It warmed up here in the Pacific Northwest for a few days but then we are back to Fall weather and I’m so glad!  Inside my home, it definitely smells like fall with all the baking and yummy candles and it definitely looks like fall with all of the decorating.  A group of friends and I are sharing our fall decor ideas with you yesterday and today {in a 2-day tour} and I’m going to show you all the prettiest ways to style pumpkins for the fall.  I hope you love these ideas and pin them for inspo as you start your fall decorating in your own home!

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(Just a little note…you’ll see some of my photos watermarked with “She Leaves A Little Sparkle”. That was the name of my blog when I first started blogging but I rebranded a couple of years ago.  These are all my ideas and pictures of my past homes or my current home but just didn’t want to confuse you!)

Pretty Ways I’ve Styled Pumpkins In The Past

Let’s look back at a few of the ideas I used in our last home and then I’ll share a little of what I’m doing in our new home now in Washington State.

In styling this fall coffee table back in our Dallas home, I used mini real white pumpkins and spanish moss on mercury candle holders for a natural but glam look.

I continued with the pumpkins and spanish moss on my vintage tea cart and I loved how pretty it looked on my antique silver pieces.

Finding some really nice faux pumpkins is a great alternative when setting a table like this one that I did and you don’t have to worry about them lasting just a short time or going bad.  If you don’t like the color, you can always use some acrylic or chalk paint to make it the color you want or make it more natural-looking and not so yellow, as some faux pumpkins look.

I even used a faux pumpkin on faux fall stems in this fall tour to create a pretty centerpiece for my dining table.  It was so simple but it was so elegant and exactly what this space needed.

I liked what I did above so much that I even made a smaller version in another vase and placed it on my antique silver tray.

Both sparkly glam pumpkins and real mini white pumpkins can be used to set a fancy table.  You don’t have to choose just one or another in a space so don’t be afraid to use them together!

Ok so this time last year, we were in this little townhome here in Vancouver, Washington with ALL of our things in storage while our house was being built.  My husband’s company put us up in a furnished townhome and moved us from Texas, which was so nice, but I had no fall decor with me.  I ran to HomeGoods and picked up a tray, ginger jar, faux flowers and yes….a pretty mercury glass pumpkin to add a little fall decor to our temporary townhome.  A pretty pumpkin can go a long way!

The Prettiest Ways To Style Pumpkins For The Fall

Here is what I’m doing in our new house this year.  Last year everything was in storage and we were finishing the building process.  So this year is actually the first Fall season that I get to decorate our new home.

I shared this 2-step DIY Fall Wreath the other day on the blog with mini faux pumpkins all over it.  I was so lucky to find a nearby farm with a handful of white pumpkins that were ready and they let me have them.  They look so cute on my front porch.  I have pretty black urns for white pumpkin urn topiaries but I’ve got to wait until all the big white pumpkins are being harvested and sold on our local farms.  They’re not quite ready yet.

This is my entry.  Yesterday I pulled out another box of fall decor and it had all my pretty pumpkins made of glitter, velvet, or mercury glass.  As I was taking things off my entry table and just putting these pumpkins on here until I’d found a place for them, I had an idea.

I grabbed more blush fall rose stems that I used in my fall candleholder wreath tutorial last week and placed them all over my pumpkin arrangement.

I loved it!  What a happy accident!

In my kitchen, I wanted to keep the blue and pink I have going.  I grabbed fresh flowers (as I do every week) and then added one of my pretty mercury glass pumpkins to the tray and switched out the other pieces I had here.

I added other subtle touches to my  kitchen by placing my white pumpkin soup tureens on top of my plates in my glass cabinets.

Not all of your fall touches need to be grandiose.  They can be subtle and still seasonal or festive.
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I decided to do the same thing on my dining table as I did to my kitchen island since they are near one another.

 Also because it was a simple but elegant touch.

On my living room coffee table, I’m waiting for my blush fall stems to arrive so I kept my cherry blossoms in the blue jar for a few more days.  But I did switch out my pink pineapple dish with mints to this adorable blush ceramic pumpkin I found at HomeGoods a couple of weeks ago.

That is all I’m sharing today!  I have a LOT more to share but that will be next week.  I hope this has given you enough inspiration for now.  For paint, flooring, or source info on my kitchen or entry or living room…please click on my Home Resources page.

Wednesday Tour:

Janine | Happy Happy Nester

Ashley | Modern Glam

Judy | Life is Better at Home

Joan | 2 Ladies and a Chair

Martha | Simple Cozy Charm

Amie | Meme Hill

Thursday Tour:

Jackie | Finding Lovely

Yuni | Love Your Abode

Leslie | My 100 Year Old Home

Summer | Summer Adams

Rhonda | Hallstrom Home

Doreen | Doreen Corrigan

Jodie & Julie | The Design Twins

Gloribell | Know How She Does It

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I’m excited to be joining a group of over 20 other talented bloggers who are also sharing a Fall DIY wreath tutorial with you!  Thanks to our friend Krista from The Happy Housie for hosting this Seasonal Simplicity Series and getting us all together!  Today I’m going to show you an easy tutorial for a Two-step DIY Fall Wreath.

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Earlier this spring, I created this pretty spring wreath for our front door.  I’ve kept it up all spring and summer long and honestly….I still love it and wish I could keep it up for fall.  The only problem is that it definitely screams “spring!”  I decided I’d change that in just 2 steps.

Step 1 for the two-step diy fall wreath

1- Grab the wreath that you want to transform into a fall wreath.  Find some mini white styrofoam pumpkins (I found a small bag of them in the dollar section of Target for about $3) and insert wooden skewers through the bottom.

You can break off most of the skewer and stick the pumpkin and about 4 inches of the skewer into the wreath and hot glue it in.  I used about 6 pumpkins and placed them throughout one side of my asymmetrical wreath.  You can use twice as many if you’re doing an entire wreath.

Step 2 for the two-step diy fall wreath

2 – Replace any elements of your wreath that is not “fall” with fall floral stems.

For my wreath, I removed the spring stems of white flowers and limelight hydrangeas and grabbed some ivory fall floral stems that I found at Michael’s.

They were only $3 on sale which means that it’s only cost $6 total for a fall wreath.

I can remove the fall elements in the spring and put those spring stems (that I just removed) back in.  It’s so versatile and I love it!

My sweet friend was at one of our local farms the other day and texted me to tell me that the farmer’s wife found a handful of white pumpkins so she brought them home to me.

