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Look who was unable to unearth the camera from the many boxes still piled up in our house!! Woot woot! It really is the small victories in life - right??   Well, I found the camera last night, and snapped a few pictures of the gallery wall in our bedroom this morning before getting ready for work (so ignore my reflection in the TV where I'm in my robe... love that robe btw). As you can see, I've made huge progress since the last updates I'd posted in my "how to hang a gallery wall" post but while the frames are in place, the gallery wall is far from finished... Want to know why??? Look closer...  See it now??  Some of the art is hanging the wrong way... upside down, sideways... and some of it is seasonal from Christmas!  Yep, there is one reading "Deck the Halls" hung upside down.  It drives me absolutely nuts. Sadly, Kris didn't even notice it.  Men! I'm in the process of pulling together new pieces to hang, that will be more cohesive together....

Unfortunately, 2014 is the year of neglecting this blog a bit... sorry guys!  While I sort of checked out after posting the upholstered headboard tutorial , and the grout makeover , here's the Readers Digest version of what's been going on in our world... We spent the weekend down in Santa Barbara, braving the stormy weather and looking at potential wedding venues.  All I'll say is we are REALLY excited about what we saw, and it's all feeling so real now.  Very VERY exciting for us... In other news, I started hanging art in our bedroom.  The beginnings of a gallery wall are starting to take shape... I had been holding off on hanging things up, wanting to get the walls repainted first, but I've amended that plan.  I just don't feel like it's realistic to paint every room at once. It's a HUGE time commitment (which I don't have right now), and a lot of work, so this room won't be getting painted in the next few months (at least!) Regardless of new ...

It's a subtle change to those that don't spend a lot of time in our house, but our gallery wall got some revamping a few weekends ago... I had been thinking of changing out the layout of our gallery wall recently, and then began toying with the idea of swapping out the art we had framed. I know... the gallery wall had only been up a few months, but there was something about it that never felt 100% right to me. I LOVED the La Baule print that had been there before, and the punches of yellow and blue brightened things up in here over the summer months, but it seemed too bright for fall. Here's how it stood a few weeks ago... The bright yellow and blue demanded other bold bright prints to help balance it, but the abstract prints to the left always felt too matchy-matchy.  I also felt that there were too few frames, and the frames were too homogeneous.  We needed more variety - in both the art and frames, and with fall on it's way, I wanted more muted colors. Originally, I...