There is no better feeling than giving a gift that you are proud of! It is one thing to just give a gift, and another to give a thoughtful, unique personalized christmas gift! Minted.com is such a great place to find unique and personalized christmas gifts!! I gave their monogrammed tote bags to all the special ladies in my life last year and they LOVE them and still use them daily. While I was browsing through their kids’ gift category I came across these personalized bean bag chairs and knew my kids would love them!! I can’t to set them under the tree on Christmas morning! If you want to take your gift giving to the next level and gift your loved ones something they will love for years to come, check out the selection at minted.com! You can use code REGANGIFTS until 12/16/21 for 20% holiday gifts!!

The back wall of our living room was feeling so blah! My friend Ashley suggested adding curtains and shades to cozy it up! Boy was she right!!! I found these affordable whitewashed, cordless wooden shades on amazon. They were so super easy and fast to install. If you want to know exactly how we did it, my husband shared a little hanging hack on my instagram! I ordered 2 panels of these blackout curtains in the color birch. It is a beautiful neutral and they feel so luxurious for such a great price! I also needed a super long curtain rod and this one was great!! We used all 6 brackets to make sure it was really strong. If you need curtains or shades in any of your rooms these definitely have my seal of approval!! Curtains have got to be the number one way to cozy up a room.

Although it feels like our kitchen will never be fully complete I am sooo happy with how it is looking so far. Spring decor is my absolute favorite because of all the florals, pinks and pastels. I love how my shelf styling turned out this time! All of my neutral decor pops against the white shiplap shelving. The quickest way to make your kitchen feel more cozy? Add a small lamp!! This is my favorite lamp from Target. I cut the cord off of it and added a battery powered lightbulb so I can easily turn it on with a remote and there are no ugly cords wadded up on the counter. My mom got me the little soap dispenser set for Christmas and it is crazy how much cleaner and put together the sink area looks with matching soaps and a little tray. What is your favorite season to decorate for?

Hey Yall, My name is Regan! I live in Houston, Texas with my handsome & hardworking husband. I am blessed by him in so many ways. I have learned so much in the past 7 months of being married, we have grown more in love everyday. My husband is an accounting manager at a company 10 minutes from our home (THANKFUL), and I run my own etsy shop selling simple and comfy dresses, which means I get to work from home! We are both in every sense of the meaning “homebodies,” and although most people are traveling and exploring during their early years of marriage, we want nothing more than a relaxing Saturday at home doing projects around the house. But thats just a little bit about us, check out the “about me” tab for more about our life! The name of this blog was inspired by our life, where we are now and where I hope we will always be. “Blooming” as in our home is growing and blossoming, not only just by the amount of home improvement projects but also by love. This is a state I hope that we will be in for the rest of our lives, always “blooming” together and growing in our love for one another & more importantly for God. Also, the “blooming” part clicked because I love to decorate with lots of botanicals as you will see in future blog posts! The “nest” part is pretty straight forward, as in our home together. (side note: I feel like my biggest calling in life is to be a momma, and that is something I pray that God will bless me with one day. So another reason the “nest” part was perfect is because one day I hope to blog about my “littles”). I am just so excited to share my passions with all of you and hope that I can inspire you in some way! I plan to fill this blog up with budget friendly décor ideas and DIY’s, affordable beauty products, and things that I have learned during the short time that I have been blessed to be called “wife.” Thanks for following along & feel free to pin any house pictures, just simply “click to pin!” Here’s a little sneak peek at what you will be seeing on The Blooming Nest Blog! xo- Regan

Hey Girlies! There is no better way to start out a blog than a freebie! So here is a free printable with my favorite quote and signature TBN peonies! All you have to do is sign up for my e-mail list on my home page so I can e-mail it to you! This is a PDF document and can be printed to frame somewhere around your house/dorm or slipped into the front of your binder for classes! Hope you enjoy! xo- Regan Here is what I did with my printable! I had this extra frame in my “decorations closet” (Yes i have one of those), and it ended up looking great! I love this quote and it is such a great reminder for all of us girls! Can’t wait to see pictures of where you used your free printable!

