Progress: The Little Things

I feel like I've done so many progress posts, but we're doing things a little bit at a time, so it's easier just to post as we go along. Both of us were busy all day on Friday and Saturday, so we only had Sunday to get work done. I had a big paper due the same day, so my sweet husband did a lot of work while I wrote my paper. What a champ :)

He completed two of the projects at the top of my list! Now these were not entirely necessary except for cosmetic purposes, but the heart wants what it wants!

Light above the sink: before
Just say no to the frosted globe + brass light!

After! The brushed bronze matches our dining room chandelier and the light is frosted but not totally opaque.

Hall light: before
What did I JUST SAY about the frosted brass globe nasty thing?!

After! We originally bought this for above the sink but it was too big, so it got promoted to the hall light! 

I absolutely love photos and personal things all around the house - it reminds me of all the lovely people we have in our lives and all the things we have to be thankful for. It's been absolutely driving me nuts that we didn't have anything on the walls, so that was my small project for the evening!

I hung some of our wedding family prints! The large one is with our entire family, both sides. Top right is my family, bottom right is his. The two right frames match and the left is the same material but different pattern. This happened because Hobby Lobby didn't have three matching frames in the sizes I needed, but I like how the mismatched look ended up! 

Here's my baby pride and joy table lamp with its new friend, our trio of engagement pictures, and its other new friend, our framed photo of scenes from Savannah. I love the frame with our engagement photos - it was on clearance at Target for $15!

Two new frames also went up in the dining room!

This is probably one of my favorite things I own. I bought this to support BC/EFA when I worked on The Lion King - the actor who played Pumbaa on the tour got permission from the original director and costume designer of the Broadway show to take the old costumes they were going to destroy and take pieces from them to sell for the BC/EFA organization. Mine is only one of 100 made! The top piece is from Timon's costume, the middle is from Pumbaa's costume, and the bottom is from Zazu's costume. He was selling them individually, but I've always been the "go big or go home" type, so I had to buy all three together :)

This one is a new piece I bought from Hobby Lobby... oh, how I miss living a block away from that store. I'm not super big into the chalkboard trend, but I love it in moderation!

I can take absolutely 0 credit for this one, but it's one of my favorite features in the house - props to the former homeowners! I love these adorable spigots in the guest bathroom!

Again, I'm not huge into the chalkboard thing, but I really wanted some canisters with the chalkboard label on them. I wasn't willing to spend big bucks just because they're trendy, so I held out and picked up these three mismatched canisters on clearance at Burlington for $5 each! Our kitchen doesn't really have a color scheme - all of our plates and washcloths are random colors, and there's no room for decor, so I don't mind that they're mismatched!

I stuck a postcard from our honeymoon on our dresser while we were moving, and I decided I like looking at it every morning, so here it stays!

I also like looking at this cute pic of us cutting our cake on my nightstand :)

And another honeymoon pic is on our chest of drawers. They're just little touches but they make such a difference! It makes our house feel more like home and these pics just make me smile when I see them!

I am 100% about making an adult home for us - adult furniture, adult decor, things that fit with us being adults and not college kids anymore... but husband and I are both still stuck on his lava lamp that he's had since high school. So the lava lamp will have to be our exception :) team lava lamp!