Things have been crazy busy the past month! I have been out of town for baby showers and people have been coming to visit. It's been a fun, yet tiring last month. Last weekend, Manny and I went to Conroe for a baby shower I was helping host. While we were there we took the opportunity to bring his mom's piano home with us. My mother-in-law, Judy, bought this piano for Manny and his brother when they were kids. They took piano lessons as boys and were really good. When we bought our house she said she really wanted to give it to us. Manny was pretty excited about it and has been practicing again. We did have to change up the layout of the room a bit. The couch got pushed back and the chair stayed put. Eventually, the chair will go and we will probably get two regular size chairs to put in it's place. So far the piano has been a lovely addition to our little home.

This weekend my mom and Mrs. Debbie came to visit. While they were here, I had my mom help me get my flea market cart ready! I love the way it turned out. I bought an old coffee sack at the City Wide Garage Sale in Austin for $7. The cart was $20. The green bag in the back is Manny's old sea bag from the Navy. I cut off the top of it because it was huge! I already had the brooches and the clutch is one that I bought from my friend Ali a few years ago. The old pins were $10. I found the old boy scout bag at the City Wide Garage Sale for $8. Not too bad! I'm ready for Canton next month!!! And all for less than $50!!!

I used three brooches that I had collected for years and clustered them together.

This is the boy scout bag I found.

Peek-a-boo Mija!

Looking down into the cart.

My mom found this old measuring tape and we tied it to the cart and tied a pen to the other end.

I'm finally putting up pics of our new home! We are so excited to be new homeowners and are loving making it our own. Manny has been Mr. Yard man. It's been pretty funny to listen to him talk about trees and plants and ant killer! There are a lot of pics but I wanted to try and show everything. I have to apologize for the darkness of some of the pictures. I thought that since it was in the middle of the day and I had my flash on, that I didn't have to turn lights on in my house. Lesson learned, definitely needed to turn some lights on. Also, don't look at the blinds. They are paper, temporary ones for privacy. We ordered new blinds and they should be here in a few weeks. There are also two before and afters in here. Enjoy!

Here come some of the dark pics. This is our living room. The layout of the furniture will be changing because Manny's mom is giving us her piano and it will be going in our living room. I'll post pics when it changes and I promise to turn the lights on!

The piano will go under the metal piece on the wall. Which means the couch will be moving way back. Which means the chair will move too. We have it all worked out. Hopefully it will all fit okay.

This is makeover number 1. Remember when my mom and I made this ottoman. I love love love that fabric but when we moved into our house and I saw it with everything else, it was the BIG GREEN MONSTER in the middle of the room. It had to be changed!

This is what it looks like now. Much better!

This is one of my favorite areas in our house. The apothecary will be painted too in chalk paint. I'm also changing the knobs!

This is our breakfast area. I'm also thinking about painting/staining the table. I'm also changing the light over the table. Not a fan!

This is the view of our kitchen from the living room.

View from entry.

This is our dining area. We love our table. That was a nice gift from my mother-in-law, Judy.

I will be changing the light in here too.

This is one of the guest rooms. I am wanting to change this room. I'm thinking of using some of the green monster fabric in here. I still have a lot of it and I do still love it. I'm also thinking of putting a lot of pics in here from places Manny and I have been. I haven't fully decided!

Yup! Needs some change and some pizazz!

This is the front guest room. Don't you think we did a great job decorating? We are getting a day bed from my cousin, Allison. It will eventually be a nursery too when we are ready to have a baby.

This is the guest bathroom.

This is the entry. That's a reflection on the wall, not some weird paint job!

This is our master bathroom. This is Manny's sink area.

This is mine.

Bath and the stand up shower is on the left. I love having these separate.

This is one of the best things in this house. We have a bonus room off the master which we made into Manny's office. We need to get another bookcase for all of Manny's school books.

Looking into the office from the master.

Dresser area.

This needs some love. We found this piece at the City Wide Garage Sale. I love the color. We need to get a stand for the TV. It used to be wall mounted and we don't know where the stand went. This will look better eventually.

My little desk area.

My side of the bed. I am thinking that I want to have a chandelier hanging over the chair.

Manny's side. Mija got a new bed too.

View when you walk into the room.

This is makeover number 2! The pantry! I have wanted to do this since I saw it on House of Smith's. This is the before.

Close up of the labels my mom and I made.

Ta-da! I used some wine boxes that my brother brought home from work to store cookbooks, bread, etc. There are other baskets for storing too. We used clear containers so you can see what's in there instead of boxes.

I love the way it turned out. PS, the door organizer is the bomb! I love it! I got it at The Container Store.

I used the silhouette machine to make this vinyl for our wedding album. Then I put the book on a cute bird cookbook stand. The brown leather was just too boring and most people didn't know what it was.

Mija followed me around while I took pics. She is loving being in the house. She loves the backyard and we love not having to walk her down three flights of stairs!

We finally did it! Manny and I are the proud owners of a new house! This process has been pretty interesting. We started out thinking that we would rent a house. We decided to get a realtor to help us find a rental property. We looked at a few houses and when we ran the numbers and the benefits of actually owning a home, we decided to buy! We found a house that we loved and things seemed to be on the right track. Two days before we were supposed to close, the sellers backed out. I was a bit angry to say the least. But our realtor found us another house and we fell in love with it! So here we are. We closed today and will move this weekend!

This is it! Don't worry the blue beam has been moved. I took this the day we looked at it.