Happy Thursday! Today I am going to share with you how I made my DIY large chalkboard. We don’t have much “large wall” space in our home, as in most of our walls have windows! This is great because it is always full of natural light. We only have two “big walls” downstairs and one of them is filled with our industrial wall shelf/entertainment center. But figuring out what to put on the other wall was more difficult. Large wall art can be so expensive so I knew I needed to find another way. Back in November, my mom, sister and I went to the Magnolia Market in Waco and I left with one of their signature Magnolia wreaths (How could I resist?). When I got back home anxious to find the perfect place for it I was disappointed to realize that I didn’t really have the perfect place to show it off. So since then it has been on a wall in my bedroom. I decided on a large chalk board for the second living room wall because I felt like I needed to add something black instead of a lighter color. Our new couches that arrive TODAY are white and so I was afraid everything would be too light. You can find lots of Chalkboard DIY’s on pinterest, but here is how I made mine! After walking around Hobby Lobby trying to figure out how to take on this project, I quickly realized that if I bought everything there it was going to end up being way more than I wanted to spend. I knew I had to find a large piece of artwork to start with because Hobby Lobby didn’t even sell an empty frame big enough. The very first Goodwill that I went in had this large painting for $20! I couldn’t pass it up, and didn’t take the time to look around anywhere else. This painting was almost as tall as me! It would be the perfect size for my wall. While I was at Hobby Lobby I grabbed a small thing of black chalkboard paint (pictured below). I am glad I purchased the small container because it went a long way! I still have half of it left after painting this HUGE chalkboard. I think it was about $4, and if its not on sale you can use a coupon! You will also need my favorite wood stain. Me and Brett joke that eventually everything in our house will be stained with this color, because we love it so much! You can find the link to the wood stain in my last post. But it is called Cordovan Brown by Behr. Next, I ran in Lowe’s to get wood for the frame. I grabbed 2, 1x4x6’s and 2, 1x4x4’s and went to the back to get them cut. Note to self, don’t forget your measurements at home so you don’t have to wing it! Luckily it still worked out for me. ha! Also, I would recommend getting your wood at Home Depot instead because they don’t charge for wood cuts. Lowe’s charges 25 cents a cut, which is like nothing, but still save where you can right? So the first thing I did was paint on the chalkboard paint. I painted one coat vertically, let that dry for an hour, and then one coat horizontally. Then I let it dry for 24 hours. p.s. I hate when that is part of the process… my middle name is impatient. 😉 While that was drying I was still able to start on the frame. I quickly stained each piece of wood so they wouldn’t be too dark, and literally just screwed them onto the existing white frame of the picture. I’m getting pretty good with Brett’s drill! I was originally hoping that I could just attach the frame with wood glue so there wouldn’t be screws showing, but that was wishful thinking. After you have waited 24 hours for the chalkboard paint to settle, just lightly go over the whole thing with the side of a piece of chalk. This is to set the chalkboard paint so that it won’t leave chalk marks in the future. Then just wipe it off with a wet paper towel. And viola! You have a huge piece for your empty wall! This ended up costing about $45, which is so much less than you would normally spend for a piece of wall art this big! Here is the finished product! **Wreath is from Magnolia Market and the ribbon I found on clearance at Hobby Lobby for $2.00!! I hope you decide to make a large chalkboard for your home! I love changing mine for every season! You can see how I change it up on my instagram, @thebloomingnest! See you there!

