Happy Sunday! Happy February!

I am one of those people who loves Valentines Day! I know alot of people think it is just a "Hallmark Holiday" and my love for it has nothing to do with going out to a fancy dinner or getting a piece of jewelry or candy or roses. Will and I actually decided last year to only celebrate certain holidays; we wrote down all of the "gift giving holidays" and chose which ones we would celebrate and which ones we should acknowledge but not go all out on. Valentines Day did not make the cut, but I still love it; I love decorating the house and celebrating the love that Valentine's Day represents. 

Our Entertainment Center.

The fireplace mantel all decked out.

Our foyer table with my Valentines day heart I made. 

I unfortunately haven't had a chance to finish my paper roses, but I am going to continue to work on those, and I hope to fill up my silver and Pink Vase that is on our foyer table.  I did make a cute little heart pillow to add to my wire basket. I wish I would have made it bigger, but honestly it looks really cute.  

I am not 100% sure why my house doesn't photograph well, I feel like our house is perfectly dressed with just the correct amount of stuff, however in all the pictures I take, it looks so barren and missing any personality and character, maybe it is just because I am not a photographer, maybe there is a trick to really showing the size and scale, I am open to suggestions if anybody reading has any.  


Another project that I finished this past week were my Lavender Sachet's. I love the way they turned out, I will probably do more of these soon, perhaps as gifts. I have an idea for them that I think would be just darling. I will talk about this more closer to spring.  

I cut small pieces of light weight fabric and sewed them together as if they were tiny little pillows

I added light blue hearts for decoration.

I used whole golden flax seed and added a few drops of essential oil (I used Lavender but you could use any scent you like)

I filled them up with the seeds and then sewed them shut. (My hand sewing skill definitely need some improvement) 

 The other thing I conquered this week was completely reorganizing my craft room
I usually keep all mt stuff pretty neat but what I found was I had so many different types of storage containers that nothing stacked well and finding what I was looking for was impossible, so I would put stuff away but not always in the "correct" place. I had crystal bicones with crystal rondelles and I had acrylic flower beads with glass round beads... I just wanted to once and for all put everything in its own place... So that's what I did. I had returned a few items that left me with some credit on my amazon account so I ordered clear plastic containers and got busy. Cleaning and reorganizing the beads, turned into cleaning and organizing my whole upstairs... It was a busy week!  

Before

After

After

I am hoping to be able to get to the paper roses and one other project this week. 
I want to create some stylish storage ideas for some clothes that I put on shelves in my closet.
Currently I just sit sweaters, yoga pants and work out clothes on a shelf, because I don't have enough drawer space, but I have an idea to spiffy it up, to make it look nicer. 

My current mess

I just need to get the stacked clothes put somewhere that looks nice (and pretty)

I am going to take plain cardboard boxes and wrap them in printed canvas, they will look like those fancy (expensive) storage cubes but they will be easy and cheap to make. 

I found this pretty canvas in a container full of material I had, I must have bought it awhile go with the intentions of doing something with it.

free boxes from work

I am so glad February is here and I have been able to stick to my no spending plan and been able to focus on my eating healthy lifestyle change, I really am feeling energetic and optimistic about this new way of life, maybe February is my January,when all my new fresh things start, I don't know for sure, but I am going to try my best to stay on track and blog about it the entire way!  

I am so glad you are here!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Valentines Day and a great month, if you are struggling with spending too much and just having too much stuff in general, think about living off your closet, you can do it for a month or two or a year or two. It may seem hard and maybe the idea of not shopping seems over whelming because you like I, love to shop, but the feeling will go away and living off the closet doesn't mean you can never shop again, but its about using what you have instead of buying more to add to your stockpile, if you decide to allow some shopping while living off the closet, just shop for stuff that brings you pure joy and stuff you need to simplify your life or that will really add value. Don't buy to just fill a void, or for the transaction.