Red, White, & Blue

Hi friends,
Thanks for joining me today. Happy Memorial Day weekend (almost) to you! Do you have any special plans with friends and family? My sweetie and I are headed to Asheville, North Carolina to stay at the Grove Park Inn for the weekend. This was our Christmas present from my honey's thoughtful, generous, and awesome mother. Her only caveat is that she wants to watch our kids while we are enjoying the weekend. I call that a win-win situation! We have received many ideas on what to do in Asheville from friends. The top of our list is to visit the Biltmore which neither of us has ever done before. This is our first weekend away in quite a while without the kids so we're pretty excited to do some relaxing, antiquing, and eating!

Happy Memorial Day to all of those of you that have or do serve in the military or protect our country in any way. We do remember you and we do thank you! That includes my dad, my grandfather, my father-in-law, and two uncles. Thank YOU!

Here's how I decorated our porch: (note: it's time to replace the pansies with summer flowers)

 

 

I was at it again! I spiced it up on our screened-in porch this time. I added a glass and iron console table that used to be in our hallway to the porch. Now our hallway seems very spacious and bare which I'm actually really digging (at least for the time being):

 



 

Here's the newly spiced up screened-in porch. I'm still loving the design idea of grouping 4 chairs together. My husband and I love sitting out here at night once the kids are in bed and talking. I added a small lamp out here which used to be inside on the same table in the hallway. I'm thinking we might consider adding a rug and some more plants. What do you think?

 

 

 

I hope you have a wonderfully relaxing and fun three day weekend this weekend. Thanks again for joining me today.

 

Take care.

Happy decorating & living,

Megan



Here I Go Again......

Hi friends,
Thanks for joining me today. Can you tell how much I've enjoyed being home lately getting my bucket filled decorating, organizing, and crafting? I even managed to get in some much needed heavy duty spring cleaning- I cloroxed our baseboards and floorboards yesterday on our main level. I had to stop after a little while because I was getting loopy off of the Clorox fumes! What a difference it makes though! I've got to make sure I do that job more than every two years!!!! Seriously!

We were hosting our last small group bible study last night at our house so I decided it was time to rearrange our furniture in there. You know it's funny, some people (like my mom) arrange their furniture in a room and will keep it that way as long as they live in that home. I am not saying that there is one thing wrong with that. Nope! Nothing wrong with that at all! But, that my friends, is not me. Nope! No way! I feel so refreshed when I spice it up. So, let's take a walk down memory  lane, over the last two years that we've lived in our current home in the outskirts of Raleigh, North Carolina and see how we've arranged the furniture in that room:

Before

 

That takes us to today. I wanted to focus on the flow being better in the room. I wanted to be able to walk easily through the room as this is the room we usually walk through to get to the stairs to go upstairs. See, what you think now......(of course, it'll probably be changed by tomorrow!).......

Now

 

 

 

 

Oops! I already added a new piece from the living room:

Thanks again for stopping by my little decorating blog today friends. Just to share, I updated my 'books and reading' tab and my 'joy rising' tab, check them out if you're interested.

A couple of new little tweaks.....

Artwork by Bryce, I love the bright colors she used, don't you?-

 

 

Daily inspiration on our chalkboard. I'm still thinking a lot about gratitude lately:

 

 

 



Back to life at the Brew Crew household. Since my two kids have had birthdays recently, they both got new bikes. So, we've been taking daily afternoon bike rides. It's hilarious to me how different my two kids are. One child has to always be in the front of the bike ride parade, leading the way. He is my daredevil, racing off. The other child will get off of her bike if there is any kind of incline or decline, as she isn't quite certain that her brakes will work effectively, so she will walk her bike to an appropriately flat surface then get on it again. Needless to say, the speed demon and I end up waiting for the slow child at each and every stop sign. They are who they are. Gotta love their little spirits!!!!!

You guessed it right.....the daredevil-

Take care friends. I hope you're having a wonderfully blessed week.
Happy decorating & living,
Megan