Yikes!!!! I am so pleased to show you what it looks like now!

Sooo much better right!!! Here are some more pics

One thing I want to do is replace the light fixture and then I think I am done….key word. THINK!

See what I mean….just not right.

And finally my rug….which is where I got the color idea from. You can’t see it but the leaves have this minty green color in the center.

The paint color was a color match of Sherwin Williams Light Pistachio. I LOVE how much brighter the room feels and not so in ya face blue!!! I was originally going to do beadboard but decided to just put up some chair rail at 5′ high and paint it white below. Same effect and a lot less!! I will be replacing the light fixture soon so I will be back posting on that asap!

Also need to show you what is going on in my dining room…..some pretty exciting things!!

This picture came out way better than I had anticipated because it was 8pm at night after a long work day and Roux vet visit. It only took us 2 tries with the automatic timer and luckily the camera made a beeping noise that got the dogs interest enough to stay still for a minute. I quickly uploaded the photo onto Costco’s website ( $15.99 for 50 cards and envelopes, Great deal!!) and was able to pick them up the next day and mail them out, not too shabby at all!!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday filled with  family, friends, laughter and love!!

I also opted for white lights this year, Jeff always had white lights and I wanted to change things up, I must say it is really growing on me and might stick around for a while. Here is my favorite ornament.

You can probably guess that I got this in Maine. We decided to go to this adorable town called Boothbay Harbor while we visited last year and I decided to buy this cute ornament. I was pleasantly surprised when the owner of the shop said she could write our name on the boat (at the time we weren’t officially married and I was super excited to see my future name on the boat)  I just love how every ornament has a story and you think about the person who gave that ornament to you while you hang it or who was with you when you bought it. This weekend we are going to tackle the lights outside……

PS- Jeff fixed the fence yesterday and I am super excited! I will have to post a picture soon!

PPS- I have been ordering rugs like a maniac so that will also be a new post.

PPPS- We are going to an ugly christmas sweater party this weekend so even more pictures and posts about that!!

Lets jog or memories for a few images. Here is what the living room looked like last week.

This is what it looked like when we first moved in

And the same corner of the room just more recent

Alright enough with that funky mauve color and now for some BM Shaker Gray!

I also rearranged the gallery wall above the tv. I love the new configuration, it also allows me to add to the collection.

A closer look…also don’t mind the empty frames and sideways photos. I need to put some new pictures in there.

A view of both the living room and dining room so you can see how much better the wall color flows.

Now I always have to point out things I want to change…I’m never satisfied lol. There honestly isn’t that much more I want to do in these 2 rooms but let me just make the list…..New light fixture= no more boob light. Change the dining room chairs and table, whether it be paint or purchase….up in the air.

And Roux was my little helper and by my helper I mean cry at me because she wanted me to just snuggle on the sofa with her.  This photo though shows how nicely the rug looks with the walls.

Overall I am very happy with the color and I think it will stay for a while

I took these photos about a week and a half ago and already majority of these pretty leaves are gone. After Jeff and I raked for 2 hours yesterday I was really sad to see all of them go. So I decided to post these few pictures of the dogs in the yard and remember fall and to be thankful for all that I have like this yard, my dogs, the fence(even though it got wrecked in the snow storm) my house, my hubby, friends, family, and these beautiful tress and nature.

Roux is getting so big now, this also makes me sad She is all grown up but just like the seasons they come and go and Roux is no longer a puppy. I honestly don’t know how Mom’s see there children grow up so fast because I’m having a hard time with a puppy. Pathetic.

If she could be outside all day, she would. This is seriously her domain and she is the happiest when she is running around our yard. So happy we got the fence for this reason alone.

One of the spots where we lost a huge limb. I just loved the yellow and lime green in these trees. Did anyone else take some pretty photos of trees in the Fall? I wish I had taken some more before they all fell. There is always next year.

I decided to quarter turn the tiles to make it a little more interesting.

I’m kinda obsessed with it!

Now for me to change-up that wall color to make this room soo much better…..Another day, another project!

Now into the kitchen

And the back door….

That is all! Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

I used a piece of cardboard I had lying around the house. So far this project has cost me nothing. After your trace  the design you simply cut it out and start tracing on your wall.
This was the part I was nervous about, especially because you are just supposed to eyeball when you are tracing. I started in the middle of the wall and went from there. I was doing about 1″ spacing in the design and that left me with this. It wasn’t perfect and I was a little nervous it wasn’t going to turn out right but I kept going with it.

It took me about 3 hours to trace this wall, not bad at all. The tracing was actually the hardest part. So by 4 on Saturday I had it all traced and decided to start painting for an hour or two. I couldn’t help myself, I was too excited to see how it was going to turn out.I used Benjamin Moore Stonington Gray like my hallway walls.  I bought a set of paint brushes from Michael’s because I wasn’t sure what size brush was going to work and I didn’t want to have to keep going back out to get the perfect size. The brushes were $7 and I ended up with the perfect brush size that pretty much perfected my spacing issues. If there was ever an area that wasn’t traced perfectly this brush pretty much fixed the issue. On Saturday night the progress looked like this. Oh and with the paint and brushes this project cost me $20. A hell of a lot cheaper than buying the stencil alone for $50. Plus now I have more Stonington Gray to do other projects with, it is probably one of my favorite colors.