Until there are a lot more white pumpkins available, and some big enough for my stacked-pumpkin urn topiaries, I’m keeping my white nantucket planters with the ferns.  I think it’s perfect for now and I have fern pieces in my wreath so they go well together.

So that’s it!  Just 2 easy steps in my two-step DIY fall wreath.  Add your little white pumpkins and replace any spring stems with fall stems.

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Now, please hop over to see what my talented friends are sharing…

The Happy Housie // Rooms for Rent // The Turquoise Home // Finding Silver Pennies

Deeply Southern Home // Hallstrom Home // Shabbyfufu // Sincerely, Marie Designs //
The DIY Mommy

Lolly Jane // Happy Happy Nester // Amber Tysl // A Pretty Life

Place of My Taste // Love Create Celebrate // Modern Glam // Lemon Thistle

Town and Country Living // Clean and Scentsible // Summer Adams // Willow Street Interiors

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I’m so excited that the Seasonal Simplicity series is back again; and this time it’s to celebrate Summer! Today I’ve joined up with a talented group of bloggers to kick of this series by sharing a beautiful DIY or Craft project with you all!  I’m inviting you to the entrance of my home…my front porch!  I’ve created a very simple but lovely green asymmetrical wreath to show you and also my new planter boxes I received this spring! Enjoy the inspiration and ideas and pin away!  You can always hover over any of my images and click the “pin it” icon on the top left corner.

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This is our first official spring here in the Pacific Northwest and it is quite different than spring back in Texas.  In 3 words I’ll just say…..

It is glorious!!!

The weather is absolutely perfect!  Everything is green and flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, it’s mostly sunny but a rain here and there to cool things off, we’ve been playing and gardening outside and taking walks and picnic-ing.  It’s truly been lovely!  I just shared the very beginning stage of my backyard last week and the French-inspired back patio (that’s already had a bunch of new changes).  So now it’s time to work on the front and share it with you!

For the front door of our Craftsman-style home, I wanted to create a wreath for the spring and summer that was full of greenery to compliment the new white planter boxes and ferns I planted.

I ran to my nearest craft store, which was Michaels, and grabbed a grapevine wreath that was on sale for about $10.  I also grabbed a variety of spring faux greenery stems that were 50% off.  I can’t really tell you how many stems to get because it’s up to you and how full you want to make it.

I would just say to grab a few of each variety and then do like I did and take back what you don’t use.  I grabbed a few different varieties of faux fern stems, eucalyptus, and boxwood.

Now, I made a DIY Boxwood & Magnolia Wreath back in Texas a couple of years ago and had to use twine and floral wire to start securing those stems to the grapevine.  That’s because it was sooooo hot in Texas that if I had used hot glue, it would have melted off the wreath on those hottest summer days and fallen apart.

But now that we’re in the Pacific Northwest, and since our door is shaded and not directly in the sun, I went ahead and clipped stems and started hot-gluing them on to the wreath like crazy.  A month later, with heavy rain and wind here and there, it’s holding up perfectly fine.

For the asymmetrical look, just choose one side you want cover and which direction you want to go and then work around, piece by piece and top to bottom.

I also grabbed a few little bunches of faux snowball stems and other little greenish-white flower stems and added a few touches on there.  I had to add some floral but I didn’t want to go overboard on this particular design and take away from all the pretty fern varieties and other stems.

Since I have black on my front porch door mat and black metal porch lights (see more on those here), I wanted to tie that all in with some thick black and white striped wired ribbon.  So I created a big bow and fastened that on with floral wire.

I really like the way that looks!  I think it turned out nicely and I’m really loving the asymmetrical look.  It’s definitely different than my last DIY wreath but still green and fresh-looking!

I ordered these white Nantucket-style planter boxes for my front door and drilled a couple more holes in the bottom and they’re perfect!  I love the look!  I chose to plant ferns in them because A) they’re inexpensive B) will grow quite a bit and look nice and full C) you water them a lot the first week and then they are totally easy maintenance after that and D) they tolerate all that shade really well.

I still have more flowers to plant in the front yard this week, as I’ve been giving so much attention to the backyard.  And wait until you see what I’m adding in between my garages!  But anyway, I love the way this simple DIY wreath looks with the planters on my front porch.  What do you think?

Please make sure to visit my friends today and their fabulous DIY wreath ideas!

The Happy Housie / The DIY Mommy /Confessions of a Serial DIYer / Zevy Joy

Finding Silver Pennies / Happy Happy Nester / Tidbits / Vinyet Etc.

A Pretty Life / Artsy Chicks Rule / Town and Country Living / Newly Woodwards

Southern State of Mind / Craftberry Bush / Summer Adams

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Hello, friends!  I’m so excited to have you here today!  We are gathered again, as a group of interior and lifestyle bloggers, to bring all of you some fabulous spring inspiration.  Thanks to our friend Krista from The Happy Housie for hosting our “Seasonal Simplicity Tours” this spring.  If you are visiting from her blog or from Sincerely Marie Designs, there’s no doubt you have already been pinning inspiration! I have a round-up of all the spring fun I’ve had lately and there’ still more to come.  If you’re new here, you’ll see that for my spring home tour I’ve used accents of blush and blue and it’s been so fun sharing spring decorating tips, spring fashion, spring recipes, and spring printables with you!

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I started off this spring by sharing with you my Rain Gear Round-Up.  Spring showers bring those beautiful flowers and we get more than most of you, being in the Pacific Northwest.  I don’t mind the rain and it’s so gorgeous here but I definitely find importance in staying dry while being fashionable as well.

My mantel before spring was bright and simple with mixed metals.  I added a hint of blush and blue to my mantel for spring and even shared another variation for Easter by adding a few things.

I found the cutest blue striped tablecloth with tassels and knew I wanted to use it for my Easter table with blush pink and a vintage milk glass place setting.

This was one of my favorite tables ever, for a few reasons.  Read HERE to find out why and to see the tassels on the tablecloth and the entire finished table.

Also in that same blog post, I share how I added pink and blue to my bright white kitchen for the spring and the new rug runner I found.

No matter what your spring color palette is, I used things I already had to style my kitchen using those colors. See more and read all about it HERE.

