

2012 Before picture

2016 Happy Harvest after picture

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Happy Harvest!

Last year's Fall blog post <<--Click Here

Happy Harvest! It's our favorite time of year! And my love of pumpkins has only increased!

(everything pictured is from Kirklands)

I know I blogged about changing the white tile last year, but we still haven't gotten around to it. The main issue is I don't know what I want to replace it with, yet. Do I want slate? Brick? Gray? Beige? Until I get a vision of what I want to do this project will remain on pause.

You can see the new curtains we purchase from Target at the beginning of this year.

I love my turkey and white pumpkin set from Kirklands.

Our rustic wood "Happy Harvest" sign, ceramic chevron print pumpkins and wooden pumpkin banner are all from Kirklands.

The "Give Thanks" pumpkin and our standing female scarecrow are from Kirklands as well.

Our coffee table with a few of the decorations we used in our dining room last year.

I love this rustic white pumpkin from Kirklands! It's one of my favorite pumpkins in our house.

Welcome pumpkin in our entry way

Welcome pumpkin and a Happy Harvest sign in our entry

dining room table with a few fall decorations.

Buffet table in the dining room is ready for Fall

Fall canvas art, scarecrow set and chevron print pumpkin from Kirklands.

A few gold pumpkins and a male scarecrow on our picture table. Literally, everything is from Kirklands including table, picture frames, lamp, canvas art and candle holder.

Happy Fall y'all wreathe on our front door.

Pumpkin initial sign from Kirklands in our front yard garden

Thursday, August 25, 2016

2015 patio set assembly

Our beautiful Esperanzas.

I love how wild Esperanzas grow and their bright yellow bell shaped blooms.

Our SAMs order arrived!

Our patio set came in many pieces.

Thankfully we had a small team to help us assemble it all.

Beautiful! (and that's my mom)

We have made great use of it!

And the dogs love to sleep and play on top of the table lol

Flashback 2014 - changing the air vents

Before and After

Hubby changing out the air vents throughout the house!

This is before we repainted the bedroom.

It made such a huge difference to get the old yellow ones out!

We changed all the vents throughout the entire house!
Simple budget friendly updates!

Support beams - early 2016

We had some strong winds that destabilized our fence. My dad and hubby put up a few temporary support beams. My dad has had to do the same to his fence a few times so he knew what to do. Eventually we will have to bite the bullet and get a new fence done by professionals, but honestly, we have more important things to do. I'm so thankful for the resourcefulness and wisdom my dad has when it comes to fixing things. It's slowly rubbing off on us! :-)

My dad and hubby have also had to replace several fence boards on the other side of the house because the neighbor's dogs behind us keep popping them off in their attempts to fight my dogs. Thankfully when they have successfully managed to get into our yard they were all bark and no bite. They actually just played and ran around with my dogs. And when I stomped my foot and pointed at the hole they had dug and belly crawled through and said, "Go home!" they obeyed immediately LOL. But it doesn't mean replacing boards and blocking the dogs' view of each other doesn't get frustrating. I guess interacting with each other is the highlight of all of our dogs' day, so whatever makes them happy! lol