Drench me in Whites!

Did you have a wonderful Christmas?

Did you make many more unforgettable memories?  

Are you like me, and want to cleanup all things Christmas the very next day? I always struggle with what to do...this year, everything is already packed away, everything except for our tree and wreaths on doors & windows. They are going to stay up till New Years...we removed all our ornaments from our trees and left only the lights! 

I'm struggling more than ever to simplify...I'm craving whites!! Crisp, clean...WHITES!!!  I want to drench my home from top to bottom in white...WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME???? I love color, I really do!!!

hahaha...oh Whites, what are you doing to me?  

Today I want to share with you our Master bedroom in it's drenching in whites which is still in progress.

My hubby bought me a sweet little chandelier for our bedroom!! I adore him...we were Christmas shopping together, and I saw this little chandelier and told him that one day it would hang in our bedroom. Little did I know that he would buy it on the spot...spoiling me once again!

It's Oh So Pretty!!

Our bedroom is one of the rooms that have been in whites for some time...I just love white bedding!

I think whites are ROMANTIC!

Lighting makes the biggest difference...from ceiling fan to a bit of sparkle! Our master is not finished...is there ever a time that a room is completely done? 

Part of me wants to carve a big old heart with our initials into our headboard!! Then dry brush it in my favorite shade of white!! Yes..drench from top to bottom in white...Remember?! ahhhhh

All while trying to create a relaxing ROMANTIC space for us, we also share this space...

...with PAPERWORK!! Completely took the romance out of it..right?! I do adore our little desk, it was a GW find many years ago. One day I may refinish it, but for now it's sweet with countless scribbles on top.  I'm trying to find the perfect way to organize, and most of all HIDE all our office stuff. Any tips?

One of my girlfriends gave me a pair of these stools a few weeks ago. I added new tops, which I stained and then stenciled. This one fits perfectly under this desk. I LOVE THEM! 

So there is my little start to drenching my home in Whites & to organize everything in sight!!

A New Year is almost upon us...filled with it's newness! What are your goals for this next year?  Any big goals? Are you like me and are craving crisp, clean, fresh...a change in decor...a new way to organize our home...to simplify everything...to love more...listen more...and most of all to enjoy every moment of everyday!!!  

Thanks for stopping in!! Happy New year!

Love, 
Naomi

Joy of the Holidays!

The Holidays are here...I LOVE Christmas!!

it's magical...with lights, giving hearts..all coming together to celebrating JESUS! 

Decorations came out on Thanksgiving day...every year each of us get a new ornament, they are marked who's is who's, the year they were received and each year the tree gets fuller!!

Kids gather as we carefully unwrap each ornament, recalling sweet memories of the past! With 15 years of marriage and 4 children later, we have a sweet collection already. I adopted my sisters tradition on adding a special ornament each year. I remember sitting at my sister's house and seeing her tree filled with pretty ornaments, and thinking that it would take forever by the time our tree ever filled up...hahahaa we were only married for a year or 2! Oh how time flies...

This year as I was thinking that our tree was filled like my sister's years ago..she sent me a picture yesterday of her Beautiful tree this year!!! Yes, she gets me to dreaming once more on the next years to come with a fuller tree!!! I LOVE HER!! 

You want to see her tree don't you???

Well of course you do!!

It's dreamy isn't it?!! It's overflowing with pure goodness...OH SO PRETTY!! I'm sure once mine looks like this, she will have yet another thing I want...That's what us little sisters do!!! Hahaahaa

This year I went to Lowe's Christmas tree cutting area and picked up tons of fresh cut greens...

...they trim the bottoms off the tree when they re-cut them. They gladly let you take to your hearts content. I cut and soaked them good before I adding them in our home. I made a sweet garland for over my kitchen window with pine cones hanging down!  The rest I placed around the house and we get to enjoy the smell of fresh pine. 

It's feeling more like Christmas  around here!!

I love everything about this time of year...the wish lists came out before Thanksgiving was even over!!! I finished most of my shopping early this year,  for the first time!! I'm usually the one running to the stores and everything on everyone's wish lists are disappearing before my eyes...but not this year!!!

