Home Sweet Home

We've been in our house now for over a month! Time has just flown by! We're taking our time getting settled in more than ever before. I've yet to hang anything on the walls even. I'm just trying to be very intentional with every decorating decision I make, and I'm really enjoying  the decorating process.

 In the past I've never looked at the big picture when making decor purchases, it's always been a decision made spur of the moment. I'd see something, I'd like it, I'd buy it. I'd bring it home and whatever I bought wouldn't quite go with the vision I had. With this house I'm doing my best to avoid that situation by taking my time with the process. 

Since I live in a small house I want to keep things as bright and minimal as possible to keep our home from feeling small and cluttered. I've done this by painting most of the house white. The bedroom walls, living room walls, hallway walls, bathroom walls, and kitchen cabinets are all white. I love how bright and clean it makes our home feel. Despite all this there are still some major changes I'd like to make - most of them in the living room. Almost everything in it is a hand me down or purchased spur of the moment and almost all of it is dark. The livingroom is my least favorite room in the house. My parents did give me those mint pillows pictured above and they do make me hate the livingroom a little bit less ;) 

Every room (and also the exterior of the house) is still very much a work in progress. Every week we've been working on something. Lately the focus has been on the outside but I'm rearraniging and reconfiguring each room when Hunter lets me. I've also been making a mental wish list and project list of things to get/do to get this place where we want it. I doubt I'll be done anytime soon but I'm okay with that. I'm enjoying spending my free time working on home improvement projects. 

I'll be snapping pictures of our progress and documenting the changes here on the blog every now and then. Since I'm taking my time I can't tell you how frequent these types of blog posts will be but I'll probably be sharing bits and pieces on Instagram as well! 

- Reagan

Nursery Preparation

 We haven't moved yet, but that hasn't stopped me from prepping our space for Hunter. I haven't been able to do much, because we are packing to move in a few weeks, but we did set up our pack n play in our bedroom so Hunter has a place to sleep, as well as organize this bookcase with his toys, books, and little bins that are currently holding his onesies. I also had to share this adorable little fox my good friend Sam made for him. It's so darn cute and I know Hunter will just love having a handmade stuffed animal to cuddle up to :) I can't wait to get his nursery situated once we do move and I'll make sure to share the progress on the nursery once I get to that point, but I couldn't help but share a few peeks of what's in store (a lot of foxes and woodland creatures obv :P)!

-Reagan

Little Bits of Home Pt. 3

Like I mentioned in recent posts I have been wanting to change up my home decor. My tastes have been changing so I've been making little changes here and there so that our space can evolve as our tastes do. One of my favorite things is having flowers and indoor plants in our home. It really does help transform a space to bring some greenery in. I'm also trying to focus on a more natural color palette with lots of browns and blues like in my latest weaving. 

How do you update your home when your tastes change? Any tips would be welcome ;)

-Reagan

Little bits of home pt. 2

 So truth be told I've been a bit reluctant to share pictures of my home here for a few different reasons. One of the main reasons is because it's always felt like it wasn't ready or good enough. It's really easy to look at other people's homes on pinterest or on their blogs and compare them to your own.

 My living room isn't really planned in anyway, a lot of the furniture is handed down, inexpensive things we've added over the years, and a whole lot of thrifted items. I've always felt that it was sort of a modge podge of items and nothing really went together. Over time we've learned to embrace the eclectic look and have added a few items to make things feel somewhat cohesive.

 I'm pretty happy with how we have things right now but this living room is the result of a lot of work. I've been on a spring cleaning fling right now and my goal with every room in our apartment has been to clean out, and simplify. I've been getting rid of a lot of things that we've been holding on to, and it's felt really good to get rid of all the excess junk.

 

 Right now I have been trying to embrace mismatched bohemian patterns, fun textures, and natural elements. I'm hoping to add some indoor plants soon, but overall I'm happy with the direction our home decor is taking. Simplifying things really made things feel more open and bright.

I love spring cleaning and organizing, can you tell? I've already reorganized my closet, a coat closet, and the kitchen cabinets and I'm not even sure it's really spring yet.

