Things that have caught my eye Dec 14

I don't know about you but when I'm browsing the internet on my phone or walking through a store and I want to remember something I snap a picture on my oh so handy iPhone so that I can go back to it whenever I want.

Here are a few of the things that have caught my eye lately.

I am LOVING all the Gold and Black everywhere. 

I love it so much that I decided to redo our Master bedroom to use those colors.

The Master is still a work in progress because I am being picky about what I want to go in there.

When I was browsing Target for curtains (which I do frequently whether I need them or not) I saw these gold curtains and snapped a picture because I couldn't decide whether they will fit the space the way I want or not. 

I love all the wood signs everywhere and I really love the look of words burned into the wood.

I am determine to make one someday soon.... I hope.

I LOVE everything about this outfit. 

I loved it so much I pulled what I had in my closet to try to match this for Thanksgiving.

I mostly love the frame, for umm.... EVERYTHING.

But I'm really into the vintagey prints right now too.

Aowyns room is all vintage so this would be so cute in there.

I see Subway signs like this everywhere, but its always places in New York or California and as cute as they are, they are never what I am looking for.

When I saw the Subway sign with all the glory of the South I had to have it, but the nearly $100 price tag made me choke a little.... so I did what any smart shopper/crafty crafter would do.... I took a picture so I can make it at home.

This picture is blurry because I wasn't sure if I was allowed to take pictures... so I quietly hid my phone and took one anyway.... its totally legit, right?

I want a table like this for behind our couch upstairs.

I really really want this table in my living room upstairs. 

I also really want the old apothecary ones that are the rolling carts... these pieces of furniture make my heart pitter patter.

Ahh the beautiful black and gold.

Some more the of the vintage charm goodness.

Our bathroom downstairs is navy blue and yellow and I "love" this for an empty space I have in there... but I'm debating about whether or not a heart that says love in it is appropriate for the bathroom. Maybe? Maybe not?

These beauties are NEEDED in my house.

I want them on my dresser in the master and as many other places as I can put them.

I'm just waiting for the handle sale at Hobby Lobby and they will be mine... oh and the courage to make the 45 minute trip over there with the kids.

I really want this print to go above the piano in the family room.

I really want some library barn pully's to go downstairs too. 

Every time I find them online they are sold out.... so as soon as my luck wins out I will have some of these bad boys in my possession.

This whole space just speaks to me.

There is a wall in our master bedroom where I want to do this. 

I have a feeling that it will take forever to get this to come together... (read that as: stupid Las Vegas and its inability to fulfill my vintage/antique obsession.)

$50 price tag? For that? 

Just wait till I get some burlap, paint and canvas and its on.

That pillow... oh that pillow.

I have a NEED for that Bakery sign in my house.... even though I'm not a big baker, its really just the beauty of the sign that matters right?

This redo!! Wow! I love everything about this space. I love the giant clock and the bench and the center piece and the buffet.... and everything else.

I stood there and looked at this forever debating whether or not I wanted to buy it.

In the end the fact that I had NOWHERE to put it, or even an idea of where I wanted to put it won out and I left it at the store.

I love the house on it. 

I really love the whole sign.

In the past I have just bought things because I loved them and usually ended up with a garage full of pieces that I loved but had no where to put them, so I stopped buying things unless I knew exactly where I wanted to put it.

Again, nowhere to put it, but I still loved it.

This is one of the first things on my list of things to make at the first of the year. 

It will go in the downstairs family room.

Oh the gorgeousness. 

Lets just take a second to gaze upon this beauty....

Need more time?

Man I love this whole piece.

I will be doing this with our desk, sometime in the near future.

This color combo just makes me happy. 

Aowyns room is these colors and I love to just go hang out and look at all the greatness that these colors are.

Oh swoon!!!

I love all the books and the ladder... one day, one day. 

I need this sign to go above the window in my kitchen.

Man, Ive got a lot of projects this year.

This needs no explanation. 

I will own something like this someday.

Its probably the one piece of furniture that I dream about and search for everywhere I go.

Its just perfect.

For a little while I debated on doing something like this as our headboard in the Master, but in the end a tuft headboard won out. Ill post about my headboard hunt soon.

I want one of these so badly... but that requires having the space for one of these.... and that is something we really don't have right now, so for now Ill just dream of the day I can have one of these.

This is what I am going to do with the vanity in my bedroom. I just love it.

I am also doing something kind of like this to the dresser/tv stand in the family room.

I have something kind of like this in our master bedroom. I love the idea of a shelf on the door with the mirror. 

Ill have to post my mirror soon to show ya'll what I did.

What girl doesn't love Tiffany Blue?

Such a cute idea for a jewelry station.

I want one of these mirrored dressers in my house... anywhere in my house will do.

I would really love to have it in my Master, but I won't be picky, I just want to own it.

I'm not huge fan of animal prints, but I do love this outfit.

It screams comfy yet stylish.

I.must.own.

I used this chair as inspiration for my chairs upstairs in our sitting area.

I love the tuft look.

I want to do this to the dresser in Landon and Tayton's room. 

Their room is vintage America, think Route 66 diner type feel.

I think this dressers colors would be perfect in there.

