Molly's Big Girl Room Inspiration

Since I found out I was pregnant, we've been trying to decide what to do about new furniture. Should we get Molly new furniture or get the baby new stuff?

Molly's bed converts to a full size bed.  I'm currently thinking that we will just get the baby new furniture and let Miss Molly keep her stuff and grow up with it. 

I've also been trying to think about whyat I want her "big girl" room to look like. I want something that is going to grow up with her, at least until she becomes and teenager and hates everything that I've done for her...ever....yea, can't wait till that day. since I'm planning on showing you her room tomorrow I'll remind you of what it looked like at the other house.....

It looks much the same now.

Anyway, I'm thinking about things to do.  I've found a bedding set from Land of Nod that I really like but I'm wondering if it's too....I'm not sure.  I'm wondering if it's right for Miss Molly?  What do you think?  Here's the inspiration board I made today for Miss Molly's Big Girl Bedroom.   What do you think?  Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks, Sara

Home Tour: Master Bedroom

Today is the time to show you my master bedroom.  I love my bedroom.  Justin and I have been slowly working on our room since we moved in. 

Welcome to our bedroom.  A few things to point out: 1. the door goes to the back patio.  I love having that door BUT I don't much like the door itself.  We are planning on replacing the door this summer with a sliding one.  Maybe one of these days, we will have a hot tub right outside to go and relax in. :)

2. The rug is a custom capret piece from a flooring store in Ozark.  We were able to give them measurments and they had a piece edged so it's now a rug.  I love it!  It makes all the difference in the world.  I love our hardwood floors but they made our bedroom feel kinda cold.  The rug warms it up so much. 

3. The mirror on the far right wall is where our tv will hang.  (see below)

The ceiling is the great and wonderful popcorn, but hopefully we will be fixing that this summer too.  I love the insert part though.  We replaced the fan.  The old one was on a remote and didn't work so well...it made the room dark.  This one is so much better!

Our furniture was the first thing that Justin and I bought as a married couple.  It's great furniture and will last us forever.  Hopefully, we will be able to pass it down to kids or grandkids.  

The dresser sits on my side of the bed, right next to my hamper. 

 

I made the "F" wall hanging from a pinterest idea.  I bought an oval frame and took the "guts" out of it, including the glass.  Then I covered the guts minus the glass with a piece of burlap.  Then I hot glued the "F" to the burlap.  All of the parts came from Hobby Lobby and cost me a total of $20 to make.  I love the piece.  It fits really well with the color scheme in our room. 

The bedding came from Dillards a couple of years ago.  Justin and I struggled with finding a bedding set that he and both liked.  We've had a couple of quilts but none have worked until this one.  We got it on sale for 75% off.  AWESOME!  It will work until it doesn't.  :)

The bedside tables are different from one another. Justin's (the right)

Mine is more of a nightstand.  It has one drawer (obviously).  I found our lamps at target for $35 each.  The worked well on the other house.  One of these days, I'd like to get larger lamps.  (Maybe a couple of pictures to hang above them)

Justin's is more of a smaller chest.  He's got all kinds of storage in the room.  



This door goes into our bathroom (which you see on Thursday).  Where the mirror is hanging is where the tv is going to hang.  There is a cable hook-up right behind it.  Can't wait to get that fixed.  The mirror will move to the space right above the vanity. That picture frame will moved to the wall next to the door. (on the left side of the vanity)  The vanity was my great aunt's.  There is stool that goes under it but right now it's acting as stool in the bathroom.  I don't really use the vanity.  My plan is to organize it with my perfume and maybe jewerly box.  (that's sitting on the right side of the dresser right now)

Another view of the vanity.  It's a very nice peice I just don't want to sit there and get ready.  Let's be honest....I sit in the bathroom floor and get ready for work.  Yea I sure do. 





 You have already seen a little bit of my closet. It was custom built and installed by our awesome carpenter Chance Thurmond.  I designed it....I kinda knew what I wanted and I don't think I would change much if I got to do it over again.  The right side is my side.  It includes dresser space, the shelves for baskets and the double hanging space.  Oh and my shoe rack....:)  LOVE IT!