One of my favorite things about spring time is that we get outside more…even in the rain!  It warms up just a little bit and the sun comes out and we start playing out in the neighborhood again.  Being in a brand new subdivision and one of the first ones to build in our cul-de-sac, we now have a bunch of homes being finished and all these new neighbors are moving in.  We were soooo excited!  I made these darling printable gift tags for baked goods and shared them with all of you.  Brooklyn (my 12 year-old) made delicious Snickerdoodles and we brought these to all our new neighbors (they all seem to be moving in at once) and introduced ourselves and welcomed them to the neighborhood.  You can print and use these tags from this post.

After winter is over and we put away our hot cocoa bar, I transform the bar cart into a Spring Bar Cart with fun drinks on hand for all ages. I also share this beautiful and comfortable ruffled skirt for spring.

And if company is coming, I put out some baked goods as well.  I also like to change up my candles and freshen my home up with fruity and flowery scents and put away all the pine and cinnamon.

In my most recent Current Crushes post, I share home accents I love for the spring as well as fashion and gift ideas.  It’s a must-read!  I just love when my girlfriends tell me about a fun find or a good sale….don’t you?!

My daughter and I just LOVE to bake and we do it year-round.  In the spring, you will usually find cakes and baked goods with lemon or coconut or other fruity flavors.  Last weekend we made this Pink Lemonade Chiffon Naked Cake and it was HEAVENLY!!  The recipe is easy and sooooo delicious.  Find this recipe HERE.

I recently received new pillow covers for the spring from Willa Skye Home.  These blush linen pillow covers, paired with the spa blue antelope pillow covers just brought such an elegance to this bright living room for the season.

The quality is superb and her variety of fabrics is phenomenal.  I absolutely loved working with WSH to create this stylish spring look!  You can visit my Living Room post to get all of the sources on this space and also shopping links.

Do you see who else got a new bed for spring?

It’s the cutest lucite and brass dog bed I found at HomeGoods a couple of weeks ago and I’m so glad he finally warmed up to it because it looks perfect in the living room!

I told you all that I’ve been freshening up my foyer for spring.  I love to “shop my home” and move things around when I get sick of spaces.  I pull out all of my faux flowers and decided to use blush, obviously.  And 4 months later, I have to say that this gorgeous chandelier from my friends at Bellacor still takes my breath away every time I go downstairs.  Read all about it and the rest of the items in this space HERE and see a closeup of the chandelier.

I also stocked up on more faux pink peonies and cherry blossoms from Michael’s.  I posted this pic on Instagram (but a more zoomed out shot) and everyone thought they were real.  Now, I buy fresh flowers for the house every week but when it’s spring and I really want to bring out a lot of cherry blossoms and peonies and roses and more, it’s wise to invest in some fabulous faux floral stems to save money AND not have to constantly change the water and cut your flowers every day or two.

Back to my entry…
I made some really fun straw totes with Brooklyn a couple of months ago (tutorial coming next week) and put it on our foyer bench with some faux pink peonies.

Instead of a faux fur throw and pillows on our bench, as we did in the winter, I used a light scarf that I could easily take with me and even use as a wrap if it’s a chilly spring day.  I also used linen pillows on our bench after putting the winter pillows away.  And yes….I bought myself a new pair of sandals since it’s warming up and my toes are dying to see the sun.

While “shopping my home” I used brought in both of my large and small temple jars and filled them with faux cherry blossom stems.

I kept the lamp but also put out a home interiors book I love and my newest GORGEOUS jar from my friend Alyssa.  Her shop Amped Decor is so fabulous and I love so many of her pieces.  After breaking my last jar that was identical to this, she heard about it and sent me this one.  You MUST visit her online shop and see all of the fun things she sells as well as her lovely home.  Get ready to swoon!

(If the jar above is sold out, you can find a similar one here.)

I wanted some framed art on this middle mirrored tray.  I couldn’t find anything that I truly loved so I decided to print out and frame one of my favorite pictures of a door in Portugal (where I lived years ago as a missionary) draped in blossoming branches during spring.  It has the prettiest blue door and I just look at it and smile, reflecting on some of the best memories.

In a smaller frame, I added a print of blush and blue butterflies that I designed.  If you’re interested, let me know.  I might just add another blog post and offer it as a free printable next week.  Butterflies come and you just know it’s spring time….right?!

I also added one of my favorite Agape Candles and I think it’s the perfect spring entry table now.

On the other side of our entry, I removed the gray pillows from my faux fur settee bench and added this blush ruffle throw blanket from my online shoppe.

(Yes, that is our thermostat in the most awkward place on that wall.  There was nowhere else they could put it in the house.  We went over and over this and it killed me to put it there…eye sore!  I usually photoshop it out for photos…ha!)

It’s the perfect soft and elegant touch for spring.

I found this darling and affordable blush and blue geometric dress (here or here) and these shoes (similar here) and loved that they went with my spring interior color palette.  You can’t see the earrings very well but they are these ones and are sooooo cute!

I’m so glad you could stop by today and THANK YOU for being here!  Next, my dear friend Heather from Setting For Four is sharing her Spring Tour and you don’t want to miss it!  She’s also sharing her love for blush and blue and everything she does is just gorgeous!

This week I’ve joined up with a talented group of bloggers to share part of our home decorated for spring as part of the Seasonal Simplicity Series. There is so much stunning inspiration for you to enjoy, all week long!

Monday

The Happy Housie // Sunny Side Up // Rooms FOR Rent

So Much Better With Age // Maison de Pax // TIDBITS

Zevy Joy // The House of Wood // The Turquoise Home

Tuesday

Confessions of a Serial DIYer // Designthusiasm // House by Hoff // Nina Hendrick Design Co.

Stacy Risenmay // Southern State of Mind // Sincerely, Sara D. // Town and Country Living

Wednesday

Willow Street Interiors // On Sutton Place // Duke Manor Farm

Place of My Taste // Rambling Renovators // Deeply Southern Home

Thursday

Decor Gold Designs // Amber Tysl // Sincerely Marie Designs

Summer Adams // Setting for Four

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Hello friends!  I’m so excited to welcome you all to another Holiday Home Tour in our new home!  I brought together a handful of extremely talented friends with fabulous style to share our Christmas decor with you and welcome you into our homes.  Today I’m sharing my “Winter Wonderland Flocked Christmas Tree and Mantel”.

If you’re new to my blog and coming from my friend Alicia’s blog The Lush List, I’m so thrilled to have you and hope you’ll come back again and again.  A huge hug to all my regular readers also here today!

