It's been a year since I've posted on our house blog, and a lot has happened since 2013! While we spent our first summer moving into our home and the following year building the patio ourselves, we devoted the most recent summer months to landscaping efforts, including putting in two gorgeous Japanese Maples, growing our vegetable garden, and planting many perennials, highlighted by some annuals for pops of color.
Loren and I enjoy visiting the farmer's market together every Saturday--even now with the chilly morning temps and colorful veggies replaced by apple cider and wreaths of evergreen--and I love getting my hands dirty. This past year I learned about clematis, phlox, asters, delphinium, dianthus, illumination begonias, and many more beautiful living things...
Over the summer we also began work on our nursery, formerly one of our guest bedrooms. Now, as we're (still) awaiting the little guy's arrival any day now, the nursery is ready for this new family member to be here.
Using a Noah's Ark theme, we wanted to stay true to the Arts and Crafts style of our home, including the color scheme and incorporating Craftsman-style touches here and there.
We've incorporated a number of local Motawi tiles of animals, in addition to a baby quilt my mom made--her first quilt!--pictured above. I also created an appliqué/quilted Noah's Ark wall hanging to tie things together.
Brady, usually not allowed upstairs, has been allowed to hang out with us there a bit more often as we've been putting things together in the baby's room. He's made himself right at home.
We're fortunate, in our house this age, to have full closets in every bedroom. We still haven't replaced the shelving in this closet from when we put in the high velocity air system a couple years ago--which has created the perfect space for the friendly animal decorations from our shower that our good friends Jessie, Z, Teryn, and Loren's sister Julie, hosted for us last month.
Another very close friend, Jose, hand-drew the image for the Noah's Ark invitations, which is framed below.
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