Apothecary Beach Display

I'm getting pretty tired of decorating in my dining room- switching it out for every season. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but I just need a change of pace/room!

Inspired by Emerald Cove's post on her apothecary jars in her bedroom.....


I thought I'd see what I could do with mine on my bedroom dresser! I posted about my recent Goodwill apothecary finds here, and decided to use them with beachy finds like Michelle did!

By the way, GOOOOOO see what she did with her bedroom and the AMAZING faux fireplace!! I want to steal every idea in there!!

My bedroom has been needing a change, but I've been working on so much else that I've put it off! This was a quick and easy change though!

Here's the before of the decor on top!

It's been like this since Christmas when I removed a shelf unit to make room for Baby Girl who stayed in our room since company stayed in hers. Some of the stuff from the shelf ended up here! I've got plans to redo the dresser that I slapped paint on awhile back without prepping it correctly! This was never how I intended for it to look!

And the after!

I glued the small apothecary jar up onto a Dollar Tree candle stick which I like much better! Added my driftwood sign I made (which I'm super glad I finally found a good home for!), lots of shells and sand- some bought some gathered from beaches myself, and a picture of Baby Girl's first view of the ocean last month at Tybee Island, GA (I'll be replacing this with a real pic! It's a computer printout for a quick fix!). I got the frame at Dollar Tree years ago! Love it and wish I'd gotten more at the time!

I also moved the crab sign down about 6 inches and am liking it alot better!

I also found some old, falling apart books and tied them with ribbon and twine. I'm already not super loving the way I tied them, so I'm looking into fixing that!

Here's some more close ups of details...

I still think it needs something else around it, but this wall is limited because our huge TV shelves are to the left of it! I also need to do something about the clock I removed! It's so super ugly, but functional! I need to see the time in the middle of the night to know if Baby Girl is waking up because she's hungry or just needs to be soothed back to sleep!

So far, I'm super happy about this display! I love finding inspiration around bloggy land!

For more inspiration, check out these lovely ladies and their fantasitc parties I'm linking this to!

Goodwill Glass Treasures

I've been meaning to post about my Goodwill finds, some of which I've already been displaying!

I found these lovely aqua glass sweeties a few weeks ago and used them in my Valentine's decor and now in my spring decor........

The bottle was only $1.99 and the little candle holder was $.99. It acutally has a sticker from World Market on the bottom!


I also found this adorable tiny apothecary jar at the beginning of the year that I plopped on a Goodwill candle holder for my winter decor, and then put it here for my spring decor.....

Then yesterday, my heart literally pitter-pattered when I came across this beaaauuuuty!

(I got too excited styling it and forgot the before, before picture! This is not how it ended up, you'll see that soon!)

I've been dyiiiing for an apothecary jar! A real one! But didn't want to fork over the dough! I praaaayed it was going to be something I could afford! Now, I'm not really sure what the going rate on a good "deal" for one of these is, but I was thrilled with the $3.99 price tag!

I snatched it up, wrapped my arms around it and carried it through the rest of the store while still searching! It ended up being the only thing I walked out with yesterday, and I was happy as could be!

It is actually much larger and sturdier than it appears here. It seems like a quality piece!

Next up, how I am using this beautiful apothecary jar, and how I'm transforming the small one to match!

I've got a few more Goodwill treasures that I still have to makeover before I show them off!

Linking to Centsible Saving's Thrifty Thursday (after all it's HER fault I got into this thrifting, home decor world!)

Baby Girl's Bow Holder

I've been meaning to make Baby Girl a bow holder for quite awhile now, but wasn't sure what I was going to do!

I've got so many projects to do on her room still (and she's almost 7 months old already!!), so I needed something super easy!

My mom bought me this hanging organizer/dry erase board awhile back from Ross' for $1.99.

(Imagine it without the blue ribbon here I forgot that first pic!)

You can't really tell from the picture but it was really cheaply made and wasn't going to work to really write on as a dry erase board. Plus, what does a baby need with one of those! But at under $2, I knew I'd come up with something!

The fabric is cute, but the board is just cardboard around the edges under the fabric and a thin floppy piece of shiny....I don't know what! Super thin papery whiteboard? It's no wonder it ended up on clearance! However the fabric matches her room really well.

I ran across this ladybud/flower cutout ribbon from the $1 bins at Michaels the other day. I bought it before Baby Girl was ever born and knew I'd have a use for it someday!

I literally just cut, and stapled it to the cardboard- which you could reach up under the fabric to get to.

Then I hung up all her bows and clips on the ribbon! Love the way it looks!

(I don't know why the pic makes it look like that 3rd one is crooked!)

Then, the bottom pocket was a little floppy and hung way down, while the top ones are separated. So I pinned it with a leftover rosette from Baby Girl's wreath.

I stuck one on the pockets above, just to match a little even though it didn't need it!

Yep, that headband on the right looks just like the fabric on the organizer!

The top pockets hold her headbands and the bottom has hats! (So teeny you can't really see them!)

I may make some more to put across the top of it just to fancy it up a bit, but this is on the back of her door so no one will really see it unless they go in her room and shut the door!

Slooooowly working through my list of Baby Girl Projects! Yep, I should have more done since she's almost 7 months, but understand I didn't start reading decor/crafting blogs until after she was born! Aaaand I took so long deciding on her theme, I didn't even start her room until a month and a half before she came!

