I am so sick of the snow and cold winter weather.  I need spring to be here!  I can’t take the cold, depressing winter anymore.  So to ease my pain of the fact that we probably have another month of winter left I am making plans for my hubby for this summer.  I am hoping he will be building a new front porch on our house.  It’s quite beautiful inside my head.

I want him to rip out what is there- yucky, ugly concrete that the previous owners painted gray which is now peeling.  I want it rebuilt with beautiful wood.  I want tons of flowers- and I really want some window boxes to dress it up.  I am thinking that it would look nice if I added a window box to each of the windows in the front of our house too, to kind of keep things the same.  Our deck that was built last summer needs a little sprucing up as far as flowers, so some window boxes back there would look good too!

I wish I could start a countdown to the nice weather, but where we live it’s impossible to know.  It will be here someday and I’ll be out there sprucing things up!

Last winter my DH took on a major project and renovated our family room.  It wasn’t very attractive looking when we bought the house.  It had dark paneling that looked like it was from the 70s.  It looked dark and just didn’t feel warm and inviting.  So he ripped it all out and put up new sheet rock walls.  He painted them and now it looks fantastic!  While he had the walls ripped out he put the wires for our home speakers behind the walls so you can’t see them.  I love the end product!

I’ve posted a few times about how I was going to get my fall decorating done.  Turns out to be a bit harder than I had planned on it being.  My toddler was quite insistent that she help with the decorating.  It was actually quite a bit of fun though to do it together.  And so far (I’m sure I’m totally jinxing myself) she hasn’t tried to take the decorations down.  I think it’s because she helped me to set them up.

Anyhoo, before I started my decorating I looked at a lot of home decorating ideas. To me, that is just fun to do.  Rather than do the same old thing year and after year, I like to change things up.  Before you start your decorating check out some ideas to change things around a little bit this year.  It’s fun and it will help to get those creative juices flowing!

It is time for my favorite decorating time of year.  I always look forward to putting out my fall decorations every year.  I have big plans for this weekend with getting out all of my fall decorations.  I will also add some fun candles to my decorations.  I was looking at some home decorating ideas today on myLifetime because they have some really fabulous ideas for fall decorating.  One of my favorite ideas that I saw today was this:

Isn’t that just the cutest idea you’ve seen all day? 

There’s so much more than just fall ideas- there are tons of decorating ideas to help you through your home at all times of the year.  If you’re in need of some inspiration and help with your decorating then myLifetime is the site for you!

I love decorating my home- it is so much fun to me.  I always love to decorate for fall and then for Christmas.  And with that time of year coming up I have started to think about some home decorating ideas.  Since you know I love tips and tricks, I have to tell you about a site that has tips for your home decorating needs.  At My Lifetime you can get hints and tips for your decorating dilemmas.  You get to post a question and an expert will answer it for you.  There are also fun quizzes you can take- and I took one today and my results were that I am a decorating diva.  Woo Hoo!!  I know you’re going to want to head over there to check out all of the fun home decorating ideas as well as all of the other fun stuff going on at My Lifetime.

My favorite season is almost here- I love the fall.  Every year I try to wait until fall actually arrives before I start putting out my fall decorations, but I would put them out in August if that was acceptable.  I have tons of pumpkins, pretty leaves to decorate shelves with, a pretty wreath for my door and a fall basket that I keep on my kitchen table.  I also buy fall scented potpourri, plug-ins and tons of candles.  I have candles of all sizes and this year I’m going to need to buy some new Votive candle holders to put some of my candles in.  I can’t wait to start decorating!