Spring Things

The weather is changing and it's finally starting to feel more like spring! Well, mostly... we did have snow last week, but that's Indiana for ya. With the coming of warmer weather we've begun looking towards new projects and things to do. This will mean heading outside and hitting the landscaping hard, but that's another post for another time. The last few weeks we've been doing some decorating inside (and outside) the house!

Leslie has been wanting to get some prints from Etsy for awhile now, and we finally got around to getting stuff picked out and ordered. These items included a few things for the kitchen as well as some for upstairs (but we'll get there later). These really help the kitchen look complete and add interest to the previously blank walls.

And while we're talking about kitchens, another improvement we've added is this nifty towel rack under the sink. A certain someone in our house likes to get his paws up on the counter and grab towels... so we decided this would be a good way to thwart his attempts. It's a nice little gadget and keeps towels tucked away where puppy teeth can't get to them. Plus they probably dry out better too.

I love wind chimes and we managed to find one we liked at Home Goods. It sounds great - something I'm very particular about - and was much cheaper than other chimes we saw. It's hanging out in the backyard and makes me smile every time the wind blows.

It seems like a pretty common thing for families to have pictures of their kids or posed family photos in the stairwell. We decided to conform to this standard and hung big ole pictures of our kids on our wall! Aren't they just so cute?

Oh, but we weren't content with just hanging those pictures. Now that we have the hall painted and finished we went ahead and got lots of frames and pictures for the walls. Some of this was on the walls in our apartment, but most of it is new (some of which are the aforementioned Etsy items). We got it all set on the floor so we could figure out how to put everything up... but haven't had time to get everything hung just yet. We're in the process of getting a good deal of other house stuff done, so we'll post pictures of this new photo wall once it's done along with some other fun stuff.

And seems that's all I've got for now. Thanks for reading and we'll see you next week!