Reveal of the Living Room Finally!

Hi Everyone.  Happy Sunday.  Hope your weekend has been good.  We hit in the 80's this weekend.

I got my front flowers planted and oh how I am feeling it!  My back and knees are screaming!!! I am trying to put in more and more perennials but I still love the annuals.  So glad I can finally be planting in the garden.  Nothing like digging in the dirt.

Now for the Living Room Reveal.  I got my slipcovers this past week so now I can show you how the living room is coming along.

This was the foyer before. 

I took away the cedar chest in the Foyer and added this little chippy chair I got on our trip to Michigan.

Love this sweet little chippy chair.  Just adds some charm to the entry way.

Moved the expand o matic table under the mirror from the other side of the room.

Added some of my garden decor in the entry way for summer.

Did not touch my old lake house window and shutters.  In this tiny house that is really the only wall that will fit on.

Now on to the Living Room change a roo!

This is how my living room looked with two chairs and the vintage dresser.  It made the room feel bigger having just the two chairs but I always felt it needed something more.

 I wanted a conversation area for this living room.  So I added two more chairs.  I had the lovely and talented Lisa from Fabric 8 Slipcovers take my Ikea slipcover and add a ruffle to the bottom to match the other two chairs.  If you need a simple ruffle added to an existing slipcover or a whole new slipcover Lisa is your girl.
Her work is outstanding.
This is her website if you want to visit her and see some of her work.
Lisa does not compensate me in any way I just have loved her work for a long time and I love to let you know about wonderful talent like hers.   Lisa is a real sweetheart and so easy to work with on a project.

I like that I have more seating in the living room.  Makes the room feel more like a living room. I like the cozy feel that a conversation set up adds to a living space.

This is the cute little chippy table I got on our trip to Michigan.  Perfect size and shape for my conversation area.

I had showed most of you how Terry put up my chandelier and we framed it out with old vintage frames.

This is the cute sign I got on the trip too.  I love this saying and it fits perfectly in this small cottage home.

A friend and I took a ride over the boarder into Wisconsin to Chippy Shabby's Market sale at her home.  I found that awesome porch post at her sale.  It is so full of character and charm.  Thanks Jeanine I love it.

I feel the old chippy birdhouse needs a little something added to it.  I am currently working on that.

I just love the old chippy detail to this porch post.  Very unique.

So there you have it.  Just buying two more Ikea chairs and a new coffee table along with a few new decor pieces I have a whole new look to my living room.

 I am not so great at the picture taking and adjusting my pics with the amount of light that comes into this space.  I really wish I could have you all see how pretty this room really is.  So please come on over to see it!!!
The pictures do not do it justice.

Have a fabulous new week.
This was fun to share my new conversation area with all of you.
You can go to my Pinterest Board to see other ideas for conversation area's I pinned. 


Soon I will show you some of my summer flowers.  It has been so lovely with our weather. It has been so nice to be out in the sunshine and planting.

Terry is also working on our new deck.  That man is awesome to be able to make a deck area in the backyard for us.  I cannot wait to show that to you too.

xoxo
Kris

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Wallpaper reveal in 3 in 1 Room

Hellooooo my fellow bloggers and followers.

Hope your week is going great.  We have been in the 80's this week and we are loving it.  Mr. Winter has finally left and Spring/Summer temps are here.

This is the wallpaper I found to do just the one wall in my 3 way room.  Since I am living small  my 2nd bedroom has 3 purposes.
My office area, guest room area and make up area.

I wanted to use this wallpaper to give a little texture and fun to my office wall.

I added Anita's sweet cherub she gifted me.  I painted her white and then tried to have some of the gold come through to match the chippy piece.
I am not sure I am sold on her this way just yet.  I may bring her back to the original gold or maybe all white.  She is special so I want her to look just right.

I think the wallpaper gives a little bit of texture to my whites.  This is the area I spend a lot of my time.

Since I do spend a lot of time at my desk and computer I like to surround myself with the things that make me smile.

This is a gorgeous vintage mirror was gifted to my by a special friend for my birthday.  I hung it on this chippy cabinet door.

I got the corbels on my trip and they make a nice shelf for my angels and Madonnas.

I have a place for all my catalogs and magazines.

The front left corner of the room is my make up area.  When you live in a 1949 cottage there was no such thing as double sinks and make up areas when this house was built.  This corner is my area for my jewelry and makeup.

This is the new chair I got on my trip.  It is perfect for my make up area.  Very comfy and I like that it rolls on the wood floors.

In the right side of this room is where I have a guest bed available if I have an over night guest.

I love this gray pretty cottage chair I have had for a long time.  I added some pillows I got on the trip to this chair.  Just love this chair it is very comfy.

Here is another treasure I got on my trip.  I love this saying.  It is so perfect for our small cottage home living.  Terry framed it for me and now it is hanging in the living room.  My slipcovers are due here tomorrow or Friday and then I can hopefully do a reveal of my living room change a roo!!!

Have a great rest of the week.
Hugs,
Kris

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Welcome Home

Hi Everyone.

