Update

Just wanted to let everyone know what's been going on and why its been so long since I've posted. I am FINALLY getting moved into my new house. It has been a massive undertaking. After 5 straight days of moving stuff out of my old house I've come to the conclusion that I have too much stuff!!! I am now living in a beautiful new house that is crammed full of boxes everywhere I turn. My obsessive-compulsiveness is starting to get the best of me and I'm getting a little panicky that I'll never get them all unpacked and get the new house the way I want it. I am VERY excited to share pics of the new house and hope to have at least one room done soon. I wanted to go head and decorate my blog for Christmas though because at this point it looks like I may have to skip Christmas decorating this year. :( But right now I'd settle on just having a cleared out corner where I could put a tree if I had the time to decorate it. I'm thinking about doing a blog post where I reminisce about last year's Christmas decorations. Maybe that will help get me in the Christmas spirit a little more!

Jungle Fever

Here are some pics of a shower that I did for someone this weekend. It was for a little baby boy who is already here. The mother didn't have a theme or color scheme for his nursery so I was free to choose whatever I wanted. I'd seen these plates before and just loved the colors in them so I knew that I wanted to do a jungle themed shower so that I could use them. They ended up being super appropriate since the plates say "Welcome Little One" and the baby is already here. I also had most of the stuff to do a jungle diaper cake. This was probably the easiest shower I've ever done. Everything just fell into place. I was even lucky enough to hit the jackpot and find the aqua satin fabric, green table runner fabric, and aqua tulle in the remnants bin at Hobby Lobby. That kind of luck never finds me! With everything I have going on right now though I was so greatful to be able to find everything that I needed to pull the shower together without having to search high and low for what I needed. Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Blank Canvas

Just wanted to share some exciting news. We finally sold our house, again, and hopefully everything will go through this time without a hitch. For those who don't know the situation, we've had 2 offers fall through on our house. One was due to financing on their part and the other was a contingency offer and the people were unable to sell their house. So this has been a long process which may be finally coming to an end. We are currently looking for a house to buy and live in while we build our new one. So pretty soon I will have a blank canvas to decorate! I'm very excited because I was out of places to put things in our house and have been itching to try out some new design schemes. We should have a new house decided on in the next day or two and I'll post pics as soon as we do. I've already started looking for new stuff and my head is filled with so many ideas it may explode! So get ready for tons of pics of ideas, possibilities, and the end results.

A Little Halloween Fun...Just In Time!

Well, I have done a horrible job lately of keeping this blog up to date. I've had so many things I wanted to post but so little time to do it. So just in time for Halloween here are a few pics of my seasonal decorating creations. :)

Pull up a chair, if you dare:
Here are some pics of my breakfast nook table. I found some wonderful fabric at Hancock's that had black velvet pumpkins on a orange mesh background covered in silver glitter. It was kind of expensive so I only got a yard of it. I made the arrangement by spray painting some twigs with black paint and silver glitter. Then I used some black roses that I found at Wal-Mart and some of the silver sparkley Christmas picks. I added a few spider webs for extra creepiness.


Enter At Your Own Risk:
This is how I decorated my entry table and foyer this year. Its kind of a combination of fall and Halloween decorations.

More Mantel Pics:

I was so disappointed in the first pics that I took of my mantle that I decided to try it again. I think these turned out a little better.

Creepy Candles:

I, morbidly, love the way the bleeding candles that I've seen before in stores look. But they were a little pricey so I decided to make my own. I just lit a red candle and held in over the white ones and let the wax drip onto them. I think they turned out pretty cool!

A Haunting Weclome:
Okay, so its not really "haunting" but here are some pics of how I decorated the entrace to our house this year. Its a little different from last years but the concept is the same. I love it with all the candles lit. It just glows. We may break out the fog machine on Halloween night and if so that will make it look a little more "haunting".

Halloween Mantel

Here are a few pics of my mantel for Halloween. I'm going to change some stuff out in November to make it look a little more fall-like. I'm also going to figure out how to take better pictures. Nothing is looking as pretty in the picture as it does in person, which is kind of defeating the purpose of this blog. I've also come to the conclusion that I can't photography sparkly things.

More Princess Party Pics

 

These pictures did not turn out nearly as well as I hoped they would. :( I think everything looked much prettier in person but maybe this will at least give you an idea. I'm especially disappointed in how the fabric on the skirt of the high chair photographed. It was the most beautiful pink chiffon with a glittery diamond pattern all over. It was the perfect princess fabric for a very special Princess.

London's Princess Party

I've been kind of slow to post pics from London's 1st birthday party. I'm still trying to recover from it. But I stole this picture from Rebecca's photography page (http://www.rebeccacphotography.blogspot.com/) since she was nice enough to take some pictures of the party for us. I'll be posting many more pics really soon. This is one of the cake that mom and I made for London. I'm glad it looks so pretty in this pic because it was a LOT of work!

Last Fall

I was so thrilled last year to find sparkly pumpkin garland!




This was my foyer table last Halloween. I did it a little different this year and I'll post pics soon.
By the way, you can't really tell it too well in this pic but the leaves are glittery. :)

Foyer table last fall.

Blog Name

I discovered that the very first thing you have to come up with if you want to start a blog is a title for it. That was a major challenge! I looked at several other people's blogs and it seemed like all the good names were already taken. So I decided since this was a decorating blog I should try to pick a name that summed up my decorating philosophy. And anyone who has ever been shopping with me knows that I love anything that glitters! Not the tacky, over-done glitter, of course. I'm just a sucker for anything with a little shimmer to it that makes it extra special. Christmas is my favorite decorating holiday because everything glitters! I have managed to find several sparkly pumpkins though and even some glittery acorns for the fall. So that's where the name came from, in case you were wondering.

Already Stealing Ideas

First, let me say that I have my friend Kelly to thank for giving me the idea to start a design blog. I don't really have a desire to keep up a blog about my daily life (and I don't think anyone would have a desire to read it even if I did) so I've never really gotten into blogging. But when she shared with me her design blog a light bulb went off! I would LOVE to post some of the designing and decorating ideas that I come up with and with the holidays just around the corner I figured this was the perfect time to start. So here it goes...