Winter Tablescape

Is anyone else on the struggle bus after the holidays still? 😬 I just cannot seem to get with it these days! haha 

So I'm not going to lie, I have my Christmas décor down in main living space, kitchen and places where guests see if they stop by.  But lets be real for just a second...I still have ALL of my Christmas décor in our bedroom and in our little girls room.  I'll call it how it is, I'm just being super lazy! hahah! Plus I have no clue where I'm going to put it all!  When I mentioned starting to take down the Christmas stuff to my hubby, he was like yeahhh not sure where we are going to put everything. I was like oh there isn't that much!.....ha...oops! He was right...yes I admit...you were right 😉

But for my living room and dining room, I literally decorated these as I was taking my Christmas décor down.  

Winter Tablescape

Word For The Year

Happy New Year friends!

I've seen many people saying their word of the year.  I've thought about it a lot.  What intention do I want to set and carry with me through this new year?  My word for 2018,        S P A C E   Meaning, declutter, simplify, make space for new.  Having things simple puts me at ease, helps me feel light. With that, check out below how I started my winter décor. 

L I V I N G  R O O M

I constantly see gorgeous photos with layers of décor, and don’t get me wrong, it’s BEAUTIFUL.  I have tried to layer and layer, but it’s just not my thing, nor does it fit in our house. 

Our living room is a space that has been so hard to figure out.  It’s an awkward size, long and narrow.  The front door comes in here so you have to walk through here to get to the rest of the house.  For a long time I worried about making the front door a focal point and trying to make it easy to walk through.  But lets be real, NOBODY enters through the front door.  Like seriously NOBODY.  Out of the year and a half we have lived here, maybe one person has came through that door!  Our back entrance is the high ceilings, open space y’all have seen in other spaces, so everyone enters there.

 I think I have FINALLY figured out how to arrange this room…somewhat! Hahah!  Do you have those rooms where you just sit there constantly moving furniture in your mind….and multiple times braking your back because your hubbies at work, but you just REALLY want to see how it would work a different way? Yeah…I've done that! 🙋

ANYWAYS!! These thoughts racing through my mind above is the reason I want less 😊, I want free space, I want simplicity.  We are planning to put some shiplap on the wall where the couch is now.  That way even if I don’t have any decorations hanging on it (like it is now), there will still be interest to the wall. 

When I started to think about winter decorations….I drew a blank.  I had no clue what to do. I didn’t have a vision…and there are still spaces where there’s nothing.  And I’m totally ok with that! When I took the Christmas Décor down. I saw candle sticks, I saw my window, I saw dried eucalyptus that was in my Christmas greenery.  Boom, there’s the mantle décor. 

For Christmas, I got this adorable bowl and AMAZING candle from the Heart & Hand line at Target from my parent.  Then I stuck some dried magnolia leaves from Christmas greenery.  Boom! 

I haven’t bought a single thing for ‘winter décor’.  I’m determined to use more of what I have, unless I see a heck of a deal. Just keeping it simple around here...😊 

Clean, simple, open spaces.  That is what is in store for me and our house for 2018!  We have many projects lined up for this year. I can't wait to share them with you all!  Happy New Year friends! Thanks for reading my first ramblings of the year!

XOXO-Lauren

Merry & Bright Blog Hop { Dining & Kitchen }

Welcome to our third and final week of our  

{ MERRY & BRIGHT BLOG HOP }

These last few weeks with these incredible ladies has been such an honor! They are all so incredibly talented, so make sure you check out their blogs linked at the bottom here!

This week we are featuring our kitchen & dining room.

Merry & Bright Blog Hop: Living Room

Welcome to another week of our Merry & Bright Blog Hop! This week we are featuring our living rooms. 

Merry & Bright Blog Hop Entryway

Welcome to our Merry & Bright Blog Hop! Over the next few weeks some very talented ladies (linked at the bottom of this post) and I are sharing our Christmas Decor in different areas of our homes! 

This week we are sharing our entryways. 

Floral Fun

Along with home renovations and projects, we also recently did floral arrangements for one of my brother's college friends (and of course now a family friends) wedding.

This was such a simple, gorgeous and FUN wedding!  We had so much fun putting together so many arrangements.

Photos by: Anna Kardos Photography

So first off, my brother has a business known as Brandon Pruett Designs located in San Franscio.  He does garden designing, and let me tell you...he does AMAZING work that will completely blow your mind!

Fall Decor Tour

Well Hello there friends!

I have definitely been MIA on my blog the past week or so!  We have had so much going on.  Like working on finishing furniture for friends, chasing around a sweet two year old and the biggest of all...the bedroom is painted!! YAY!!! :) 

In between all of these projects, I have brought out the fall decorations! WHOOOP! I have hit the jackpot at the Target dollar spot MANY times, but man...these cheap pumpkins are just too good to pass up!! They are literally all over my house, and I am TOTALLY ok with that.  So is my mini who likes to act as my co-designer and move things around. :) 

I thought I'd give y'all a little tour of my fall decorations so far!