Eat Cake for Breakfast

Bright. Colorful. Fun. This pretty much sums it up for Kate Spade. Just how I like to dress. And when it comes to decorating my house. And life in general. Bright colors make me happy. Like really happy. Instant mood lifter. Today I saw this purse and gasped.

If I ever get a nice laptop I think I'll buy this laptop sleeve.

I love these bright yellow bumblebee heels.

I'm in need of a new wallet and I think this one would be perfect!

Tea and Cakes

So I have always been obsessed with shoes. Flats, high heels, boots, you name it. I guess it's just a girl thing. Walking in high heels is a different story though. I'm pretty tall, so if you put me in anything more than a flat I am towering over people. Not only that, it's like I forget how to walk. I guess it just takes time. So, this past October I bought my first pair of high heels I've owned in a long time (Years!). I've only worn them once, but the night didn't end in a disaster! A few weeks ago I bought another pair of high heels for my husband's work Christmas party. They were actually very comfortable and easy to walk in! Score! Vince Camuto's Zella Hot Pepper. It's the perfect shade of red.

Last Christmas Zac bought me a purse made by Irregular Choice from Modcloth. I became obsessed. Well, their specialty is shoes. This year I asked for these shoes. Just looking at these shoes make me very happy! I normally wear a size 10, but the website said they run large. I wish I would have stuck with a size 10 because my right foot is slightly bigger than my left and now they are out of a 10. Bummer. I'll make it work somehow though!

Here are a few more pairs of shoes that I'm drooling over. My birthday is coming up so I am hoping to get at least one pair!

Tea and Cakes
The Sweety Bird

Poetic Licence Backlash

Tea and Cakes in black. I may have to splurge and buy these today while they are on sale and in my size! Happy Shoe Shopping!

We just got the tree! It's Gorgeous!

I can't believe it's already that time of year! I love this time of year. I love all the decorations and Christmas music and family gatherings. And I'm even more excited that this Christmas will be spent with a sweet baby boy. Eeeeeeeek! (one more week!) So, Zac and I have been talking about what kind of tree we want. I told him I would LOVE to have at least two trees this year. One for our living room and one for upstairs in front of the window. If you know us or have ever been to our home, you know we love color. So of course we have to get at least one non-traditional tree, maybe two. So here are a few trees I've been eyeing on the internet.


I found this tree at Treetopia. They have so many colorful and fun trees. Now, I know we won't be getting this tree, but isn't it pretty and fun?! I am really considering this yellow tree from Treetopia though. It's only $88. It may happen.



This next tree is one we both like. I love the shade of blue, but not the price. I found it here. Hopefully, I can do some more internet searching and find one similar for less.

And now it's time for one of my favorite YouTube videos. I can still quote this even though I haven't watched it since last Christmas.

Time Flies!

Well, I didn't keep up with this blog like I thought I would have. Life got in the way. That's an excuse right? So much has happened since my last post in February! Let's see.........Zac and I sold our house and moved into our amazing new home. It's so funny we ended up in this house because I remember reading an article about it in a local magazine and I fell in love. A few months later I came across it on Trulia, but Zac didn't like it too much from the pictures so we never looked at it. We were under contract on a really cool home in OKC, but issues came up so we got out of the contract. Zac suggested we see if this house was still for sale and the rest is history! Now we're settled in and enjoying every minute. It's very bright and colorful. I'm so glad Zac and I have the same taste when it comes to decorating our home.

I also found out that I'm going to be an Aunt for the first time! Ahhh! My brother Aaron and his wife Marci are having their first little baby. Little Bentley is scheduled to arrive in about two weeks (this year has gone by so fast). He's going to be a turkey baby! I can't wait until he arrives. He is going to be one spoiled baby at Christmas. My mom has wanted a grandbaby since my oldest brother got married about 8-9 years ago. Sometimes I think she is more excited than Aaron and Marci! Okay, not really, but if you talked to her everyday like I do then you would understand. I've gotten a countdown number every day and constant emails of cute baby stuff off etsy. She is going to be in Grandma heaven and I'm so happy for her. I can't believe my parents are going to be Grandparents.......so weird.

