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It's finally Friday! Time to put this week to an end. Today I am linking up with Lauren for this week's Top 5!

1. Started a new women's bible study!



2. Hit the two month mark until our wedding day!

3. Got my fall magazines in the mail!

4. Had my first ever homemade applesauce!



5. Came home to this.... I can't wait to open it and see what it is! I love gift registries!


Hope you have a great weekend!! We will be heading over to Tampa again when we get out of work. This weekend we have our engagement shoot with the photographer, a final meeting with the caterer and another wedding hair trial!!

Sweet Day!

Renovation: Impact Windows & Doors

Words simply can not describe how happy I feel writing this post from my "home office". With all of the renovations that have been going on, it's been impossible to actually set this gem up. For now, it is filled with mismatched furniture but I don't care. The fact that I have this little {crafting, sewing, blogging, planning} space all to myself makes me a very grateful girl!

Speaking of renovations....

Want to see what we've been up to??


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It's amazing what windows and doors can actually do to a house! Overall, we're extremely pleased with the turn out and can't wait to keep on renovating!!!

Sweet Day! It's almost the weekend!

Fall Wreath Tutorial

There is nothing more cozy than coming home to a welcoming wreath! Believe it or not, I can usually tell the neighborhood homemakers by their front door. Am I the only one who thinks these things?

Well, anyways...as soon as we got our new front door, I knew I had to make a wreath & what better season to have a wreath than fall.


Materials Needed:
- a natural wreath (I used a 24" one)
- small bag of pine cones and orange pods
- hot glue gun
- wire cutter
- a handful of artificial wheat stalks
- artificial orange yarrow stems
- artificial yellow caspia stems


1. Start by laying all of the materials out in piles. Cut the different stalks down to the right size. This way, it is easier to lay them on the wreath before being glued.
2. Lay the yellow caspia stems all around. Make sure you stay in the same direction from start to finish.
3. Place the orange stems and wheat stalks throughout.
4. Place the cones and pods all around.
5. Once you have the wreath that you want, take everything off & begin to glue one by one!

My rule of thumb is generally to make everything symmetrical.  Once I have everything on the wreath, I then gently remove it all and place it down so I can remember where each piece went.

Lastly, I begin to glue all of the pieces to the wreath one group at a time. Example: glue all of the yellow caspia, then move onto the orange yarrow stems etc.

To hang: I used a command hook because our door is glass and I wanted the hook to be invisible. Command hooks are really great for hanging wreaths without leaving any marks your door!


Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed this tutorial! 

How To Keep A Clean House

I know I have been talking about house renovations for a while now and have yet to show you pictures.. I promise, they are coming! Actually, for the next 3 days, all I will be talking about is homes.

As we all know, after major renovations, houses get dirty. So, in an effort to make my house squeaky clean, I composed a cleaning schedule to help me stay on task.

My version of 15 minutes a day to a cleaner house!


How did I create my list? Easy. I set up two columns. One with the days I could clean, and the other with the house chores. I then matched chores to days and made sure they were about even in completion time.

 Have I convinced you? You should try one! I promise it will make you feel very accomplished. I would say to use my list, but you know your home much better that I do!

Are you a list type of cleaner? Are you a list type of person? Throughout the years, I have come to realize that I cannot function without lists. I make a new to-do list every Monday morning. I guess you could say it organizes my brain.

Sweet Day & Happy Cleaning!

P.S In exactly 2 months, I will be walking down the isle saying "I do" to my best friend! Talk about excited!!