lamp!

I'm so sad! We purchased a lamp from Goodwill and we planned to snap pictures and show you the process that we took to paint it. All very exciting!

But, some how I deleted the before pictures and all I have left is the after :(

So, here is our lamp that we finally decided to put in the living room on the entertainment stand! woohoo!! I can cross an item off on my list!!

We purchased this lamp for only $10 at Goodwill. It had a really ugly bird on it with all these flowers. Very '70s.

Off to Lowe's we went, cause it's right across the street and super awesome! Every trip I take there I have to walk through the lumber section because the smell reminds me of my dad <3

We purchased a can of Valspar spray paint in Stone. The stuff, is pretty amazing!  It came out like little flakes of stone and then it adhered to the lamp like mud. Interesting stuff.

We sprayed only two coats of it, because well, our "thin" coats are more than generous coats! We like to be thorough and make sure everything is hit! The only problem we had was around the base. Realizing after the fact that the base comes off, we'll need to go back and take it off to the bottom again.

But, after a $20 lapshade, I think we did pretty well with our $30 lamp!! LOVE IT!

<3

lets take a tour!

It's that nice Fall weather that makes me want to get up and moving! I love the crisp air and the smells that fill you up. The apples and wine. The comfort food and cozy sweaters.

I especially love the memories I have of fall. My mom decorating the house is definitely one of them! She has an eye for decorating and is always changing things up. We may pick on her, but it's more of an envy of mine that she just "knew" how things should look and would just throw things together.

Where right now, we are in the apartment and things get a little cramped, I try and make it as much as home as I can. It can be challenging between a budget and apartment living. But, it's also fun to try different things and see what we can come up with!

I'd like to share those things with you and just take a little walk through our Fall flavored home!

 I can't wait to tell you something super exciting about one of the throw pillows we bought!

The yellow and white swirled one we got at Pottery Barn at a super steal! The pillow inserts end up being a little more than the covers, because the covers are changeable. So, even though the insert was still $26, we got the cover on clearance for $9!! I was so excited!

Of course, we needed another pillow to go with it. So, we went to Home Goods (of all places) and I found this rectangle shaped on. At first glance it looks like a postcard and you can't really make out the words.

BUT, at second (or third) glance you may see what I saw the second I picked up the pillow!

 

Brockton, MA!? NO WAY!

At $16.99 for this one, I knew it was meant to be with an address like this!

 

 

 

We of course had to do the pumpkin thing! I'm a little saddened by the fact that the one on the right, has a droopy face :( It didn't look like that when we first carved. It's getting really weepy and mushy! I just took this last night!!

 

 

This is what they looked like the night we carved them. From the left:

Grayson and Mine, Shane's, Shane's Dad (Papi) and Shane's Mom's (Mami)

We had a great time with these!



Thank you for coming to visit! Hope you enjoyed your stay! :)

Peace and <3!

vintage kitchen

Do you all remember those awesome brass bundt and fish shaped pans that you'd see hanging in older kitchens? Yeah, I remember them too, and honestly, I remember hating them more than anything.

I started thinking of them recently, because we desperately needed some life brought to our little kitchen that could!

I bought a "swag" at Home Goods about a month ago, so that is hanging on the wall above our stove.

I knew that there needed to be something on either side of it. "But, what" I asked!? And, then, for some strange reason, I thought of those darn bundt pans. Really!? I couldn't image them here, but then again it was like they would look perfect there at the same time.

There were some ideas that I knew would look neat, but not so much in our kitchen

 

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Wishing that I had enough room like in the last photo here, I had to settle do something similar to the first one! But, I drew inspiration from enough enough to know that I really wanted to hang pans just like these!

 

I googled some places and searched on Etsy with real no luck in finding any that I liked or were within our price range. I mean, they may work for our little gallery kitchen here, but in the future; not so certain.

 

One day we wondered into Goodwill looking for a lamp (which we found one by the way!! that'll be for another post!) I went to the kitchen section just to pursuse the shelves, when all of a sudden I saw a bunch of bundt pans! I was so excited!! We purchased 4 of them at a wopping $2 a piece and we were off!

This was them yesterday morning before Shane hung them up.

All nice and clean!

 

 

And here they are in their new home!

 

We may at some point paint the others, the red one right now is the closet to being a matte finish. I love that one! I think they look so lovely up there on the wall! The style of them really fit in this kitchen! And, my style I guess changes depending on the room! :D

 

Have you ever purchase something that you disliked for years and then found yourself working it somehow into your own decor!?

 

<3 Peace and LOVE!

photo shop

We are so excited to introduce to you the newest addition to our lives: FlashyPics!

FlashyPics is the name of the photography company we started! It's not so much photography services, but more about the photos themselves. But, who knows, it may evolve into more!

The photos are posted and for sale at Etsy.com. Etsy is an online store that sells everything homemade, vintage, photos, furniture, and so much more! I've loved the store for years and always dreamed that one day I would have something to sell on there. And, now I do!

Take a look at the shop! Check back often as I still have plenty of prints, just not enough time in the day to edit them all! :)

Just so you know: Shane and I have decided that it doesn't really matter to us how took the pictures. So, we don't really say which ones were taken by me or taken by him. It's mainly about doing something that we enjoy and then sharing it with everyone else. We have so much fun just walking around and exploring different places. Then, when we feel it's something spectacular, we take a shot of it!

Looking forward to continue sharing our work with you all!!

<3!! Kristin :)