~Crafty Hearts, Warm Home and Little Toes~

~Crafty Hearts, Warm Home and Little Toes~

Thank you for visiting my blog, here you will find tons of before and afters and decorating tips all done with a small budget! I love being inspired, so I hope something on my site will inspire you. My husband and I have been working to transform our little house into a warm, comfortable, cozy and updated home. We are newly married 20 somethings enjoying life and livin it to it's fullest! Now we are on to lifes next adventure and having our first baby! Please follow us as we go through life transforming, creating and learning to be parents!



Sunday, September 18, 2011

Next stop......baby!!!

Yes, I said it and the answer to your question is yes I am...16 weeks to be exact! How am I feeling? Um like I have had 90 day hang over! I called my mom this morning asking her in between sniffles and tears "Am I ever going to feel normal again?" I could tell she was trying to hide her smile behind the phone and said "of course you will"
Right now I am saying YEAH RIGHT!
Don't get me wrong, I am super excited to be pregnant and to have a baby, but no one told me I would feel ugly and hung over for weeks and weeks! Sorry to be so negative, and honestly I don’t care how sick I get if that means my baby will be healthy.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

A Little Curb Appeal

I'm a little embarrassed to show you this picture, but this is what our front door looked like about 2 weeks ago (minus the piece of wood sitting there) What's even more embarrassing about it is we put a new door, screen door, painted the trim and siding, put a new door bell and painted the stoop.  Yep, it was even worse then this picture shows, if you can imagine that?!

We finally saved up enough and had a weekend without rain to fix the nasty.  Here is Ryan, my dad and Ryan's best friend Justin who we are lucky enough to be neighbors with.
I just think it is so neat to see my husband and my dad work together, the only two men I ever loved:)






Here is the finished project, I just couldn't wait to put my little $15 bistro table on the stoop, I am in love with it!  What do you think?

xoxo,

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

My Etsy Shop

I am participating in.....



For my Etsy Shop come check out all of the creative shops!




xoxo,

Friday, June 10, 2011

Our Potted Garden

Our first summer in our home, I told Ryan I wanted to have a nice big garden full of tomatoes and green peppers.  He really took what I said to heart, and one day I came home from shopping with my mom to a back yard garden...literally.  We have a quaint yard to begin with, but after he built the garden we had much less than a small yard, I couldn't believe it.  I didn't even know what to say, I didn't want to tell him it was too big because I had told him I wanted a big garden, so I said "oh my goodness, I love it!"  and for that summer we had enough tomatoes to feed the neighborhood.
 Well each summer since then our garden had gotten smaller and smaller.  This year I decided to try something a little different...a potted garden.  We really only eat tomatoes and green peppers and like to cook with basil and cilantro, so I really didn't see the need for a big garden taking up space in our yard. 
We had some extra fence boards from our fence project last summer so we used those to make the garden boxes.


I thought about staining them, but I know by next year if I leave them natural they will get a rustic look.
Here are the little green peppers when I first planted them.  I was nervous that each plant wouldn't have enough room, but they seem to be growing great.

This is what the garden started out looking like, but I move some things around....

Here is what it looks like now.  Don't mind the two toned deck, we just added on last week and we still need to paint it all:)

Ryan made a bigger box for the tomatos because I think they will need more room to grow.

xoxo,

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Can't find bar stools you like under $150? Make your own!

Our bar in our kitchen is a little higher then we would have liked, but because we have the stove in front of it, that's the way it had to be. So finding 34inch bar stools that were in our price range was IMPOSSIBLE!  We searched everywhere, online, target, Ikea, and everywhere in between.  We decided to try to make our own just for kicks and giggles:)  



Sorry for the side view, here is the stool while we were checking the height.  We used deck spindles as the legs you can buy at any hardware store, and used some ply wood we had left over from a different project.  We bought some bracket for each leg rest just for some extra support.
I had some left over fabric from the curtains I made for our kitchen and for the chair re-do we did in February.

and here is the finished project, they totally fit the purpose and the grand total for 2 bar stools that are 34 inches tall......under $50!! 
xoxo, 

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Our Home's Before and Afters

Little by little I have been compiling our before and after time-line of our home. We are getting down to the details instead of the BIG projects that used to take up all of our time. Honesty it feels good but strange to be sitting here in our new finished basement with nothing to really do. I think part of that is because it is so stinkin cold and windy that we can't do anything outside, we are in May right?










Click on this link  BEFORE AND AFTERS to see more Before and Afters:) Happy Sunday!!




Saturday, May 7, 2011

~Time~

Ryan and I were talking this morning about how fast time is going, we have almost been married for a year and have been in each others lives for over 11! Crazy, Crazy! I can only imagine how fast it is going to go once we have kids. Talking about it made we go through some of our wedding pictures I have on our blog and thought I would share. I know wedding season is quickly approaching, you can tell because the side of our fridge is wrapped in "save the dates", "Your invited to a shower" and wedding invites. We have a fun summer to look forward to, with lots of dancing!!!
Here are some DIY projects we did for our wedding



~until next time.
xoxo,

Friday, April 29, 2011

Old gray dresser turned cute little buffet table

I had been looking for a little dresser to transform into a buffet table for awhile, but everything I found was either too big or too expensive (if I have to re-do something I better get it for a good deal!)  So I was having no luck:(  My husband went over to help his good friend down the street with something and came back saying he found me a buffet table and here it is  :)



It was his friends old dresser from when he was a kid, and he was throwing it out!!!  I cant believe how perfect it is....going to be!
Here it is all sanded and with a fresh coat of espresso paint for the top.
and here it is in its new home....ahhh love!



xo,

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

I heart Built Ins!!!

We looked into buying an entertainment center and then after a few "are you kidding, they want that much for that?"  my determined husband decided to build it, and I am so glad he did!

 He didn't have a plan, just a Pottery Barn picture I cut out a few months back.
 He used MDF and then trimmed it out the same way we did the bar you can see HERE

I just went through and primed it and gave it about 3-4 coats of trim paint 

Then my favorite part, I gathered things I had around the house that weren't being used and DECORATED!!  My goal was to only buy from re-sale shops for decoration, so far I'm doing well (except for that HOME sign, but I did get it 50% off at Hobby Lobby)


Here is a different angle to see how the basement is set up.  Honestly we haven't turned the TV on upstairs since we got our couch last week:)  I hope we continue to use it like we are now.  Oh yeah, the best part....not including the labor, just materials for the entertainment center cost under $200 for MDF, trim, trim paint and hardware.  We had the primer paint already.  Not too bad, considering we were looking at them online for $1500-$2500
Happy Tuesday:)

Monday, April 25, 2011

Blog Hopping

There are some wonderful projects to check out on this blog hop (it's one of my favorites) Tons of ideas and great inspiration!!




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