Home Depot's Spring Black Friday

I'm so excited Home Depot is bringing this back! Their sale starts today and goes until Sunday. You can get a fabulous price on mulch and soil.

But I am most excited about this:


Sure it's only a $.12 discount, but that adds up.

New pillows!

I had my favorite seamstress make me new pillows for the family room, and I am loving the black and white! (Confession, I've had them for about a month but I've been busy with Netflix's instant streaming – watching 30 Rock, Parks & Rec and Lost. Totally worth it).


Once I'm employed, replacing the shag rug is the first thing on my list. Dogs and shag do not go together. Just a heads up.

In other news: I got my first interview today! Sure it may not lead to anything, but it's a step in the right direction.

Spring Organizing (Closet #1)

After my medicine drawer rant, I decided my drug turf in the linen closet could use some serious decluttering (hello, Tylonel from 2007 – I'm talking to you). Well, at least that's what I intended to do. But when I opened the linen closet, I discovered what an embarrassing war zone the entire closet was.

The embarrassing war zone:
So, I emptied it:

Then decided I had nothing else going on, so painted both the walls and shelves:

I picked green because it's bright, but more importantly, because I had a lot of this paint leftover from the hall bath.

Then came Target. I promise this trip started off innocent. I had a prescription to pick up, which apparently earned me a $10 Target gift card since it was a new med. So I mosied over to Target's storage area, and that's where things took a turn. I stared down 2 bins for at least 20 minutes. Yep, I just stood there and stared, while trying to visualize my super narrow linen closet and what would fit. I'm sure I looked awesome.

Anywho, on to the after...

I am so happy with it. And other than some (okay lots) of expired medicine and 1 pair of sheets – everything is back in there. Yet I somehow have much more room! I love organizational magic tricks. :)

And now some less awkward angle shots:No more searching for a special medicine. Things are now grouped into 6 categories: first aid, cold, aches, allergies, Ashley's and other.


And since I'm still on organizing mode, I've decided to tackle 3 more closets – the office and the 2 in the entry way.

That time of year

I can't believe it's already yard work time. It's gross and exciting all at the same time.

I'm currently de-leaving the landscape of the backyard – it's quite the chore:
So far no frogs have attacked me this year, so that's something. Although, I'm still nervous about having to remove leaves behind the shed (maybe that can be Brent's job).

Flowers are starting to bloom though, so I'm wanting to get all my landscaping tasks done asap.

Landscaping goals:
- Remove the lilies of the valley
- Remove the vine on the lattice and add climbing roses
- Remove the bushes in the front and relandscape

Anyone else have any exciting landscaping plans?

Hmm...

In my cough-syrup drunkenness 2 weeks ago, I saw this photo and got really mad:


Mad enough to save the photo and plan an entire post about my rant. Today, I found the photo and well, that's about it. I vaguely remember being mad at this medicine drawer because there's no place for cough syrup (leave it to the girl coughing up a lung to discover this), but that's all I've got.

While this photo does look nice, to a medicine junky like myself – there is definitely no way. Look how few pills there are. And I'm really good at letting medicine expire, so the opened Tylonel thing going on is a bad idea for this girl.

I will be honest though, this photo has definitely gotten me in the mood to organize. So closets (and medicine) beware.

Team moss

I'm joining every other decor blogger out there and making a moss wreath.

I've never really been a fan of wreaths. I think it's because whenever I think of them, I picture the country ones from the early '90s. My parents definitely had one in that famous country blue with a wooden duck on it. I may need therapy after revisiting that memory.

Anyway, I went to Joanns for my supplies (I picked Joanns because they seem to have the biggest letters, and I had lots of their coupons):

Let the hot gluing games begin!

I've decided the "M/W" are the most annoying letters to do this project for. There are some very narrow and difficult areas to do. Halfway through, when my fingers began to hurt, I began extremely jealous of all the "I" last names. Some people just have it so easy. :)

The back doesn't have to be pretty. Here's mine:

The final product:

I'm really happy with how it turned out, and I love how huge the M is. Brent said he could see it 3 houses down. Point for me!

You can't make this stuff up...

Well, I guess you can (especially with it being April Fool's Day), but this is most definitely real.

I ordered a new shower curtain several weeks ago for the hall bath, although I wasn't sure if it was going to work colorwise (green always seems to photograph weird).

Fast forward to last Friday when I got the package. I was busy working on the paper pom-poms for the couple's shower – so all I did was open the box and observe the shade of green. After that, I placed the shower curtain on the living room chair and forgot about it. When Brent got home, he went into the living room and got way too excited about said curtain.

Brent: Is this our new shower curtain?

Me: Yes.

Brent: This is awesome.

Me: Glad you like it.

Brent: (laughing) Did you see the name?

Me: What? Did I misspell my name? Because I totally blame all the cough syrup.

Brent: What! You really didn't see the name?!?! I'm disappointed in you.

Me: What'd I do?

Brent: Not you! The name of the shower curtain is douche!

Me: What?!?!?!

Yep, I apparently bought a douche shower curtain. Please admire:


Although, for the record – the company name on the Internet was Plush Living. And sadly, I think the green is too bright, but at least it gave me a giggle.