Birthday party - small update

I miss blogging so much. I feel like I've missed out on so many things in the blog-world. Things I wanted to remember and share or discover. But I had the greatest excuse not to blog in the past few weeks. My beautiful son turned one last Sunday and it was such a wonderful time for all of our families. We had to split the birthday party into two parts (friends, family) because of the lack of space in our current apartment. In the end it worked out for the best and I couldn't be happier the way everything turned out.

Everyday before the party I was doing small things in the living room to make it look nice. It was a challenge but I managed to turn it into something cute that my friends said "wow" to, knowing what it looked like before haha It doesn't look exactly like my mood board, but close enough.

The mood and the theme of Ethan's party was also manageable. The hardest part was finding wooden crates to use them as a cake/food display. Actually we had allergy-free cupcakes instead of the cake, since I made Ethan's cake raw and it had to sit in the freezer until I was ready to serve it. Anyways, today I'll just give you a sneak of the birthday display. The rest of the photos will be later next week. Waiting for a DVD from my wonderful friend/photographer, who took a bunch of beautiful pics of the friends-part party.

Edit: Finishing this post few days after I started it. So many things going on right now and so little time. I have my drivers test this Thursday so I've been practicing like mad woman over the weekend, next week we might be starting slowly moving in into husband's parents house. It's a huge project and will take time. It also happened quite unexpected..we'll see what happens in a week. So far I'm concerned with my test and being anxious about it doesn't let me think of anything else. Fear paralyzes me. 

Anyhow, hope your week will be smooth!

The New bedroom idea

After a lot of thinking, talking, sketching me and the husband finally came to agreement that it will be the best if we do swap our living room with bedroom. Soon I'll share really embarrassing photos of our not-so-pretty apartment so you'll have an idea what we are dealing with and a few sketches of how it should look after the swap. Even though the space is small and building is old and walls are covered with paneling (*ewww*) and THEN paint, I think it's possible to make something lovely out of all this mess. Here's a quick share of y mood board of how we envision the "new" bedroom. 

country style bedroom mood board by marixa on Polyvore

When we moved in I painted this room green olive with dark brown windows and door frames. The colors suits the bedroom mood more - definitely puts you to sleep haha! There's also a fire place that isn't working, but is a great place to decorate. So I am excited even though a huge project needs to be done first - laminate flooring!

And here's our new end tables we bought at Antique Mall last weekend.