Finally...a house tour!

I've been wanting to do a house tour since we moved in the house and I'm just now getting around to it. Which I guess is okay because the house feels like it is almost done! Isn't that the best feeling ever?!?! 

So to start our house tour I'm going to start in the entry way...not the front of the house with our amazing HUGE porch because I don't really feel like getting dressed to go take pictures. And I want to use new photos for this tour. I'll get to it eventually. 

Sooooo anywho. Here is our entry way. 

I bought a bunch of Ikea frames to do a gallery wall in our hallway and ended up using them here instead. Most of the stuff used here we already had on hand. 

The welcome sign was a $6 find at Ross a few years ago. The star candle holder is from Hobby Lobby around Christmas time. The celebrate frame is from Target. 

The canvas print was a cheap & easy DIY! I ordered a 16x20 print from Walgreens and then modge podged it onto the canvas. It's a little pixulated but not too noticeable. The frame with keys are all our old keys from our apartments in NE, GA and TX. The coordinates is the exact location where we got married. 

The owl key holder used to be burnt orange and lived in my Granny's downstairs bathroom that is still awesomely decorated in '70's style! The map is of Pine Bluff Arkansas where my husband and I met. 

Our initials framed is my favorite thing on the wall! Just cheap letters from Hobby Lobby that I spray painted and hung on the wall with velcro and the white frame is also from Hobby Lobby. 

Now if you turn to the left when you walk in the door you see the dining room. 

We hardly ever use this room buttt I love how bright and airy it is! The chairs need to be painted and stained. Hopefully one day that will get done. 

Tomorrow we will look at the guest room and guest bath! 

So stay tuned. :] 

Xoxo, Lady

This is H A L L O W E E N

Sooooooo it's spooky season! 

I love Halloween.

I love decorating and dressing up. 

This year was fun to decorate since it's our first time in this house. 

Luckily I had enough decorations to get by without buying anything new! 

 Our mantel was so much fun to decorate! 

 I just realized to show you all of the Halloween decor

 I would have to actually take photos of it all....

and I'm feeling lazy. So not happen today. 

Buttttt I will show you our costumes. 

We went to a party at a couple from our small groups house. 

Adam was Carl (the old man) from up.

And I was Kevin (the bird)

The costumes were pretty easy to make/buy for.

For Carl:

Glasses

Bow tie

Balloons

Suspenders

Jacket 

Total: About $22

For Kevin:

 6 yards of tulle

Blue tee shirt

Peacock feathers

Total: About $20

 It was such a fun night! 

And we won best costume!!!!! 

But let's not forget Bentley...

He's a pumpkin again. 

He won't wear the hood part of the costume

and he only enjoys wearing this 

so he can roll around attacking it trying to get it off. 

My Tinker Bell Pumpkin! 

Happy Halloween! 

xoxo, lady

Ambition pays off!

This weekend we got very ambitious and tackled a few projects we were planning to put off for awhile. I fell in love with a white dresser from Ikea months ago. At $300 I knew we would have to wait to buy it. I initially wanted to have it in our bedroom but didn't want to wait till we had the spare money to get that one I wanted. So we bought a dresser or Craigslist for $100! It was broken and messed up in places but I was okay with that. With FOUR coats of white paint and a couple coats of sealer it was looking okay at best. It's still in our bedroom and for the most part I'm happy with it. Eventually I'm sure I will decide to repaint it. Anyway, fast forward to now and last week while I was babysitting and the baby was sleeping I was searching Craigslist just 'window shopping' and I found the dresser I fell in love with months ago!! AND it was only $100!!!!! SCORE! So I emailed them and talked my husband into driving an hour away during rush hour to pick up this heavyyyyy dresser. I wish I had pictures of us loading this thing into my Jeep. We had to put it half in the Jeep without the drawers and put the drawers back into it while my hubby held the dresser by himself. Did I mention it was at least 100 degrees out!? Love that man of mine. :] 

Long story short...we put the new dresser in the entry way and we tackled the gallery wall I've been planning for months!

