Welcome to all of you coming from my talented friend Lauren at Bless’er House!  Today’s tour is part of a week-long spring tour called Seasons of Simplicity, hosted by our friend Krista at The Happy Housie, and we love opening our homes to all of you and welcoming you in!  I hope you enjoy my blush and green spring tour with fresh and faux florals and walk away feeling inspired to freshen up your home for spring.

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A quick glimpse at last year’s blush and blue spring decor….

I truly loved the blush and blue and still do.  In fact, you’ll see more blush and blue this year in my entry but I wanted to do something different than I’ve done before in my living room and kitchen, which are the 2 areas I’m sharing today.

A funny personal note….

I started doing makeup over 20 years ago and I always tell people that of ALL the mascaras I’ve used over the years, from high-end to drug store mascaras, my all-time favorite is still that pink and green tube of Maybelline Mascara.  I also happen to love that color combo!  So I went with that.  Ok, maybe not those same shades of pink and green but nevertheless….those colors look great together and just scream “SPRING!” to me.

I bought a few new fun home decor accessories but then just moved some others around.

 

 

I ordered new chenille leopard print pillows in this lovely chartreuse green.  I also found these gorgeous velvet striped blush pillows that were the last of their kind (custom made in Turkey) but if you contact the shop owner, he may have some scraps of material of some similar to make you some other pillows.  I was obsessed when I saw them and had to have them.  I love this combo.  I added some velvet white pillows that I’ve had for a while to just add an extra “plush” feel and more comfort when sitting on the sofa.  These inserts are inexpensive and absolutely fabulous.  They feel so expensive.  (These are all linked in the “Shop The Post” section below at the end of the post.)

I was so excited one of my favorite candles ever now comes in in this pretty green jar.  It was perfect for my spring coffee table.

I really wanted to bring in a lot of beautiful floral but my weekly fresh floral budget keeps growing and it shouldn’t, ha!  So, I wanted to invest in some good faux floral and keep the fresh arrangements down to 2-3 a week.  I shopped around online and ordered a bunch of different faux florals that even some friends had recommended and guess what?  I wasn’t too impressed.  So I went back to the drawing board and ordered some more. I tried new things.  I ultimately found a bunch of gorgeous ones that I loved at JoAnn’s AND also at Amazon.

These faux peonies pictured above are from 2 different bunches that I found on Amazon, these and these.  Their stems aren’t very thick but the rest of them are just beautiful and they have lots of different varieties of shades.

When I think of spring, I think of all my garden flowers blooming.  It hasn’t happened yet, but when it does, I have my French basket ready, my sun hat, and my fingers cant wait to get in that dirt and get my garden going again and seeing new flowers and buds!  Until then….here are the gorgeous faux florals I found at JoAnn’s that I mentioned above.  Stay tuned because next week I’m showing you something soooo fun that I’m doing with them!  You’ll LOVE it!

I shared this vase last year (I have 2 blush vases on each side of the TV) but just bought this darling pot and put faux roses and limelight hydrangeas in them.

 

Of course, I can’t resist framing an old spring photo of my kids from 7 years ago before church one day, especially when it matches my decor.

Let’s bring out the bar cart!  It’s ready for spring and ready for the entire family!  Chocolates, limeade and pink lemonade!

 

In the kitchen, I’m mixing fresh and faux florals also.

I found these large faux cherry blossom stems a couple of years ago at Michael’s and they’re still gorgeous.  I added a green vase I found at an antique store and filled it with fresh roses.

 

 

 

 

I love putting away winter hand soaps and dish soaps and bringing back out my favorite pink grapefruit soaps.  It’s perfect for spring and it’s also soooo pretty!

New lime green hand towels, my blush pink dish apron and fresh flowers at the sink….it’s so “spring”, right?!

I found the prettiest little round green vase on clearance at HomeGoods last month and it was perfect for my spring decor so…THANK YOU to all the people that didn’t want it because I was able to get it for like $4.  Woohoo!

Isn’t that so fun and bright and cheery?!  I just love it!  Pink roses, pink carnations, and even some lime carnations mixed in there made such a lovely mix.

Carnations are so under-rated.  Don’t you agree?!  They are inexpensive, beautiful and ruffly, they come in all different colors and shades, and they are a great filler.  They complement other flowers without stealing the show.  Grab a bunch to save money on your next floral arrangement.

