Fall Explosion

I decided I better catch up a little on my blogging since I've been a slacker since the wedding.

I've always wanted a big porch to decorate for the holidays, and with this house I got it. So I've been going Pinterest crazy trying to find some decorating ideas. I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted, but a little creative inspiration never hurt anyone, right?! :)

So this is what's been going down at the Nelson house these last couple months, inside and out....

Pinterest template? Yep.

Front porch, pumpkins, corn stalks, and mums..

A fall staple

Dollar store glow-in-the-dark skeleton wreath

Made for less than 10$!

Extra burlap from the wedding?

Why not make pillows after being up 23 hours straight from the CU concert :)

Out on the porch (So cute i think!)

Dollar store spider webs, sure why not?!

I really luck out that Scott is so easy going with my decorating. He doesn't mind a bit what I do, and to my benefit, he almost always compliments how nice everything looks! He's a gem :) Having a house of our own to decorate and go crazy with has been a dream and a curse. Why can't I just have everything I want, right now?! Oh yeah, these goods are a pricey little commodity...! 

But, slowly it is coming around. Not just with the holiday decorating, but with everything in general. We've finally got some things on top of out cupboards in the kitchen and filled a few empty walls finally.  

I found a 36$ topiary on clearance for 10$ the other day and snatched that thing right up! It's probably 2 foot high or so, and that's going to go up here too. I'm on the look out for old antique things as well - a scale and things of that nature. I used the spud baskets from our wedding and the milk bottles as well. That window, it's actually a cupboard door someone didn't want. (I don't blame them, see through glass?!) came from the wedding too. I'm thinking about blowing up some of my Grandma's old recipes, framing them and then hanging them up, but with the 12 foot vault, I think they may get lost. So we're still playing with options! 

This is in our hallway to the bedrooms. Hilairy and her husband Tyler made this for our wedding. It's just been sitting in our formal since June and it was such a shame! It was so heavy and the place I wanted it has the stairs going down, so I didn't want Scott killing himself to hang it. So he finally got it taken care of for me and it's such a statement coming in through the front door. This picture makes it look small on that wall, but it fills it nicely!

Since Sierra's is closing, I wanted to hurry and get a picture from our wedding matted and framed. It turned out SO AWESOME! The matting looks blue, but it's a really light gray color. It's beautiful. This image was one of my favorite from the wedding. The look we have for one another is priceless. Like there was no one there at that moment. It melts my heart every time <3 nbsp="nbsp" p="p">

Well, I hope this finds you all well.

Until next time,

-M