 

Anyway, thanks for letting me share a few bits of my living room and the decoration/simplifying progress I've been making. I really love home decor (it's something I got from my mom) and I'm constantly rearranging things and pinning inspiration so it's been fun to share a little bit of my own living room even if it's still a work in progress.

-Reagan

A Little Bit of Home

Well it's Monday again. I don't know where the weekend went, it was definitely a quick one!
Today I have decided to share a glimpse at my living room decor. I'm constantly showing you all items that I find while thrifting, but I don't always show you how I style them in my home.

I love putting thrifted decor in my home for SO many reasons. I obviously love thrifting because more often than not it is less expensive than purchasing a new piece of home decor or furniture. I also love the thrill of the hunt, when you have to search and search to find that perfect piece for your living room, it has that story attached to it, and that meaning behind it can make it much more special. Of course another great reason to thrift items to decorate your home with is the fact that you're home will be wholly unique. You won't have to worry that your home decor will be too cookie cutter. When you thrift items and use second hand items in your home you're able to add history, character, and charm.

The only issue that I've come across with decorating with thrifted decor is that it challenges you to have a good eye for colors or styles that are cohesive. There are no home decor collections at Goodwill. You simply have to purchase items that have a similar aesthetic. I have definitely learned this through a lot of trial and error. My tip to you if you're interested in incorporating thrifted decor into your home is to figure out your main color palette, and what textures you already have throughout your home and look for pieces that pick up on those colors and textures already present in your space. For example if you use a lot of natural elements like wood, you may want to pass up something made of metal. (most of this is common sense stuff, but when you're thrifting sometimes you see a good deal and you forget that the item on sale isn't really your style.) It can help to save pictures of the various rooms of your home on your phone to reference while you look around.

I hope this post inspired you to thrift more items for your home!
-Reagan

Thrifted: Polaroid Camera Collection

Happy Friday everyone!
 I'm super excited today because, as you may have noticed, my blog has a brand new look. If you read my blog through a service like bloglovin' you may have to go to my blog directly to notice the changes. I hope this makes the blog both prettier to look at, and easier to navigate.
Now onto your normally scheduled blog post ;)

 My Polaroid camera collection is probably the first thrifted collection I started. I don't quite remember why I first became interested in Polaroid cameras other than that I just liked instant photography. I was probably 13 or 14 and there wasn't fuji instant cameras yet, and I don't think my parents even had a digital camera of their own yet. I remember finding my very first polaroid camera while at a flea market. It was a Polaroid Spectra. I fell in love with it, and so my parents ended up giving me their old Polaroid One Step Flash and my collection was born.

 I was given my youngest camera, a Polaroid One600 as a Christmas present.

I found one more One Step Flash at a garage sale, and was given a third.

I had a growing collection and spent all my extra money on buying film. I used to be so stingy with it, I remember being so picky with what or who I would photograph.

 And just when I had a respectable collection and a fun new hobby the Polaroid Film was discontinued. It was a sad day indeed. You can still find film on ebay, thrifting, or through The Impossible Project. (if you do send some this way!)

 The film being discontinued hasn't really discouraged me from wanting to collect polaroid cameras, if anything it made me love them even more. I was even given a Polaroid Colorpack II to add to my collection by my brother in law recently. Plus I always have all my polariod pictures to look through, like some from when me and Anthony had first started dating.

The funny thing is I used to come across polaroid cameras thrifting a lot. I used to find them almost every time I went into a goodwill, but I rarely find them anymore. I'd love to keep collecting them because there are so so many different kinds. 

Wouldn't mind adding a Barbie Polaroid Camera to my collection.

Until Next Time,

-Reagan

Thrifted Wall Decor

One of my favorite things to look for while thrifting is wall decor. My favorite things to collect are embroideries, pressed flowers and insects, as well as vintage wall hangings. I've shared a few pictures of some wall decor I've thrifted from time to time and I wanted to share a little update here of some of my favorite thrifted wall hangings.

 Most of the wall art I've thrifted has a focus on nature. I love incorporating nature and natural elements into our home decor because I think it is calming. This picture of birds is one of the first wall decor items I ever thrifted, and it has found a place in our apartment ever since then.