It's kinda messy right now but that's how it usually stays.  I'm not going to clean it extra good just so I can look better...so here it is.  Let's be honest here, I have too many clothes.  So many actually, when I get done with this, I'm heading to clean it out.  I won't be able to wear most of these clothes until next year (or maybe longer) anyway....so I'm going to pack it away to make room for maternity (blah!) clothes. 

The baskets hold my unmentionables.  The top two are under garments.  The middle holds my leggings and the bottom two are dress socks and athletic socks.  The very top shelf is where I store my purses.  I need to figure out a better way to organize them...right now, they are kinda thrown up there haphazardly.  Any suggestions?  My Pj bottoms and sweatshirts are stuffed into the shelves without baskets.  I'm not sure what to do with those things... maybe pack them away under my bed for summer....on the list of thigns to take care of this summer.

Since I'm going to be living in dresses this summer b/c I don't want to buy summer maternity clothes (but I'm going to have to) I have quite a few dresses.  It's kinda packed right now. 

 And of course, my show rack.  I love it.  It's full of course.  The bottom shelf is not angled so it's the perfect space for my flipfloppy collection. 



And that's my master bedroom.  Hope you enjoyed it.  I love it.  It's homey to us and it works.  Have a great day!  Enjoy the weather! 

God Bless!

Sara

Home Tour: Living Room

Oh y'all thought I meant last week?  Sorry... :) 

This week I will be hosting a tour of my home.  We moved into this home in Ozark in August of 2011.  We were super excited to get ourselves moved to Ozark.  (me especially)  It cut my drive to work and to Molly's daycare down by 25 minutes.  I am 5 minutes from the high school and Justin is 10 minutes (without traffic) to work.  There is so much we still wanna do but here are the living spaces in their current state.

NOTE: these pics were taken with my iphone b/c I can't find the SLR.  Sorry about the quality. 

This is what I call our "living room".  It's more formal.  I love the fireplace...although I would like to put in a gas log insert.  I'm not big on actually burning wood in the fireplace.  Too much mess and smoky smell. 

The rug was the one that was in our living room at our old house. Before that, it had been in our bedroom. We had a custom rug made for our current master bed.  I'm super excited to show you that tomorrow!! 

There's not much seating in here but one of these days I hope to get a couple of chairs that can add some more. 

The coffee table and side tables were my grandparents that they have loaned us.  I LOVE THEM.....they are antiques and still in great shape. 

The couch table behind the couch I have been asking my mom to borrow FOREVER!  The lamps are the famous monkey lamps that we couldn't give away at a yard sale...but they fit really well in our space.

The couch table.  Excuse the ugly cords.  You can't see them unless you are standing in the very corner of the room.

 

A close-up of the the monkey lamps.  I think they are awesome.  

We put the DVD/VHS movie cabinet in the corner with kinda of the same set-up as we had in the other house.  It fits well there I think.  It's a great storage unit.  It was a piece of my childhood furniture that we painted and gave new hardware.



Our bedroom is smaller in this house than it was in the old one so we had to do some creative furniture placement.  The tv cabinet actually belongs with our bedroom furniture.  It fits well here and provides a place to put our living room tv.  This means of course that we don't have a tv in our bedroom but we will be fixing that problem really soon....like tonight!

Our current mantel set up.  The mantel is MASSIVE!  I love my bouquet of flowers but that's really it.  I created the bouquet from flowers from Hobby Lobby (1/2 off of course)

The mantel is still set up for the fall and winter.  I'd like to redo it for the summer but I have ZERO inpspiration right now...maybe I'll get a bout when I begin "nesting".  

This is our family room or "den" as I call it.  This is the addition to the original house.  They added on in 2008 and gained a living space, a full bath, and 2 "bedrooms".  One acts as our office b/c it's really pretty small. 

There are BIG changes coming to this room over the next couple of months ( I hope).  First: The glider will be making its way to the baby's room.  That's one thing that I have decided needs to be different from Miss Molly's babyhood.  In it's place, I'd like to put a cuddler.  If you don't know what that is, it's like an x-large recliner.  Smaller than a loveseat but bigger than a normal recliner. 

