Painted Stripes

It happened a while ago, but I spent a few weeknights painting all the brown trim in our family room (by "all" I mean every single window frame, door frame and piece of molding) a creamy white. Along the way, I also painted and spruced up the half bathroom. On a whim I painted horizontal stripes in the same creamy white as all the trim and a super light tan that went on the family room walls.

Before (horrendous photo quality):

 After:

Family Photo Wall

One of the most neglected projects on my list has been organizing all of our family photos. We have photos everywhere, nothing is categorized and I'm petrified we're going to accidentally lose precious baby photos somehow. So, over the past few months, I've been tackling this seemingly monumental task and decided to frame and hang some of my favorites.

The metal "N" is from a little antique store in New Hampshire, the "&" is from Michael's and has been "antiqued" by yours truly and the horseshoe is one of the many we've discovered in the old barn behind our house.