I already was obsessed with it and couldn’t wait to finish on Sunday morning. When I woke up the first thing I did was get to work. I finished around 12:15pm and I couldn’t be happier with the results! I actually contemplated doing the rest of the walls in my dining room…..but I didn’t. Alright enough blabbing and now for the finished product!

I LOVE the transition now, makes me feel so much better!

Oh yeah and finally a good picture of the light fixture. Now what to do about that table and chairs….Don’t worry I have some ideas in mind!

Okay so this is what my wall looked like before.

And after, I couldn’t be more in LOVE with the way it turned out! I also would recommend anyone who was thinking about trying it, to just do it! I promise it is not that hard.

You see where the upstairs hallway meets the living room wall to the left? The hallway wall color is BM Stonington Gray and it hits my dining room color. It has bugged me for a while because it isn’t a nice transition. So I thought why not do a stencil on just that left wall in the dining room in Stonington gray on top of the creamy color? It would tie it in so well with the hallway and feel less disjointed. Plus I have another project in the works (when I say works I mean in my head) that this new stencil will also help with greatly. I probably have been brewing this up in my head for like 6 or more months now and after I saw YHL stencil their office I figured it was about time I did mine, especially now that things have settled since the wedding and the outdoor projects can be put to rest for a while. So in the YHL blog they shared a post on a DIY stencil and it was so up my alley. I am really not looking to spend $50 or more dollars on a stencil. So this post here shows you how the did their stencil and even gives you a template! I felt like I hit the lottery the day Sherry posted it! To give you a better perspective of this wall here is another picture. For some reason I have never taken a full shot of it. But I do have an interesting never seen before photo from my Bachelorette Party that shows it with a very INTERESTING picture on the wall.

Right after the buffet to the left is where the stencil will stop, so it really isn’t going to be that much but will definitely make a big impact.

And here is the interesting one of Maeg and I on my Bachelorette night…..it was the only other picture I had where you could see the wall ….Like my hearts???hahah you can only imagine what was under them.

And here is the beautiful room of Jones Design Company that had made the stencil I am about to use.

I hope my turns out half as amazing as hers does! So that is the game plan. Does anybody else have a project in the works?

I have to say that Caitlin Magarity my videographer is amazing, she made me feel so comfortable all day and she really is the best to work with. She completely gets your view and ideas and turns them into a beautiful video that you can cherish forever! Click
the link below and please enjoy our wedding day all over again, I know Jeff and
I did! I even got  teary eyed….that’s how good she is!

http://vimeo.com/caitlinmagarity/musikawedding

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I couldn’t help myself but to make that my title, caught your attention right? So I showed you some of my Halloween earlier this week(if you missed it check it out here). I wanted to share with you how I made my really simple costume and share a few more photos from my sisters Halloween bash. I decided on Katy Perry as my costume when I saw this on Pinterest (of course)

I know it is a child but I figured I could turn this into an adult version. So the first thing I went out and bought was felt at Michael’s for like .30 a sheet. I only ended up using 3 sheets too.

Then I had to find a cheap white dress…I wasn’t going to spend a lot on something I was just going to destroy. And in comes H&M with the perfect $5 white dress, thanks!

I was on a roll! Only spending around 6 dollars for majority of my costume, then came the wig. I needed to have colorful hair, it pretty much made the costume so I went out to the local Halloween store and they were all out of blue wigs, sucked! But then I thought, well Katy Perry currently has Pink hair and who doesn’t love a pink wig? So I bought it. The wig was $16 which is ridiculous but I’m sure I will get plenty of use out of it. I think  $22 for a costume is pretty good.

The first thing I had to do was get my supplies. Scissors, hot glue, and the perfect circle shape.

Then you simple just trace the circles onto the felt and cut them out.

Then from here you glue to the dress and voila! You have your costume.

I wasn’t intending on wearing stockings but since the weather was freezing I kind of had too! Oh and the other addition to my costume you might ask? My fake boobs. They are not that large in real life, If I was going to be Katy I had to be real about it and my chest was just not cutting it! So here are some photos from the Halloween Party! Enjoy!

My sister was a flapper and my friend Katy was a cave women!

Jeff and I (Again)

My sister and Katy did such a good job decorating! They said this was black table clothes that they taped up and then just spider webs.

Katy and her brother, love the stache!

Jeff and Adam, his white trash friend

I was loving all the gross apps my sister’s friend Whitney brought, how cute are these eyeballs and finger cookies?

Katy and I…See what I mean about the fake boobies

And that’s all, can’t believe Halloween is already over until next year!