some decor

so since i packed up and moved only the necessities that would fit in my car that didn't leave room for many pretties but I did manage to cram a few in

so I thought I'd show you the little bit of decor...aka the only thing that brings me happiness...in our apartment

life would be so sad without these bits n' pieces above the mantel

easter edition

yes i realize easter was a whole week ago

yes i realize i'm a slacker

it happens, anyway even though i like to dress up more for church than a lot of people at my church do, easter i like to dress up even a bit more

what can i say? when you grow up getting a fancy easter dress each year it sticks

anyway you may (or more likely probably not) notice that this was my bridesmaids dresses

it was my sisters and was not her style, and it is totally mine cause (duh) i picked it out... anyway, score for me

and my wonderful hubby got me these shoes on our honeymoon!

and since i never got around to posting this before, here are my easter decorations:

and to answer your question: yes i just took this picture...these are still up and how long will they remain?  lordy only knows

oh! and my church is huge and has like 7 services normally and usually about 20 the whole week of easter so instead this year we went to arco 

aka power balance pavilion

aka where the kings (used to) play

this was during worship...it was pretty cool to see all the lights they passed out

valentines decor

valentines day is my favorite holiday

my. absolute. favorite.

dont get me wrong, christmas is the best time of the year but i love valentines day, even if it not a real holiday

who wouldnt love a holiday thats all about love and hearts and pink!

but the main reason i love valentines day is because it is precisely 3 days after my birthday

and my birthday is my favorite day of the year

all of my birthday parties were valentines themed and every time valentines day stuff comes out in the stores i know my birthday is coming up

so without further ado, my valentines decorations:

it was fun to decorate because i got to pull out some of my pink pretties from the wedding

and have stuff out from the wedding makes me happy :)

oh christmas tree

heres our decorated christmas tree

a lot of the ornaments i picked up at the dollar store, target, walmart, and goodwill

and i have a few very girly ones i got when i worked at gottschalks and lived in the dorms and had a little 4ft tree

...but most of our ornaments are from this tradition that my family had

...basically we would get an ornament every year (usually depicting something that happened that year, or what we were involved in (i have tons of cheerleading ones!)) and we were all grown up we would have plenty of ornaments to put on our tree!

some of my favorites are:

my glass ballet slippers

tinkerbell

and the little mermaid

and from when i was older:

my first year of college (even though i ended up switching schools)

the year i became a photo major

my sorority

and this is last years from when we moved into our place (which happens to be a townhouse...and i love that there are two little birds on it...fyi im the blue one because its much prettier hehe!)

i finally convinced hubbers to get the ones from when he was little from his mom (she doesnt put them up anymore)

there werent many but i love this one:

i got him these for his contribution to the tree (its very girly)

in honor of this (he was very excited!)

this year my mom got us this bridal couple (its on its way)

and i also got this one because we got engaged last christmas eve!

i absolutely love this tradition and i think i will continue to get us an ornament representing the year and it is definitely something ill do with my kids!

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas

just a sneak peek at some of my chirstmas decorations...

vintage ornaments from goodwill...

signs from the dollar tree...

tinsel and ornaments...

vintage decor i begged her for

and the all needed nativity...

and theres much more where that came from

so im late...

again...

but here are my thanksgiving decorations

i must admit it is difficult for me to not just skip thanksgiving and move on to christmas cause i love it so much

...but i do try to restrain myself

( i did however go crazy on the christmas decorating as soon as i got back to town...i just couldnt contain myself any longer)

most of these decorations are from thrift stores

...

i had a fabulous thanksgiving and ate far too much good food!

we traveled to my aunts for thanksgiving

they live out in the country so hubbers had some fun shooting guns with my cousin

i made this delicious pie! i make it every year its to die for! this year i even made my own graham cracker crust cause i wanted to you my pie plate! it was super easy and so yummy (unfortunatly we devoured it before i thought to take a pic...oh well, just shows how good it is)

i did end up doing some shopping on black friday (not really my thing)

but it wasnt until about noon, and only cause we went to visit these lil punkins and mr. big punkin wanted to go to the "robot store" aka target :)

hope your thanksgiving was filled with family, friends, yummy food

...and maybe some shootin

...you know, if thats your thing :)

so i know halloween is over...

well it kind of crept up on me so i never posted the rest of my decor

i never even finished my decor... i did make these sparkly pumpkins for my counter though

...and this halloween banner for my dining room

i know that you didnt notice that i love sparkles...

this is on our coffee table

oh, and ps....

a halloween peek

i have many more halloween decor posts to come (including some where i got crafty)

but heres just a sneak peek at what i did on our table

most of my decorations come from thrift stores or the dollar tree except for the jewlery tree which i did once use for its original purpose but never set it back up when we moved over a year ago (though i did use it for decor at the wedding, so thats partially why), and the sign was from walmart last year and the orange laugh candle i got there on clearance this year

the pumpkin and ghost candle are from the goodwill and the crow is from the dollar tree

let me just tell you... dollar tree has the best decorations!

...im so serious, some of it does need to be spruced up so it doesnt look so cheapy but most of it actually looks great and it is cheap!

the only problem is you have to get it a couple month ahead because they already have whats left of the halloween and thanksgiving decor in one small section and christmas it taking over the place (yes i relize neither of these holidays have passed yet, the world is going crazy)

..so go there and get your christmas decorations now...im serious, if you wait till anywhere near december all the good stuff will be gone!