HomeGood Goodies!

Since I have been going to school at UofL and driving the 45 minute drive to and fro, I often find myself veering off at the Hurstbourne Exit coming home and finding my way to HomeGoods.  Sometimes I get lucky, sometimes I don't.  This past time at Homegoods, I found great deals and I thought I would share

These French lamps are very cute!  They have a great price on them too, I think around $35.00

I loved this rug!  The only thing that held me back from buying it was the size.  Its an odd size of 3'x4'11'' or something around that.

This sisal rug was only $79!!!!!!!  

I'm starting to see my guest room come together....

I LOVE FOREVER 21!!!!!

I was going to wait to do this post, but I just got on the website and I am so excited about some of these items!!!! You can't get much better than these deals!

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This is SUCH a cute outfit!!!!!  Click here

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Click here.  I definitely would wear this with skinny jeans... maybe some you stick figures out there could pull it off as a dress, but I think it would be cuter with something underneath

I also think this would be cute over white skinny jeans with some gold jewelry.  Click here.

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Hmmmmm..... maybe not everything at Forever 21 is adorable???????

Goodwill/Salvation Army Finds

I had a couple of requests to show some of my "finds" from my weekly stops at Goodwills across Louisville.  Some may think I'm crazy, but man nothing beats a cute chair for under $30!!!!  All the chair needs is good bones, the fabric can be changed!  I haven't just found chairs, I find little odds and ends that I stick here an there throughout the house... 

This is my favorite find!  It has gorgeous crewel fabric that is in great shape!  I have to give credit to my mother for finding this one for me!

I love the fabric on this one also, but it really needs to be changed.  It has a couple of worn spots and needs to have a new coat of paint.  I think I may stick with similar colors because it adds such of pop of color in my kitchen nook.

This is my least favorite, but I think when I get some different fabric and maybe get rid of the tufting it may have something underneath all that... I'll post pics when I'm done with this chair.

This is a cute little mirror that I spray painted white.  It was an awful green when I bought it, this mirror is very similar to mirror that anthropologie had a couple of years back.

My mother had to talk me into this little gadget.  I thought it was cute, but I didn't really know what it did and I just thought it was ok.  Now I love it! I find them in antique stores all the time for $100 or more!  This gadget keeps tea warm and then serves it out through the spout.  I plan on getting this monogrammed with a big "H"!

I love this little table!  I fits perfectly with my couch.  I also have to thank my mom for finding this.

Thats about it for now... more to come as I find them :)

Nursery Cornice Boards

The past couple days I have been in sunny Tampa, FL visiting some of my husband's family.  One of his sister's is pregnant and due in May!!! We decided to do some adorable cornice boards in her nursery and they turned out absolutely gorgeous!

We found really cute fabric at our local fabric store Making Ends Meet. The polka dots were perfect for the color of the bedroom and the bedding that she purchased from Pottery Barn Kids

Isn't is cute!!!!!  She had the great idea of buying two extra pillow shams that had the same two birds on them as above. She thought it would be cute to cut them out and put them on the cornice boards!  I thought this was a great idea and a great way to make the boards look very custom!  

She also wanted baby Ella's initial on the cornice boards, so she was able to do an "E" in chocolate brown on the fabric and then have the birds cut out and sewn on either side of the "E"

The fabric came out looking like this

How stinking cute is that!!!!!!  I was blown away how great the fabric turned out!

After doing some work....

and some pinning....

and some more hard work, we got a finished product!

and here is one board hung!

Can't get much cuter than that folks :)  She has ordered two white dupioni silk curtains that have a ruffle down each side of them and we are going to stick them under the cornice board on either side of the window.  Check back to see the final product!

If anyone is interested in having boards made for their own home, contact me at Hannah_Hays@yahoo.com for prices!

Guest Room

I ran across this image on cocokelley and thought it was too cute not to share.

*minus the butterfly fabric... 

I think this would be adorable in a guest room!  The great thing about this room is you can definitely do it on the cheap.  the head boards could be easily homemade, the roman shades are an easy at home project, and the pillows could also be made at home.  

It would be very easy to find a lamp similar to the one shown here at HomeGoods!  The table shown in the picture could really be substituted with any cute little table that wasn't to bulky.  

For the rug, I think I would put a sisal or a seagrass down instead of that modern print.  Here are some great deals on overstock.com for sisals/seagrass rugs.

These are on overstock and are priced at $155.99 for a 8'x10'.  Click here

Here is a sisal rug also found on overstock.com.  This rug is also an 8'x 10'.  Click here. 

Just for fun... here are some great deals I found on overstock

Bloomery rug for $111.99. Click here

$189.99 Click here.  Below is a picture of a very similar chandelier from pottery barn priced quite a bit higher than this one.

$349.00!!!

Picture light $50.99.  Click here.  I love these over any great painting or nice print.

Well thats it for now... I'm currently sitting in the Birmingham Airport waiting for my flight to Tampa Special thanks to Birmingham airport for having free wireless, I'm glad I had something to keep me entertained :)

Cheap Spring Finds

Since Kentucky is covered in snow, I have had all the time in the world to browse the internet for way longer than I should!  I am starting to think about spring shopping, but not the kind of shopping that will empty a bank account!  Here are some cute finds for under $50!!!!

Yellow Tunic only $22.80.  Click here

Forever 21 Nautical Dress $22.80.  Click here

Urban Outfitters $48.00.  Click here

JCrew Long sleeve $24.99.  Click here

Forever 21 Painted dress $22.80.  Click here

(not quite sure about this dress yet, I don't like the belt, but I love the colors and shape... any suggestions?

Anthropologie Moon Tank $39.95.  Click here

The next two are over $50 but are worth it!

Anthropologie Tank:  $78.00.  Click here.

Lou Lou Blouse from Jcrew $59.99.  Click here.  

Check out Little green notebook!

I wanted to share with you all a blog that I check pretty much 6 times a day!  I always look forward to what she is going to put on her blog next and she has the GREATEST ideas!  Today she has a tutorial about how to make a skirt for a sink with exposed plumbing!  This is so ideal for me, because this old house has many sinks with exposed plumbing!  Check out her tutorial here!

Here is her finished product!!!

Eddie Ross at EddieRoss.com did a similar project and here is his finished product:

Eddie did this whole skirted sink with towels from the DOLLAR STORE!!!!!!  This is my next project and I'm going to mimic Eddie, my bathroom has the same black and white tiled floor.. lets just see if I can only make it look as good as his ;)

Here are some more skirted tables for inspiration!

The Study

My school semester just started in January and I already feel that its dragging!  I need a little boost to help me conquer all the papers/exams that I have on my list to do... I think decorating my study would be the perfect thing to turn this procrastinator into one little book worm ;)

Here is my plan....

To start off, I would paint the whole entire room this emerald green.  This isn't the exact color I picked out but it's in this color family.  I would even add some wainscoting like I did at the old house..

I want to put down this rug....

and I want to put this chair in there.....

and I would love to put a lamp such as this to make it look like a study

and I would LOVE a wall of bookshelves such as this...

all painted in that emerald green by the way....

A couple of these sitting around....

and this hanging from the ceiling....

a girl can dream right?