The TV was a present to ourselves b/c our big screen went kuput.  (thank the good Lord :)) It's 60 inches of heaven.  I LOVE it.  It's amazing!  Ok, I'm done. Moving on....

I've got big plans for this wall....currently, it's just plain white and I hate it.  I'd like to paint it dark blue and make it a hodge podge of frames and trinkets and such.  I've seen lots of ideas on pinterest.  If you're on pinterest, you can go here to follow me. 

The table is our old dinner table.  We didn't want to get rid of it.  This room is big we were able to it in here and provide some extra eating places for when we host parties or family get togethers. 

Molly's table is the little white one.  She loves sitting there and coloring or eating.  My parents got it at Ikea in Dallas.  It's handy to have when the neices come over. 

Another shot of the big empty wall....if you have any grand ideas, please let me know.  You can see off to the right is the dining room and kitchen. 

Molly's toys took up the space under the window until last week.  Mommy decided that it was getting a little out of control so I moved them to her room.  Alls that's left is her books, which have found a temporary home in the very corner.  I'm planning on creating a "reading space" for her this summer.  

 The windows behind the couch look out onto the screened in porch. (my favorite room) There are no curtains up there for a few reasons: 1. curtains are expensive, 2. we kinda like having that outdoor connection, 3. I'm not sure what the color scheme is going to be in this room so I'm waiting. 

 There you have it.  That's our two living spaces.  Tomorrow, I'll show you my master bedroom. Hope you have a great week! 

God Bless!
Sara



Memorial Day weekend

I've spent the last couple of nights at my parents cabin down on the White River in Calico Rock, Ar. It's so peaceful down here.

Justin went with our friends to the lake. Molly and I came down here with my parents to a family reunion.

We are going home today and hopefully Justin and I are going to go buy a tv for the bedroom. Yay!!

Super excited about the home tour that starts tomorrow! Probably need to go home and clean.... Lol!

Hope you and yours are having a good weekend!

15.5 Weeks

So through all my blog/computer work/not house work today...I've failed to discuss how this pregnancy has actually been going...

AWFUL, HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE....yea, that bad....fo' reals.

That's actually how I knew I was preggo.  Here's the story.

I woke up on March 9th and felt like shit...excuse my language but you need to understand how bad I felt.  I was sick to my tummy, headache, etc. Sitting in my bathroom floor getting ready for work...no I didn't feel THAT bad, that's just where I get ready.  Don't judge me bruh. 

Anyways, I got to thinking...."What is today's date? No way!"  I asked Justin and told him I was about a week late.  Yea...busy week.  He totally knew why I was asking...or maybe not.  Anywhoo, I got home from work and took 2 tests.   Yea, both postive.  Neat...In all honesty, I cried....for two days. 

Multiple reasons....ones that I don't want to rehash.  So, I was preggo.  Just about 6 months in advance....I'm actually coaching basketball next year, despite the fact that I'm due on our first game day...yea....good timing Sara.

No pics yet...maybe later....

Baby #2 Survey:

•How far along? 15.5 Weeks
•Total weight gain: 5 lbs. (as of a week ago tomorrow)
•Maternity clothes? No, and I'm going to try and get through all of the summer in dresses and bigger clothes...no maternity crap.  The fall might be a litter different.
•Stretch marks? No...taking precautions this time though.
•Sleep: Not too bad. Only waking up once to pee.

•Best moment this week: Getting out of school and getting to spend the first two days of summer with the best behaved little girl EVER!
•Miss Anything? Don't judge me...beer. Yea, I miss beer.  And am actually craving it. 
•Movement: Flutters but not much
•Food cravings: French fries and ice cream...much like Molly girl
•Food aversions: Not anymore...it was anything sweet in the first few weeks.
•Gender: find out June 12th.

•Labor Signs: of course not.
•Symptoms: Horrible headache...but am so glad I'm over the sickness. 
•Belly Button in or out? In.

•Wedding rings on or off? On.

