Mantel Envy

So lately I've really been into home decor, crafting and anything DIY. And while I have had some successes - that I'd like to post about life has sort of gotten in the way. So while I have many things to come and I plan to start blogging on the weekend - i hope this posts holds you over.

As you may know - Hubster and I rent a little "before" house in H-town. We like the house enough but its missing one big thing. A mantle. Most of the time I can live without it but lately with the holiday season I've been dying to have a mantle to decorate, hang stockings from.

So here are some inspirational mantels.

via pottery barn

via house of smiths

Happy Birthday Roomie

Happy Birthday to one of the greatest!





This gal is an amazing friend, always willing to help, always loyal, never flaky, never moody, never difficult, great listener. The laid back beauty is an amazing gal and I feel lucky to get to call her roomie (even tho we live with boys now)!
Love you LBettyMac!

Honeymoon

Well the honeymoon was amazing! I wish I was back in Cabo listening to the constant sound of the ocean and reading lots of books. Here are some of our favorite pictures. We did a lot of lounging, sleeping and reading by the pool. We were both so tired after the wedding it was perfect. Our resort was faboulous with fabulous food so we did not leave very often during the day. Why waste a perfectly good pool day. But when we did leave we did a wonderful boat cruise and saw the famous cabo arch and lovers beach. Cal had such a wonderful time sailing as he loves that type of thing! It was a great getaway and I can't wait for many more tropical vacations in our future!
Here are some highlights:

Wouldn't you like to be there too!

Wishing for...

So while I know I should be blogging about this....

or the fact that we went to this magical place...

what I really want to discuss is how I'm dying to have a similar wall hanging like in this picture. I just love the different colors and patterns and think it's so fun. The creative cell in my body(yes there is only one) really wants to create this look on my own. I think it would be so fun to go to a fabric store, choose 6 fabrics that are different but still go together and frame them. Maybe its a project I could do with my mom over the holidays. I just think its a great way to add color to a room without buying thousands of dollars worth of art. Why is art so damn expensive. I guess I will just have to keep commissioning free art from my uncle and cal's sister!

Those special to me

Well a long time ago whilst blog stalking I noticed a bride towards the end of her engagement took the time to give shout outs to all the members of her bridal party, her parents and special people in her life. I thought it was such a neat idea and while a lot of those people don't read this I still thought it would be a neat idea.

So don't worry folks I'm going to save Cal for last!!!

L O V E

That is my new focus for the next six weeks. I'm going to make the best of everything that has happened, be a positive polly and enjoy this amazing occasion. Because I get to marry my best friend, I get to have my favorite people there to celebrate with, to stand next to me, to dance with, to fix my lipstick. And the great news is I have the best set of people to do that with too. The people that I know will be a part of my life forever and the man that will support and love me my entire life.

So good bye work stress, life stress, and wedding stress.

Hello enjoyment, ease and excitement (i purposefully choose all E's because I'm going to embrace my E. Its in the future after all). I'm going to be honest! I'm freaking excited about marrying Cal and having all my besties around.

LO

VE,

EBD (soon to be EDE)

P.S. I actually like E.D.E. too because I feel like I can sing that rap song that Eve sang with Gwen Stefani but with EDE instead. It's in my head all the time.

What to toss?

So during all this crazy wedding planning I was trying to think which idea I liked more for our grand exit.

The exit won't be so grand as we are just going to hop on the bus back to the hotel- where I hope the partying continues of course.

My two ideas are:

Sparklers a classic and beautiful thought

or

Rosemary and Lavender. I love lavender and I think it would be a cool tie in to the whole belgian-france infused wedding. We shall see.

Now, if only I could think of cute table names. Per my father's request he doesn't want the table names just be numbers after all.