I’ll be sharing a really fun and vibrant spring table next week so stay tuned.

What are you doing to add spring touches to your home this year?  I’d love to know!

I’ll be sharing my blush and blue spring entry tomorrow on the blog so please check back!  For your shopping convenience, I’m linking items from the post below (or similar).  Please click on the arrows to scroll right and left.

 

 

Next on our tour is Jen of Tater Tots & Jello!  And please don’t forget to visit the other friends that are also sharing today below.

Also sharing today…

Wednesday

Shades of Blue Interiors // Finding Silver Pennies // Life is a Party // Bless’er House

Summer Adams// Tatertots and Jello // Paint Me Pink // This is Our Bliss

And sharing the rest of the week…

Monday

The Happy Housie // The Turquoise Home
Amber Tysl // Inspiration for Moms // Lemon Thistle

Southern State of Mind // Modern Glam
Taryn Whiteaker // A Burst of Beautiful // My Sweet Savannah

Tuesday

Jenna Kate at Home // Sincerely, Marie Designs // Town and Country Living
A Pretty Life // Hallstrom Home

House by Hoff // Tauni Everett // The DIY Mommy // Clean & Scentsible // Rambling Renovators

Thursday

Home Made Lovely // So Much Better With Age // Maison de Cinq
Craftberry Bush // Rooms FOR Rent

Maison de Pax // Zevy Joy // Place of My Taste // Deeply Southern Home // Kim Power Style

 

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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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I returned home to Dallas last week from Los Angeles, where I attended the Design Bloggers Conference (more on that later), to find that my trees in the yard were all blooming. Spring! It’s arriving! I couldn’t be more excited! So today I’m sharing with you a few things I’m doing to “freshen up my home” for the spring in this Spring Home Tour, sponsored by our friends at Annie Selke.

For those of you coming from Shabbyfufu, welcome! Isn’t Janet’s home so dreamy?! It always feels magical when I’m visiting her beautiful home through her blog. I hope you’re pinning away and feeling inspired. Welcome back to all my regular readers and I’m so glad that you come often to share ideas!

Ok, so there are a few things I do in the spring to “freshen up” my home.

Let’s head into my master bedroom.  First, I give everything a good wash, right down to the mattress cover.  I vacuum all our mattresses with the hand-held attachment on my vacuum and then I steam the mattresses (I used to do it once a month but then I had kids and now I do it once a quarter, ha) to kill any dust mites.  I take out any fur rugs or throw blankets and substitute them for something lighter.

I normally have a large, heavier quilt on the end of my bed, that we like to snuggle up with if we’re not getting all the way into the bed and under the sheets. Instead, I replaced it with this gorgeous WRUFFLE IVORY MATELASSÉ THROW from Annie Selke’s Pinecone Hill.

I love the light knit and the lovely crochet trim around the edges. It’s the perfect pretty throw blanket I needed here for the spring and summer and I love its vintage charm.  I also do something else….I pull out my open-toed slippers.  You may find it odd, but I can not walk barefoot on our floors downstairs.  They are just so hard on my feet and I know it’s bad and dries them out too.  But I don’t like my heavy, warm slippers I use in the winter.  So these are just the perfect pair.  Aren’t they just the prettiest house slippers?!

I also replaced the other boudoir pillow I had on the bed for this WRUFFLE IVORY MATELASSÉ DECORATIVE PILLOW from Annie Selke that matches the throw perfectly. I like it so much better.  It is the thickest, softest pillow and I love the waffle weave texture.  I love relaxing against it when I’m reading to the kids.

Both the quilt and the pillow are from Annie Selke’s new Artisanal Collection that Annie is calling her “or•glam•ic” line.  How cute is that?!  Organic with a little glam….right up my alley!

In Texas, it just doesn’t get cold enough to use flannel or heavier sheets in the fall and winter.  But if you use them where you live, now is the time to get out your crisp cotton sheets and put them on the beds and put the others away.


If you visited my master bedroom recently from my Updated Vanity and Master Bedroom Tour, you saw this lovely vanity I switched out from the previous one.  In the spring, I often have fresh flowers here.  Just not today, as we are traveling a bit.  But I do switch out any of my body sprays or lotions for lighter floral scents and toss any perfumes that I am not using or liking or smell a little old.  They don’t last forever, ya know!