•Looking forward to: the first teacher/kids playdate tomorrow mornin' at Sequiota park.  
More to come later.  Kisses!

Baby #2....inspiration

With Molly, I started planning the nursery, names etc right about this time.  We find out June 12th what this baby's gender is....I can't wait. 

Obviously, I want a healthy baby but after that I would like to have a boy....mainly b/c I want to use my boy's name....it's pretty much non-negotiable. 

A refresher: Molly is named after my mom's dad's mom...Mollie Lucy was her name.  Molly's middle name is Abigail.  Justin's mom's middle name is Gale...so both names are a play on both mom's families.  Molly Abigail came to us in the weeks after we found out Molly was going to be a girl....but I digress. 

Looking back at the post I linked above, the boys' name was not on that list....but neither was Molly or Abigail.  Figures. 

My boys' name is Marshall Austin.  Again, non-negotiable.  Justin didn't really even have a say....ooops, my bad....it would make more sense if we named him Steven.  Both our dad's names are Steve.  And don't get my wrong, I like Steve...but that would mean I couldn't use Marshall Austin...and I REALLY like it.  Let me explain......

Marshall is my dad's dad's dad's middle name...my great-granddad's name on my dad's side. His name was Ray.  From the time I can remember, my dad has talked about his granddad Ray.  I'm a Perryman (my maiden name).  My family is very important to me.  What a better way to celebrate my family than by naming my son after the Patriarch of the family?  Right? 

Austin is Justin's dad's dad's name...Justin's granddad's name on his dad's side...  again, patriarch of the Floyd (my married name) family.  I really did put a lot of thought into the name.  AND I LOVE IT.  

But I know, that it's very possible that this baby might be a girl.  And I'm perfectly happy with that as well.  Girls are amazing.  Molly has been amazing.  The teenage years might be rough but hey...nothing that a beer won't cure.  (of course, I kid...maybe)

Anywhoo....I do have name picked out for a girl too.....I love it equally as much.  The only thing is, only part is a family name....I think (but I'm determined to find out otherwise)

My girls' name is Maggie Erin.  Yes, I love it too. 

Erin is my grandmother's (on my dad's side...my dad's mom) mother's middle name.  Her whole name was Anna Erin (which I LOVE but that would be weird, right?)

Maggie just kinda came to me...actually it came from my mom.  So, we would have Maggs and Molls.  I kinda love it.

Anyway...I've started thinking about the nursery too.  You will see the room (which is a guest room/catch-all now) next week. (Home tour)

I love the orange/aqua/brown or grey color scheme.  I'm also TOTALLY in love with the elephant hamper....so I'm thinking maybe an animal thing....this would be good for a boy.  I'm not sure about a girl...I'll work on it tomorrow.  (maybe, I'm babysitting my neice tomorrow)
I'm actually thinking orange/hotpink/and white.  I'm not sure though. 

Of course, I'm also thinking about Molly's "big girl" bedroom.  We will be redoing her room too.  I think I have bedding picked out already.  We'll see.....

God Bless!

Our new home

In August, Justin, Molly and I moved from north Springfield to a house in my hometown, Ozark.  I teach at the high school here and Molly's school in in the downtown area. (maybe one of these days, I'll take you on a tour).

If you remember, (it's been so long), we put our house in Springfield on the market in late May (actually around this time).  It was on the market about 2 months and was bought by an older couple from Arizona in July.  We were Wisconsin on vacation with my family, at the airplane show in Oshkosh, when we got word that an offer had been made.  It was a few hundred less than what we had agreed our bottom line was, but since we had already bought our new house (and didn't want the stress of owning two) we took the deal.  We faxed the papers from a campground (funny huh) and in the middle of August said goodbye to the house we came home to the night we got married, and the house we brought Molly home to. I loved that house but not the location. 

I hate moving.  When I was younger, we moved a lot.  I wasn't an army brat but my dad's job was up in the air and eventually, we moved to Ozark...but I digress...anyways....I hate moving.  See the reasons below.

