craft corner

When Grant and I moved into our house, we were a little concerned at first about how we were going to fill it.  I mean, how were we going to take everything from our small two bedroom apartment in Provo and fill a four bedroom house?  One of the perks of living close to family is that they give you things they're getting rid of for free!  With all of our furniture from Provo and several things from my generous parents (my old bedroom furniture, a love sac they used to have in their gameroom, the piano, etc.) we've been able to make our house look pretty nice!  The only things we've really had to get were some new couches (which we didn't actually need, but wanted), Emily's bedroom furniture, and some small decorative touches.  The house is coming along great, and hopefully it won't be too long until we're ready to post pictures of the finished product.
One of the things we received from my parents that I'm most excited about is this secretary:

This has been in my parents' entryway for as long as I can remember. My mom was ready for a change and asked if I'd be interested in it before we ever even moved to Texas.  I didn't think I'd have any use for it as it was, but thanks to Pinterest, I knew it could come in handy... as my craft closet!!  I was so excited!  Over the past few weeks, my mom and I have been getting it ready.  We sanded it, painted it, changed the hardware, and changed out the windows for fabric and voila...

Isn't it cute?  I can't wait for the boys to come over and bring it up to my craft room.  Yes, that's right, I said craft room!  Having my own craft room has always been a dream of mine that I never really thought would become a reality.  The floor plan of our home usually has 2 full bathrooms upstairs instead of 1, but when our house was built, they turned one of the bathrooms into a small bonus room, which has now become my craft room!  I'm one happy girl :)

I've also been spending some time making the house look a little more festive for Valentine's day.  Here's what I've been working on:

The silver tree with the ornaments is something my mom got for me and my sister at Halloween.  She gave it to us with some Halloween ornaments.  Fleming and I have decided to make it a year-round thing, so each month we've been looking for ornaments to put on our tree.  I've also decided to keep the vase out all year and change out the candy and flowers.  We'll see how all of that goes!  I'll be sure to post pictures!

In other news, us girls decided to have a little fun for the Superbowl this year.  We turned to Pinterest for ideas and created a little feast for all of the boys.  It was so fun!  Fleming and Jeff hosted the party at their house so we could break in their new 60 inch TV and we all had a great time!