Lean Back - Entry Way Update

A couple of weeks ago I talked about wanting to update our entryway. I wanted our entryway to have personalty and flow better with our living room. It was BLAH and unwelcoming. Well I'm happy to say it's updated and so pretty! I love sitting on our sofa and glancing over at the huge difference it makes in our house. Here's a sneek peek at our updated entryway.

Pictures leaning back

New Rug

Chic White Wreath

Every since I made a spooky black feather wreath for Halloween, I was looking forward to making a Chic little white wreath for Christmas to hang over our mirror in the living room. While on a recent trip to the Dollar Tree Store I bought a white styrofoam wreath to start my project. At Michael’s Craft store I picked up three feather boas for $1.99 each - each boa is 6 feet in length.

I begin my project by using my glue gun and attaching the end of the boa around the wreath and then wrapping. It's amazing how quick the wreath starts to take shape and look so pretty and chic!

I keep my wreath simple and just use left over white ribbon from my wedding to hang the wreath. I decided to hang our wreath over our SUPER large mirror. I love how the wreath is so fluffy white and delicate.

Total Wreath Cost: $ 6.97

$ 1.00 for the Styrofoam Wreath

$ 5.97 for three White Feather Boas

Free White Ribbon, had on hand

Holiday Shopping

Have you been to your local Dollar Tree store lately? If not you'll be amazed by all the great holiday ornaments they have. The have a great selection of traditional holiday ornaments and contemporary color ornaments: whites, gold’s, silver and purple and much more. I picked up a box of delicate glass ornaments with snowflakes on them. For Christmas we love decorating our house in silver, white and teal blue. I was really happy to find they had our colors! I also found some simple teal blue and silver ball ornaments and some snowflakes.

My favorite find of the day are these little white birds! There are so cute, I might have to go back and get some more. I also picked up a white styrofoam wreath for a DIY holiday wreath.

Pillow Fever

I'm pretty sure I have pillow fever, I adore how pillows and how they dress up a sofa in an instant. Pillows can be daring, bold, muted but there all lovely - except for the tacky frumpy grandma ones. So not my stlye. I did a pillow count the other day, we have SEVEN pillows, yes SEVEN pillows in our living room alone. All my pillows are solids except for some bright yellow ones I found at Target. After much considerariton and to the likly dismay of Mr. CHL I decided our room needs two more pillows. Lumbar pillows to be exact. The lumber pillows will replace the excisting pillows that came with our armless chairs - we don't currently use those pillows. I think the fabric is too chucky in texture to be used as a pillow. The current pillow cover is also badly made and when it sits on the chair it looks mushy and misshapen.

I was thinking of just buying new pillows, but after a little looking I didn;t like the price for them! you can call me cheap, or inventive. So I decided to make new pillow covers for the current lumbar pillows. I wasn't sure if I wanted yet another solid color or something with pop. If I was going to a solid, I was just going to play it safe and go with white. But while I was shopping for fabric for my piano bench, I came across this amazing fabric white and yellow fabric. I'm in love.

Here's a teaser picture, my mom and I stopped in Calico Corners after seeing New Moon (yes I held this bit of information back from Sundays post!!)

Now I (we) paintely wait for my fabric to arrive for 10 long days, so I can get down to business. I leave you with these amazing pillows on simple clean lined sofas with plush pillows.

I hoping with some new pillows and rehanging our artwork, adding more textures...our living room will pop more like the ones above.

{ these picutres are from various google searches before I started blogging - Unknown sources }