Winter Wonderland Flocked Christmas Tree & Mantel

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If you are a regular reader, you know how much I love a bright white home.  This home, we finished building and moving into last month, was no exception.  Relocating from Texas to the Pacific Northwest has been exciting but I’ve also prepared myself for the cloudy and rainy days by designing a bright white kitchen and this bright white living room, which I recently revealed. So, for this year’s Christmas theme in this area of the home, I really wanted it to feel like a Winter Wonderland.

When I think of a Winter Wonderland, I think of fresh mounds of snow and sparkling snowflakes falling like glitter. I imagine myself wearing a white faux fur coat and ear muffs and riding in a one-horse opened sleigh with a soft throw and hot cocoa.  Ok, I know…I’m getting carried away ha!

To make my own Winter Wonderland here at home, I wanted it to feel bright and magical, with a touch of elegance.

For the tree, I received this 9-foot flocked pre-lit tree from King of Christmas last year and it’s gorgeous!  It’s the BEST tree we’ve ever had!  The quality is absolutely superb and it is so full and dense.  (Stay tuned for next week as I’ll reveal the new 12-foot flocked tree they sent me for this new home.)

I used mostly white and silver but a few touches of gold so that this felt more like a Winter Wonderland.

I used these frosted magnolia stems that I used in last year’s tree. Aren’t they so pretty?!

Frosted winterberry stems were used as well.

I’m a sucker for lots of sparkly ornaments.  These looked like fresh snowballs!

I added shimmering pinecones and glittered deer ornaments and anything winter-y that sparkled.

My secret for the perfect Winter Wonderland Flocked Christmas Tree…

For the fluffy white “fresh fallen snow” that is softly tucked in the branches of the tree I use  THESE.  Hot glue sets of 2 and 3 together and then place them on the tree as if they’ve fallen like so.

I only have a few presents wrapped so far but when I finish ordering them all from Amazon, I’ll wrap them then…ha!

Seriously though…..most of our Christmas comes from Amazon Prime.  It beats the lines and the traffic!  Although, my Holiday Gift Guide contains the most fabulous items and they’re all online too.

The mantel….

I have a frosted garland that I use every year.  I added velvet, sparkly white poinsettia stems, ornaments, sparkly berry stems, and fluffy fur stems (from Michaels) to give it that snowy Winter Wonderland feel.

We’ve had these stockings for years but I added fur trim to the top of them last year.

Did you see these cute furry, sparkly white trees at Michaels this year?  I love them!

My mom gave me this gorgeous gold angel some years ago.  She makes an appearance on our mantel every year.  (The angel, not my mom..hahaha!).

Sparkly deer, mercury glass candlesticks with glittery candles, and shiny winter accents were used around my mantel and built-ins.

That darling nativity scene was the best $5 I’ve ever spent at a garage sale.  I just adore it!

The coffee table…

I love throwing a faux fur on my table in the winter and a large tray on top.

This sweet angel I found at a specialty store last year is back on my coffee table tray, embellished with a beautiful winter stem.

This frosted floral arrangement is the perfect snowy touch of elegance that this table needed.  I replaced my everyday candle to this gorgeous shimmery balsam candle and switched my other coffee table books to this one that I adore.

Winter Pillows…

Well look who wanted in on the photo shoot!  Hello Giorgio!

This pup is NOT allowed on my white furniture but I made an exception since he was crying for my husband and it was driving me nuts, ha!  Those two are like two peas in a pod.  So funny.

I had these beautiful Christmas pillows here but then the mailman came and brought me something fun!

Just as I started to shoot this room, these gorgeous new antelope pillow covers arrived from my friends at Laurel & Blush and the timing was perfect.

This touch of antelope looks perfect in my Winter Wonderland living room next to that velvet beaded “peace” pillow.  Isn’t that fabric just gorgeous?!  I love having that print, mixed with velvet and sparkly beaded pillows for that perfect Winter Wonderland look.

I’m loving all the pretty light I’m getting from my large windows.  It fills this room with a beautiful glow.

Thus, giving me my very own Winter Wonderland here in my bright white living room.  Don’t you just love the magic that you can create with seasonal decor this time of year?!

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Thank you so much for visiting my elegant Christmas entry tour today! Please make sure to visit my friend Doreen at Doreen Corrigan next and see what she is sharing on our tour today!  And please make sure to visit all of my talented friends sharing today!  See their links below.

Moth Design |  Modern Glam  |  TheLushList

SummerAdams  |  Doreen Corrigan  |  CC & Mike  |  Curls & Cashmere

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Welcome to my blog today!  If you’re new and coming from Styled With Lace, Kim & Lacey’s blog, thanks so much and I hope you come back again and again.  To my regular readers, I LOVE YOU for always coming back!  It’s so fun to have you!  Today I’m sharing how I’m adding a little fall decor to our temporary townhome in this blog hop with my friends AND also a non-alcoholic peach drink recipe.  Make sure to stick around for that!

On A Personal Note…

In May, my husband’s company moved us from Dallas, Texas here to Vancouver, Washington to take a promotion.  We are in the middle of building our home and it should be done in about 6-7 weeks at most.  {I’m crossing my fingers and praying and squinting my eyes and knocking on wood right now not to jinx it since I just said that out loud and we’ve already been delayed.)  We are in a furnished townhome with all of our things in storage.  We literally only brought what we could fit into suitcases and then sent a few boxes.  I am so grateful to be here and it was so kind of them to find us a temporary home.  At the same time, I can’t help but feel a little sad that I don’t have my own things, like ALL my holiday and seasonal decor, to make this place feel more like home.  We’ve moved around so much, between education and going where our company needed us to go, that I’m pretty good at turning any rental into a home.  But right now I have none of my own things and no seasonal decor.  So I added a few minor touches to this little townhome to help me ease into fall, until our big move next month (knock on wood again).

The Smell Of Fall

Let’s start with the “smell of fall”.

Isn’t it the best thing in the world when you get to bring out your spicy cinnamon, vanilla, and pumpkin candles?!  My dear friend Rachel of Agape Candles brought me this candle, Pomme Spice, when I met up with her and a few other blogging friends this summer in San Francisco.  It was so so fun!  I’ve talked about how much I love her candles before and these new scents for fall had me all giddy and excited to try them! This candle is just sooooo yummy!