 This butterfly postcard was another old thrifted find that I've shared a couple different finds. I love this one, it reminds me of my mom.

 This embroidery is the most recent addition to my wall decor. I think I may have to start collecting floral embroideries, they are just so pretty!

The pressed flowers are a little older, but still a favorite. Pressed flowers is a great way of incorporating nature inside your home :)

Have you thrifted anything cool lately?

-Reagan

Thrifty Thursday: Embroidery Love

 I got to go thrifting recently for the first time in a few weeks a picked up a few new home decor pieces. This embroidery was one of them. It cost just $2.99 and was a good addition to my embroidery collection.

 This isn't an embroidery but i liked it anyway ;)

 This is a tiny little embroidery I just couldn't resist for just 99 cents.

I also added two new vintage vases to my collection. score!

It felt good to go thrifting again and I'm ready to do it more often. This is a great time of year to find awesome vintage pieces tucked into the halloween section. So i'm gonna try to go as often as possible. plus i broke one of my treasured pyrex bowls the other day so i'm hoping to come across some while thrifting soon. I'm pretty sad about it :(

Until Next Time,

-Reagan

Around Here...

1. I have constant bedhead. seriously. messy hair 24/7. 

2. My guilty pleasure: cherry poptarts

3. my first pumpkin spice candle of the year. smells amazing. thanks cvs.

4. always changing up our bedroom decor. 

5. my new toms!

6. so excited for halloween already!

7. painting progress!

Until Next Time,

-Reagan

home decor bits and pieces

 I don't think this is the first time I've shared a few snapshots of parts of my apartment. I like seeing people's places. Someone's home can tell a lot about a person. I'm not sure what my apartment says about me. It's full of items that were handed down, thrifted, or if possible made by hand. The things that were purchased from a store are usually modified in someway. I guess I like to think that everything can be repurposed or reused in a way that can make it work for someone, no matter their taste.

 Another thing I like to keep in mind when decorating is to decorate with purpose. I like to think about what is practical and also looks good. One of my favorite things right now is a wall with all of our hats hanging together. This is an easy way to save space with storage and also they add texture and interest to an otherwise boring wall.

 This place is by no means anywhere close to being ready to share a home tour or anything like that. In some ways our home will always be a work in process (which i suppose most homes are), but I am constantly rearranging and changing things here and there. I'm always trying to convince Anthony to help me paint something or move something from one room to the next. Lately I've been wishing I could build my own honeycomb shelves (gonna need your help with that one dad) and paint my coffee table white.

What inspires your home decor?

-Reagan

around here...

1. enjoying every second I get to spend outside. (so ready for the construction on the apartment's pool to be done).

2. painting projects for life.

3. organizing polaroids in a big ole frame.

4. crocheted a pillow. one side with nine black and white granny squares, the other with one large yellow square. it looks so good with the pillow i crocheted last time!

5. a quick and easy diy projects inspired by a beautiful mess, used a poster instead of family photos

& viola! new fancy shamncy bookcase.

-reagan

My (mostly thrifted) globe collection

 I've mentioned my personal globe collection on HelloNovember a couple times before now, but I don't know that I've dedicated a post to them only so, here is a post to show my globes.

 I decided to begin my collection after admiring my grandmother's collection as well as several on pinterest and in the blog world. Globes are just cool, they add that little something to a room it's added to as decor, and they are practical to use a reference tool especially if you have little ones.

 I was lucky enough to find my first three globes while thrifting at goodwill. The first three were all full sized, blue globes. I don't think I spent more than $4.99 on any of them. Even luckier than that, one of them was actually vintage! ( it still says ussr on it!).

 

I received two medium sized globes and one small yellow bookend globe as wedding presents last year and was more than happy to add them to my collection.

After having little luck in finding a new globe while thirfting I finally caved and purchased my last globe from World Market. 

 

 I love collecting globes and finding cool new ones while thrifting is a pretty awesome feeling. What do you collect? Do you own your own globe?

-Reagan