It's time to Re-arrange things a bit.

It's a new year and it's time for a little change of the furniture around my home. Actually anytime is a good excuse to change things up a bit. :) I'm constantly changing things, moving stuff, and of course painting or sewing something to change it up a bit and give it a new fresh look.

I had recently moved the hutch out of my kitchen space and into my dining room but haven't found the right furniture piece to put in it's place.

Here's the piece of furniture I put in place of my hutch and incase your wondering it's from IKEA and they still make this cabinet but not in yellow. :(  Here's the link to the one Ikea still makes: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00180548/ 
I love the yellow and it brings a lot of color to the space but it wasn't the right thing for this spot. So away it went yesterday, up the stairs to the loft where the kiddo's and I hangout, read our books, magazine's and just sit and chat. I had an empty spot in the loft because I recently took the tv out and transported it to my room. Which is now a new project I created for myself but that will half to wait for another day.  *note: The little burlap sacks that spell out JOY are from a friends shop Hydrangea Hippo at Crafted, in Long Beach.

Here's the furniture piece and goodies that I replaced the yellow cabinet with. The framed piece is a chalk/bulletin board I'm able to write on it with chalk as well as pin things to it. Love that!
I think this piece gives the area more space then the hutch or yellow cabinet did and the colors flow better which you'll see in the pics below.

*Side note: This antique cabinet belonged to my dad's Aunt until I was lucky enough to have it for my home. Years ago I added the wood medallions and painted it out white because really, pretty much every piece of furniture in my home is white. That way when I move things around it will always match! :)

The shift keys where purchased some time last year from a cute little Etsy shop.

Love all things that have two do with little birdies so when I spotted these two little cuties at Tai Pan this Christmas season I had to get them. The corks are saved from special occasions my husband and I have celebrated over the years.

It's a pretty neutral pallete I have in our family room so I'm sure you can see why the yellow may have been a bit to much color! :) I'm still on the look out for the perfect area rug for this space since the hardwood floors I'm dreaming of will half to wait a bit.

I definitely think the colors flow much better through to the kitchen area.

Now a little view from the kitchen through the family room and onto my work space which is my office, creating area, and scrapbooking room all in one. The two matching lights in my work space are semi new items that I recently bought from IKEA, I just love when Ikea changes things up a bit. LOVE them!!!

*I'll share pis of loft where the yellow IKEA cabinet ended up just as soon as I find or make a cute valance for the window in the loft. Always something fun to do! :)

Thanks for stopping by. :)

For The LOVE of Pillows...

Hi, just wanted to share a few of my new pillows with you and some I've had for awhile. I'm obsessed with having pillows everywhere in my house and if your looking for a place to sit or sleep, well the odds are your going to need to move some pillows, because they babies are just to look pretty! :)

My black and white toile has been with me for a while and is a favorite from a wonderful antique store, blue pillow with birdie and rosette is from Target, love it!

New white pillow with ruffles and a stitched black edge on the ruffle, deal of a century and it was found at Marshall's!!! Then the black and white striped pillow hidden in the back corner is a favorite from Ikea. From big $$$ pillows to out right deals!!!

Black & white gingham pillow purchased years ago from Pottery Barn, NEW large blue fluffy ruffle pillow Kirkland Home.

A little mixture of Target, Ikea and Pottery Barn (good luck finding a place to sit on this bench, but it sure looks pretty)!

The New grey embroidered pattern pillow in this picture is my New FAVORITE and it's from the Amy Butler bedroom collection. The white with the yellow rosettes are Target and the other two I've had for a while that i can't even remember where I got them (sorry).

Then I have these 13 babies (PILLOWS) on my bed that I make everyday, (well, almost everyday :) you can't actually see all of them in this pick, but trust me it's 13 and I hear about how many we need to remove from the bed many of nights! LOL... Especially since we only sleep with 2 each. :)

The 3 large pillows midway back are from the Shabby Chic collection from Target, yes, I love Target, whats not to LOVE! :) The cream with the gorgeous ruffles around the edge of the pillows are from Anthropologie and where and extra special birthday gift from one of my besties. The front greyish/ blue with the ribbon embroidered flowers ( which for some reason show in this pic way darker then they actually are) are from a little country flea Market.

