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le decor & design

project by chelleyb featuring tote handbags


Sooo, I love decorating...
Finding unique pieces that I can piece together. Recently went shopping with a friend and she couldn't understand why I liked certain things. Needless to say we have different tastes, but we both do share a love for antiques. I lean towards the eclectic genre. Anthropologie is my greatest inspiration. Some people stick to what's available in the stores currently or they like a certain time period. I am a lover of art, so no era goes unnoticed. If I could work from home and do my design work through varying mediums, I would. A little dream of mine would be to design and build furniture with my dad. Maybe one day :)
I love that Polyvore helps me to visualize my ideas, seeing as I am a kinesthetic learner. lol 
So much fun! Go check it out.  


Below I have listed out the varying projects I have going for my apartment decor. 


Build shelf for bathroom
Paint towel stand

Build reclaimed wood headboard
Decoupage nightstand with newspaper
Hang curtains

Buy and repaint dining chairs (2)
Hang glass shelves 
Buy and hang plates
Buy large baskets for kitchen cabinets

Buy or build ottoman(s)
Buy the 3 craigslist chairs
Reupholster cane chair
Buy casters for bookshelf
Buy lantern hook for wall
Buy/build light feature with exposed bulbs
Stain end table
Buy coasters for coffee table
Find a medium sized mirror for TV hutch
Find lace curtains
Buy rope and finish frame art

Buy an easel
Create utensil shelf with cardboard tubes for desk nook 

Look me up on Pinterest. 

Weekend success!!

• Four Peaks bonfire, camping and off-roading
• BBQ and poker at friends house
• church & fellowship with my family
• In & Out reminiscing 
• Goodwill expedition

The previous weekend I was a big fat lamo and just lounged around the house all weekend, due to a lovely migraine that finally went away by Tuesday. So, therefore I had to forfeit my weekend. No bueno! Girl's gotta, just wanna have fun!

I think I redeemed myself this weekend and I won't lie, I am feeling a little bit wiped!

Friday night a group of friends and I went out to Four Peaks (the mountains, not the restaurant)  about 20 minutes out from East Mesa. Bonfire was present, along with spidey-dogs, smorvana, and hooliganism. I did end up getting kicked in the nose. Nothing short of a great time!
Ended up camping out overnight, even though it was not planned, and going off-roading the next morning. Why in the world do I get so motion sick? So annoying, makes me feel like a big baby. But the excursion was fun any how!!

Saturday night a good friend hosted a BBQ/poker night. 20 or so peeps showed up. Good food and convo! Smorvana was achieved this night as well, with much gooey goodness! And don't worry... I didn't participate in the poker, I already have a hard enough time holding onto to money. lol

Sunday morning I woke up early made it to church in enough time to get a good seat and a cup o' joe. Small group was especially good yesterday. We talked about making choices and the repercussions of good vs bad decisions. Sweet conversation and engagement, very encourage to Heather and I. Hope to continue with the topic. *see "choices" post for more details.

Sunday afternoon consisted of lunch at In & Out with Camie, Brady, Lora and Katie. We reminisced of favorite Disney channel movies.
A few of my favs:

• Blank Check
• Zenon
• Wish Upon a Star
• Motorcross

followed by a sweet Goodwill expedition. Yes, I am a Goodwill scrounger, I love finding vintage treasures among a sea of junk, as some would call it. This particular excursion resulted in me finding Rose. Yes, my new couch has a name and I love her! I have been looking for a couch for my apartment for a while and hadn't found anything I like within my budget. Isn't she beautiful?!

So all in all the weekend was a success!

i am vine

He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.

I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 

This I command you, that you love one another. John 15:1-17

Add to the Beauty

Sara Groves captures words so well. I love it when you find a poet, songwriter or artist who seems to express similar feelings or ideas that you can easily relate to. Add to beauty is one of those songs that I feel emanates from my soul.

Add To The Beauty by Sara Groves 

We come with beautiful secrets

We come with purposes written on our hearts, written on our souls

We come to every new morning

With possibilities only we can hold, that only we can hold

Redemption comes in strange place, small spaces

Calling out the best of who we are

And I want to add to the beauty

To tell a better story

I want to shine with the light

That's burning up inside

It comes in small inspirations

It brings redemption to life and work

To our lives and our work

It comes in loving community

It comes in helping a soul find it's worth

Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces

Calling out the best of who we are

And I want to add to the beauty

To tell a better story

I want to shine with the light

That's burning up inside

This is grace, an invitation to be beautiful

This is grace, an invitation

Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces

Calling out our best

And I want to add to the beauty

To tell a better storyI want to shine with the light

That's burning up inside"

God has invited us, as mere human beings, to add to the beauty of his plan and creation. Unbelievable. The Kingdom of God transcends politics and policy, nationality, gender and race. It transcends the way we do church, and makes us a real live body of believers. It gives us the ability to be very different and still bear with one another. It gives us the power to extend the same kind of grace that has been extended to us, and to love each other with a love that never fails. The very real kingdom of God calls out of us, it’s inhabitants, beautiful art, creative lives, and redemptive work." 

-Sara Groves

fellow blogger...

Today I came across a fellow blogger...


It encouraged me to finish creating my blog. 
Life is not easy, but we have so many precious moments we overlook in our day to day living. This blog is an attempt to record/track moments that are unique and precious to me. 


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