Hey y’all! I am so excited to share my DIY affordable table setting! The downstairs area of our house has a very open concept, which I’m definitely not complaining about, but sometimes it can be hard to make sure it still feels cozy and doesn’t look empty. This is what inspired me to do a simple table setting to leave out as decor. Me and brett never eat at our dining room table, we always eat at the bar. So it makes sense for us during this time in our lives to leave a table setting up, but for some of you this may not be practical at all, in that case it is still a great idea for when you are hosting. Plus, I really wanted to display our mint Anthropologie dishes that I love so much! Napkin rings and charger plates can be really expensive, so this is an inexpensive way to get the same look. You will be surprised how affordable it was! Also, I have to give credit to my Dad and husband who built this beautiful table for me. At least i can say that i was the one who painted/stained it! Here is what you will need: 1. Raw wood napkin rings (I found these at Michael’s for 99 cents each!) 2. Bag of rocks (Michael’s, i think the whole bag was like $3.00 and then i used a 50% off coupon!) 3. Whicker/Straw charger plates (Marshall’s $4.99 for a pack of 4) 4. Behr Premium Wood Stain Semi-transparent (MY FAVE! Home Depot, for less than $4.00) 5. Fabric Napkins (Marshall’s, they came in a pack of 12 for $3.99) So i only spent around $20.00 for the whole project, because i already had the wood stain! A lot of times you can’t even find a set of napkin rings for that cheap. And that’s it! Now let’s get to what i did! First thing I did was stain the napkin rings so they could be drying. I just took a regular paint brush and painted it on. The cool thing about this stain is that you can keep adding layers if you want it to get darker, or just put a thin layer if you want it to be lighter. This took all of about 3 minutes to do. Next, I noticed that I didn’t really like the color of the charger plates, they were a little “yellow-y” and didn’t really match my stuff. So hey! The stain was sitting right there and i grabbed the paint brush and started painting it on. I couldn’t believe how much better they looked. I only painted one side of them to save on stain (because i use it so much). Then just choose the rocks that you like best out of the bag and hot glue them onto the napkin rings. Lay your charger plates out, then your dishes, pull your fabric napkins through the napkin rings and there you go! Super fast, super cute and super affordable table settings! And I learned from Fixer Upper which direction the napkins are supposed to lay on the plate. So if it looks wrong, Joanna said so! ha! * Adding the rocks to the napkin rings is completely optional, if you are just looking for some everyday napkin rings but can’t find any that are affordable this is such an easy option! You could get creative with adding to the rings too! If you try something new please comment below with a picture! I would love to see! ** The decor in the center of the table and the table runner is all from Homegoods, which you will begin to see is where i get most of my stuff!

Hey y’all! Yesterday I went to a wedding shower for a beautiful friend, Haley! When deciding what to get her I knew I wanted to do something creative because SHE is creative! Before my husband and I got married my momma bought us a little frame from a boutique that said “I love you because..” and had a little clip for us to leave each other notes. Little did we know that this would turn out to be our favorite thing to do! I mean we actually do leave each other notes like all the time. It helps us build each other up and remind each other how thankful we are to have each other! We have written so many notes since we got married, that I recently made them into a book so we can always look at them and remember. This is what our “I love you because” frame looks like… I decided to make Haley one for her shower gift, since I figured I could make one a little bit cuter 😉 This is how it turned out.. I just printed out “I love you because…” on a piece of scrapbook paper, (In one of my favorite fonts- Eyes Wide Open), and then super glued a clip and a pretty metal flower to the frame! Pretty straight forward and easy! I hope whoever is reading this will make one! Even if you’re living in a dorm with a bunch of girl friends! It is such a great way to say “thank you” and remind our loved ones that we do realize the things they do for us! *Wrapping paper is from TJmaxx and the “C” is from Michaels!