In that same post, I was still looking for a pair of matching chairs to put on either side of this little French provincial end table. I’m still looking for that perfect pair, but until then I decided to bring these two vintage chairs upstairs and put them here.  It’s so pretty with the sunlight coming in, I had to have a place to sit.  And let’s try to pretend that Josh doesn’t throw his clothes on them at the end of the day (cringe).  Haha!  I know I’m not alone in this…right, ladies?

One, I found at a garage sale for less than $50 and it was a hot mess. It was mustard yellow worn velvet with a TON of cat hair all over it. Painting the edges white and recovering it with linen was a labor of love but well worth it. A good friend actually saw it in her neighbor’s yard sale and texted me a picture and told me I had to have it. I agreed. This was back in Waco and was the last thing I purchased there before we move to Vegas. If you follow me on Instagram, you know that we’ve moved a lot for my husband’s job in the last 5 years. (Ruffle throw blanket sold HERE in my online shoppe.)

This other chair was my Great Aunt Wanda’s and she gave it to me when I got married before she passed. Oh how I just loved her! But I didn’t love the bright red velvet and dark trim so much. So I had a friend’s father reupholster it (back when we lived in Waco) and I painted the wood as well. I’m so happy with the way it turned out.

The chairs may not be matching, but that’s okay. I think it gives this room a little more character and they are pieces that I love and have sentimental value.

Let’s move on to the Dining Room…I love love love fresh flowers.

These gorgeous hyacinths were a bunch that I purchased at Trader Joe’s right before leaving to Beverly Hills for the Design Bloggers Conference. They had a variety of colors so I bought the pink, fuchsia, and darker purple. I had every intention of arranging them in something beautiful, but while waiting to arrange them, they sat in this lovely white marble pitcher overnight and just sort of stayed there. I thought they looked so pretty that I didn’t want to disturb them.  It doesn’t have to be fancy to be pretty, right?!

Once they passed on to flower heaven (which was by the time I returned from my trip because no one in my house knows how to take care of flowers but me haha), I decided to move a few of my {many} mercury glass candlesticks into the dining room and put them on the center of the table. But they seemed to be a bit dull and I wanted to liven them up.

I’m using green a lot in my home this spring.  You’ll see more of that on Wednesday and next week in some fun upcoming posts.  I remembered loving some gorgeous candle wreaths from Magnolia Market that I used in one of my Christmas Dinner Tables, so I decided to make a little spring version set.

All I did was grab a few bunches of pretty faux boxwood stems and used a little floral wire to connect 3 pieces together in a circle, at 4 different spots (1/2 inch long at each spot).  I covered the wire with a little floral tape and voila! Easy peasy!  All 3 took me about 2o minutes and definitely brings a bit of spring to these pretty candlesticks.

Last week, I shared how you could have peonies all year long. Did you get to visit and read that post? If not, you can click HERE.  I love flowers all year long in my home, be it fresh or faux. But I believe everyone should enjoy flowers around your home in the spring time. Peonies are my favorite. What are yours?  I have a special place for these beauties so stay tuned!

Well, there are a few ideas for now to get you started and ease into Spring.  Freshen up your bedroom with some new bedding options for spring and take care of those mattresses!  Change up your furniture to keep things “fresh” and different without buying all new furniture.  And bring some floral, fresh or faux, and place them around the home.  I think you can do it, don’t you?!  Here are some shopping links I’ve included below, for your convenience.

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I’ll be bringing you several other tips in the next couple of weeks, along with some yummy recipes so make sure and stay tuned. I would love it if you subscribed at the top of the page in order to receive my weekly emails of all my latest posts.  You can also follow me on Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook to see what I’m up to in creating a home and lifestyle of inspiration!

Now, please head on over to my dear friend Tanya at A Darling Daydream to see what she’s sharing with you this Spring.  I just know you’ll just fall in love with her home and never want to leave!  And please make sure to visit my 3 other ridiculously talented friends as well to see what they are sharing with you today!  We love sharing our new favorite Annie Selke goodies and our spring ideas with you!

ShabbyFufu    StylehouseInteriors    ThePinkDream   A Darling Daydream

See you soon!

xoxo,

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