Organize Your Christmas Cards in 2015!

Wanted to post a reminder about my Christmas Card Book Covers! In 2012, I posted instructions on how to create your books once you've ordered your covers, but just wanted to post some updated photos and a little reminder of how to create your books here.

First stack up all your cards. Then take 2 or 3 at a time and hole punch them using 2 holes of a 3 hole puncher.

After you've done that, take a few minutes to ooh and aww over your friends cute families. :)

Then put your book together using binder rings that you can purchase at office supply stores or even grocery stores. 

I like to put our family Christmas card as the first card in my books! 

That's pretty much it. Pretty simple. If you want to ensure that your covers last, feel free to laminate them yourself. I've had some of my covers for a few years now though & they are fine! Its up to you.

I love having all of my Christmas cards in organized books to display each Christmas season or flip through when I want to go down memory lane. 

Order yours today in my Etsy shop. If you want to order more than 5, send me an email (eleanorboynton@gmail.com) or Etsy message and I'll get a reserved listing set up for you to purchase. Let me know if you have any questions! 

Happy 2015!

Eleanor

Etsy Finds: Fun Little Planters!

These tiny planters all found on Etsy get me in the summertime spirit! 

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via BootsNGus

via RevolutionDH

via WindandWillowHome

See lots more HERE!

Boy Nursery Inspiration

I've gotten some requests lately for a blog post on nursery inspiration so I was feeling motivated this morning & compiled some pics! These are not necessarily ideas that are going to end up in my nursery, just photos that I'm drawn to for one reason or another. Anyway, here they are!

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via designsponge.com

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Hopefully sometime soon I'll have pictures of my own nursery to show... Won't be as cute as these precious ones above, but I'm gonna do my best to try! :) 

Halloween Party!

Last year Peter and I hosted a little Halloween party for some of our friends. All of us girls signed up for different food items before the party & it ended up being really cute so I wanted to share some pics! 

Dry ice green koolaid and vodka punch, halloween cupcakes and chili and cornbread in mason jars! 

Benson was a sock monkey!! I made his costume out of sweaters I bought at a thrift store.

Bat garland made out of a black table cloth from the dollar tree. EEK letters bought at Jo Ann's and covered with spray adhesive and glitter!

Votives with black licorice... easy and cute! Also, halloween straws from the dollar tree.

Candy corn filler in a giant mason jar. 

Meatballs in the crockpot.. yum! And cute halloween cookies made by my mom.

An upclose pic of the delicious chili and cornbread in mason jars made by Jen.

Upclose pic of the halloween cupcakes

Crescent Mummy Dogs!

Last but not least, the bar with a DIY chevron pennant banner!

Hope you enjoyed our halloween partay... can't wait to have another one this year! Just gotta figure out   what Benson is going to be... the most important detail of the party, of course. :)

Living Room Inspiration

So we finally ordered some new couches & they should be arriving in a week or so... which means now I can't wait to fix up the living room and make it cuter, as its been buggggging me for a while. The couches will be a good start, seeing as our old couches were UGLY (i bought them at some point, I dont know why) and DISGUSTING (thanks to sweet little benson and his toy licking fetish). Beyond the couches, Im not sure exactly what I'm going to do, I just know I want it to be colorful and fun... not drab and kind of boring like it is now. So here are some pictures that have been inspiring me lately:

Gary Spain Design

Design Sponge

Gary Spain Design

West Elm

Gary Spain Design

Signed by Tina

Interior Design Craze

The pictures are kind of all over the place, but each photo has things I like and hope to somehow incorporate into our space... Can't wait to get started! Next up will be the nursery! :) 

Our Home: Master Bedroom Redo!

I redid our master bedroom a few months ago but never got a chance to post about it! Both Peter and I have pretty much despised our bedroom decor from day one.. it was just always the last thing to work on since we were really the only ones to spend time in there. I finally couldn't take it anymore though & decided one weekend that it was time for a fresh start... on a budget of course!

Here are some pics of our bedroom before:

And here is the after! We love it and actually enjoy being in there now! 

Quilt from Tuesday Morning. Two small pillows are new from West Elm. Rugs from Urban Outfitters (mine is teal chevron and his is light gray chevron). Lamp on the left from Marshalls. Lamp on the right from Target. My bedside table is the same as before, just with a new pink knob :) and Peter's is a bedside table that I switched out from another bedroom.

I did frame collages on each of our respective sides using old frames I had (spray painting some and leaving some as is). On my side is my grandparents wedding invitation, a baby pic of my grandpa, a rhodesian ridgeback art print my mom & I bought in Austin, and some other fun stuff! 

And this is Peters side... his favorite thing is the black & white lonesome dove pic, duhh.

I love these wooden butterflies.. I bought them at Paper Source a long time ago and found them during the redo. I just sticky tacked them to the wall.

I added the curtain to the bathroom door for a little privacy! Also put up a map made of cool patterns that I got on sale at Urban Outfitters. I got the frame for that at a thrift store and spray painted it a metallic goldish color. I repainted the chest of drawers on the right (it used to be black), distressed it a little bit, and changed the hardware.

I repainted this dresser (actually using just one sample jar of paint from home depot, which I'm sort of proud of, haha)... it used to be black. I also repainted the knobs in the same metallic goldish color as above. The white rattan thing above the dresser is actually a twin headboard. I got it at a thrift store and love it! Also you can see on the far right side of the pic one of the new curtains I hung up. I found them in the clearance bin at West Elm! 

Benson loves the new bedroom too!