Hi there!! I am so excited to share this DIY pipe shelving entertainment center with y’all! When we decided to do this we thought it was going to cost way too much and take forever to build, but neither of these were true! Yes it does cost money, takes some planning and a few hours to get it built, but I think it is so worth it and it turns out to be such a statement piece! Seriously, anytime we have someone at the house whether its the DirectTV worker, the furniture delivery guys or just family and friends they are always asking questions about it, and we get nonstop compliments!! But let me just say, we did not come up with the idea of industrial shelving. It is all over Pinterest, but we did not see anyone who had done an entertainment center, so we were slightly creative! ha! I keep saying “we” because I could not have done this without my handy husband! He is so helpful and really has an eye for design! Anyway, I hope I can make this as simple as possible for you! Please let me know if you have any questions and if you do decide to take on this project I would LOVE to see pictures!! Here is a before and after picture of our living room, if you’re interested in doing this yourself or are just curious about how we made it, keep reading! Here is a quick before and after! Step 1: Plan and Purchase! This part did take a while.. We had to make sure of the exact size we wanted our entertainment center to be, keeping in mind the size of our TV. We decided to do it 10 feet wide so we could just buy 10 foot lumber and not have to make multiple cuts, this would save us time and money. The height is totally up to you and what will fit in your home, we wanted ours to go almost to the ceiling. The bigger the better right? After lots of planning we made a big list of what we would need. And today is your lucky day, because I am going to give you our list! If you wanted to, you could order everything online and have it shipped to your house, I have linked all products below to Home Depot because that is where we purchased all of our supplies. *Keep in mind when figuring out your dimensions, unless you choose to buy a pipe wrench to screw in the pipes completely, you will gain about an inch every time you connect the next set of pipes. We chose not to tighten our pipes all the way because we liked the “ridges” showing. So I would recommend subtracting about 4-5 inches from how tall you want it. Some of the terminology may sound confusing because I’m guessing you’re not a plumber who uses tees, nipples and flanges everyday! But Home Depot employees are always super helpful and I bet if you printed out this list they could help you find all of the piping pieces that you need! Below is what you will need to purchase before you get started building.. 4 small cans of Cordovan Brown by Behr – This is our favorite wood stain, as I have mentioned in most of my blog posts so far! We ended up needing 3-4 smalls cans of this stain to finish this project, but you could buy one bigger can if you would like. (This stain is semi-transparent and for exterior use) 4 Furniture Felt Pads – We bought these to put under the flanges, (the round pieces of iron) that were going to sit on the floor, just so we wouldn’t scratch our new laminate flooring. I have linked these to Home Depot, but they do sell them at Walmart, and I have even found them at Homegoods. 4 pieces of 2inx8inx10ft Pine Lumber – We got treated pine because it is cheaper (and was the only option in that size at our Home Depot), and since it is treated you need to use exterior stain. Make sure you stain it within 48 hours of bringing it home to make sure the wood absorbs the stain correctly. You will need to have one of your pieces of pine cut so that you have two 30″ pieces. This is for the shelves that go on the sides of your TV. If you don’t have a miter saw you can get it cut at Home Depot or Lowes in the back of the store by the lumber. 4 3/4″ Black Iron Elbows – These are for the very top of the shelving unit. You will find all of the black iron piping in the “plumbing” section of your home improvement store. These are easy to remember because they look like elbows! 8 3/4″ Black Iron Flanges and 16 1/2″ Black Iron Flanges – Flanges are the circular pieces in the picture above, these are used to mount on the wall and the pieces that actually sit on the floor. We chose to do all of the piping for the front of the shelf in 3/4″ inch pipe so that it would be thicker, but we used 1/2″ pipes for all of the piping that the boards are sitting on because you can’t see them. This saved us quite a bit of money! That is why you need the two different size flanges. 16 3/4″ 3/4″ 1/2″ Tees – Im not sure why these aren’t on the Home Depot website, but you need the tees that aren’t “reducing.” Only the “hole” (for lack of a better word) that sticks out the side of the tee should be 1/2″ the other two should be 3/4″. It’s also easy to remember what they are called because they look like “T’s”! 