Most of you know I just LOVE a bright white space (see my Bright White Home Series) and I was so glad when this company had furnished a white sofa for us.  The furniture is dark but I added a little white tablecloth over the coffee table to give me the calm and relaxation that a bright white space does for me.  It worked.   I grabbed one of my favorite gold trays and then brought out this blue and white ginger jar from my own home decor stash of things I’ve been buying for the new house.

Last week, I shared a little bit of this blue decor when I posted The Best Blueberry Pie I Have Ever Eaten on the blog (a fabulous dessert this time of year).  So many of you loved it and I’m so glad.  I decided to keep the blue going.  I love the way it pops against the white!

And then I happened upon this gorgeous mercury glass pumpkin with a touch of gold and brought it home with me.  I love neutral fall decor and I love that this gave that touch of glam that our little temporary home desperately needed!

Last year in one of my Autumn’s In The Air Fall Tour, I shared how I used fur to decorate my coffee table.  I almost did that today but instead just draped it across the shoulder of the sofa.  It gives this room a more cozy feel and added texture.  Also, I grabbed my set of 3 gold mirrors from that stash of decor in the garage for the new house (it’s growing weekly and Josh just shakes his head…ha!) and hung them on this wall.  We will be here almost 6 months by the time our home is finished being built and I had to replace the dark blue and green art that was on the wall.  The mirrors are so much “lighter” here than that heavy, dark piece of art and they help reflect light off the walls of an already small space with few windows.  It made a HUGE difference!

I haven’t done anything yet with our mantel, I’ll save that for another post.  But let’s move over to the kitchen nook….

Same thing happened in this nook.  There was a dark piece of art so I hung it in the garage and swapped it out for another pretty mirror from my “new house decor stash” in the garage.  Bless that stash, ha! This is a tall dark table with tall barstools so I also threw a white tablecloth on this table to brighten up the nook.

I’m not one to use a lot of color but I loved that blue so much that I decided to bring it into the kitchen as well.  Blue hydrangeas, added to my existing white roses, were just the perfect touch!  Of course, my regular readers know I love to put flowers in a pretty white pitcher, just one of the ways to add a little glam to your home.  I know farms in our area are probably already producing little white pumpkins but I haven’t had time to go and grab them.  So instead I threw one I saw at the Target Dollar Spot in my cart and thought it would work until we went out this weekend or next to look.

Most people think of apples and pumpkins for the fall.  I do too!  However, peaches are still in season through the end of September here so I try to bake with them as often as I can.  I make a killer Peach Meringue Pie each summer and I just looooove my Cinnamon Baked Peaches this time of year.  The smell permeates through the home and you know fall is coming!

But today I thought I’d make a yummy drink with peaches.  After all.  It’s still really HOT outside so I want a little something to cool me off.

I’m sharing with you this Non-alcoholic Peach Drink Recipe that your entire family can enjoy!  I started making it years ago, something I came up with on the fly and it turned out great.

Peach Drink Recipe (Non-alcoholic)

Ingredients:

2 cups 7-Up or Sprite
32 oz. peach juice (refrigerated section of your supermarket)
2 TBSP grenadine syrup
2 peaches peeled and pitted (or equivalent frozen/canned)
2 cups ice

Instructions:

Blend all ingredients in a large blender.  You may have to blend half of the recipe at a time and then the other half, if your blender is not large enough.  Pour in glasses and serve with a peach slice if desired.  Enjoy!

It’s so frothy and delightful!  I hope you love it as much as we all do!

For your convenience, I’ve used affiliate links for items from my post today (or similar ones) for you to shop below.

I so thrilled you stopped by!  Hop on over to my amazing friend Janine at Happy Happy Nester and see what inspiration she’s sharing for fall!  Make sure to visit everyone sharing today, which include:

Happy Happy Nester  |  Remington Avenue  |  Maison de Cinq  |  Simple Cozy Charm
MemeHill  |  Designs By Laila  |  I Don’t Know How She Does It  |  2 Ladies & A Chair
The Design Twins  |  Citrine Hill Living  |  Lindsay-Hill Interiors  |  Modern Glam Home
Crazy Chic Design  |  Styled With Lace  |  Summer Adams

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I love fresh flowers!  They can be the focal point of a table, a kitchen, a living room, a bedroom, a foyer, even a hotel lobby.  A group of fabulous home decor bloggers and I are getting together today to share all the different ways you can create and display a floral arrangement in your home or any space.  I’m not sharing just any floral arrangement today.  I’m sharing how to create a fruit and floral arrangement with limes and white flowers.

Welcome to those of you from my talented friend Oscar Bravo’s blog and may be here for the first time!  And thanks to all my regular readers….I adore you all!  If you’ve been on this blog hop, I’m sure you’ve seen all the gorgeous arrangements so far.  My friends are ridiculously talented, if you couldn’t already tell.  Now, if you’ve been following me regularly, you’ve probably noticed my love for green as I style my home this Spring.

In THIS post, I shared how I used green apples, limes and white floral to grace my kitchen countertops.  I liked it so much that I decided to keep my Easter table this Sunday going with the same theme.  Fresh green produce, white floral, and lots of crisp white.  I immediately had an idea….here’s what I did.

I’d seen on Pinterest how you could take a vase and stack it in a larger vase, filling the space between with citrus slices and water and then adding the flowers.  So I did this on a larger scale by taking my glass and gold hurricane and putting a bowl upside down in order to put my glass vase on top of it.  It needed height.  I sliced the limes thick enough to get about 4 slices out of each lime and disposing of the ends.  Start lining them around the bottom.

I dropped the vase inside to create a space for the limes.

I removed the flowers so that I could see better.  Dropping slices down the in-between vases like a game of Plunko, I used a spatula to move any slices where I needed to.

As you get to the top, you can use a fork or tongs as well to move slices around.  I added 3 huge hydrangeas to the inner vase so that they were just covering the very top of the hurricane, vase and lime slices.

Then I added just 2 bunches of white hyacinths in the middle so that they stood taller above the hydrangeas.

Since my hurricane top is removable, I didn’t add the water to the limes but if you’re using a vessel that won’t leak, make sure to do that before you add the flowers.

Isn’t that such a fun and vibrant arrangement?!

And to make it even more refreshing…..fruit!

And don’t forget your veggies!

With these lovely magnolia napkin rings, this would be the perfect Spring table.  But….

….this cost of levitra at costco is my family’s Easter table.  So I added a few Easter touches.

I used these adorable Bunny place card holders that I shared last week in my Kids Easter Table.

