Bedding, Trips and Tips

As you know I'm attempting to decorate my home. So far I've found a few things that I think will help, albeit they are small things.

Yesterday I found this:



Sean and I are in need of new bedding and we both love black and white. I think some accent colors like red or turquoise (not together,don't worry) would punch it up a bit. Your thoughts?

Yesterday started three weeks of absolutley no contact with Sean. Since we first started talking we've never gone this long without texting, etc. So...this should be an interesting three weeks.

I ordered $60 worth of old sorority photos last night that I didn't have the money to buy when I was actually in college. Yeah...it was more than I thought it would be, but I'm excited to be able to put these pics in my scrapbook and honestly if I didn't buy them those events would have been left out as I myself had no pictures of the events. Those were the days before I got my first digital camera.

Did I mention that my parents, brother and I are going to be taking a Greek cruise next summer? I'm so excited! In all honesty it seems like a lot of cruises in Europe aren't that expensive. I'm thinking of taking a couple more while I'm here. I'm still looking for a reasonably priced tour to Russia. If anybody knows of any let me know.

Martha Stewart I'm Not

I'm back and ready to blog. The last few days have been busy with preparation for the event we had on Saturday and then last night I was so tired all I could do was sit on the couch and work on my scrapbook.

I have a goal in mind while Sean is deployed. Well..a goal besides the usual lose 10 lbs. I want to decorate our apartment. To really make it into a home. Now...I know some of you might caution me not to change a whole lot while he's gone so he doesn't feel like he's coming back to a strange home and I get that. However, since we've moved in we haven't decorated our apartment at all. We haven't hung any pictures, bought any rugs, nothing. Our apartment is as bare as the day we moved in.

One reason is because I'm not creative in the decorating department. At all. Secondly, for awhile we really thought we might be moving because of the whole pet situation we were going through. Now that we are going to stay it's time for me to decorate.

We have an Ikea not too far away and I plan on going there for some things. Do you guys have any Etsy shops you'd recommend for decorating? Any online stores you'd suggest? I know there are Italian places I could look at for furniture, but I'm not really looking to buy any good furniture until Sean and I are not moving around anymore.

Let's hear those suggestions!

Oh and one more thing. If you would, please go over to my good friend Sara's blog and donate to her Fight Gone Bad cause.
You can read more about it here. It's a great cause, I encourage you to go check it out!