Oh the joy of the Holidays...what are your traditions? Do you collect a new ornament each year?

Enjoy this special time, as we once again gather with our LOVED ones to celebrate the true meaning ofChristmas!! Merry Christmas Everyone...

Love,
 Naomi

Let's Gather..Let's Remember..Let's Laugh and Play!!

That's what holidays are like with our family!!!

We had our Thanksgiving gathering this past weekend.

OH DID WE HAVE FUN!!!

Food at my mamma's house is always so yummy!!

My sister ALWAYS brings the most delicious side dishes! This year she made this Paula Deen sweet potato/apple combo. Talk about a keeper and it's PRETTY!!

...doesn't food always taste better when it's pretty?!!

Are  you getting hungry for your Thanksgiving feast?!

Sadly, I never did get a chance to take pictures of our desserts.

They were consumed quite quickly...sugar rules!!! We get to go have yet another feast over Thanksgiving at hubby's parents...I can't wait!! We always go home to our parents over holidays and celebrate at our mamma's.

How do you celebrate?

We made tons of fun memories this past weekend!!!

We decided it would be a great idea for all the girls to enjoy the afternoon playing dress up!

My sister brought her sweet daughters prom dresses and heels, it was   extra special for everyone!!!

We all miss my sweet Niece so much, 
she tragically passed last year and anything that 
belonged to her 
is just so special 
to all of us!!!
 She would have loved to be 
a part of their fun, I just know it.
With the addition of some of my summer 

dresses and heels and a table filled with Grandma's pearls,
 Those girls lit up!!!

They danced and we all ended up 
joining them for a mini photo shoot!!!

Oh the memories...

Life is so meaning full 

to me these days!!

What kind of memories do we make with 
our our children? 
Will they cherish these times as we do?

I believe so!!

I love the time spent with these girls!! They have beautiful spirits!!

 We have gone through it all...side by side, laughed till we cried, and most importantly, held each other up in the hardest of times!

...Had many PRETTY moments together!!

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

May you enjoy family time as much as I have. Take some time to add those OH SO SPECIAL moments that will forever be remembered!!!

Love, 
Naomi

For the LOVE of old Windows!

I LOVE old windows!!

Anything old really...it's the character!  

OH for the love of CHARACTER!!!  

My hubby is a contractor...he is just so good at what he does! He does it all, he is amazingly talented. Oh how I love him!! He knows how much I love old, so occasionally he brings me super fun stuff. He brought me a whole bunch of old windows.

Yes, I have them EVERYWHERE!!  I tend to go overboard on things I love!

Today I wanted to share with you a little green house I made...ALL BY MY SELF!! I think my hubby was a bit proud and maybe a bit relieved too that I didn't need his help. 

Do you LOVE?!!

I do...I really really do! This one sits in my front flowerbed. 

I began with attaching 3 windows together, and the 4th used old door hinges.

Next I added 2 windows to make the roof, and cut a piece of plywood as a bottom.

I decided that I wanted to leave the old finish.

I LOVE the mixed finishes!

I went to Lowe's and wanted to buy some legs. They are PRICEY!! I ended up buying fence post tops instead and also bought a gate handle.

It needs some jewels!!

Can anyone hook a girl up with some architectural items to pretty it up??? I think it needs some wrought iron curls! I've had the hardest time finding anything...All in time.

I think it's quite fun!!  

Along comes my sister...OH MY SISTER!!! 

She quickly let me know how cute it would be to have a chandelier hanging inside this sweet little green house! Instantly I knew I wanted one!

...however with my budget can not get one. Can we say pain?!! LOL

So as I dream of one day finding a sweet little chandelier just fit for this space, I also thought that I could do a DIY light instead.

Here is my little chandelier. I painted the inside of a can yellow (I just love yellow, not like anyone will see the inside). I drilled holes, took a hammer to it...again CHARACTER, and added some old beads around the bottom. To hang it, I strung an extra wire on top filled with more left over beads.

Wanting it to not look so new, I rubbed on some white paint, along with a bit of brown to make it look a bit aged.