8 3/4in. x 24in., 8 3/4in. x 18in., 16 1/2in. x 12in., 4 3/4in. x 12in.  and 4 3/4in. x 4in. Nipples – Phew, thats a lot of nipples! ha! I know it sounds so confusing, but it really won’t be once you go in the store and are able to look at all of them! Don’t forgot to grab a shopping cart on your way in! Lots of little pieces!! Not pictured, but you will also need a drill and lots of drywall screws! We actually didn’t worry about finding studs in our walls, and even if we had tried there is no way they would have been in the right places. But since the whole shelving unit sits on the floor it is secure and sturdy! ** I think by the time we collected all of our supplies we had spent around $450, which is a lot of money BUT this is such a huge piece and if you could buy something like this in stores i can guarantee that it would cost at least $1,000! Step 2: Stain! One of my favorite hobbies is staining wood, so this was so fun for me! Just grab your pieces of lumber (you should have 3 long pieces and 2 short pieces) and a paint brush and start brushing it on! I always prefer using a paint brush to stain, because I think it goes on better than using a rag. We brushed it on quickly and tried not to layer it because we wanted it to look really natural, but this was our preference! Do what you think will look the best in your home! Step 3: Build! Luckily my husband was taking pictures while we were building this, because if he hadn’t this would be a lot harder for you to visualize. I am going to try and explain how we built this the best way I can in words, but at the end of this if you have any questions please comment! I am going to give it my best shot! So let’s jump right in and start building this thing! First thing you are going to do is take your 4 Furniture felt pads and stick them to your 4 3/4″ flanges! Easy Peasy! Next, screw in one of your “felt pad flanges” that you just made into a 18in. nipple (you can go ahead and do this for all four of your felt pad flanges) and set aside for a second. Now grab 4 of your 1/2″ flanges and screw them into 4 of your 1/2in. x 12in. nipples Now grab each of the pieces you just made in steps 2 and 3 and screw them in to a tee so that you make an “L” shape (pictured below) then do this 3 more times so you end up having 4 “L’s” Set one of your “L’s” on the floor felt side down and then the flange at the other end of the “L” should be sitting against the wall. Screw it in (4 screws per flange)! Do this step with your remaining “L” shapes. Once you’ve completed these steps it should look something like the picture below! Now just place one of your long pieces of pine on top of this “shelf” and were on to the next step! **You can put these four pieces wherever you need them to go so that your tv will fit in between the middle two. Ours are, (from left to right) 26 inches between the first two, 69 inches between the 2nd and 3rd and then 26 inches again between the 3rd and 4th pieces. Now we just go up and up! Here are the main steps that you will use for the rest of this project! Listen carefully! Grab one of your 3/4″ x 24″ nipples, and screw it on top of one of your “L’s Then grab a tee and screw it on to the nipple that you just put on and leave that there for a second Next screw one of your 1/2in. x 12in. nipples into a 1/2″ flange Are you still following? I know it’s getting tricky but once we finish this step you will know how to do the whole thing!! With the piece that you just made (flange and nipple) you are going to screw this into the tee that you previously added to your wall shelf. (you may have to slightly unscrew the tee so that you can screw this piece into it) Once that is attached to your tee just slowly turn the piece until the flange is flat against the wall and screw this in with 4 screws! wow! that was a lot of explaining. Honestly now you just continue doing that last step… tee, then flange + nipple piece, screw into the wall. Do all four for every level and then lay a piece of lumber down! And up and up you go!! As a side note, from top to bottom, the nipple lengths we used on the front were 4in., 18in., 24in., 24in., and 18in. You are more than welcome to leave your shelving unit like this, but we wanted our very top shelf to go back into the wall. So just a few more steps until the finished product! Take one of your 3/4in. x 4in. nipples and screw into the first line of piping, just like you are going to add another shelf This time instead of using a tee you will use one of your 90 degree elbows. just like before, go ahead and make a piece that consists of a 3/4in. x 12in. nipple and a 3/4in. flange screw this into your elbow, rotate until the flange is flat against the wall, and then screw into the wall! Continue this step on the rest of the wall shelf and YOU. ARE. DONE!! Pat yourself on the back, and snap a picture! You may want to start hosting get togethers at your house so you can show this beautiful thing off, that you worked so hard on 😉 We want to build more of these in the future so next time we do we will make a video! Step 4: Decorate! Although the whole project was fun and enjoyable, mostly because I got to spend quality time with my hubby, this step has to be my favorite! One reason I was so excited to build this was so I would have a big space to decorate! It has been so fun! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and that is was pretty straight forward for you! I would love to see your pictures! Thanks for stopping by!