I added some gold foil bunny straws, also from the Target Dollar Spot.  It adds some fun to this elegant table and I think my kids are going to love it.  The rest of us at the table are going to be “boring adults” so I think the bunny straws are a nice touch, ha!

And of course, I had to add a bit of sparkle and glitter!  This glitter Happy Easter garland from Pottery Barn (purchased a few years ago) was another fun addition.  I wish they still carried it but they have a couple of other fun ones.

I’m so glad you could join me today!  Do you have any fun floral ideas pinned yet from our blog hop?  Make sure to save them for later. Here are some shopping links for your convenience below.

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Now, please continue on to see what my friend Amy at Crazy Chic Design has in store for you!  And don’t forget to stop by each of my fabulous friends joining me today to see what they share!

Happy Happy Nester |  Citrine Living | Crazy Chic Design | Styled With Lace | Inspired By Charm
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The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, it feels like Spring and Easter is going to be here in less than 2 weeks!  My kiddos and I decided to do something fun and have a few friends over.  We are sharing with you our Kids Easter Table and Craft today!  Joining me are some fabulous friends!

Thanks so much, to my regular readers, for joining me today and for coming back on a regular basis.  I just love having you and LOVE your sweet comments and ideas!  Welcome to those of you coming from one of my friend’s blogs that have shared today, or maybe you’re just here visiting for the first time. I’m so happy to have you and I hope you come back often!  I’m so grateful that my friend, Annie from ZevyJoy organized and hosted this blog hop for all of us moms to share with you!

I love creating a tablescape.  It’s one of my favorite things to do.  And my kids, now that they’re a little older, have looked at it as something fun to help with now instead of it being a chore, which I’m grateful for.  So I let them really get involved with this idea we discussed.  They wanted to invite a few friends over to play and have lunch and create an Easter tablescape.  Instead of sharing a craft alone today, our “craft” is actually the food that we created.  It was too fun!  I love getting my kids involved in baking, cooking, or entertaining on any level.

We used everything we already had, which included this wrapping paper, that we cut into 6 equal pieces and used as placemats, over a white tablecloth.  Kids make a mess no matter how hard they try and these “placemats” are cute, inexpensive and can be tossed in the garbage afterwards.  Winning!  And you’d think out of all my buying hoarding of cute napkins (as a result of standing in a Home Goods line too long and throwing one of each in my cart, of every holiday and season), that I’d have some cute Easter ones to match.  Nope. But these blush heart ones from Valentine’s work perfectly, I think.

I used clear mix ‘n match dessert pedestal dishes (for carrots and ranch dip), small beaded white plates for finger sandwiches and fruit, mix ‘n match blue and aqua egg plates for rolls and desserts….

…cute pink crown glasses, and then these darling little bunny straws from the Target Dollar Spot (aka the Sucker Spot, as my hubby calls it LOL!).  I buy it all!  These are irresistible though, don’t you think?!

I had just picked up lilies from the supermarket a few days prior, so those were our main centerpiece.

I did go and buy daisies at the store since I had forgotten more toilet paper the day before, but they were only $5 for a bunch.  Daisies just seem so innocent and child-like, don’t they?  And they’re so perfect for a kids Easter table at Spring.  They looked cute here in a couple of milk bottles I had in my “stash”.  (Please don’t think I’m a hoarder haha!  I just love to entertain so I have stocked up on so many things over the years.)

We grabbed some cute bunny fwends and put them along the table…

…and please tell me you saw these cute bunny place card holders in the Target Dollar Spot too!  I may have grabbed every single one they had left just a few when they first came out for an occasion such as this.  So glad I did! (wink)

I made some quick bread dough and had the kids help me roll and twist it out and make these easy, cute bunny rolls.

I just love the little tail on them!  The kids loved those!

We also made these pretzel chicks but mama forgot to get a picture of all of them finished {face palm} but you can see the very first one on the left to get an idea and we got the recipe and instructions from this recipe.  My kids love anything with pretzels and did this all on their own.  They really enjoyed it.  They’re 9 and 11 so it was perfect for their age and skill level an didn’t need my help at all.

The third treat, or “food craft”, we made were these adorable bunny cupcakes.  They baked them without my help, (just my supervision), frosted them, added the ears and face with marshmallows and candies…..

…and gave them a little tail.  We chose to use strawberry boxed cake mix, since that’s what we had in the pantry.  It didn’t occur to me until I “taste-tested” it, as every mom must do, that biting into this bunny and revealing its pink insides might be a little gruesome.  Hmmmmmm…..at least it was strawberry cake mix and not red velvet, right?!  Yes, they noticed and thought it was gross which meant it was hilarious and that conversation went on and on.  Moving on….

Let it be known that I almost didn’t buy this ginormous glittery white bunny last year because I was trying to be good and convince myself that I had plenty of glitter bunnies.  I’m so glad I dismissed that thought.  He’s just so cute and perfectly sparkly in my dining room, especially during our little Kids Easter Lunch.  Our last touch was…

…finding our glittery “Happy Easter” banner from PB Kids last year.

It’s like icing on the cake!  And we were all ready to have our friends over.  Or were we????

Beckham had one last fun idea… Just like we drew hearts with sidewalk chalk at Valentine’s, he wanted to draw Easter Bunny paw prints all up the walkway and up to the front door.  Ummmmm….adorable!  I love that kid!

He’s so clever and I just LOVED that idea so so much!  The kids pulled up and immediately got excited over these paw prints and couldn’t wait to see what we had for them inside.

They all played and had a great time and had plenty of sugar to keep them full of energy for quite a while!

