home sweet home

we have done quite a few projects to our house over the last few months so i thought i would show a few that are completed. we are really good at starting one and not finishing it but we are working on that.

i have had 3 different things on our entry wall and i finally am content with it. when we got our church pew a while back we didn't know what we wanted to hang on the wall. justin had the idea of a shelf so we could put some frames and other things on it. he built the shelf, hung it, and i was one happy wife.


I plan on putting something in the big vase.

and now to ideas that weren't mine--- when it comes to decorating and house ideas my brain really doesn't work. however, blogs do give me great ideas and because of blogs our house actually looks semi-decent. we have been needing a new tv and really just needed to go to best buy to buy it. before we did, we kind of wanted a tv stand/table to use with it. our tv stand we have now is too small for the tv we were going to buy. the wall our tv is on is huge and justin wanted to hang it on the wall so we just wanted a buffet table to go under it. we wanted it a certain length and it just was going to be impossible to find something that didn't break the bank. and then while i was blog creeping i saw this. i saw something similar to this about a year or two ago but at the time i didn't need it and forgot to save it. so when i saw it again i instantly loved it. i love shelves (i love being able to put tons of pictures and knick knacks) and we could customize this to fit our wall and build it around the tv. i knew right away this would be an easy project and told justin and he loved it too. last wednesday and thursday we built the shelves.  i love them. they turned out better and it has changed the look in our living room. thank you Lindsay for this wonderful idea.

I am still lacking a few decorations.

i love how the projects have turned out and i think our home is finally turning out how i want it to. next project... master bedroom.. and i have a few blogs i plan on copying. :)

movie time

one of our dogs is sick and needs to be monitored all weekend long- wonderful! but luckily, it is supposed to be cold and dreary this weekend so it is a perfect weekend to stay in and get things done around the house while keeping an eye on the dog 24/7! other than cleaning, laundry, and filing an unimaginable amount of papers away we will be watching movies and football. i have an ongoing list of movies i have wanted to see. this list is about 2 years long but for some reason it seems that we have taken a 2 year hiatus in renting movies. not sure why. so i plan on bringing that back this weekend so we can start crossing some of these movies off the list because the list definately is not getting smaller. first movies up this weekend? the town, social network, and country strong.

have a warm weekend with some hot chocolate!