Light up your life!!

or at least your hallway..in this case! Hi everybody, I’m Peter...the guy Laura has been talking about :) Today I want to share a project we worked on this past weekend that is practically free if you have a little imagination and a few old light fixtures lying around.

Photo Frame Re-do!

In our last house I really had a thing for red, especially in our kitchen. I had a change of heart though and decided to make the decor fresh and bright using shades of blue, cream, yellow, brown and green. I lOve the look we have in our home now but still have a few items from our previous style. One of them was this chunky Hobby Lobby picture frame, when I bought it it was just the thing for the color scheme we had going on but I've been wanting to change it for a long time so yesterday, I did! 

Ikea Style: Basket Planter!!

(images of Kalasa plant pot from Ikea website!!)

Last weekend Peter and I went across the border to our friendly neighbors in Canada and made our very first trip to...IKEA!!! (our nearest store is in Burlington, ON only a short hour and a half drive from our house) We were just bursting with excitement before we even made it through the door! I couldn't get enough of all their great home decor pieces, the aMazing showroom displays, and their even better prices...totally coulda stayed there allll day!! :) After a lot of looking we narrowed down all the items we loved and decided on just a few things we had to bring back with us. One piece we did end up passing on was a basket planter. It was sUper cute and the perfect thing for our Yucca plant (that we lovingly named Burt!) buut as soon as we saw it I knew we didn't even need to spend the $14.99 because we could make our own!!

"Pallet-Style" Subway Art Tutorial

I was truly inspired by all the subway art that seems so popular right now and couldn’t wait to have such a bold graphic piece on display in our home. I would’ve bought one but after lOts of looking and not finding one with a phrase I liked Peter suggested I make it myself...hehe soo I did! With his help of course ;) I was set on making it “pallet style” with a little extra detail to give it interest, and created my own stencils. I keep mine up year round, but if you use this saying it’d be a very sweet sentiment to have on display for Valentine’s Day!!