Ziva turns 3

So if you follow me on instagram or facebook then you've probably already seen these...but here are a few latest pics of Ziva.  She turns 3 years old today!  Does that make 21 in dog years? 

 She's almost as old as i am!  We sure do love her, even though she can be a handful at times!  

She's our little baby...our blue eyed baby! 

an 8 mile hike

Last weekend we decided to take a last minute hike.  It was a little cool in the morning, but was pretty much perfect the rest of the day! Jeremy has been talking about how much fun he had and that he wants to go back, or to a different trail, ever since.  

 

The trees haven't really changed colors yet, but when the wind would blow leaves would fall and there were plenty on the ground to hear the crunch beneath our feet.

We got lots of comments on Ziva's little backpack!  Every time someone would stop to pet her she tried to shake that pack off.  After awhile we didn't see anyone so we decided to just let her walk off leash.  She actually did a lot better and i know she loved it!  

i'm sure in a few weeks all these trees will be a mixture of oranges, reds, and yellows!

"hurry up guys!"

bits and pieces//a mini tour

We've lived in this house for about 8 months now and i still don't have it fully decorated like i would like to have it.  There's nothing on the walls and we still could probably use a few pieces of furniture (small things).  I''m not sure why it's been so hard for me to put stuff up on the walls, but i guess i want to make sure it's something i really like and want before i start making holes.  Anyway here's a few pictures around the house...mostly in the living room, a glance into the kitchen, and a couple other snaps here and there.

upstairs living room

when we moved in we put all our living room furniture downstairs in the basement and didn't have a single thing for this room.  For the first few months it just had 1 chair and the bookcases up.  We hardly ever sat in here because....well someone would have to sit on the floor.  We gradually got another chair and a couch and the space filled up! 

i got both chairs and the lamp at an antique mall.

the chair on the left i got first and it came with some cushions, but they had an awful cigarette smell that i couldn't get out and i was afraid if i washed them they would fall apart.  So we found a bottom cushion and the pillows came with the couch.  The chair on the right it my favorite.  We found that when my parents came in May.

i got so excited when i found this Yellowstone Park pennant flag the other week!  I saw them at Yellowstone when we were eating lunch at Old Faithful and i remember thinking that i kinda wanted one.  Well i didn't get it and just the other month i was saying how i wish i had.  I probably had the goofiest smile on my face when i found it! 

here's a view from the front door...there's a little cut out in the wall that leads into the kitchen.  I had originally planned on hanging some stained glass windows or the windows i already had there, but our drill was broken and we never got around to hanging it.  Sometimes i put my flower arrangements there or in the winter i'll bring in some plants and may put some up there too.  

our bedroom. 

It's pretty sad looking actually.  Not much in it and just a bunch of wall. Our bed just sits on the floor and i really want to get a bed frame.  I also really want to put something behind the bed.  I came across something last week that i thought would be really cool...i just need to order it online. 

i painted the kitchen blue shortly after we moved in and i really like it! 

i made the curtains and put up my small colored glass vases in the window...it's really pretty in the mornings

aaaaaand this is my craft room...i haven't really done much crafting this year, but i'm sure i'll pick it back up.  

it's really just a giant mess in there. 

this shelf looks a little hoarder-ish 

So there's a mini tour of around the house. 

 Maybe someday when i actually have stuff up on the walls i can show you a bit more. 

Collection: Floral Frogs

In my last post i mentioned that when i was in Georgia me and my parents went antiquing and i got a couple floral frogs.  Well i got a couple more when we got back and i think i might be set on the collection unless i see one that really stands out and is interesting or a pretty glass colored one.  For a long time i would always see these in antique malls and never really knew what they were for.  Then when i actually started working with flowers i got a couple and would use them in arrangements.

The spiky pin needle ones are my favorite to actually use because they hold up the best.

But you have to be careful with them because i have cut myself a few times handling these. 

you can usually find a ton of clear glass frogs...but a lot of times they're flat and wide.  I liked this one because of the dome shape.  We did see one that was a really big dome that i kind of wish i had gotten, but who knows maybe if we go back (in Florida) at Christmas and if it's still there i may get it.  

and there was also a huge green glass frog in Florida that i passed up :( i found this one here in St. Louis.

I had been walking around looking for awhile...picked up a clear glass and a cage frog...and before i could even finish saying "I wish i could find a colored glass one" i spotted this green frog.  My eyes got really big and made a quick run to the table.

So there's 12 total and i think that's a good amount, unless like i said earlier, there's just one that stands out.

Jeremy said that i could probably find a bunch online and even get new ones online too...but it's all about the hunt!!

home

The other week we went home to visit our families.  It had been an entire year since we were last there and that was too long.  We'll be back again for Christmas so only a few months till we see everyone again.  Apparently it had been raining every day for a couple months or something like that, but i don't know...we must have brought the nice weather with us when we came down, because it only rained for a little while one afternoon.  I just hope the cold weather doesn't follow us at Christmas time.  Anyway, speaking of all that rain, Valdosta was looking pretty lush.  And my moms garden....looked like a jungle to me.  Maybe it's because i hadn't seen it in a year or because she works in a garden center and brings plants home all the time (probably both), but it seemed to double in growth since i last saw it.  Of course i took a bunch of pictures!  and a few inside too!

These are pretty much the only pictures i got from our trip.  Jeremy was starting to feel bad on our way down and it turned out he had pneumonia.  We had planned on taking a trip to Savannah, but decided maybe we shouldn't and let him rest.  We met up with some friends and family through out the week and we did go down to Florida with my parents one day to go antiquing. I came home with a few floral frogs (more on that later).  We also celebrated Jeremy's birthday on the 31st.  The week seemed to go by too fast, but like i said earlier...we'll be back in a few months!  So here are those pictures i was telling you about...

Top half

bottom half...it was hard to get a good picture in just one shot.  Last years Christmas tree turned bottle tree.

I've started my own bottle tree at my house. 

Lucy!!

me and my mom made the beads for my wedding and hung them above our cake along with a few other lanterns from an old fence gate.  We called them "love beads"

Some other pictures from home....here and here