I wanted a gallery wall that we could grow with! It's definitely not permanent and I'm sure I will change a few things!

I don't have the greatest picture of the space as it looked on move in day...I could kick myself for not taking pictures of every room as it was before moving all our crap in! 

Just a few odd things we had laying around. The table has been moved from house to house within my family and has some wonky legs. And a huge crack down the middle of the top piece. But it worked for a placement piece. 

A couple of weeks ago I decided to add a stencil. I knew I wanted to do some kind of stencil on this wall and fell in love with this design. I printed the template from this tutorial at While They Snooze! 

Anddddd here is the walll with the stencil, gallery wall and dresser! :] 

I want to add a lamp and a few more prints on the lower part of the wall. And possibly spray paint the welcome sign yellow! 

Our next project made a HUGE impact! 

When we first came to look at the house I already knew it was going to be our house...the living room has 7 windows and lets in a lot of natural light. We loved that! We did not love the darknotourtaste curtains! 

Not the greatest picture but you get the idea. Now we loved the way the previous owners decorated the windows but at 14 yes fourteen panels...we needed to save some money before replacing all the panels. Curtains ain't cheap y'all! I looked everywhere. I thought about just buying fabric and making my own. I thought about buying white ones and painting them. THEN I found out Target has a new line and found curtains for $19.99 a panel! Not cheap but definitely cheaper than all my other ideas. 

It feels so much brighter in here. We are only half way done replacing the curtains...the old curtains had sheer curtains behind all the panels and above swooping over another rod. We plan to add white sheer curtains eventually. 

But for now the room is brighter and definitely more us!

A better view of the pattern and color! They match the clock above the mantle perfectly! 

Happy home=happy wife! 

Xoxo, Lady

Long over due-

Well...it's been over a year since my last post. I'm going to blame it on life! 

A lot has happened in the last year...

I moved back to Dallas without my husband to go back to community college.

I lived with my Granny for 3 months and missed my hubby like crazzzzy!

Once he moved here and we moved into an apartment,

I dropped out of school.

I hated it! I knew it wasn't where I was supposed to be.

Adam asked me what I wanted to do for the rest of my life...

I told him I wanted to be a mommy.

And a hair stylist.

So we toured a few beauty schools and I choose Ogle.

In April '12 I started cosmetology school. 

From day one I knew this was it.

This is where I needed to be.

I loved every minute.

I graduated in February of '13. 

The day I graduated we also become first time home owners!!!!

Here I am holding the keys to the house and my diploma! 

(I will update the home tour button soon)!

We have been doing a lot around the house making it feel like a home! 

I started working in a salon in downtown Frisco

but it wasn't that right job for me.

I did however meet Ginger while I was working there.

Ginger and I both went to Ogle and decided to open our own salon!

So Created By Faith Salon was born. 

We've been open for almost a month and love every second of this journey!

So if you're in the Frisco area look us up and come get your hair done! 

I am hopeful that I will continue writing! 

So stay tuned. :]

XoXo, Lady

lately...

lately i have been feeling so blah about blogging.

i'd much rather read some of my favorite blogs

than write myself. 

i'm going to try to at least post once a week.

things have been a little crazy since i last posted.

december was busyyyy! 

i was packing up the apartment.

but while packing, i was packing for dallas.

we went to dallas for christmas,

but we knew i would come BACK to dallas two weeks later.

i had to go back to atlanta to have a procedure done.

the procedure did not go as planned and i ended up staying in the hospital a few days.

and then feeling worse when i finally got to go home.

while i was at home i knew i needed to finish packing.

see, i was leaving on the 9th to MOVE to dallas. all by myself. 

so while i was packing all my stuff that i didn't need,

i was also packing everything i did need.

so if you haven't figured it out,

we're moving back to texas! 

i came early to start school.

we did not want me to miss another semester,

so i'm in dallas and adam is still in atlanta. :[

we believe the moving date will be march 31st!