Now to the present. So I bought a fancy camera a LONG time ago. I've used it, but I've never taken the time to learn anything about it. I've always used the automatic setting. Well Marci asked me to be in the delivery room when little Bentley arrives and to take pictures (and to keep everyone calm......my mom). So my good friend Brandy came over and showed me some of the basics. Since then I've been taking more pictures! Yay! Here are a few from my day today.

(Okay, so I know they are only spray paint cans, but I thought it looked kind of cool. I spray painted some gold Abe bookends today!)

Rudy was such a good little pugger model today. I know these probably don't look that great, but I am pretty proud of them! Mostly because I used the manual settings and had to adjust everything. I'm slowly learning! Okay, well now it's bed time! I need more sleep to get through Mondays. Have a great week everyone!

I Need Freak Out Control

For this chair.

This bed.

And these lips.

I think I will finally be able to start decorating in 2 months and I can't wait! Eeeeeeek!

Valentine's Day Bridal Shower

A dear friend of mine is getting married in just a few weeks to her love. (Brandy was my first roommate!) I wanted to throw her a "friends" shower and it just happened to be Valentine's weekend, so that was the theme! I could not have done this without the help of my talented Mom. I wish I was as creative as her! Here are a few pictures of the shower.

My mom's good friend Bobbie made this Love Shack out of a Victoria's Secret bag! Again, I wish I was this creative!

Cake Dots from Sugar! These are so good. Really, really good. This is also where Brandy's wedding cake is coming from. I can't wait to see it! And taste it!

I wasn't planning on buying a cake for the shower, but I found this the morning of at Target for $5. Yep, an adorable valentines cake for $5. Sadly, there was way more food than guests and we never got to try this. (RSVP people!!!) But I did send it home with the bride-to-be.

Cupcakes!
Chocolate covered strawberries!

This is a close up of the banner my mom made. It turned out so cute. I know she spent a lot of time on it. Thanks again for your help Mom!

I hope Brandy enjoys these last few weeks up to her wedding!

Thank You Klippan

Wow! What a weekend it has been. And it's been forever since I've posted on this thing. But anywho........Zac and I are still trying to sell our house and find a new one. Let me just say that getting your house ready to sell is so much work! Blah! We have had it on the market since November and did a lot of work to get it ready. But our furniture didn't match and our living room setup was pretty bad. So, this past weekend Zac and I decided to take a last minute trip to IKEA for some new furniture. IKEA is so great, especially if you're on a budget. Luckily, we get to go back next weekend when we visit my brother and sis-in-law in Houston! :) Can't wait!!!

Here is a pic of our living room before....

I hate the brown curtains. I hate how our furniture doesn't match. Both pieces are comfy though. And I hate how the maroon loveseat blocks the fireplace.

Here are a few after pictures.

So it still may not be perfect, but I promise it looks a million times better! And ignore the pupper crate in the pictures. It could still use some improvements but hopefully this will be more appealing to buyers! The living room definitely flows better. I'm very proud of all the work we've accomplished this past weekend!

Here are just a couple more pics of our past weekend.

Mr. Uncle Rudy

Little Scully Bug Baby Tobias My new wine glass from Cloverleaf in Ardmore. Love the clearance section! And love the store!

I seriously could spend way too much time in this store. My mom took me to the one in OKC on my birthday a few weeks ago and Zac let me run in on the way home from Texas on Saturday! Love it!

I hope everyone stays safe and warm with the upcoming weather!

I've been dreaming.....

Lately my conversations with Zac consist mostly of our next home. We're both really anxious to move into a newer home and start decorating! (Okay, maybe just me) We can't decide if we want to hire an architect and build a house, buy an older home and renovate, buy a brand new house......ahhhh what to do! Regardless of our next move I've been dreaming of stuff to put in our house. :)

I blame this on my mom but for the longest time I've wanted a modern AND retro kitchen. I would LOVE to have this fridge!

And this stove.........


And they have a matching dishwasher. Love the red!
I love this table from CB2.


