i love summer

It's amazing what you can get done when you don't have to go to work for 10 hours during the day!  I love summer break...

I love NOT setting an alarm.
I love waking up and getting Peyton from his crib.
I love getting to eat breakfast and drink coffee while sitting on my couch instead of while driving in my car.
I love getting to watch the news or other random morning talk shows.. and daytime shows like "A Baby Story."
I love having nowhere to be and nothing in particular to do. 
I  love the feeling of having ENERGY.. and not feeling so drained and exhausted that I can't function past 4pm.
I love having time to clean, organize, and make all of the things I pinned on Pinterest!

And that brings me to what I've done the last two days...

I cleaned and organized our main level.  I filled and threw away three trash bags of junk.  Then I redecorated!  It all started with a trip to HomeGoods.

I bought new curtains.. blue with white stitching.  I am awful with measurements so they are too short as they always are.. but oh well. (sorry for the bad pictures... I didn't edit any of them and they were taken at night).

I also bought a few baskets so that I could better organize things under our sofa table.

I bought a few pictures frames so that I could finally make my picture collage on the wall behind the couch.  I moved the picture that was there to a different room, took a trip to AC Moore, got some more supplies and worked on it for two days.

First I started with the canvas.  I bought a blank canvas, painted it blue, then let it dry.  Once it was dry, I distressed it a little (or tried to).

Then I used yellow scrapbook paper (with gold dots) to cut out the word HOME.  I used white paint to paint the rest of the lyric "is wherever I am with you."

I also bought some paper flowers that I glued on to the corner of the canvas.  You'll see that in the final pictures.

Next I pulled out the picture frames that I bought on clearance.  I painted two of them white and cut out scrapbook paper to use as art inside each frame.  I distressed the other two using sandpaper.  In one I added a picture of Peyton.  With the other one, I threw out the glass and backing so that I would only have the frame.

Last, I painted yellow stripes onto a big wooded letter "C" that I bought.  I added some of the paper flowers that I glued to the canvas for decoration.  Then I planned to outline the C with the empty distressed frame.

And last... I put it all together to make a collage.....

Final product...

  

I also bought from HomeGoods the blue vase on the right and the lantern on the left.  I'm really bad at accessorizing.. but I'm trying :-)

Next I'm moving on to my bedroom... then Peyton's big boy room....then I should relax, but to be honest it makes me feel really at ease to look around and see organization!  Did I mention I loooovvveee summer?!