Good Morning!
Welcome to the Summer Celebration Blog Hop hosted by the amazing Amber from
She is such a gracious blog hop hostess and her home is so cute.
If you are coming from Botanic Bleu, welcome. Judith is one of my dear blogging friends. She was actually assistant principal when my children were in high school. It's such a small world.
Her French Country inspired home is just stunning. I love those darling place mats.
Please hop over to Art and Sand when you are finished here. Carol has a darling cottage full of the California sun. It's always decorated in such an adorable way.
If you have been following me recently, you might remember that we were seriously considering a move. We found an adorable house that seemed absolutely perfect for us. We didn't win the bid and it turns out the buyer bid $22,000 over asking. We would never have done that but we were the back up contract so we got our hopes up. Once we knew that we weren't moving, we decided to do some improvements to our home. We had the ceramic tile cracked up and carried away so that we could put down hard wood floors. We also did some little improvements to our downstair's bath.
Our floors have been ordered and we're waiting on those to be installed.
A few hours after we finished the bathroom, our dog was attached by another dog in the neighborhood. She is fine now for which I'm very thankful.
I want this to be a happy post so we'll forget all of that.
All that to say, I'm over this summer - completely OVER IT so I've moved on to late summer/early fall decor.
Cheery sunflowers have been sprinkled about the downstairs level of our house.
It will be a few more months until we feel cooler temperatures here in Texas but I can at least pretend inside.
I'm going with faux flowers this year.
I've picked up two real bouquets of sunflowers but they aren't opening well or lasting very long.
I'm over them too.
I'm in love with the purple lavender and sunflowers together.
They're a gorgeous color combination.
Sunflowers and bees are a perfect pairing.
You can get a glimpse of our concrete floors in these photos.
Once the tile removal was done, we put the living room back together. I'm so glad we did because we may have a few more weeks until they can book the team of installers who are well versed in wood stairs.
I painted the red and white checked apple in the above picture and the sunflower painting down below.
That is about it for now.
Check out the links below.
Katie
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