nifty thrifty

These beautiful napkins and napkin rings were snatched up on clearance...their totel COMBINED was less than $6 from TJ Maxx.



I love the colors. I love that I could use white napkin rings on the napkins and then use white napkins with blue rings for a table setting of 8 and it would still look cohesive. And, I love that they were on clearance. I mean come on...who doesn't love the thrill of a good deal!

-Meg.

Happy Thanksgiving...a day late

Sorry the blog has been quiet for the past week or so...Lots of things have been happening around the Matt and Meg household!

I wanted to wish everyone a belated Happy Thanksgiving! Our day was spent cooking...playing our new Wii Donky Kong game (it brings Matt and myself back to our childhood haha) and eating with my parents. It was nice and low key - very relaxing. In years past Matt and I have had to rush around to different families and houses eating multiple meals so it was a nice change of pace to just have ONE dinner and ONE destination. We do miss all our extended family and friends though :)

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About a month ago, I spent twenty or so minutes gathering acorns. I am sure I made a few squirrel enemies that day but I had a plan for those acorns!



I stuck those guys in to a couple small glass hurricanes I had - I stuck a candle in for good measure too. It brought some understated 'fall-ness' to our entry area.

I know it's a little too late for you all to do it...but bookmark it for next year maybe? :) OR! It might get you thinking about other found treasures you could add to your seasonal decor! It has me inspired to track down some pine cones.

-Meg.

tell me...

I am ready to pull out our boxes and deck the halls!!

-Meg.

Georgia Aquarium

WARNING: lots of pictures in this post :)

This past weekend Matt and myself went on a special behind the scenes tour of the Georgia Aquarium (the WORLD's largest by the way!)...It was beyond AMAZING. I can not stress enough how wonderful this place was. It really made you feel small standing next to whale sharks, manta rays, and grouper (that aren't even fully grown yet).



We were taken behind the scenes and got to see the world's largest tank that houses whale sharks and a multitude of animals. At the top it seriously looks like one giant swimming pool (although I am not too sure what I was expecting haha).







It is something we will never forget.





The animals were magical.





We both want to SWIM with the sharks and fish - you can buy special events that allow to you to scuba in the giant tank with all the animals.




If you are ever in Atlanta the aquarium is a MUST SEE.



-Meg.

candlestick doppelganger

About a week ago I was perusing the newest Restoration Hardware** catalog that showed up in our mailbox when I spotted something eerily similar to an item in our home...



Here is MY candlestick that sits atop our buffet in the dining room. I scored this pretty guy for $1.99 at Goodwill awhile back.



If my candlesticks had a facebook page they would have surely posted their much more expensive cousins from Restoration Hardware** as their default pic during doppelganger week...(anyone out there think it's lame I tied my candlesticks and doppelganger week to facebook on the blog? hahah)


** forgive me, because the more I think about this the more I question if the catalog I spotted them in was Restoration Hardware or Pottery Barn?? I'll let you know when I return home and dig them out of the recycle bin!

-Meg.

HomeGoods Happy!

After a not-so-great Tuesday I decided to stop in to HomeGoods after work before I headed home. I am always in search of inspiration ESPECIALLY since my parents just closed on a new house (they don't know it yet but I am decorating their house haha!). Glorious photos courtesy of my iPhone...who is nicknamed IFINN!

I came across this industrial table that jumped out at me. It would be gorgeous as a sofa table or even a bar/side console table for a dining room.






I also came across this print...I debated snatching it up for our living room but ended up talking myself out of it because I have a TON of picture frames and I need to really formulate my plan for the gallery wall in our living room before I buy anymore pieces.



And here I am! Saying 'HI!' to all you lovelies out there!



-Meg.

halloweenie

Being new to town we were originally unsure of what our Halloween was going to look like. Sure I decorated the house and all but we did not know if we were going to adorn OURSELVES in Halloween decor...aka costumes.

But then my lovely coworker/friend(who was a kick butt Cat in the Hat!) invited us out down to Buckhead. We ran around like crazy people pulling together last minute costumes. Matt had this crazy idea (well to be honest, I thought it was crazy) to be a Christmas tree. I was an {unoriginal} butterfly. Matt was a hit. Everyone stopped him and asked for pictures. He taught me to not doubt his costume ideas in the future, haha!

HAPPY BELATED HALLOWEEN!
HOPE YOU HAD A SPOOKTACULAR TIME!

-Meg.

take a peak...

I am always curious to see the places in a home that people don't normally post in blogs...for example the pantry. Pantries are never that pretty and fairly hard to organize. Soooo, ya wanna see what I do to keep it [somewhat] neat?

I keep our sugar, flour, whole wheat flour, pasta, etc in these glass jars from Walmart (you can find the jars at Target too - they just cost a few more bucks there).

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I organized all the 'loose' bags of snacks in to baskets/

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Something else I have in our pantry which was done during a pure moment of genius (I was in the accelerated/gifted program through of all grade school you know...). Well I got those handy dandy pop can holders. You know...those racks that roll a new can down to you? Well I bought 4 and have them in our pantry to store canned goods! It helps me know what we have on hand and keeps it all neat.

-Meg.

sorry-i'm tardy for the party

37 points to the first person who can guess where the title comes from.

Sorry I've been absent from posting in BlogLand for a week and a half... I missed out on posting about all the Halloween festivities! I have some pics of our Halloween decor that I may or may not post...because honestly I am ready to start decorating for Christmas already!

We had another important day happen while I was not posting...Matt's birthday!

It was his first birthday EVER away from his childhood friends or family. He had to work and the night before he got very little sleep due to faulty gutters...but minus those things he agreed the day turned out well. I started his morning with a series of hidden presents around the house with the first one being in the bathroom when he woke up to shower. After work he came home to a decorated house and his 'big' present. I also made him his beloved baked mac and cheese.

I am so blessed to have such an amazing, supportive, funny, caring, HOT, loving partner to share my life with and I can not wait to keep ringing in all the future birthdays together!

I snapped away like a crazed soccer mom.


Look! You can see me too! :)

-Meg.

ps: apparently blogger and photobucket are in a fight as they won't upload my photos together...hence the small blogger photos.