This piece just needs to be in my house so I can love it and look at it everyday.

La sigh! Its just a thing of beauty.

Am I the only one who takes pictures of everything that they love?

I promise I take pictures of my kids and husband too.... really I do.

Get back in front of the camera rediscover your divine beauty

The kids LOVE my phone.

Every since I got an iphone I can't ever seem to find my phone.

Apparently I bought it for their pleasure and not for my own use.

Their favorite thing to do it to take silly pictures and send them to Noah. 

I find a lot of silly pictures on my phone that I had no idea were there, but usually its pictures that we took together silly. I cherish so many of these pictures because I am in them with them.

I usually hate getting my picture taken, but I have come to realize that I don't have very many pictures of me and my parents, for the exact same reason. I do not want my kids to look back and have all these pictures of them and none with me.

I started getting in front of the camera, no matter how crazy my hair was or the lack of make up on my face. I want them to know that I cared and that I was there. 

I don't want them to grow up knowing that I was self conscience of myself or to think that looks matter more then people. All of my reasons for not wanting to be in pictures were just down right silly. My kids don't care if Im carrying extra weight, or if my hair is crazy, or if I have make up on.

They care about whether or not I am present. They care about how much I laugh with them and how silly we can be together. They will remember the kind of mom I was, not the kind of mom I looked like. 

I want to be silly with them and make funny faces.

I want to care more about them then I do about how I look for the camera.

I want to forget about my looks and focus on my heart.

I want my kids to know that what matters most is what is in their heart not what is on their face or the clothes they wear.

I don't want a pimple or a bad hair day to make them feel like they have a bad life.

I don't want Aowyn to cry when her clothes don't fit and she tries on 5 outfits before she finds the one that she feels the most comfortable in.

I don't want them to worry about what the world thinks. I want them to worry about the kind of person they are. I want them to focus on how they can be the best version of themselves.

I want them to focus on their divine nature not their outward appearance. 

I can say these things to my kids till I am blue in the face. 

I can teach them these things with my words.

I can encourage them and help them with their self conscience. 

I can try to instill in them a value and a sense of self worth and of their divine potential.

All of these things are good things to work towards, but as most of us know the greatest thing we can do in the quest to teach and help our children is to be an example to them. 

They learn the most from the things they see.

If they see me getting down on myself, 

If they ask me to take a picture with them and I refuse and don't have a valid answer for why I won't do it, then I am not setting a very good example for them.

If they hear me criticize myself or joke to my husband that I am "getting fat" or that I "look scary", then they will use that same "mirror" or measuring stick to measure and view their own self worth.

The only way I can change this is to change the way I see myself.

I need to stop tearing myself down or criticizing my own self worth.

I need to see my own divine potential and my own divine nature.

I need to get back in front of the camera and realize that I am worth so much more then I could even imagine. God made me the way that I am. I am his work of art and when I tear myself down I am telling God that his work of art is worthless. I am telling him that his treasure is worthless.

I want to teach my children that they are worth something, that every one is worth something and that NO ONE is worthless, including myself.

The world has a false sense of beauty.

Magazines tell us the way to look and the way to dress and who we should be.

They are full of fake, digitally enhanced, touched up pictures.

They are not real.

They never will be.

The worlds version of "perfect" and "worthy" is not real, nor is it attainable. 

Im not saying we stop wearing make up or dressing the way we like or curling our hair. I enjoy getting all dressed up. I enjoy picking out clothes and putting on make up.

What I am saying is that we stop letting it define us.

If I am wearing yoga pants and haven't washed my hair since yesterday and the only make up I am wearing is the smeared mess from the day before, I need to realize that my inner beauty, the real beauty has not changed. I am still the same person, the same mom and the same me that I was the day before. 

If my kids want a picture with me, the first thing I should think about is how much I love them and how much I want to capture that love for them and have a picture of that forever, not about how "unphotogenic" I look.

I say we all stop searching for a false sense of worth and beauty and rediscover our divine beauty within.

It's like my kids favorite song from the movie Frozen says, "Let it Go!" 

Lets shut down the myths and false ideas of the world and lets start thinking differently.

Get back in front of the camera and be the mom you always want to be.

And lets start cutting each other some slack.

It's hard to feel divinely beautiful when people around us are trying to tear us down, usually to lift themselves up. 

How about we unit as moms, as women, as people, right now and as a whole lets start focusing on our inner beauty and the inner beauty of those around us.

And more importantly lets teach our kids this, through our example. 

Then maybe, just maybe our children won't have to fight the same false ideas of beauty as we do.

Lets change the future, starting now, by getting back in front of the camera.

Lets be the example of who we want our kids to be.

Lets stop saying bad things about ourselves.

Lets find our knowledge of our own divine worth again.

No more negative thoughts.

I want my kids to be brave, kind, loving, virtuous and full of integrity.

I never want to hear them say negative things about themselves or anyone else and the only way to teach them how to be that kind of person is to be that kind of person myself. 

So starting today lets vow to end the judgement's and the false ideas of beauty.

Lets make a change starting today, starting within our own homes.

Lets grab that camera and have a little fun with our kids.

Enjoy laughing and smiling and don't for one second worry about what you look like.