My favorite Season !

With my favorite season just around the corner I have become enthralled with Fall, it's all I can think about. I have a list a mile long of projects to work on and home decor to make for the season. I have even started to decorate our home . I  am going to have a million projects to show you this year and I can't wait!

1 year already !

This Past Saturday marked Ryan and I's first year of marriage ! I can't believe a year has already gone by ! 
I love you Ryan here is to many more years together !

Class

Last week I stepped way out of my comfort zone and took a yoga class. It is something I have wanted to do for the last 10 years or so, but never had the guts to go.  I loved  it ! After my first class I knew it would be something I would keep up on. I felt very calm and at peace with everything when I walked out of class. I kept the feeling going by coming home and making some Chamomile tea and running a nice hot bath. 

Yesterday I kept looking at the clock and counting down how many hours I had until class. Last night she pushed our limits a little more . That was an experience . Some of it was harder than I thought it would be . But to know that I can do it is an awsome feeling .
 
I didn't get the chance to try to carry my clam and peaceful mind through  the night like I had hoped to . Once I got home I cooked dinner, fed the dogs, and waited for Ryan to get home. But the funny thing is I was still calm and peaceful.  It is a way of being . I can't wait till next Monday night :)

Living room

Sorry I have been really busy with this:

Do you see this old lady nasty discolored wallpaper? I mean really did you see it? It was in pretty sad shape ! I really wanted to re-do this room because 1.) I knew it would not cost much. and 2.) It is the first impression people have of our home and that wallpaper was not cutting it . 

Yikes  ! Wallpaper was EVERYWHERE ! And Mr. Apollo thought it was fun to grab wallpaper and rip it into teeny tiny little shreds .



One of the many reasons I fell in love  with our house was all of the wonderful woodwork. I love it and it is in wonderful condition! When we started thinking about re-doing the living room I knew that I wanted the wood to stand out. So we picked a nice light gray.  To really help pop all the wood work out. And boy does it!!!! I am over the moon with the new look of our living room !

Someday the curtains will be different and we are planning on ripping out the carpet. But it is way better than it was. We are taking it one thing at a time ;) 

-To really see the "true" wall color look above the door frame. :)

Not what I was hoping for .

Our upstairs hallway has been an on again off again project since * cough cough * November . ( I can't believe I just told you that ! ) But that's the truth !

I am a huge fan of hardwood flooring I LOVE IT !  My Grandparents have an old farm house and  they had hardwood flooring on their hallway and stairs . I think that's where I first fell in love with it. The way it feels cool on your feet the way it creaks and squeaks when you walk on it. So my eventual goal for our home is to have as much hardwood flooring as possible. When we bought our home we peeked under the carpet down stairs to see beautiful hardwood flooring !!! So thinking it was Thruout our entire home I decided to rip off all the  carpet on the stairs and hallway. Which brings me to my point.

Imagine my shock and horror to see this in our hallway :

Yep , that's linoleum right smack in the middle of our hallway upstairs . After peeking in the computer room and our bedroom ( they are still covered in carpet ) Our upstairs does not have any hardwood at all . It is all linoleum and Formica flooring . I have been crushed for days .

Apollo

Apollo is our Little er.... Big puppy  . He was supposed to be our little lap dog. We were told he is a wiener dog / beagle mix . But the bigger he gets the more I think he is some other mix.

Table

When we bought our home I  found this at Goodwill for $9.00 ! We have a lot of really nice dark wood in our house so it didn't fit in too well. So with a few coats of black paint it fits in a lot better ! 
Before:

After: