Plank Wall Love

Heellluuuurrrrrr to you!!!!

I hope you had a great weekend!

I know for some it was the last weekend of the summer and I hope you enjoyed it.

We have one more week left and it is going to be a busy one!

I also hope my friends and family on the East Coast stayed safe from the path of Irene.

If you have followed me for a while you know the love affair I have for plank walls.

If I could, I would plank my entire house!!

Overboard, maybe.

BUT I HEART THEM SO MUCH!!

Just look at how beautiful they are!!

Source: infarrantlycreative.net via Michelle on Pinterest

They just make me ooohhh and aahhhhh!!!!

Source: allthingsthrifty.com via amy on Pinterest

Look, you can even do a plank by your plank walls!!

Source: wholeliving.com via Elizabeth on Pinterest

Hardy har har!!

Sorry about that. :)

Anyway where was I?

Oh, for my sons room I wanted to do something on one of his walls to make it feel beachy and cottagey.

I took inspiration from this photo on Pinterest.

Source: momandherdrill.blogspot.com via Michelle on Pinterest

And I came up with this.

I used 1 x 10's that were 6 feet long.

I nailed them to the wall and then took 1 x 2's and made the vertical pieces.

For whatever reason I didn't take photos of the process.

Bad blogger!!!

I really loved how it turned out and even found a spot for the driftwood shark.

Speaking of yummy plank walls,

my dear friend Sandra from Frugal French Girl went to visit her niece to help her redo her kitchen and they were offered this beautiful barn wood to make whatever their hearts desired!

This is what they came up with!

Talk about barnwood/plank wall jealousy!!!

To see how the whole kitchen turned out, just go here!

While you are there you have to take a look around at her amazing talent!

Sandra is the sweetest, she can write, she can build, she can decorate and most of all she is such an amazing kindred and friend.

This is her canopy that she built in her gorgeous beachy bedroom!!!

To see more click here.

I will be a bit MIA this week.

We are getting ready for school and I have to work extra this week due to the Holiday. The restaurant that I work at is in a resort town so we are planning on being a tad more busy....fingers crossed. :)

Hopefully after school starts I can get back to regular blogs because there is a room that I need to show you! :)

***sorry I posted this again, when I originally posted it it posted with a date of 8/17 I think.

oops! :)

Blog Love

Happy Friday!!!

I just wanted to stop in and thank some wonderful friends and blogs for love that they have passed onto me over the summer.

Cricket from Gypsea Nurse passed on One Lovely Blog Award. If you have not met this beautiful mermaid, please stop and say hi. Her photography is amazing and her love of the sea definitely flows through her heart and veins.

Carolyn, or Beach House Girl, from Desire Empire passed on the Sunshine Award. She is a ray of sunshine with great stories about her family and adventures and beautiful places from where she lives in Australia.

Knock Off Decor featured my PB shark painting thanks to my friend Tonya from Love of Family and Home who submitted it.

Thank you Tonya!

Please take a peak into both these amazing blogs.

Tonya is a great friend and so creative. I featured her and her mom's Etsy shop a while ago, those gorgeous pillows! Now Tonya is doing photography and is doing an amazing job.

Knock Off Decor has featured some amazing knock-offs that you have to see!!

My friend Marie from Sally Lee by the Sea featured my driftwood/starfish mobile and a few other crafts. I LOVE her blog, it is a daily trip to the sea with her beautiful photography and inspiring ideas for the sea lover in us.

I would also love to share these new-to-me coastal blogs. I have been enjoying their posts and just sinking myself into their gorgeous sea-inspired living ideas.

Gone Coastal in a Non-Coastal town

Beachside Cottage

Coastal Style

Thank you all so much for your sweet comments, support and love.

I love blogland and I hope that I can show you guys as much love as you show me.

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Have a peaceful and relaxing weekend!!!!!

Where I've Been

I can't believe it is Wednesday already!!

This week is flying by and I still have a bajillion things to do!!

It has been HOT and HUMID here which is fine because I have been holed up inside this week working on my son's room.

I will show you a few glimpses in a minute but I first want to show you where I went last Sunday.

It was that time again for the Allegan Flea Market so Laurie, from Heaven's Walk, and myself, Debbie from Lakehouse was not able to join us this time and we MISSED her lots!!