Here are some fun shopping links below of Easter tabletop or party items, for your convenience.
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Kid’s Easter Table by Summer Adams

How To Dye Eggs With Food Coloring by TIDBITS | Easter Wreath by Shades of Blue Interiors | Easter Egg Decorating Idea – Mini Floral Bunny Ears by A Burst of Beautiful | DIY Easter Sign – Hello Peeps by My Sweet Savannah

DIY Bunny Napkin Rings by Craftberry Bush | A Kindred Easter with Kindred Vintage & Co. | DIY Metallic Easter Eggs with Maison de Pax | Spring Garden DIY Easter Centerpiece by Elliven Studio

Bunny Ears Bags and Free Printable by Ella Claire | Free Printable Easter Cards by Boxwood Avenue | Simple Modern Easter Tablescape by Cherished Bliss | DIY Vintage ‘Happy Easter’ Eggs by So Much Better With Age

Printable Watercolor Easter Banner by Nina Hendrick Design Co. | DIY Bunny Garden Easter Basket by Zevy Joy | Easter Cake – Paleo Coconut Pineapple Cake with Topper by Nesting With Grace | Moss Wrapped Candle by Design, Dining and Diapers

I hope you’re enjoying your Spring!

xoxo,

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Oh how I just LOVE spring!  I don’t even mind the crazy Texas thunderstorms because it only means that gorgeous flowers are blooming, as a result of all that water.  Bring on the blooms!  Then there’s Easter…another holiday I love…and it’s only 2 weeks away.  Do you decorate a lot or not at all for Easter?  Maybe you need some inspiration?  You’ve come to the right place since I’m sharing a few subtle hints of Easter decor in today’s Easter Parade Blog Hop.

Welcome to all of you coming from my fabulous friend Joan’s blog, 2 Ladies and a Chair.  Don’t you just love her style and her home?!  It’s always so gorgeous and cozy.  Huge hugs to my regular readers that come back for every post.  Love you guys!

So, I used to have a TON of Easter decor when we were first married but over the years I got rid of most of it and I’m glad.  A lot of it was given to me or something I made and there wasn’t a lot of anything I loved.  So I decided to use subtle hints of Easter decor in my Spring decor.

I decorated my family room coffee table with just some simple green stems this spring from my friends at AFloral (see more HERE for some of my favorite peonies from them and HERE for other fabulous floral).  It was a simple way to bring in some green.  Now here are 2 other ways I’ve styled this room for the month of Easter.

I hope you brought some tea with you to get cozy because I usually have herbal tea ready when guests are here.  I decided to add this lovely “beach glass” color.  This light aqua and just pastels in general make me think of Easter.

When I was little, my mom and I would go shopping for an Easter Dress to wear on Easter Sunday.  It was always something pastel.

Sometimes with an Easter bonnet, sometimes white gloves and patent leather shoes and ruffle socks.  The good ‘ole 80’s.  I need to find a good picture but here’s a FUNNY one I just found and I’m not sure why I was wearing socks with sandals? My mother is in trouble LOL. But check out that Easter bonnet or silly hat that I probably found in my grandmother’s dress-up box on this particular Easter. Circa 1982? Grandma Crosby always played the piano while we sang and danced, played instruments and…..my little brother Josh imitated Zorro?  LOL I don’t know but we always had fun.  Gosh, I miss my Grandma. She loved decorating for holidays and she and Grandpa Crosby would hide money in our egg hunts!  That was a fast way to make cash ha!

So back  my decor….yes, I love these soft pastel colors.  Bringing out my coordinating teacups is a way to bring in some color and some of those white cloth napkins with aqua trim.  Also, my friend Rhonda from Hallstrom Home has an online store at Hallstrom Home where she sells these gorgeous jumbo sea glass beads.

They so nicely compliment my Beach Glass Ruffle Throw Blanket on this tufted chair.  You can find it HERE in my online shoppe.

And there’s my little bunny fwend, ha!  I said subtle, didn’t I?!

But I think he looks so cute under all those cherry blossom stems.  I switched out the green leafy stems for these and I’m definitely loving the feel of Easter in this room now.  Ok, so that’s one way to style this area and add some pops of color for Easter.  Now, how about this….

If you’re a regular reader, you KNOW how I just LOVE pink!  Pink, blush, bashful, any shade or name…I love it all.  So blush felt like another perfect color for this Easter Parade.  I kept the white cherry blossoms instead of using pink ones because I had those lovely peonies that I mentioned earlier.

The Blush Shabby Chic Ruffle Throw Blanket HERE is also from my online shoppe.  When showing off my peonies last month, I also decided I wanted to bring the blush back in here for Easter.  As I love to change things often, it was the perfect companion to my beach glass-colored throw.

Do you see those mini Cadbury Eggs in the apothecary jar? They’re my favorite. I swapped out the wrapped mints for these and picked out the blush and white ones to put in the jar.

Speaking of companions….my friend Rhonda also sent me another pair of glass beads and these were the blush glass beads. I absolutely love them!  Aren’t they just gorgeous?!

Then there’s this candle….. Oh mercy, it’s sooooo soooo good.  This comes from my talented friend, Rachel, who I just adore and she makes the most fabulous candles.  She opened up her Etsy shop HERE where she sells her Agapé candle line that she created last year.  I love candles but I’m picky about candles.  I’ve fallen in love with Rachel’s soy candles and have tried several of them and loved them all.  But her latest scent “BLUSH” is sooooo dreamy and I thought it was a perfect visit poster’s website addition to my blush Easter decor in the family room so I had to order one of them as well.  And I think my little bunny agrees, as he looks toward it.

As we are moving from Texas to Washington state at the end of this month and building a home there, we are in the garage deciding what to keep and what to throw out.  I do this every year or two when we move (yes, we have moved a lot but this time it’s permanent), but this time I really want to get rid of a lot and start fresh in the new home.  In doing this, I’m afraid my dear hubby might have tossed one (of our many boxes tossed) Easter box accidentally that wasn’t in a large Rubbermaid container.  I’m cringing and I can’t find it anywhere.  But at least I found a few more bunny fwends to put around the house. This guy is pretty cute.

Easter is a time of newness and rebirth.  It’s a time of celebrating the resurrection of our Savior.  So I love anything floral and blooming.  I found those most darling Magnolia Magazine in the supermarket all about floral.  And then a dear friend of mine, Georgianna Lane, published another book called Paris in Bloom and it’s just breathtaking and the most perfect book to have on my coffee table this Spring.  It arrived just in time for Easter.  I can’t wait to give it to my friends and family for gifts.

Every page is so gorgeous!  I’m loving all of those Easter tulips.

Can you just imagine what a dream it would be to go to Europe during the Easter season?  There are so many fresh tulips and cherry blossoms!

There’s a storage bench in our family room that I switched out for some lighter pillows,

and just one sweet bunny.

Over on my buffet, I created just a little glittery fancy Easter vignette.  I found the pretty Easter basket at Home Goods and they were perfect for my wooden glitter eggs that I found at Pottery Barn Kids last year.  I have a fun idea for those for my kiddos.

Over in my living room, I added green and white faux hydrangeas to my mercury glass compote bowl and another adorable bunny.  It’s subtle and simple but keeps this space looking elegant and not cheesy.