so we'll be moving on my birthday weekend! holla. 

we're beyond excited to finally be coming home! 

xoxo

5 favorites

i constantly have songs stuck in my head.

usually they are my favorite songs.

sometimes they are not. hah.

tonight i'm going to list my 5 favorite as of right now.

the afters-light up the sky

eli young band- crazy girl

the band perry- if i die young

adele- rolling in the deep

band of horses- no one's gonna love you

hopefully if you like them they get stuck in your head! 

hand cramps

tonight adam starts his second job.

he'll be working for only 2.5 weeks.

and bringing home lost of extra mooooooola!

that makes me a happy wife! :]

so since he's gone i'm going to address our christmas cards.

and i'm sure my hands will be cramping by the end of the night.

but it will be so worth it! 

here is the picture we are using for our holiday cards! 

i hope everyone is having a very merry december so far! 

so far we have already gone ice skating and xmas light seeing! 

only 2.5 weeks till we leave for DALLAS! :] 

so excited to see friends and family. 

xoxo

christmas questions

a couple of days ago i stumbled upon an amazing blog.

sunny with a chance of sprinkles!

i just love her blog. 

and her daughter is a beauty. 

she posted some christmas questions and i had to steal. 

i hope others will steal from me too.

i love learning new things about people! 

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? i like egg nog but my hubby doesn't so i usually drink a glass at my mom's. but hot cocoa is a must throughout december.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? well since we don't have children right now i do all the wrapping but when we have kids most will be wrapped but a few from santa won't be.  

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? I prefer white but will probably try colored at least once.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? i don't even know where to buy misletoe. some one help a girl out. if i had some i would definitely hang it! 

5. When do you put your decorations up? the day after tgiving.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish? puppy chow and cowboy cookies!

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? one year my mom wanted a white tree but my dad bought a regular tree and had my sister and i spray paint it white. it seems white trash which i guess looking at pictures it does look like it but it was a lot of fun and i will always remember it. 

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? i have no idea. probably from my older sister. 

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? my dad's side of the family does christmas on christmas eve so we opened presents from our aunts and uncles and then when we got home if we begged and begged we could open one gift. but my mom always picked it and it was usually pj's. 

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? this is the first year and we used a red and sliver theme.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? LOVE! 

12. Can you ice skate? yep. we actually went this past sunday! 

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? well besides my engagment ring! :] when i was 7 or 8 i got a my size barbie. i LOVED that thing until she fell out of my tree house and broke her neck. 

14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you? seeing family and celebrating jesus' birth. 

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? cookies! 

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? christmas eve service. although it's mainly just a tradition with myself. 

17. What tops your tree? a star.

18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? i love giving! it's so fun to find the perfect gift for someone!

19. Candy Canes: Yuck or Yum? Y-U-M!

20. Favorite Christmas show? santa claus with tim allen!

21. Saddest Christmas Song? christmas shoes... i get teary eyed every time i hear it.

22. What is your favorite Christmas song? merry christmas, happy holidays by nsync....hahha don't judge.

Ten on Tuesday!

so i've been doing miss mommy's 

ten on tuesday's for a few weeks now

and this week she is doingthe i am________right now.

thing that a lot of blogs have been doing lately! 

i've been meaning to do a post like this for awhile now.

i also have been thinking about doing an accent vlog.

i'm a little nervous though. we'll see if it happens. hahaha.

anyways....

