Valentine's Day Heart Pillow And Sheets

Hi everyone! I have, finally, finished unpacking the boxes (except for the kitchen) and we are knee deep in birthday preparations. But, I wanted to take a minute to share with you these cute Valentine's Day sheets and heart pillow I found at Target.

I don't, usually, do a whole lot of Valentine's Day decorating.

I like to switch out accessories like pillows, throws, and fresh flowers

without having to go overboard with a whole Valentine's Day theme.

In fact, I still have the decor set up on our sideporch that I used at Christmas.

I planned it that way. I used a general red, white and snowflake theme

to carry us through winter and right into Valentine's Day.

However, when I saw these
I knew that they would be a wonderful addition

to Hailey's room for Valentine's Day.
The pillow feels like velour and is Hailey's favorite color.
The sheets are a nice cozy, warm, flannel

and are perfect for the cold, snowy, winter weather.

Just in time, too! As we get ready for another snow storm coming our way.

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Christmas Side Porch 2013

I thought I would squeeze in another Christmas post before the end of the year. We love our side porch and because we use our side porch entrance, for now, it's the first thing we see when we come home. So today, I'm sharing our side porch. Not only did I use what we already had from our prior Christmases ( Christmas 2010, Christmas 2011, Christmas 2012), I used basic winter decor so we can use it all through winter. I also, created a little outdoor hot cocoa station while Hailey was enjoying the snow.

She liked making snow angels on her tummy.

And yes even in the snow, swinging is fun.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

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Hot Chocolate Bar

Every night after bathtime and before bedtime I read to Hailey while she has a drink and snack. During the warmer months she has juice, but in the winter it's always hot cocoa. A couple of years ago I saw this Dear Lillie Hot Chocolate Bar (I thought on Pinterest, but for some reason I didn't get it pinned) and have wanted to create one ever since. This year I am super excited that we were able to make our very own hot cocoa bar! We set up our hot cocoa bar on the breakfast bar in our family room and used items we already had on hand.

Yep, that is a sheet hanging in the background 

(we have gutted our kitchen and are trying to keep the 

dirt and dust to a minimum in the other rooms), 

and the bar counter needs to be replaced, 

and the trim needs to be painted.....

You can see how we used these apothecary jars for 

Hailey's 5th Birthday, Happy Birthday Part 3.

We posted about our basket and pitcher here, Our Home ~ Autumn 2013.

The pinecone tree we used in our Christmas 2011 decor.

The red Christmas trees, ball ornaments, and pinecones, we used in our Christmas 2012 decor.

And, so far, we have gotten the most use out of the garland during Christmas.

We have used the garland on our mantle for Christmas 2010, Christmas 2011, and Christmas 2012.

We are loving our hot cocoa bar!

The hot cocoa bar is set up, the Christmas tree is finished in our sunroom, the dining room is almost ready, and the sideporch is looking festive. We are a little bit closer to Christmas!

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Christmas 2012

We're back today with more Christmas inspiration! How is your Christmas decorating coming along? If you are still looking for ideas I hope you are able to use some of our ideas to help with your Christmas decorating. In our Christmas 2010 decor we used white, silver, and red to create a sparkly snowy feel. And in our Christmas 2011 we used green, brown, and silver to create a woodsy/woodland theme. Today, we are sharing our Christmas 2012 decor. We used most of the decor from 2010 and 2011, but wanted to use more red in 2012. So, we changed out the stockings, tree skirt, and pillows, and then added more red to the mantle. I love the reindeer pillows. We're almost ready for Christmas!

When I saw this idea on Pinterest, I decided we needed to make one too.

Hailey and I made it together and she wanted to know what it said.

After I read to her what it said she answered, "Amen".

This was our front porch.

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Christmas 2011

Hi everyone! Are you all ready for Christmas? We're still working on getting ready and still reminiscing as we go through our past Christmas pictures. Today we are sharing Christmas 2011. We changed it up from Christmas 2010 and went with a woodsy green, brown, and silver theme. Christmas 2010 we went with a white, silver, and red theme. We used all of the ornaments from Christmas 2010 and added more. We, also, kept the stocking holders. We changed out the pillows, throw, tree skirt and stockings, along with the decor on the mantle. This year (in our new home) we are using almost everything from 2011, in addition to some of the decor from 2010.

In 2011 we were able to see the KCS Holiday Express!

We will be back soon to share Christmas 2012!

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Christmas 2010

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! It's hard to believe that the Christmas season is upon us! As we get ready for Christmas in our new home, I thought it might be fun to look back at our past Christmas decor. And maybe, a little Christmas inspiration if you are looking for ideas this year. (For those of you who are new to our blog, we moved this past summer ( Exciting News! and Moving Days ). You may also like to read Our New Home ~ The Downstairs Before and Our New Home ~ The Upstairs Before. We still have a lot of worked to do, but you will have a better idea of the rooms I refer to in our new home.) This is our 2010 Christmas tree and mantle. We did a silver, red, and white theme. I love pillows and throws. I think they are the easiest way to warm up a room and I can reuse them year to year. I'm, also, able to reuse them for a different season or holiday, if I choose. These red and white check pillows and throw are on our side porch this year. We are using the ornaments, angel, and tree skirt on our dining room Christmas tree, this year.

We will be back later in the week to share our Christmas 2011. 

I love the reminiscing that goes along with looking through old photos.

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