Exhibit A: this came out of the attic

We were able to find some hidden treasures though....Exhibit B

 Exhibit C: this bad boy has ridden around in my car for the past 10 months...kinda a good luck charm.  I keep meaning to take it to my classroom...but for some reason, I think it might be inappropriate.  LOL

Exhibit D: Hilarious...this will make a great gag gift when I figure out the right person to give it to.

 My grandparents helped pack the kitchen.....they are excellent packers. Thanks!

The New House: I found the new house on the interenet on a Monday night in July. I loved the pictures online and Justin called our realtor to go look at it. We went and looked at the house on Wednesday. At that point, it had been on the market for 4 days!


I loved it instantly. I felt like I had come home. It's 2600 sq. feet with 4 bedrooms, + a smaller room (the office), 3 1/2 baths, 2 living spaces, remodled kitchen and master bath, screened in porch, 3 car garage (2 cars + a workshops area), and 3.7 acres. It has ALMOST everything we were looking for, with the exception of a couple of things....1. split bedrooms 2. it is on propane and has a septic tank (EWWWW, btw)

We went and looked at it again on Thursday and put on offer in thinking of course, they would counter.....they didn't!!! The family was moving to Colorado and needed out of it. We closed on August 16, 2012 and for a couple of weeks, were the owners of two houses.

We moved in on August 20, 2012.

We did make some changes right off the bat...

1. We redid a couple of closets: the master and what will be the baby's room. Molly's closet was fine so we left it.

2. We painted our bedroom

3. We had to remove a tv mount from above the fireplace and repair the drywall (yea, they didn't want the 55 inch tv to fall) and painted.

I'm going to show you snipits because I plan on doing a home tour next week....I know, I'm back to blogging for reals yo.

Welcome home Floyd family.

 

I love our front door.  I've always wanted a red door.  Plus, the porch area makes it feel more homey. 

Formal living room: pre-bye, bye tv mount.

And after the fix.  Our carpenter is a great guy (the husband of my hair dresser who is also great).  He's also the one who out in our closets.  The mantel does not look like that now...but the updated look to come later.

Kitchen from the front door

Kitchen...I LOVE my kitchen....granite counters (which I'm not a huge fan of, but I'm not complaining), oak floors, stainless appliances. 

 Kitchen and eat-in dining: there is no formal dining (which we love). We never used it anyways. 

Laundry Room + the half bath: that bathroom needs to be redone.  But it's good right now as a mudroom.

Master bath shower...yea, I know, amazing.

 Our new master closet: I "designed" it. I knew what I wanted. 

 1. Dress space (far right) 2. basket space 3. double bars 4. Shoe racks

This is my side of the closet.

 My shoe racks. I love them!  I just need a wardrobe full of new shoes.  (My closet would look so much better if it was what I pinned on Pinterest)

Justin's side: He wanted 2 full double bars, a few shelves for t-shirts and sweaters and a space for his hamper. 

His side with all his stuff.  His hamper fits great.  I'm not exactly sure what he's got on the top of his side.  Nothing I suspect.  Time to change that I guess...

So, that's our house I guess.  Like I said, I'm going to do a tour next week.  I know these have been done in the past.  Here's MY plan....

Monday: Living Rooms

Tuesday: Master Bedrooms

Wednesday: Kids Bedrooms

Thursday: Bathrooms

Friday: What's left...

Oh it is fun to mention that the VERY first night we spent in our new house, we got toilet papered but a few of my students....scared Justin to death...I totally knew it was going to happen so it wasn't a big deal.  They got us pretty good though (although, they came a cleaned it up the next day)

It's also important to mention that one year ago today, Joplin, MO was hit with the EF-5 tornado that changed lives and mindsets in SW Missouri.  Although we've had other tornados and other weather since then, people will never forget May 22nd in this part of the coutry.  President Obama spoke last night at Joplin's graduation.  Say what you will about our President, we gave an amazing speech and I'm proud of him.  Joplin has a lot of growing to do.  There school system has made some changed this year (that they were forced to make of course) that others in the area (Ozark for one) are also making. Thoughts and prayers go out to Joplin and the family that lost loved ones one year ago today. 


God Bless!

Sara