Friday Favourites

Can you tell I've been watching a lot of Mad Men?? Happy Friday!

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Custom Bunting with Text ~NOW AVAILABLE!~

After making this bunting for Clark's birthday and doing a custom item for our June giveaway (for Liam - pictured below) we have updated our shop with the option of ordering pennant flags with wording! I think they are adorable as outdoor summer party decorations, for weddings and are also friendly to our earth because they are reusable!

I have posted bunting inspirations before, but I love them so here are a few more! There are just too many cute ways to use them.

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Hope you are all having a great week and finding ways to stay cool in this heat! Ohhh and a little Happy Birthday note to Jessi for tomorrow!! I think we are doing a patio dinner and drinks to celebrate...with the boys staying in to watch all of the kids. How lucky are we?

Our house - only better!

We moved into this house of ours last summer after realising we needed more space for baby #2, such as a basement and another bedroom! It is a bigger house in a nicer neighbourhood but definitely has some very "dated" elements, like the bathroom tiling (brown and white checkerboard. ick!) and the paint choices. I have mentioned them here before...

So we finally got around to painting and I love the new green! These are a few in-progress pictures, it is all finished now and the colour was a bit of a debate but I am so happy we decided to go this dark!



We went with more of a neutral in the kitchen, painted out the wood on the cupboards and a few other little touches including this plate wall that I adore and can't stop looking at right now!


I saw the inspiration for this here and had to do it! Mine isn't quite as coulourful but the plates are all thrifted and it was pretty simple to do. The plate hooks were a bit of a pain because they couldn't fit the smaller saucers so Jason had to handle that area, but the hanging and positioning of them was a lot of fun! I love too that I can change the plates out and add new special ones when I come across them which means more items to be on the look out for while thrifting!

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Thrifted Finds

Yesterday afternoon I had a huge urge to go out thrift shopping after a morning spent browsing home design, decorating and vintage sites. There really are a ton of great home style blogs out there, I love Bohemian Vintage and Apartment Therapy. That combined with our recent home renovations (and all of the plans I have in mind for Jason to do!) left me feeling inspired to find those little treasures that make your personal spaces unique and you. Here's what I brought home with me!

I will probably use the owl figurine and white vase in one of the bathrooms, I picture them on a little white shelf of some sort...the bottle, print and yellow dish don't have a home yet but I will find spaces for them soon. Here are some honourable mentions of the day - the wool I actually bought too because you can never really have enough in your stash! Happy Saturday everyone!

-Mandi