I really didn't want to have a wire over our walkway, so I got a little push light that fit perfect inside.

I LOVE my little green house with it's redneck light!! Hahahaa..Sometimes I wonder what my neighbors think?

Thanks for the inspiration sweet sister!!

Thanks for stopping in...Hope you were inspired to re-purpose, re-create and save something old!

Hope you have a BLESSED day!!

Love, 
Naomi

Dresser turned into a cozy cabin kitchen!

My hubby decided to purchase a piece of land close to home so that he could take our boys hunting. My man LOVES all things that involve anything that has to do with hunting. It's only a 30 minute drive from where we live,  so it 's easy to just pack up and head out  for some country living...OH I SO WANT TO LIVE THERE!!  I love the COUNTRY!! I've always had a love of just living in the middle of no where...This place makes you feel just like that! Maybe it's the long dirt road that leads us there that makes it even more appealing to me.

Well anyone who knows me, knows that I'm a MAJOR DREAMER!! 

We just had to have a getaway...We decided that building a cabin was on our list of what we would like to do there. A friend of ours had a 12x20 storage that he wanted to sell and to us it was the perfect start to a cabin. We add a sweet porch....We are just porch sittin' kind of people!

A 12x20 space for a family of 6? OH YES...and we did it! Oh how we enjoy our time there.

I want to share with y'all part of the kitchen in our cozy wee little cabin...I knew I wanted to use furniture. I search for the perfect piece that needed to be saved. Let me just say this picture makes it look good...Hubby came to pick it up and he just politely smiled, and I think his friend with him, thought I had gone plain crazy!!

Hubby didn't second guess my decision...He has come to know me well! He believed as sad as this piece was with broken drawers, that I could make it shine! I love that about him!! I began with sanding  all the old finish off, which wasn't to hard since most of it was already pealing. The top got a dark walnut stain finish, which is my favorite stain color..you may see a lot of it around here!

A few years ago, I seen a B&B that had a medal bucket for a sink.. Can you say LOVE? This was the perfect place to try this. It would be the character I CRAVED in this place.

Having a hubby in construction is the BEST, He can do anything...he sweetly cut out everything for me, added the faucet and did all the plumbing. I so ADORE my man! He is beyond good to me!!!

Don't Cabin's just call  for a rustic finish? I LOVE ALL THINGS RUSTIC!! I primed the rest of the piece and then painted it my favorite shade of white, Cream in my coffee! You can get it from Lowe's. YES, I picked it because of the name..any coffee addict would!!  HEHEE

This is where the fun comes in you sand, sand , AND  sand your little heart out!!  I ADORE it! Maybe because this one was much work...It took like forever!

Wanting to save money, I kept all the drawer pulls and spray painted them with a metallic spray paint. The drawers got lined with pages out of an old William Shakespeare book using Mod Podge. I LOVE that stuff!! 

I hope you are inspired to find your perfect piece that needs to be rescued, maybe even step out and turn a wee little place into a cozy getaway!!!

LOVE, 
NAOMI

It's Fall Y'all!!

Don't ya'll just LOVE fall?!

The colors are so warm and cozy...the smell of the perfect fall candle burning, bringing it's fragrance in the air.

I ADORE the cooler mornings where you can open the windows and have that sweet sound of a screen door slamming shut behind you...a time where we gather with all our loved ones and just love on each other! 

 I love candles that flicker in the fireplace...There is something about candles that makes you want to cuddle with a favorite magazine and drift into dreaming about all things PRETTY!

I love pulling out my fall decor...a favorite is a pillow that has finger painted "art"  from when my daughter was 3 on the back, I can't seem to part with it just for that reason, AND my sister has the same one and well, It reminds me of her every time I see it!! I ADORE my sister!! She is my best friend and encourages me to do CRAZY FUN things...Like start this blog! I love you sis!

This year I am in LOVE with paper garlands...So simple and fun! 

Wreaths that remind you of a fun night with your sweet girlfriends...great food and fellowship with friends is the best right? 

Isn't it all about just being TOGETHER?! I LOVE that about Fall!!

LOVE, 
NAOMI