Bedding

We purchased a quilt and duvet cover from West Elm before Christmas for the master bedroom. If you are in the market for new bedding they are still having a sale on all of their bedding and bath stuff, check it out! We don't want to use it until we move in the house so we laid everything out to see what it would look like and then neatly folded everything back up (see you in 4 months bedding!)

Update

Things are SLOWLY coming together, Blake met with someone to do an estimate on the house earlier in the week and we're just waiting for the final number. We set a deadline for ourselves; have estimates done before the new year so we can get things moving on the house in January and hopefully have it done by the time we are ready to move in, in the spring.
I ordered some bedding from West Elm for the bedroom today, I hope the shade of green I got is what I want. I kept looking at the duvet cover and just couldn't wait any longer to order it.
We are so excited!!! We have some fun things going on in March and April on top of getting the house move in ready so spring can't come fast enough.

Inspiration Board: Kitchen

The kitchen is the room that we are most excited about because we both enjoy cooking and entertaining. For now we think we want white cabinets with stainless handles to go with the stainless appliances, dark counter tops and wood floors. I really like the color combination of the kitchen on the left.  

Inspiration Board: Upstairs (Paige's Half)

Like I said here, Blake and I are going to share the upstairs space. My half is going to be used for a jewelry studio as well as an office. I'm probably going to be spending quite a bit of time up here so I want it to be a space that is inspiring. Here's what I'm thinking... 

Pumpkin Dinner

The closer to the holidays it gets the more excited we get about moving into our new/old house. We can't wait to decorate it and have parties.  We've been pretty busy lately and were a little late on getting ready for Halloween.  It's the day before Halloween and we were sadly unable to find a pumpkin to carve so we decided to eat it instead.  I made three recipes that I found using Pinterest and soup that was in one of my cookbooks.  

The pumpkin cake is really easy all you need is a can of pumpkin and a box of cake mix, mix together and bake.  The hot mozzarella caprese dip was also very easy to make just put mozzarella, basil, and tomatoes in a dish in the oven. The spiced pumpkin and shrimp soup called for two of my favorite things: cilantro & ginger and the pumpkin dip is great for dipping fruit. Our finished meal was delicious!!!

We hope everyone has a Happy Halloween!!!! 

DIY: Suitcase Tables

Quick confession, I didn't actually do this myself, but I would have helped if I was home. My Mom and Dad were kind enough to make these cool side tables for us out of old suitcases. They used a piece of plywood inside the bottom of the first suitcase to stabilize it and attach the legs. The legs were taken from an old table that already had an antiqued red finish should go in the living room nicely. The second suitcase was placed on its side and shelves were added for storage and stability. A piece of round glass was added to the top to become a table!

Kitchen Layout in 3D

After imagining the kitchen layout in our heads we wanted to make sure everyone else was seeing what we were and came across Lowe's virtual kitchen designer where you can practically do whatever you want (although it takes a while).  For the most part it's exactly what we want!