This grellow dresser would look awesome in our future bedroom! Okay, so we already have a yellow dresser in our bedroom so maybe this one could go in our guest bedroom.


And at last I love this bed.

Dancy Friday

I am off work every other Friday and somehow I end up spending a majority of my day listening to 80's music. I LOVE 80's music. I never get tired of listening to it. Plus it's the best dance music. I've always wanted to open up an 80's bar/club. Maybe it will happen one day! I think it would be way more fun than making maps. Here are a few of my favorite 80's songs. This first song was recently put on repeat at my friends surprise birthday party. It was a good night.



This next song really gets my shoulders moving. I don't know how you could hear this song and not dance. Even if it's just shoulder dancing. (which i'm doing right now) Ignore the actual video........not very good, but it's all I could find.




The next song just makes me happy. And it was on Family Guy. And there is awesome dancing.



This song was on one of my previous posts, but I love it too much. Again, awesome dancing.



Okay, this is the last song I am posting. I promise. I could keep going, but this would be a forever long post. Have a good holiday weekend everyone and hooray for football being back (And pumpkin spice lattes @ Starbucks)! Let Fall begin! Loves.

3/50 Project

Short post, but I think this is a good one! Invest in your local businesses! They need your support! 3/50 Project

Let's Dance

so i was hoping i wouldn't go this long without updating but that is life and it's been super crazy lately. i thought after i graduated from OU that i would have all the time in the world to do everything i wanted but that is definitely not happening! i've had so many projects planned that i want to start but it seems like i never have time! work consumes most of my time but one day that will change. one project that i have actually started (but is still not done) is the painting. here are a few sneak peeks, but just know that the pictures aren't the best and touch ups are still on their way. ta-da! black and white stripes. we love them. one important fact that zac and i have learned since we started painting is that we are not good painters. our floors are covered in paint because we are so messy and that is even with drop cloths. oh well! we're getting new floors eventually. =)

so one of the next major things we are going to do is buy new furniture and things to make our place look pretty. here are some couches we are looking at.......we both love this blue one. we really want to get a sectional so we can have more seating, however, we want to add the chaise to the sectional but we dont think' the measurements will work. i also love this red and white striped chair! i think i'll take two please.

another thing that zac and i are planning to do is move our tv to a different wall. the living room will flow a lot better (i think) once it's on the other wall. we're moving it to the "accent" wall. we painted it bright yellow. i think the tv will look good against the bright yellow wall with either a zebra or gazelle on each side. what do you think? zebra or gazelle!?

well it's my bedtime! im going to finish watching my episode of ghost adventures and call it a night. and in honor of tomorrow being the start of the weekend i will leave you with this music video. (and you might want to go watch labyrinth now) please click here ---> let's dance. hope this gets you ready for the weekend!

Covered in paint

Hello all! So I have been slacking on my blogging but that is because I literally have been painting every single day since the 10th. Zac and I were so excited about painting and now we very much dislike the idea. ;) Not completely, but we are literally painting the entire house! It's a work in progress, but we are getting there. We've painted the living room, half of the hallway, our accent wall, the kitchen, Zac's bathroom, our chalkboard door (the paint decided to peel off as of yesterday, we were not very excited) and lots and lots of trim!! Oh....and the fireplace too. No more nasty fireplace! It's bright and white and we love it. Here are a couple pictures (taken from Zac's phone, not the best quality) until we are done!

(I was scared of our bright yellow wall at first, but I LOVE it!)

I probably won't be updating again until this weekend. This week is going to be full of painting and lots of dancing tomorrow night with my sister-in-law at a concert thanks to my sweet husband! Have a great week everyone!

Paint Time!

I'm so excited that we are going to start painting tomorrow!! I'm sure we will be spending most of our weekend painting, but it will be well worth it! I think the part of the house I am most excited about is our hallway! We're painting black and white horizontal stripes! I got the inspiration from a couple different places. Here, here, and here. I'm in love with all of them! I would have never considered it if it wasn't for these pictures. Here is a picture of our hallway now.

Boring! I'll be sure to post pictures after we're done painting. Here are a few more pictures of some rooms that I love!

And I love this wall!