I wanted to share some of my trip to Michigan.  We visited the south western part of Michigan.  Little quaint towns along the coast of Lake Michigan.

Terry and I love this area and continue to make trips to this area.  It is about 2 hours from our home here Illinois.

The beach towns have lots of cute shops and wonderful restaurants.

This area is where one of my favorite shops is called the Found Cottage.

Not only is there the Found Cottage but about 6 more wonderful shops in the area.  There are also lots of antique shops along the routes too.

I am going to list a few of the shops and show some pics of the shops for you to see.  Warning this is a long post.

I found lots of treasures to bring home.  Our car was packed with only a few inches to spare lol!

This is the back hatch open of our SUV.  Yep we have three chairs, a coffee table, a couple of large art pieces and many more smaller treasures.  That car was packed.

Here is a side view.  As you can see there is stuff all the way to the ceiling of the car.  I think poor Terry thought if I bought one more thing he would have to be riding on the roof of the car in one of the chairs we purchased like the Beverly Hillbillies!!!!!

Here are some of my favorite shops that I found lots of great treasures.

I will start with my favorite shop.  The Found Cottage.

Look at that great piece of chippy loveliness!

Love these cute mitten pillows.  I grew up in Michigan and loved that my home state was shaped like a mitten.

I love all the beautiful and inspirational signs like this one.  I actually found a great one that came home with me that I will share with you on my reveal of the living room.

The next shop after The Found Cottage was the Artisan Market.  This is a brand new shop that is under renovation.  They are adding a cafe along with a  dozen or so more vendors.  This is going to be a great place in the next few months when all the renovations are done.

Next was Cheryl's Cottage Home Shop.  Cheryl sells a lot of clothing but also has  eclectic home and garden items.

Next up was The Painted Farm Girl.  Don't you love this old vintage truck.  It was parked out front of the shop.

Sorry about the quality of the pics they were all taken from my cell and with the funky lighting in a lot of these shops it was hard to get a picture without a lot of glare.
The Painted Farm Girl's shop has a lot of farm house decor items along with garden items and unique furniture items.

A lot of the furniture in her shop is re loved from other pieces into new pieces of furniture.

Next on the route was the Rustic Corner.  What a great shop.  Full of cottage, farmhouse and shabby chic decor.

The Re Inspired Treasures is another one of those shops that when I walked in I could feel my heart beat just a little bit faster!  So many unique items.  I did a little shopping damage in this store!!!!

I took Terry to this fun place to eat right across the street from Re Inspired Treasures.  It is named The Old Goat.  You can see the goat on the top of the building.  There is a lot of home grown spices and greens up on that roof.

The inside of the cafe is eclectic and just gives off a fun vibe.  The old goat uses only locally grown produce and they have local cultures from the area influence the foods they prepare.  Every day they have different choices on the menu along with the usual favorites.

Terry had one of the best hamburgers he said he has ever had.  The bun was homemade and the burger had pickled onions along with a pepper jelly and several spices and two types of cheese.  He said the flavors all together were so yummy.

I had one of the favorites from the menu.  The pierogi's.  These are made fresh daily from three polish women that live in this area.  I have to say they were soooooo good.

Just a great little place to have lunch.

I like to eat at the local places like this when I go on vacation.  I try to avoid the chain restaurants.

We had the best time this past week.  The weather was beautiful everyday.  It was so nice to come back to the cottage at the end of the day and enjoy the spa hot tub under the stars and trees.

The little cottage called the Quaint Cottage was so charming and romantic.  Such a wonderful place to unwind and relax.

So if you are ever in that area of South Western Michigan you must stop in these cute towns along the coast of Lake Michigan.

Some of the towns we visited were South Haven, Grand Haven, Holland, Hudsonville and Grand Rapids.  All these towns are within a 10 to 20 minute drive from each other.  The beaches were quiet and so pretty.  Their season really starts the first part of May.  So it was nice to not have crowds to deal with.

Thanks for hanging in there with this long post.

My slipcovers are on their way.  Yeah then I can show you the reveal of the living room changes.

Have a great weekend.

Hugs,

Kris

  PS:
I have said this so many times,  some of our hearts that meet in blog land unite in a magical way.
I have found some wonderful friendships during my time of blogging.  I love that you can really come to know someone through written communications and sharing stories of our lives. 

  With this said I received a very special gift from a blogger that has become a great friend and soul sister.  We were born only a few days apart back in April of 1958.  We both are turning the page to a new decade of turning 60 and new adventures.

Anita sent me this very special gift and beautiful card.  It was wrapped in beautiful tulle with sweet flower petals.  The beautiful card was designed from a watercolor painting of Anita by a german artist and blogger friend.

This gift was just  magical to open.

Anita knows my love of angels and she gifted me this one.  Anita also gave me permission to paint her white!!! I will have to keep her for awhile and then I will know if I will paint her or keep her just the way she is.

Her sweet curls and beautiful wings make my me smile.  Thank you sweet friend for sharing your friendship and heart with me always.