around the house

For the past couple weeks I have had little free time, and even less time to blog about anything! I have changed a few things around the house.  I love switching out decorations for the seasons, and sometimes even more often.  My last post was about my new obsession with Pinterest.  I absolutely love the site because I can get so many ideas from it.  I recently found an idea for making yarn covered letters using cardboard letters from a craft store. So I decided to give it a try... and even Caleb helped!

 Here is the finished product on the mantel, one of the places I change my decor a lot.

I love decorating the mantel and changing it out a lot! I have a few pieces that always stay up there, like the antique plaster frame and usually the candle holders.  I recently put a sentimental piece that belonged to my late father.  It is an old glass bottle with a cork lid that has pennies in it.  As a kid I would always take the pennies out and then put them back in, and usually "steal" a few in the process.  It looks like something I would have bought from an antique store if I would have seen it for sale, but it came from my own family which makes it so much better to decorate with because there is a story behind it.

I also recently purchased some new pillows for my basement family room sectional! Two of them {the black & white ones} are from my New York trip, I bought them at Ikea.  The purple and blue ones are from West Elm.  I got them on sale for $9.99 a piece! You can find them here.  Not only are they on sale but it was free shipping for them!

 I really like the combination of all the pillows and I think they look really good on the couch.  Before, my pillows were really boring, but now they really stand out and look like they are supposed to be there.  Plus, I am going to be bringing more of the purples into the room on the next project I'm working on for this room... more on that later though.