BUT

she will join us again at the end of this month!

YEAH!!!

Before I went, Heather from Simple Daisy told me that she and her hubby might go. I can't even tell you how excited I was and immediately told her YES, PLEASE GO and gave her my number to call when she got there so we could meet up!!

When she got there Laurie and I were stuffing our faces with pizza. I know how much Heather loves pizza so I don't think that she minded. :)

Her and her husband are the sweetest and cutest couple and Heather is so beautiful inside and out.

We only met up for a couple minutes because they had plans that day but the four of us are planning on all meeting up at the end of this month for the day!!!

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!

I scored a few things again this time around including this pale aqua bench, basket and more of the little aqua bottles that I got last month.

Another perfect find I picked up after Laurie spotted it was this turquoise fan!!!!

I think it was $20 and after the poor lady selling it told us she was going to cry (I think that the lady ahead of us insisted she pay way less for something)

So I didn't dare ask for any less.

Poor woman.

I also picked up a vintage map and a wire basket that I am planning to use in my son's room so I will show you those once I get them up.

Here is a little peak into his room.

I used chalk paint for the first time and I LOVE IT!!!!

It is Nepoleonic Blue.

I also used the wax and messed that up a bit.

Just remember, a little goes a long way!!

You can see in the background what I am doing to one of his walls.

I am really loving the way it is turning out.

Well that's about it for now. I am so sorry I have not been around to see you much this week and hopefully after I get the wall done I will catch up a bit.

I have been a bit off this week as well, I have some changes going on in my life, nothing serious and actually it is a good thing, but enough to change things up and mess with me a bit.

I will share more about that when I can.

Hugs!!

Bloggy Friends in Great Places

Hey there my dears!!

I hope you are having a good week.

I wanted to thank you all for your sweet comments about our little starfish mobile over at 3 Sun Kissed Boys, I read them all and appreciate you all so much!

THANK YOU!!!

I told you last week that while we were on vacation I got the pleasure of meeting another blogging friend.

It is funny that we have to go far away from our homes in order to meet in the same spot. :)

That's ok because there really is no other better place than Glen Lake to meet up with a friend.

Cathy, from Check it Off, and her beautiful family share the same love as we do for Glen Lake. We started corresponding after we spotted pictures of Glen Lake on each others blog and became fast friends. She is amazing and so sweet and beautiful and her family is just the nicest family that one could meet. Her three kids are gorgeous and took to my kids right away. :) Her husband a great guy, so friendly and sincere. I loved it that he waved to every boater on the lake. Believe me you don't see that very often, most people just look at you like you did something wrong.

Well, she wasn't sure that she was going to be able to go up this year and then one day she wrote me and told me the dates that they were going up and it was the same time that we were there!

YEAH!!!!

So for an afternoon they picked us up and out on their boat we went!

Isn't she beautiful!!

Yes, that would be my vacation look. :)

my kids have never tubed before so her youngest kindly took the boy out with her. I have to tell you that I was a bit nervous even though he swims in the deep all the time with the life jacket, falling out would be a new experience.

BUT

he held on tight, wanted to go faster and Cathy's daughter took good care of him.

My daughter then wanted to go, she was a bit scared about doing this as well, she is my cautious one and went a bit slower but enjoyed it very much.

Then all three of Cathy's kids got on!

It was so funny to watch them fly back and forth across the wake just laughing.

Then it was time to get serious! On went the helmets!!

My face hurt from laughing so hard, they had a great time!

They even got me in the water.

That was the only time that I went skiing that week and it was so fun and felt good to get on the water.

(not showing you a photo of that)

I absolutely love this picture of Cathy and her oldest daughter, so cute!!

This is her beautiful family and we are so glad that we got the chance to meet face to face and get to know each other. Although, just like I said before, it really feels like we have been friends for a long time.

I just love how blogging can do that.

Thank you SO MUCH again Cathy for an amazing afternoon and I truly hope that next year we can do more of the same!

If you would like to see more and meet Cathy, she is posting about our time together as well, just click here.

She has a great blog with great ideas on how to keep lists and stay organized as well as stories about her adventures and family.

You will love her!