Charleston, SC

We visited Charleston with some friends visiting from IL this weekend. Charleston is one of my favorite cities to visit for a quick weekend getaway . The city is just gorgeous! I love the flowers, the houses, the water, the restaurants, and the shopping!
Here are a few pictures from the trip







Charleston is full of creepy graveyards

Nautical Influence

Spring is here! It went from 50-90 in about a week! 90 is a little hot for this time of year, but I love warm weather so I'll embrace it! Its finally back in the 70s right where it should be.
Spring has me thinking about summer clothes, I love dresses, sandals, and especially anything nautical inspired!
here are a few wishes/purchases!
I bought these sandals today, they are really comfy and match just about everything!



I ordered this striped tee online, I haven't received it yet.


it looks boring alone, but I was inspired by Fabulous Florida Mommy




I am also lusting after this anthro top. Its not available in my store yet, so i'm not sure if its cute in person. We'll see next weekend!


Next weekend we have friends from college visiting us. We will be spending the weekend in Charleston, SC. I just love Charleston. It is a gorgeous city with good food, shopping, and site seeing. Its going to be mid 70s next weekend.
What outfits do you wear for this type of weather when walking around all day? We will be doing lots of walking there!

Decorating Projects

We have recently bought some new furniture and are working on painting and decorating our master bedroom and guest bedroom. This weekend we are going to start painting. This is our first house and neither of us have really painted anything, should be interesting!
In our master bedroom I'm going for a a calm coastal look.
I showed the bed we recently purchased a few posts ago:


We also purchased a media console. We previously had our TV on an ugly glass stand. Wow it makes the room look so much better!



The furniture I want to purchas for our master
bedroom is below. I plan to move our current furniture into the upstairs guestroom. It is an old dresser and night stands I painted black.


I purchased paint this weekend at Sherwin William's 25% off sale. For the bedroom I got a blueish grey. I had them colormatch a color i found at lowes. it ended up being too blue so I had them add a little grey. So the color is... my creation.
For the guest room I had them color match Restoration Hardware's Ash

I will post "reveal" pictures as soon as it's all finished!

March

March is almost over! In March we celebrated Johns birthday, worked on some home decor projects, and had John's sister and her BF visiting us.
Here are some pictures :

Our Visit to Chapel Hill and Duke ( Illinois is my alma mater so we are allowed to visit both of these school ; )
Duke has a beautiful campus, especially Duke Gardens. But it being only March, there wasn't much in bloom.
















John's Birthday Cupcakes!

Finally Vacation pictures!

Along the Black beaches of Dominica



















This is on our trip to Nevis- gorgeous island, makes you feel like you are dropped in the middle of a deserted island!

Sailing the Caribbean!

Ahh i'm still in post vacation depression. We've been back for two weeks now and its hard to get back to work!
We took a cruise with 10 members of my family. To some this could be a nightmare, luckily I love my family : )
I have been on two cruises previously. I usually prefer a beach resort over a cruise, but I guess I had never been on a nice cruise before. We loved celebrity! We had a great itinerary to St. Thomas, St. Kitts (Nevis), Barbados, Dominica and St. Maarten.
I'll post a few pictures from each place.

Big Purchase today!

I ordered a new bed today!
next up mattress shopping and new furniture!




I promise to add vacation pictures soon! I have been lazy getting back into the routine!