TABLE ROD CENTERPIECE WEDDING AND PARTY DECORATION IDEAS

Every year (except shoulder surgery year!) for I don't know how long I've headed up the teacher break room at our Vacation Bible School each summer.  They work so hard and love on the kids well, and we try our hardest to spoil them and give them a nice spot to catch their breath each day!  There's always a theme for VBS that we try to keep in mind when decorating the room.  Decorations through the building in all of the halls and classrooms can get pretty elaborate and impressive, but I tend to keep things pretty simple and concentrate on a serving table focal point and something to add a bit of color on the other tables in the room.   This year's theme was "Magnified", so all of the decorations were nature related and BIG (think "Honey I Shrunk the Kids").  When planning with my friends that help me, we thought we'd go with a garden party theme. One of my friends mentioned that we should use a table rod on the serving tables and we went from the......

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ENTRY TABLE STYLING WITH STRIPED PLEATED LAMPSHADES

I'll start pulling out some Fall decor this week and next, but I recently fluffed up my foyer a bit with some new entry table styling and wanted to share with you before the pumpkins come out.  I shopped my house for the most part except for the one thing that made a huge difference... new striped pleated lamp shades!  All through the Summer I've had white lamps and accessories on the dresser, but when thinking about transitioning to Fall I wanted to warm it up a bit.  I haven't had my Tobacco Leaf lamps out in a white so I was ready to use those again.  Here they are as I've always used them- But I recently came across these striped shades and thought they might be perfect to mix with the lamps instead of the white shades!  I'm totally on board with the patterned, pleated shade trend but have not incorporated any into my home yet.  I absolutely love these mixed with my lamps!  It just transforms the entire look.    Green Striped Lampshade ......

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LIFE LATELY: SUMMER RECAP!

Hello friends!  I've missed you and am ready to be regularly sharing blog posts here with you again!  I'll share some home related posts next week, but before jumping back in I thought I'd catch you all up on what's been going on in our family lately with a little Summer recap.  It was a busy one!   I actually need to back way up to late Spring for news from these two that I haven't shared here yet- They up and moved away to Northwest Arkansas!  They're (semi) newlyweds , young, and were ready for a new adventure.  They are both nurses and got new jobs lickety split, Caleb is an ER nurse and Kenzi is a children's PACU (post anesthesia) nurse.  The first pic here is on their first day of their new jobs.  They stayed in an AirBnB for a time there while they looked for a house, and came back and forth to OKC for a bit in between their shifts while they wrapped up some commitments here. They bought the cutest house for their first home outside of......

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WEEKEND SALES TOO GOOD NOT TO SHARE!

Hello everyone!  I've been taking a break from the blog most of the summer.  I'll be getting back at it soon, but we're currently in the car en route to our favorite mountain getaway spot .  As I'm riding I came across a couple of really cute sales that I knew I had to pop in and share with my friends, so here's what I found! Hi! 👋 More about t his $10 dress below, other items shown linked here .    First, Rifle Paper Co. is having a summer sidewalk sale with up to 70% off.  I grabbed several things to stock my gift stash, and just maybe a thing or two to enjoy myself! Several things I picked sold out before I could share with you, so grab anything you might like before it does too.  JavaScript is currently disabled in this browser. Reactivate it to view this content.  Also, Anthropologie is offering an extra 40% off of their already on sale section this weekend.  I've purchased several things from their last few extra off sales, and am ......

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