Hey y’all! I am so excited to share my family’s Texas beach house on the blog today! This is our happy place and we would spend every moment here if we could! I grew up going to my Mamaw and Papaw’s beach house and this is where I learned to love the beach. When that special house was destroyed in Hurricane Ike we were absolutely devastated. The entire house was washed away and we lost a lot of special things that belonged to my Mamaw and Papaw who have passed. But my parents had always dreamed of building a new beach house and this just motivated them to do it quicker. My parents drew up the plans and my dad did almost all of the building! I am just amazed at how talented they are! My mom knew exactly what she wanted the inside to look like, lots of shiplap and lots of white! (this was even before Joanna Gaines was around! haha) Mom started collecting decor from Homegoods and stashing it in her closet, then when the house was finally finished my mom, sister and I got to decorate! My dad built so many beautiful details into this house that I can’t wait for you to see, he even covered the walls of his garage with reclaimed wood! We have had so many memories in this house already, and have even been spending our Christmas holiday’s down there, and I have to say, nothing is better than Christmas at the beach! Hope you enjoy the pics! LETS GO INSIDE! I hope you enjoyed the tour of our Texas beach house!

Hello from Houston! After receiving so many questions on Instagram, I decided to write a blog post on how I painted our upholstery chair with chalk paint! I was not surprised by the questions because before starting this project I was wondering all the same things! Will it be too “crunchy” and “stiff” to actually sit on? Will chalk paint get on your clothes when you sit on it? Do you need to seal it with any sort of wax or topcoat? These are all questions that I figured out through the process and now I’m here to tell you what I learned so that it’s super easy when you want to upgrade your outdated upholstery furniture!! I didn’t plan on doing a blog post when I began this project so I didn’t take great pictures, but I did get pictures between each coat and I will explain exactly what I did!! This is a great alternative to getting your chair reupholstered and is way more affordable! Let’s get started! Chalk paint of your choice, I chose Rustoleum’s Chalked paint in the color Country Grey! It was more affordable than a lot of brands out there and worked really well! Any chalk paint sealing wax of your choice. I already had the Valspar sealing wax so that definitely saved me money on this project. A spray bottle to fill with water. (I bought one at Lowe’s but it ended up “squirting” instead of “spraying” if that makes sense, so I ended up emptying a spray bottle I already had and used it) A paint brush and 120 grit sandpaper!! Once I explain how I did this first coat you will do the same thing for every coat after. It took me four coats! (I know, thats a lot of coats and it definitely wasn’t fun at all times ha!) Just let it dry 24 hours in between each coat. I read a lot of different techniques online before I jumped in, but I quickly figured out what was working best and that is this… Pour some chalk paint into a cup (or whatever you want to be dipping paint out of) Pour some water into that same cup (a little less than the amount of paint you just put in) Stir this mixture Grab your spray bottle that is filled with water and spray a small area of your upholstery piece Then with your paint brush get some of your watered down chalk paint and paint it on. When you are ready to move to another area just make sure you spray it down with water first. Chalk paint is a porous paint and that is why it works for painting furniture! If it doesn’t seem like the chalk paint is absorbing into the furniture, but rather sitting on top, you do not have enough water in your mixture. Once you tell yourself you are “staining” instead of “painting” I think you will be able to get the right ratio of water to paint. But don’t be scared that it won’t absorb and make it too watery like I did on the first coat, or it will take you forever! I promise once you get started on your project, getting the right consistency is pretty easy! And if you paint a section and it is too watery and the color isn’t showing up very much, just go over it with less watery paint. **This is a very messy project and since the chalk paint is watered down it is very easy to splash, spill and sling it around the house! Be careful!! Let me just say, after this coat I was discouraged and very tempted to give up and put the slipcover back on the chair. Im so glad I powered