My Taylor loves sock monkeys, he has like 10 of them.  He has been collecting them for a while so when I saw this cute blog post on DIY sock monkeys I thought I could probably do that.  It took a segment on Studio 5 to get me to try it. Not sure I would […]

    these poor bar stools have been recovered a million times.  Ok not a million but four times just look at the staples!!!  I loved the summery green Tommy Bahama print I had on my bar stools for the past two  years but it was time for a change.   When we moved a […]

How come it is that there seems to be more fun shopping places in New York and California?  I know Utah is fabulous but we don’t have a ton of unique shopping stores available to us.  I could have shopped for days on my little vacay but alas I did have to go to the […]

 This chandelier was a long time coming.  I have been wanting to replace the dinning room chandelier for months now but just couldn’t find the right one.  Then to my utter surprise I saw it, out of the corner of my eye while I was in West Elm exchanging my rug.  It was so pretty […]

 This carnival party was over the top, huge, and fantastic!  I loved every minute of designing and putting together all the decorations for this party.   first I made this huge banner each lollie was 2 and a half feet across, they were ginormous!  I then made a circle of poster board for the center and […]

    Hello what a day what a party!!! loved every minute of creating this extravagant event.  Happy birthday to a very special girl.  I used these tags to label the food to label the games and even big ones for signs and menu cards.  I love this vintage carnival theme that is so popular […]

 Oh i know its painful to look at.  I’m not a big fan of the primary colors!  but I knew that i was going to make the cutest center piece for a carnival so I ripped all the paper off it and got started with my creation.   The colors for the party were hot pink […]

ok ok I get it I’m obsessed with silver leafing.  But its sooooo easy and makes the biggest change in what ever it touches.  My friend bought a mirror for her bathroom, the only photo she had seen of this mirror was an online photo from Pottery Barn.  When she got the mirror it was […]