Happy May, and welcome to Thursday Favorite Things! I am so excited to be co-hosting this fabulous party with Katherine of Katherine’s Corner and a fantastic group of bloggers for this inspiring weekly link party for bloggers and blog readers!
If you would like to make some new friends, grow your blog audience, or just find some weekly inspiration, this is the place to be! *Bloggers: Please leave a comment with the number of your link up for a chance to be featured at next week’s party. The hosts are all looking forward to what you’ll share this week! (If you missed the last party and the AWESOME features, you’ll find it here.) To get the party started, here’s what I have been up to recently:
Easy and Stylish Spring-t0-Summer Decor Refresh with Birch Lane
This past weekend I shared how I have refreshed our living room and dining room from Spring-to-Summer with Birch Lane. I am just loving all the colorful changes around here!
I only have two more days of school left until summer break, but I am still as busy as a bee preparing my senior choir members for singing at graduation and the baccalaureate ceremony (the did a beautiful job!) I did manage to stop and take the time this week to smell (and snip) some herbs and to enjoy watching my beautiful snapdragons start to bloom! I will share more about these lovely flowers next week.
I will share more about these lovely flowers next week. My tiger lilies are about to bloom too!
Red, White and Blue for Memoria Day~Everyday Living
French Country Style in Shades of Blue~Botanic Bleu
Milk Glass and May Flowers Vintage Summer Mantel~My Thrift Store Addiction
DIY 2×4 Bench~Sweet Pea
Loving the Lanai~Living on Cloud Nine
Loving Lavender in the Yard and On the Porch~Penny’s Vintage Home
How to Extend the Life of Your Peony Blooms~Easy Technique
Mango Salsa~Homemade on a Weeknight
Hello dear friends! It’s the time of year when we book our vacation reservations for the beach and I start to dream of days spent relaxing by the shore. I absolutely love the ocean and hope to retire there one day, or maybe even have a vacation cottage in the not too distant future. Today I am sharing some easy, breezy coastal cottage style decor and dreamy beach cottages just for fun and inspiration. *This post contains affiliate links.
Decks can be used year round, and periodically it’s important to take some time for maintenance and upgrades to prolong their life. Then of course you can have some fun sprucing them up for barbecue parties, al fresco dinners, or hours spent relaxing with friends and family. My husband and I have been discussing the idea of adding a deck on to the side of our house or possibly even to the side of our garage which leads to a decent sized yard that we haven’t made much use out of. I have been researching deck ideas and trying to figure out which type of deck or patio would best suit our needs.