I love how fresh this room feels. I love all the blossoms and green.  These stems here are from one of my recent trips down to Magnolia Market in Waco. Doesn’t it just feel like Easter without having to step outside?!

In the Dining Room, well….you’ll have to come back tomorrow for that one.  I’ll be joining another group of friends to share what fun crafts we came up with this Easter.

Here are some shopping links for things you’ve seen in this post, to make your shopping experience more convenient.

I’m so glad you stopped by today and hope you have a better idea of how you’d like to decorate your home in celebration of Easter.  Please hop on over to continue our Easter Parade and enjoy the home of my friend Lisa at The Farmhouse On Boone.  Make sure to visit each of us on this Easter Parade Tour today.  All hosts include:

Summer Adams (me)  |  Maison de Cinq  |  The Grace House  |  Styled With Lace  |  BVintage
CC & Mike  |  Lindsay-Hill Interiors  |  MeMe Hill  |  2 Ladies & A Chair  |  The Farmhouse On Boone 

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I hope you’re enjoying your Spring!

xoxo,

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Do you need ideas to style your home for Spring? My friends and I are sharing 14 different ways today so get ready to start pinning and being inspired!  Spring is less than a week away!

Welcome to all of you coming from Maison de Cinq!  I recently met Sheila at the Design Bloggers Conference (more on that coming soon, I promise) and can I just tell you….she is as lovely and as sweet as she appears on her blog!  Sheila is just a genuine, talented, beautiful and kind soul and I adore her!  I’m sure you know that by now and I’m sure you loved her Spring tips as much as I did!  Welcome, once again, to all my regular readers and I’m so glad you’re here!

Just 2 days ago, I shared how I styled my master bedroom and dining room for Spring and refreshened it a bit.  You can read all about it HERE!  Today, I’m sharing with you my kitchen and nook decor for the Spring.

You may notice that I’m using a certain color throughout the entire downstairs of my home.  I’ll be sharing my family room and living room on another day and you’ll see even more of this color.  Here’s a hint…it was chosen as Pantone’s color of the year.  Yep!  Green!  I just love it so much.  It says “rebirth” and “fresh” and “new” and “alive” to me, when I think of everything blossoming and growing once again.  So I brought that feeling inside.

I’ve been trying to keep more fresh fruit and veggies readily available to my kids (washed and cleaned) so that they’ll just grab it and go, instead of a packaged snack.  These delicious green apples double for decor too in that lovely gold bowl.  If you remember, I shared how I added gold and brass to my kitchen last year.  So another pretty pop of gold, besides the bowl, is this cute little teacup with gold polkadots.

I happened to have some fresh white roses and baby’s breath in another room so I stole just a little from that other arrangement.  With some plant food, it stayed gorgeous like this for over a week!  Crazy right?!  I was thrilled.  It’s so fun to use what you have.  Just look around you!

And if you have been following along with me for a while, you know I love my Dirty Diet Cokes, which call for limes.  So I always have those on hand and thought I’d wash and clean them and have them ready to go in a pretty apothecary jar.

When the roses on that kitchen nook table (previous picture above) finally died, I decided I would do something I did HERE when I wanted to keep peonies around all year long.  My friends from AFLORAL were kind enough to send me some gorgeous faux stems and this gorgeous antique gold floral urn to create a fabulous faux floral arrangement.  Why?  I knew I had a LOT of traveling going on this spring and I didn’t want to keep buying fresh flowers every week, just to turn around and hop on another plane and come home a few days later to dead flowers.  I love my husband and children.  But they do NOT understand that you have to look after your blooms.

Afloral sent me some seeded eucalyptus hanging spray stems so I put them in the floral foam brick, hanging off the sides.

I also used wisteria bushes and had them hanging over the sides.  They’re so pretty!

I added ranunculus stems,

I added some lovely gardenia sprays,

and I also used a few mini white peony bushes to use for a great filler.  I just cut them the sizes they needed to be and stuck them in the foam brick.

Isn’t it gorgeous?!  So, about 45 minutes after I was finished with it, a friend dropped by to borrow an ingredient she was in need of for her dinner.  Her jaw dropped when she saw these and said from across the room, “Did you husband send you that?  Wow that’s gorgeous!”  I told her that he had not and to go take a closer look.  She touched them and said, “I can’t believe it!  They are faux!”  That’s right.  And that’s exactly why I wanted to order from Afloral because they weren’t your grandma’s “fake flowers”.  Their faux real-touch and silk flowers (and dried) are all so gorgeous, as are their trays and vessels.  I highly recommend them!  This arrangement makes such a statement and brings life to my little kitchen nook.

Just to the right of my little round table is that cute vintage tea cart that I decided to keep in the nook.  This little nook needs all the fun it can get!

I usually keep a Hot Cocoa Station on it during the Fall and Winter.  But now that it’s Spring, it’s the perfect place for guests to come and help themselves to some tea, sparkling water, make an italian soda, and enjoy a few sweets.  You know I usually have something fresh coming out of the oven to put on that cake stand, right?!

Well, I’m thinking it’s the perfect time for some Lemon Cream Cupcakes maybe?

Or possibly this delicious Coconut Cake that I shared with you last Easter?  Or Coconut French Macarons?  (Oh gracious, I should NOT blog about desserts when I’m this hungry.)  There are so many favorites.  I suppose I’ll just have to bake them all!  Just not in one week or you’ll see this blog turn into a “how to lose weight” blog haha.

Thanks to Afloral for sending me such fabulous stems and that gorgeous vessel!  I’ll be sharing a couple of other things they sent me next week!  Here are some other pieces from my home (or similar items) that you may have seen in this post and I’m linking them below for your convenience.

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I’ll be sharing more of my home this Spring next week, but for now…hop on over to my dear friend Tamara at Citrine Living!  You’re in for a treat because Tam is not only beautiful and kind but she has impeccable taste and her home is so lovely.  You probably won’t want to leave BUT make sure you do eventually because these other fabulous blogger friends of mine are waiting for you to visit their homes as well.

MemeHill | CrazyChicDesign | DwellingsByDevore | KnowHowSheDoesIt
HappyHappyNester | 2LadiesAndAChair | LindsayHillInteriors | StyledWithLace
HomeAndFabulous | InspiredByCharm| OscarBravoHome | MaisonDeCinq | Citrine Living

xoxo,

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