sunday shopping 2.0

Well, wanna see how I did? As you recall, I went shopping at the outlet mall near my house this afternoon. I think I did a great job, considering I only spent half of the money I budgeted for this trip!

Excuse the terrible pictures. The lighting in my bedroom is awful, and it was already dark when I took these pictures.  And I don't know how to work my camera.

This fun flannel shirt which is super warm was a steal from Old Navy. The whole store was buy one, get one 75% off!

This was on clearance so it wasn't part of the "buy one get one" sale, but it was still like $10 and I've been looking for a shirt like this for awhile.

This fun dress is maybe the tightest article of clothing I've ever owned, but I'm going to attempt NOT to be self-conscious in it, because it's PERFECT for a bachelorette weekend I've got coming up :). Also a steal at $25 from TJ Maxx.

This poor dress has the problem of looking way better on than on a hanger :). Also a great deal because it was on final sale at the Loft outlet for $14.

I have this blue open cardigan shirt in gray too from J. Crew and I love it. And since it was 40% off, I had to have another.

These shirts were $6 from Old Navy..which means one of them ended up being $1.87 after the 75% sale.

I almost walked out of Banana Republic before I spotted this beauty :)

FINALLY a pinterest suggestion. I love this royal blue infinity scarf!

Some jeans because I had like 2 other pair that fit.

And finally, these are not for me, but I found these in the J. Crew kids section for my 7 year old cousin. She loves leggings and purple and I loved the stars, so I bought them for her for Christmas. At $6, I could NOT pass these up!

i heart fall!

Fall is in the air in our household. We've been keeping the windows open at night (hence the beginnings of the sore throat I can feel), and even though my mother adamantly refuses to get excited about any sort of decorating, I have enough excitement for like 4 people.

Remember that little obsession I constantly talk about called Pinterest? Yep, inspiration for this blog post too. I always doubt my abilities to be crafty, but when I showed this project to my mom she didn't believe I made it (she thought I bought it at the store), and Sam said "that looks like it was made by a pro for real." So therefore, I believe it is blog worthy!

So, without further ado, behold, The Fall Wreath.

I started out with a basic GrapeVine wreath from JoAnn Fabric. They are only $4.99 and they happened to be buy one get one half off, so I picked up another one to make a Christmas wreath (spoiler alert!).

They also had a bunch of "Autumn Inspiration" bouquets, so I picked up three of those. You could probably vary how many you buy by how voluminous you want your wreath to be. These were also a steal--the bigger one was $4 and the others were $1. I got lucky and went on a day when all of their fall stuff was 50% off! Once I got them home, I cut each individual stem apart so that they'd be easy to stick in the wreath.

These were each like $1.50, and while they weren't as good of a deal as the bundled bouquets, I thought the little scarecrow man would make the wreath.

I also bought some ready to finish numbers and painted them white. I thought these were 50% off (and they were only $2 to begin with) but the woman at the register wouldn't quit arguing with me about it and I was really hungry so I just paid full price for them. She was really annoying.

So anyway, this type of wreath is SO EASY to make. I just stuck each of those individual stems through the wreath and made sure they weren't poking through the back. Although the covering on the stems are plastic, the underneath part is wire so it makes it easy to bend and make sure it's in there really snug. It does not make it easier to cut, FYI.

And here's the finished product! I was pretty impressed myself, although now looking at this picture I can see a gap in the leaves I'm not pleased about. As you can tell the house numbers aren't on there, because I can't figure out how to glue them on there. Hot glue won't hold them to the leaves, so I'm thinking I might try some twine or something.

And here is the beginning of my other fall project. I'm obsessed with tablescapes and I'm terrible at making them. We had most of these things (minus the pumpkins and scarecrows), so I just decided to put out what we had and then add as I find more stuff on sale.

Did I mention I love fall?

How is everyone else decorating for this most joyous of seasons?!

bathroom overhaul

This is a project that I started for.ev.er. ago when I first moved back from Columbia. My bathroom (okay, I have always shared with my brothers), was so pretty when I went to Mizzou, and over the 5 years that I was gone, my brothers demolished it. I couldn't stand how masculine it was, so I decided to switch it up a bit. Here's the finished product!

Before.. super not cute shower curtain, my brother's artwork from the 8th grade. I forgot to snap a picture of the other wall, but there used to be some cheapy black frames with pictures of us in them that were totally falling apart.

Before...bottles all over the sink, make up bags and straighteners and wires everywhere. I admit, some of this is my mess.

And after! I went with a beachy theme because I already had a lot of it (the shower curtain and candle in this picture). I made the wall art by using some seashells that we already had around the house and painting some $2 canvases from Hobby Lobby a sand color.

This picture is terrible because the lighting in the bathroom is so awful, but we are still looking for some pictures to put in that frame, and then it'll go on the wall. Notice there is NOTHING on the cabinets, which makes me happy.

I had this shelf in my bedroom and when I overhauled my bedroom, it got reassigned to the bathroom. We also had these shells, the candle, and washcloths. I also found the little seashell frame for $3 at Kohl's at the end of the summer.

I bought that bath rug and another matching one at Target for $4.50 last weekend.. they were normally $20! Such a bargain.

Outside looking in. I love it! I think it's not too feminine (although Nick doesn't agree), and I DEFINITELY don't think it's too masculine! Now onto the next room...