I am _____ right now:
I am - sleepy...i haven't been able to sleep in lately.I wonder - what god has in store for adam and i. I see - the good in people and always give the benefit of the doubt.I want - to go back to school and get a degree. i hate feeling like i don't have a real job. I pretend - that i'm okay a lot. i try to hide how homesick i really am.I worry - about all the memories i'm missing out on since i'm 800 miles away from my family and friends.I cry - a lot during the christmas season. the songs, the joy, the spirit...it's so wonderful! I hope - adam and i will have a big family one day.I dream - of being a person that impacts someone's life.I feel - excited for the christmas season! 

it's finally here...

the christmas season! 

the tree is up.

the decorations are up.

the presents are bought AND wrapped! 

i need to start making some holiday cookies or something. 

our joyful bar

our cheerful bathroom

the snowman basket was a handmade gift!

our cheery ottoman

our sparkly side table

on the corner of the bar.

bentley is missing a stocking though.

the dining room table

and the BEST for last....

our beautiful tree! 

i love wrapping all the presents before december.

that way i can enjoy the whole month without stressing about gifts.

i hope everyone has a very merry christmas! 

it's going to be here so soon.

and i can't wait! 

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas!

christmas is my FAVORITE time of year.

i love the cold weather and sipping hot cocoa.

i love looking at christmas lights.

i love wearing mittens and scarfs.

i love being around friends and family. 

i love candle light christmas eve services.

it's just the best time of year.

and you can bet i will be saying

merry christmas not happy holidays!

this is my favorite christmas song. 

doens't it give you the chills?! 

a very random ten on tuesday

well i'm typing this today from a hospital bed. i was admitted on sunday morning for pancreatitis.
it's one of the worst pains everrrrrrrr. basically whenever i eat it upsets my pancreas and inflames it which causes me to be in severe pain. so i'm hooked up to an iv with nutrients and i'm on pain meds. they are helping but i'm still STARVING! it's been 72 hours without food. we are hoping to hear from the doctor today about all of my test results and hopefully learn what caused the pancreatitis. i have had it before and its not uncommon to get it multiple times. each time can be caused by something different. so for my ten on tuesday i will be talking about the food i wish i could be enjoying right now. ( celia you probably won't want to read this!)

1. griffs- is a small hamburger joint i think only based in tx. it has the most amazing juicy burgers and french fires. i definitely try to get one whenever i'm in tx.

2. cici's- i could really go for some alfredo pepperoni pizza. i'm a very picky pizza eater. i dont usually enjoy pizza and if i'm rarely in the mood for it. i was in the mood for it last friday and finally talked adam into going to cici's and we drove over there and they were GONE! i almost cried.

3. granny's pork chops. my favorite meal of all time would be my granny's pork chops, fried potatoes, green beans and her famous salad. oh and the best gravy ever. when i'm in town for christmas i'm hoping she will make this meal and hopefully i will learn how to make it myself. although adam doesn't like pork chops. guess this will be another thing i eat and will make the kids eat and they will love it too and he will be left out. hahah.

4. pumpkin pancakes. since it's fall ihop has their pumpkin pancakes back and they are so delicious. especially if you ask them for hot syrup.

5. dairy queen's chicken strip basket. i love their gravy and texas toast. and of course you can't go wrong with a blizzard.

6. texas road house- i love their baby blossoms! taste like chilis old awesome blossom but i think trh is better.

man i'm starving. my stomach is growlingggggg.

7. i really want an apple with some peanut butter. (see i do like some healthy food, celia :] )

8. mary ellen's tea room- my granny used to always take the girls in the family to this tea room. they closed about a year ago but they had amazing soup and lasagna.

9. a pizookie from bj's. its a huge warm chewy cookie served with ice cream on top. it's heaven!

10. cheddars has a chicken caesar pasta salad. its amazing. i'm sure it's grossly too many calories but oh so good.

well now that i'm starving i think i will go read some blogs and take my mind of food. hope everyone is having a blessed week.

xoxo

This cracks me up!
I love reading things like this.
My favorite are...
#'s 2, 5, 8, 14, 16
21, 25, 26
& 31


I'm so glad it's finally November!
Means Christmas is almost here.
I have already started listening to Christmas music.
It's my FAVORITE season
if you couldn't tell.
Lots of baking and decorating
will be happen this month.

xoxo

(sorry the picture is so HUGE and makes this post extra big)

happy halloween!

i love halloween and getting dressed up but the past two years we have had no where to go. so this year since we have cute lil bentley i dressed him up and made me a poor man's costume. 

