This little heart of mine, means a lot.

Yesterday James and I were cleaning out his left over boxes from when he cleaned out his room two weeks ago. I'm in the other room folding laundry when he yells over "I am so mad at you!" I walked over to see what he was going to bug me about when he holds out his hand with this little heart. He said that mad wasn't the right word, but he couldn't believe he found this little heart. 

Four years ago, I decorated James' room for one of our high school dances with these hearts and other confetti.We were mean when we asked each other and would trash each others rooms to respond our yes or no (It was always a yes.) We cleaned them up right away, but it seems randomly we would get one stuck on our foot, or find it hooked to a sock, or just chilling on his floor. We would find one or two every time we cleaned his room too.

To find one in our new condo is insane. It has been four years and these little suckers are still hanging around. It made me smile though. I am so happy that I decided to marry James, my High School sweetheart. Finding these little hearts, remind me of when we were first dating, and how exciting life was. Now we are married and our adventure is just barely beginning.

10 things I love and dislike about Fall

Here is my list of disliked and loved things about fall. What are your favorite things? What are your most disliked things about fall?

Dislike
Winter follows Fall
Mornings are dark, Evenings are dark (Daylight savings)
Iced over windshields
Cold fingers and toes
Snow. (Most falls in Utah have snow!)
You can't go outside and lay by the pool (In Utah)
Having to rake up leaves
Waiting for the car to warm up
Ice cream just makes you more cold
Icy Roads


Love
Seat warmers
Leaves change color / Drives up the canyon
Boots
Fire places
Snuggling
Soup
Rain (This can either be a con or a pro, I love the rain so it goes under pro on my list)
Hot chocolate, tea, cider and coffee
Leaves covering the streets
Hoodies

Tomato Tortellini Soup. Recipe to come soon!

10 things to do on a LAZY Friday.

Today is definitely a lazy Friday. I don't feel like doing anything! Work is dragging, I didn't get much sleep last night and I have a headache. The last thing I want to do is call people at work all day about credit cards. Lame sauce. So I am writing this post, and making a list of things I wish I could be doing instead, and maybe you can have yourself a lazy Friday with some of these things.

1. Put your feet up and lay back to take a nap.
2. Make yourself a cup of tea or coffee and sit outside to enjoy the fall air.
3. Go and have lunch at your favorite cafe. Order dessert.
4. Take a nice warm bath.
5. Make cookies or cupcakes.
6. Write a love note to your sweetheart.
7. Call someone you haven't talked with in a long time. Like a parent, sibling or a friend.
8. Have massage night.
9. Go buy yourself a prize.
10. Make a list of 20 things you are grateful for or happy about.

P.s I love my new car!!

Before and after thrift finds

In my previous post found here I found these pictures of the old shade. I apologize because these are the best pictures I had of it. We (Jam and I) decided to slice our names into the shade. It was dangerous so much fun!

Before

I was also incorrect with where I found two of the three lamps. I found a picture I had taken and sent to James to see what he thought. I got the first two at Savers, not DI. I did find the third lamp at DI a few weeks later and it's practically identical.

BEFORE

They were $8 which is really kinda pricy for me. I do think the one at DI was about $7. All my lamp shades I've gotten for around $2 or $3 which is good I think.

AFTER

Except for this shade. This shade was sooo freaking ugly, I don't see anyone wanting to buy it for $3 and planning on using this shade.

BEFORE

I mean isn't that just hideous? As I was taking it apart cutting it to pieces,  whoever made this, put a lot of work into it. Each strip of fabric was glued to each other, then they hot glued every flower on, as well as the lace.. it just went on and on. Plus it was all on top of the ORIGINAL shade. Wow.

AFTER

Muchhhhh better. Plus it adds four times the light into our room and I have all my lamps covered with my shades (wires)!! Definite plus.