Touches of Spring!

I know it is technically still winter, but I'm craaaaaving some warmth and some springtime pleasures!! It's actually been warmer- even hit 70 one day, a week after a major snowstorm even- but there is no telling if it will be freezing again next week! That's how Tennessee weather is!

It's also why I always leave out a few pieces from all seasons when I switch out my winter/summer clothes!

So, in order to feel a little more springy around here, I made a few changes and removed my Valentine decor and winter decor, but used some of what was still around to create a semi-spring display! This post may have you thinking you've seen it before, but you haven't!

I took away all the fluffy snow, snowflakes, and hearts, and started wishing for warmer weather, throwing in even more rose petals and flowers than I had before!

Check out my former decor in the dining room here to see the transformations:

Christmas Decor

Winter Decor

Valentine Decor

I'm actually liking keeping the touches of light pink in my Dollar Tree Roses, and as you can tell, starfish have seem to make their way into everything lately! Loving them!

All of my candles are from my wedding, and the flower petals are all either from my 3 little flower girl buckets or wedding decor.

In saying that, have to share a picture of the 3 cutest flower girls ever! You know, so you can see the flowers really were part of my wedding! :)

This is the hubby's niece, a little girl I've babysat her whole life (still do!), and my niece! You can see more of my wedding stuff around here, as this blog started off following lots of my DIY wedding stuff!

Here's my new not-quite-spring-but-wishing-for-it displays.

My buffet:

I think this bucket with the overspilling petals may be my favorite part of all.

My hutch:

I thought my teapots seemed really springy! I'm also on the hunt for some new teapots, maybe vintage? Maybe all white? I also love to collect espresso cups. I always used them as my "teacups" as a little girl! I still have two sets that I used to use!

I've got to find something better to put in that second seashell bowl other than candy! Should I make more wishing stones?

I looove my little apothecary jar!!


My table:

Took away the flannel runner and all the "snowy" stuff! I'm liking how simple this looks! I should also mention that I changed out table cloths only because I'm starting to feed Baby Girl real food, and even though she's in her high chair, I was constantly getting stuff on the nice table cloth! This one is vinyl and can be wiped down!

Ahhh, simple is much better!

Hopefully this will ward off any more snow around here and bring out some flower buds!

Anyone else starting to decorate for spring yet??

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Valentine Tablescape

Nothing too fancy this year! It's our first Valentine's Day with a baby, and things have been crazy in the fam lately (my brother and his fam moving here and company in town), so we planned to stay home to celebrate. Plus, Daddy is usually too worn out in the week from work to do much at night!

I cooked Alfredo Pasta, one of the hubbies favorites and added a side of his favorite bread and peas (since Baby Girl can eat those-blended-now!). Nothing fancy at all because I knew I would be interrupted all day long with the baby, cleaning house, and errands! It didn't all get done! Piles of laundry still await me and just may wait until tomorrow!

I wanted to fancy it up just a *little* and at least make the table look festive! The dining room has already been looking a little Valentiney for the past couple weeks!

See how I decorated it in my last post here.

These photos are from my iPhone. Honestly, they look lots better than the ones from my camera since this is a hard spot to photo and the flash on the camera looks so harsh!

Just a few pieces of wedding china, some pasta bowls from Target's dollar spot from back when EVERYTHING was always $1!

And some champagne with a cherry dropped in and a little of the grenadine added to make it festive looking!

The hearts in the bowls are from Target's current $ spot, and they kind of looked like marshmallows once I put them in there! I tried to convince the hubby that's what they were and pretended to take a bite to fake him out so he would try- yeah, it didn't work! He just looked at me like a weirdo! :)

We were interrupted at least 10 times by Baby Girl! She just wasn't happy anywhere we put her- swing, jumper, highchair, floor- nothing worked! She may have a little cold, and isn't herself poor thing! She napped while I was cooking, and an hour after dinner she was out for good! Guess we should've planned a later dinner!

Off to have myself another glass of the yummy champagne and then go to bed! The laundry can wait until tomorrow! :)

Valentine Decor

Here is all of my Valentine decor put together!

You can see how I made certain elements here:

Shabby Heart Wreath
Dollar Tree Rose Make-over
Valentine Framed Art

My dining room gets the least light in the house, so it's really hard to photgraph well! There are no nearby windows to let light in!

Along with the three projects I made above, I also incorporated aqua glass items from Goodwill, milk glass vases I've had for a long time, flowers from the flower girl buckets at my wedding, starfish tied with pale pink ribbon to champagne glasses, and one of my favorite espresso cups (expect to see more of those soon in my "spring" decor!).

As you can tell, I also kept around some of my winter decor! It is still winter after all! In fact just a couple days ago, Nashville had it's worst snow of all winter, and we've had more than our share already! People were stuck in snow/ice traffic jams for up to 5 hours just to make 30 minute or less commutes!

And this little monkey was bouncing and watching me while I was taking pictures, so I just had to share a snapshot of her! My bedroom door is right in the dining room, so she hangs out there jumping a lot since I can see her from the kitchen, dining room, and my bedroom right there! LOVE HER!! :)

Next is my Valentine dinner tablescape and Valentine's is OVER!

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