Move that bus!

Here are pictures of what our old living room looked like before a gallon of paint and some window mistreatments...

The throw pillows were one's I allready had and they just got a make-over. As bad as I will miss the aztec stuff that came with our couch pillows, I'm coping...

The table topper on this table is pretty bold but I automatically LOVED it when I saw it. Yes, it is pink striped toile. My man had a pink striped toile table in his house, don't tell....and thanks for voting for the picture grouping, I took your advice and went with the first option.

The dining room mistreatments made me nervous but I loved this floral linen and it was on Clearance at Hancock's for 50% off. It has a blueish green background.

The living room mistreatments are yellow and cream stripe silk from Hobby Lobby. We hung all the rods high and wider than the actual window to get the most light and make the window look bigger. Ooops, that cord on the armoire snuck out again, shame on you. And a large Vanilla DP from Sonic on the ottoman is always a nice touch. Yea.

Boys mistreatments-those are $3 Red tab top panels on clearance from Wal-Mart-they also had light pink and light purple. I cut a shower curtain liner in half and hung it on the $2 cheap rod to darken the room at naptime. Used the $1 clear rings to hang it and everything.

I will just tell you that I found Nester's website and after listening to her talk started to believe that maybe just maybe I could do all the things I love about decorating magazines in my own home. It has been such a neat process to cozy up my home and let the fears of "doing it wrong or messing up" go. You may laugh but I have talked to God more about fabric the last couple weeks than ever and it's been fun.

And here's a free tip if you want to do something fun and spring like for your house today. Invite someone over for dinner this week. Call people by name when they come into your home, it creates a welcoming effect. Serve lemonade in the good glasses. Run a lemon wedge around the top of the glass, dip it in some sugar and you have sugar rimmed lemonade glasses. So cheerful and fun.