Weekend Recap

I did tons of yard work this weekend!  What a great workout, my arms are so sore!  Manual hedge trimmers for the win.  Besides a Friday dinner date with the husband and a trip to Michael's and Home Depot my weekend was all yard work, spring planting and taking pictures!!  I snapped some good ones of my Easter decorations.  Let's take a look.

Here is a revisit to the Easter mantel with a much better picture.  This collection is a mixture of items from well, everywhere.  The hurricanes on each end belonged to my parents and have spent many many years on this very mantel.  The small canvas of flowers also belonged to them, so it is from the same era.  I mostly said era to tease my mother.  Hi, mom.  :)  I believe they were all wedding gifts which dates them back to the late 60's.  My mom always had tapered candles in them, but I like to mix it up.

The W I picked up at Hobby Lobby a while back.  The bunnies on the right joined the Ema's Easter Decor Collection last year and I found them at Pier 1. 

The bunny in the center is new to the party this year.  He came from the Lucky Rabbit in Hattiesburg, MS.  I love that place.

The eggs on the left I grabbed on sale at Pier 1 a couple of years ago.  And I just noticed my candle is crooked.  Awesome.

My coffee table has a large jar candle on it, so I put some pastel eggs in the bottom of it.

Watch out for cat laser eyes...they are dangerous.

This candle looks crooked, but in my defense it is burning unevenly, so this one is technically not my fault.  The fact that the candle holder is from Pier 1 might come as shock to you.  I hope you were sitting down.

In the dining room there are more bunnies.

On the left I have a long legged bunny that was my mom's.  He is not from the 60's.  He stands crooked, and I like it.  I have a theme working.  The bowl was my parents, I believe originally my grandmother's, so it is even older than the 60's.

On the opposite end, another bunny.  This one from Marshall's Home Goods from several years ago.

The flowers and the balls in the bowl are from Pier 1.  I sure hope you were sitting that time.

My last bit of Easter is on my breakfast room table.  This might be my favorite of all.

Tray (and coasters) from Willow House, bunny from Pier 1, bird from Trees and Trends (Hattiesburg, MS), candle and holder from Target, vase from Crate and Barrel, and the eggs from Hobby Lobby.

Yes, this is my favorite Easter grouping.  I am sure of it now.

Tomorrow on the blog...flowers!  Along with a tour of my patio decked out for spring.

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend!

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Weekly Finds

Last week the BFF Kasey re-introduced me to Adkins Architectural Antiques.  Oh, my goodness I could visit this place every week.  It is fantastic.  They have all kinds of great treasures, most of them old and some of them new.  I picked up a few items while we were there.

I had been looking for whimsical knobs for the cabinets in back bathroom and I was thinking clear crystal knobs would be great, but I hadn't found them yet.  Boy am I happy I hadn't found them yet.

If you have been reading the blog a while you know we are in a house that was built in the 30's.  The tile in the bathrooms is old school and the back bathroom has lavender tile.  It is not in the budget yet to do much bathroom updating so the lavender tile is joining us for a while (don't tell the husband since this is the bathroom attached to the man cave, but I kind of like the whimsical lavender tile).  Anyway, I found the perfect cabinet pulls for the back bathroom!

Hello, lavender crystal knobs!

There is no denying the lavender/pink of this bathroom, so I have decided embracing it is the only way to go.

Love.

I like these much better than I think I would have liked clear crystal.  Perfect.

Another find...this awesome planter.

I can't wait for spring planting...maybe this weekend!

Finally I saw this red glass hob nail basket that I could not leave behind.

I plan to incorporate it into my breakfast room shelves.  I think it will work perfectly there.

If you live in the Houston area, check out Adkins...you won't be sorry.

Other finds from the week include this wonderful soap dispenser for the front bathroom.

Blue is my accent color in this bathroom and I had been looking for a new soap dispenser.  I found this one for 7 bucks at Marshall's Home Goods.

Sammy also scored a new find this week.  A collar on clearance for 5 bucks and a blinged out new name tag from PetSmart.

Pretty Girl

Wow, that was a lot of stuff this week.  Did you find any new must haves this week?