I finally feel like I have a grown-up master bedroom and I am in love!!!! We decided we wanted to spruce up our bedroom with some easy inexpensive updates. Here is what we did: fresh paint, wallpaper accent wall, new bedding, and a new mattress! What a difference this all made. I now spend a lot of time chilling in bed with some relaxing essential oils diffusing, while I work on content for my Instagram page. Read below for updates. I linked all the sources.

Paint- I spent a lot of time over on Pinterest trying to find the perfect white paint color. If you start researching white paints it can be very overwhelming. I never realized how many different shades of white pop-up when you type it into google! I wanted something with some grey tones. I didn’t want it to be creamy or stark white. I finally decided to go with INTENSE WHITE OC-51 by Benjamin Moore. Let me tell you I LOVE this color. It is very sophisticated and tranquil. It’s the perfect balance of white with a tint of grey. I plan on using it in Winter’s bedroom, and basically the whole rest of the whole is getting repainted in this dreamy color! I think it looks good in any room in your home.

Accent wallpaper- Our cedar trees accent wallpaper is everything I wanted and more! It is very inviting and brings me a sense of peace. I have always been drawn to trees so, when I saw this wallpaper I knew I needed to have it. It is from B Darling. They have tons of options for wallpaper and decals. (Flowers, trees, ferns, animals, tribal print, tiles). The wallpaper is vinyl and is removable and damage free. I am not much of a DIY type of person, so I was nervous my husband and I wouldn’t be able to pull this off. It was so easy! The wallpaper came in 5 stripes that you peel off like a sticker. We started on the left side of the wall and hung it top from bottom. We rubbed our hands over the paper as we applied it in a circular motion to get any air bubbles out. We then used scissors at the bottom to cut off any extra paper. BAM it was done and looks great!

Bedding- If you want to update your room and don’t have the time or money I think the first thing you should consider is getting new bedding. My sheets, pillow shams, and duvet cover are from Linen and Hutch. Their bedding is so soft it’s like sleeping on a cloud. I have had their sheets for months and they are holding up nicely and wash really well every time! They have really pretty print options for sheets. If prints aren’t your thing they have solid bedding in any color you would need.

Mattress. Our old mattress was 10 years old and worn out. I wanted something that was firm yet soft and ecofriendly. You spend 1/3 of your life asleep so, it needed to be perfect. I discovered this company called My Green Mattress They handcraft all their mattress’s in Illinois, use organic cotton, American eco-wool, and organic Dunlop latex. The mattress is delivered to your home in a box and all you do is unopened and throw it on your bed.

Thanks for reading. I still need to get an area rug for the center of the room. If you have any suggestions please leave them below in the comment section. I hope you like our bedroom as much as I do. Our next project is redoing Winter’s room to a toddler/big girl room. I am so excited for this so please stay tuned for that blog post!

xoxo

Ashlee

I love planning a party I obsess over the little details and how everything needs to coordinate. I always want the budget for the party to be unlimited. Lets face reality, I need to stay on a BUDGET!!! The first thing I do when I plan a party is pick a THEME. Every good party needs a theme. Once I pick the theme I start thinking of the color palate I want this party to have. Then I decide on the food, drinks, decorations, and a space.

I have planned many boy birthday parties with Hudson and Everett. You want a boy theme I think we covered it (monsters, trains, sports, super hero, etc) Winter’s birthday was the first girly birthday party I got to plan. I wanted something soft and really feminine. I decided on unicorns!! I saw a dress over on Instagram by one of my favorite tutu dress companies Taylor Joelle and I had to have it for her. The colors were coral and mint. I immediately decided the color theme must me coral, mint, and gold.

I had her outfit planned for months. I worked with Winter’s godmother who owns her own event planning company called Carli Penelope Desserts. We talked about my color theme and how I wanted unicorns to be involved. For the food we decided on mini sandwiches cut in quarters for the kids. (ham & cheese, turkey & cheese, and sunflower butter & fluff). I also knew I wanted fruit cups, chips, veggies, and hummus. For the adults I wanted to do wraps with different meats & and cheeses, and then tuna wraps. For drinks we had a coffee bar, flavored mineral water, and juice boxes for the kids.

The day of the party everything went well until I realized the gold number one I special ordered from Amazon turned out to be a beer mug. #fail. I decided not to let it ruin the party and to just have fun with it.

The dessert table. I LOVE how the glitter table cloth adds some shimmer to such a beautiful display. We went with cakepops, chocolate covered oreos, mini vanilla cupcakes, and key lime pie shooters. We decorated the highchair with felt flowers.

Mini sandwiches turkey and cheese, chicken salad, tuna salad, and (sunflower seed butter and fluff were a huge hit), fruit cups, cheese & crackers, veggies, chips and hummus, and fresh flower as a center piece.

This is one

It such a magical fun day. I had so much fun planning my princess’s first birthday. Thank you to Carli for making my vision come true. She is so talented. If you are in the Jersey area check her out Carlipenelope.com

What a fun year loving on our girl Winter!

xoxo

Thank you for reading

Ashlee