little updates: Bathroom shelf

Today's little update happened in our upstairs bathroom.
Before: oh hey, that's a bathroom. Ho-hum.

After: OOh look flowers in a pretty vase! And pictures! How stylish of them.

We've had this little shelf hidden behind our couch (where most decorative items go to die, don't cha know?) for years, and this is the first time its seen the light of day. I liked it, don't get me wrong, I just never could make my mind up where to put it!

I got a wild hair a little while ago and hung it on the wall in the bathroom. Bet you've never seen such a fancy lookin' extra couple rolls of tp, have you?

The gold picture frame holds a photo from our wedding and coordinates with another on our countertop, which holds a poem I gave Tim on our paper anniversary.

The shelf is such a little addition, but we love it. And that's all that matters.

little update: label-happy

Today I kick off the new "Little Updates" series! Check back Wednesdays for more easy and cheap updates.

This past weekend, I found some adorable {FREE} labels on the World Label Blog and went a little crazy with them.



You guys, I've created a monster. I want to stick a label on everything, and that's not an exaggeration. And this site is fantastic! Not only did they have four label shapes in this particular collection (medium round, small round, small rectangular, and a large waving flag) but each one comes in either teal or black chalkboard, AND either blank or pre-filled. And did I mention they're FREE.

labels downloaded from here

{There are TONS more free templates to download on their blog; I'm loving these chalkboard ones and these chevron ones too}

The pre-written ones were ADORABLE (I mean really, look at them) but some of the things I wanted to keep in my jars were not on that list (Spock's food, quinoa, almond flour, etc), so I used the blank medium round ones. When you download them, it opens in a PDF editor so you can type in each label. The standard font is Chalkduster, but you can use any font on your computer! I ended up going with Johanna Script from Fonts for Peas.

I just filled them out and printed them at home on peel and stick labels. Actually, I printed them on address labels so each label was actually a little bit of a puzzle to stick on the jars... but it worked so don't you be calling me ghetto. I like to call it resourceful or thinking outside of the box ;)

See the little seam?

And I have fallen in giddy stupid love with them.

PS: Can it be peony season always??! I already miss their puffy goodness at Trader Joes. Boohoo

I pretty much stuck a label on anything that was showing on the countertop. Scratch that: I stuck a label on a few things and then loved them so much that they got to live out in plain sight on the countertop. Which is big for me, people. I don't do stuff on the counters.

Seeing what a stupid label did to my sugar and flour makes me itch to find matching spice jars so I can label those too. Who AM I???!

  

Ugh and I'm dyinggggg over how they look in combination with our new Ikea rug (which for some reason shows on the website as twice what we paid for it....).

 

What do you think? Is this something you would do in your home? 

little update: curb appeal

I did a simple little "decor project" today and was really surprised at the difference a little accessory made. Take a look!

Before:

After:

Such a little change, but it makes a huge impact on the curb appeal of the house! I just added a little Memorial Day/Fourth of July spirit (salvaged from the cabin) and a vinyl decal from Ally's Attic Crafts (purchased from Groopdealz, but you can get one here)

 

The vinyl "decal" is applied the same way you might stick on a bumper sticker: 1) Determine the best location for the vinyl (above)...

...2) peel paper backing off of vinyl and stick firmly to clean surface...

...3) peel off protective plastic, making sure to press firmly on the newly exposed vinyl. That's it!

The flag heart got a new coat of white paint before making its debut, and as you can see above I swapped out the faded raffia bow for a smaller and neater bow (recognize it from here?)

 Love love love love love it! There's not a whole lot we can do to personalize our front entryway--not only is our place a rental but it's also a townhome, which means an association AND  a landlord determine what our front area will look like before we do.