(magic 8 ball if it's not too obvious)

bentley wasn't too thrilled about more pictures. 

that's why i look so awkward

and have a fat face

i'm holding him funny and leaning back for some reason.

hopefully we will have some trick or treaters this year

we only had 3 or 4 little kids last year.

if not i guess adam and i get to eat all the good stuff! 

:]

xoxo

embrace the camera

today is the first day i'm joining emily from the anderson crew with embrace the camera. i have been wanting to do this forever and never got around to doing so.

my webcam apparently sucks at taking pictures but oh well. bentley and i had fun taking pictures...okay maybe just i had fun but whateve. :]

Ten on Tuesday!

it's time for ten on tuesday again! i'm going to list ten things that are on my bucket list.

1. meet paula deen! i will probably pee in my pants if i ever meet her. i adore her!

2. two step with tim mcgraw...probably won't ever happen but omg if it did i would die right there!

3. read 100 books in a year. (i'm working on that now...so far i've read 43)

4. have a romantic dinner with adambear in rome!

5. start a family <3

6. visit all 50 states. (think i've visited 20 or something)

7. read the entire bible.

8. cook every recipe in a cookbook...will probably be a paula deen book.

9. write a letter every day for a month. i started this in june and got to like day 15. so close!

10. own a zebra! hahaha i hope we retire out in the country.

photo dumpppp!

time for a photo dump update of bentley! i'm sure my mom will be ecstatic. she can't wait to meet her granndpuppy in november. she's going to come spend a week with us for thanksgiving!

bentley's birthday bone! our baby turned 1 on oct. 14th!

he definitely runs if you try to grab his bone.

he loves his little bone.

worn out from playing at the doggie park.

somehow he always ends up on my snuggie.

on the way home from the dog park. poor boy was tired!



he has definitely brought us a lot of joy!

xoxo

bentley nomiddlenameyet mckee!

that's right.....we got a puppy!

he is a yorkie. 11 months. and adorable. :]

he already has a few favorite lovies as i call them...

we love his so much! he is definitely spoiled. i already have an idea what i will dress him up as for halloween! now i just need to decide on a middle name...sound off your suggestions in the comments!

hope everyone is having a great monday.

xoxo

Ten on Tuesday!

it's that time again! this week seems like it is going to go by very slow! i'm already ready for the weekend. :[ so for my ten on tuesday i'm going to list some of my favorite shows. i'm sooooo excited that fall shows are back on!

1. one tree hill- this is by far my FAVORITE show. i'm a weirdo and feel like the cast is really my friends. haha.

2. castle- i recently got into this show and watched all of the seasons.

3. gossip girl- this was a show that i never planned on liking. but one night i was bored and watched an episode and was hooked.

4. glee- hands down this show is amazing! i miss living in texas and having glee watching partys. :]

5. grey's anatomy- lovelovelove! if you don't like this show mcsteamy is reason enough to sit through this show! mmmhmmm.

6. 90210- this one is also one i never thought i would like but after watching an episode i was hooked. i grew up watching all of the old 90210's but i think i like this one. (adam from big brother this season would kill me...haha)

7. parenthood- i love lauren graham anything with her in it and i'll watch. and i think it's funny that there is an adam and sara...although they are brother and sister. this show i will recommend to everyone!

8. all of the csi's- i probably enjoy this show way too much. i'm not psycho. i just love detective shows. if this job wasn't so grueling it would definitely be my career. i know that i would not be able to see all of that stuff on a daily bases and be able to go home and lead a normal life with a family.

(awww i miss warrock and gill!)

9. bones- this is a new obsession in our home! we love this show.

10. rizzoli and isles- this is also a new show to us but so far we really like it. i think we probably watch every cop and detective show! haha.

it probably seems like all we do is watch tv but i swear we are normal and leave the house. sometimes. :]

xoxo