Well, thats it, a few of my favorite pillows. :)

Tell next time,

tammy i

Re-purpose your items into something NEW!

Changing the colors in my home decor and needing to change the colors I had on pictures that were on the walls. No need to buy something new, I decided I would try and repurpose them into something great.

I started by going through some of my favorite pieces of scrap papers and sorting them by the color scheme I was looking for. Then arranged them into a similar pattern, inked all the edges of the paper, and then mod podged the paper. That was it and now I have new pretty matching pieces to display in my family room, used up some scraps and repurposed some old pictures.

I just love when a plan comes together.

Here are a few of the up close pics and I just love the the little sayings that are on the paper and those papers are from the Donna Salazar Paper line along with the music note paper and several other pretty papers. To see the exact papers I used from Donna's paper line you can visit my Scrapbook.com page.

Thanks for visiting,

tammy i

Big changes made in my kitchen nook area...

I've been a buzzy little bee just painting and re-arranging tell I got my kitchen nook area just the way I wanted it. My new kitchen color is from Martha Stewart Living Paints (GEYSER MSL127) from Home Depot and I absolutely love it!!!

I couldn't be more happy that I finally found a spot for my extra pretty church bench that it can finally call my kitchen it's home. This cutie has been everywhere in my home just looking for the perfect spot to stay. :)

Love all the the cute pillows for the church bench and my favorite is the white pillow with all the pretty yellow rosettes. If you love them to, you can find them at Target! I also love collecting all the gorgeous Nordic Ware baking pans and have been adding them into my kitchen space for years.

My yellow hutch is from Ikea and I just loved it the moment I saw it and I really can appreciate all the extra storage space it brings to my kitchen.

This is my little coffee and tea station that's in my kitchen and I got this idea from Martha (Martha Stewart) of course!!! Martha mentioned everyday use items must be out in the open and fully accessible. BINGO, I've totally achieved that with this spot! My Kitchen Aide blender use to be the only yellow item I had in my kitchen and now it just fit's beautifully right in with the yellow accents.

I'm sooo enjoying my new kitchen nook space and now I'm off to incorporate the rest of the kitchen, our dinning space, and our family room with this new color scheme.

tammy i :)

Summer Projects...

Here are several of my new projects that I've been working on around my house this Summer.

I've been wanting to add another color to my black & white toile room and BINGO... I found these super cute blue birdie pillows at target and had to get several of them.

The next picture is of my new little Home Sweet Home sign and my sweet little dresser from my mom with a new coat of paint and great hardware my mom added to it.

Next is not a great pic, but this is the best of all of them. I repainted this dresser that was a nice solid oak piece and changed it to black and moved it all around my house until it ended up in my front room area. Wish the pic was better because it really has a lot of great detail that just doesn't show up. Next up... the piano! I was always dreaming about one day having my Aunt Judy's piano in my home and now that day has arrived. :) I'm enjoying playing it all the time!

Finally, found a piece that could hold these gigantic hat and coat hooks that i've been holding onto for about 10 years. My husband bought them for me knowing I would love them, but never had anything to add them to, until now. Then I went around finding different things to add to this hallway area and I'm loving all my I's for Inman's our last name. I found the silver I's and added them to the frames, but not before I put some 7 Gypsies music note paper in the frames for a more fun vintage look. Then you have the original James Bond, wall decal that I put up in my husband's office for Father's day since he's a huge 007 fan... like most men! :) excuse his mess he's in the middle off adding all our movies to a hard drive and him and the boy's have been working on this project for a couple of weeks.

Hope you enjoyed the pics of some of the things I've been working on around my home this Summer. A lot more projects to come....

tammy i