through and figured out how to make each coat show up more as I went. So after waiting 24 hours for your first coat to dry, grab some of your 120 grit sandpaper and just rub it over the whole piece. Sanding fabric seems weird, and it definitely gives you the same feeling as “fingernails on a chalkboard,” but you will be so surprised how different it feels once sanded. I really just kind of wiped the sandpaper all over it very lightly. Don’t be too aggressive with it! After sanding,  you will do the exact same process as explained above. Water down your paint, spray furniture with water, paint it on! Were slowly but surely getting “gray”!! Again, after waiting 24 hours for coat number 2 to dry, go ahead and lightly sand and then paint your third coat! This may be the last coat for you! But it took me one more.. Finally the last coat! By this point I was SO ready to be done painting (my hands were sore!) and ready to get my house back in order. I hate messes! Once I finished this coat I let out a big sigh of relief! Again, I let this coat dry for 24 hours. Then I lightly sanded it one more time and grabbed my sealing wax! This was the part I had read that really makes your project look amazing! And it sure did! I just paint brushed it all over the chair in a light layer, let it dry for 5-10 minutes and then went back and wiped off the excess wax. It felt so smooth after this step! I painted the legs a creamy white color, distressed them and the entire chair was complete and looked so upgraded!! Now for your questions! Will it be too “crunchy” and “stiff” to actually sit on? Although it does not feel like the softest chair ever, and it may not be the chair you choose to cuddle up and take a nap on.. it does 100% still feel like fabric!! You could almost describe it as feeling like outdoor fabric. When starting this project I was not hoping to end up with my favorite chair to sit on, but rather upgrading a chair so that it would be prettier to look at! But yes, again, it is still completely functional! I wish y’all could feel it!! Will chalk paint get on your clothes when you sit on it? Absolutely not! The chalk paint has been sealed with wax, and even before that when you sand down each layer it gets off the extra “chalkiness” that is on the chair. Do you need to seal it with any sort of wax or topcoat? Yes, you will definitely not want to skip the wax step, as it seals the paint and makes the whole chair feel smooth to the touch! After adding this step the whole thing looked so much better!! If you have anymore questions please leave a comment below or on instagram! Thanks for stopping by and I would love to see your painted upholstery!

Hi there and happy Saturday! I know we’re all glad that the weekend is finally here! Do y’all have any fun plans?? We plan on staying home so my husband can get caught up on some school work, I don’t know how he keeps up with everything! He is amazing. Anyway, enough about my sweet man.. I don’t share many beauty posts on my blog but this week I stumbled upon two amazing beauty products that I have completely fallen in love with and I know you will too!! I decided to share them with you!! (and yes i know i need to paint my nails! haha) Okay, this stuff is absolutely amazing and SO affordable! I honestly have never felt anything softer on my lips, it really feels like butter!! I had seen this color on pinterest and knew I wanted to try it, but I didn’t know I would love it this much! The color I bought is “London” and it is a pretty, neutral color that I feel would look great on almost any skin tone! You have to try it, seriously!! Click here to buy it from Amazon, NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream ! Or you can find it at your grocery store or pharmacy! The special man in your life may not even hate kissing you with this stuff on because it is THAT soft and smooth! So I have been a huge fan of the Anastasia Brow wiz pencil for a while now, (you can read about it under the beauty tab above), but when I saw an advertisement for their new brow definer I knew I had to try it! Anastasia products are a little more expensive but I just haven’t found anything that works better. Their new Brow Definer is exactly what I needed, the tip is thicker than on the brow wiz so it literally takes like one stroke and your eye brows are filled in perfectly and look so natural! I wear the color “taupe.” I LOVE THIS PRODUCT!! I usually order beauty products from amazon, so here is the link, Anastasia Brow Definer ! Or you can find it at Ulta! Enjoy your pretty, natural looking brows, friends!! I would love to hear what ya’ll think if you try these amazing beauty products!! Have a great day!