Summer Home Tour 2019

I'm excited to be sharing some areas of our home for Summer. Thank you, Kelly from The Tattered Pew for hosting this Summer Home Tour blog hop. If you're visiting from Lindsay at Aratari at Home, welcome! Glad you've stopped by to visit, hope you'll find some inspiration in keeping things simple around the home. With the kids on Summer break, I wanted our home to be comfortable and have a carefree feeling. I didn't spend a lot of time redecorating anything. Maybe an hour to freshen things up!

I was inspired by a vintage hankie that I had hanging on a cutting board in our kitchen. You will see it on our open shelves in the kitchen nook. It's white with blue and yellow flowers. Since I already had some yellow going on in our home from Spring, you can see it HERE and I always have blues in our home. I decided it would be easy to freshen things up with blue & yellow. 

  

Entrance

When you come in our front door I have a summery lemon wreath that I made from Afloral hung up for that touch of yellow when you come in. I love color but try to use it sparingly. Years ago I would get hung up on adding my color scheme to every little inch of our home that it felt like overkill at the end. My style has changed over the years and I find it to be a more restful space with the less is more approach. 

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Summer Home Tour 2019

Patriotic Picnic - Memorial Day

Honestly, how often do we treat ourselves to an outdoor picnic in this day in age?  I always dream about sitting in the woods surrounded by trees, flowers, ferns & even little bunnies running by while enjoying some treats from home. A cool breeze blowing through the leaves, while the sun peaks through the clouds and casts those beautiful golden rays over us. 

With all that dreaming that I've done, in reality I'd never bring this much stuff to a country side picnic. I had the pleasure of working with Factory Direct Craft for a Memorial Day themed picnic. Our older boys will be out of school for the Summer come next week and I thought It'll be fun to kick off our Summer break & Memorial Day weekend with a patriotic picnic in our very own backyard. The kids always have so much fun when we bring out the champagne glasses and make things feel special.  

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DIY Herb Painted Doormat

Who knew you could paint your own doormat? I sure never thought of that, so when Terri at Decorate & More With Tip asked me to join her painted door mat challenge I was excited to join! I love trying new things and this was right up my alley! There are 10 other bloggers joining this challenge that you can check out at the bottom of this post! So many different designs, there's definitely one to fit your style, or inspire your own design!

I have enough doormats, but I've been wanting one to go in front of our little patio bench. Keeping with "all thing plants" right now. I thought it would be fun to try a herb botanical design. It's hard to get a lot of detail in the painting on the mat, so it didn't really turn out exactly how I had envisioned. I still like it though!

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