Thursday, September 11, 2014

Home Decorating and Crafts

I was so excited to move into a house with a fireplace mantel. I love being able to decorate it  according to the season.  Since I didn't get home until right before the 4th of July I decided that it was too late to put that mantel up and I still had my springtime one up.  Something needed to change.  I also didn't want to skip clear to fall because fall was too far off.  My solution was going straight to back to school.  It was the end of July before I put it up and it still seemed a little too early to be celebrating  back to school but I figured it was my best option.  Nichole and I went to several antique stores which is where I found the vintage miners lunchbox, the old books, and the red pail.  I love how this turned out and can't wait to switch over to my fall/Halloween mantel.


The other fun thing I was excited to do was switch out my bedspread.  I bought one that I loved about 5 years ago.  But, Nate thought that it was uncomfortable like "I am sleeping with a cardboard box on top of me" as a matter of fact.  I knew that I wanted a gray bedspread so I set off looking around for one.  I knew that I had to buy one that I could touch and make sure that it didn't feel like a "cardboard box" I found the perfect one at Target.  I had to do a trial run to make sure that Nate liked it too.  Luckily he did.  I have since bought 2 orange pillows to replace the 2 big yellow ones and a mustard yellow throw pillow.
I was so lucky to do a photo shoot of the most adorable newborn boy.  His family is all into superheros.  When I found this out several months before the shoot I went online a bought a superhero costume to put this adorable little guy in.  Between the time I received the costume in the mail and the time I had to do the shoot it got replaced.  The day before the shoot I ran to the fabric store and bought the stuff to make it myself.  I figured I could make the replacement outfit myself.  After making my own pattern and having to learn new sewing techniques I was able to pull this little outfit together.  I think I did a rather fine job myself.
The aftermath of it turned out really well too!


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