Feature yourself Friday!

Ello, ello. Welcome to yet another fun Feature Yourself Friday mates!

Yeah I don't know about that accent either, just go with it. ;)

No features this week, I'm running super late putting this up and I'm currently held up at my Dad's house watching my kids eat too much junk food and drinking....gasp..pop. I know, Grandpas are evil like that. But.. how about something cute? Eh?

Eh.

Source

I could eat him. With a spoon, doesn't even need extra sugar. 

Okay party on peeps! I'll work on getting these sugar high children to bed. ;)

Reason 101 why In His Grace rocks my socks.

Remember my friend Chrissie the lovely shop owner of In His Grace?

Yeah, I've talked about her once or twice. I love her items and TODAY I'm telling you why I love her even more. Well, she's giving 25% of her proceeds in the month of June to Amy and her Husband John who are trying to bring home this gorgeous little buddy.

Gosh he's cute. Edible really.

That's Davis. And he deserves to come home to his Mommy and Daddy!

So, there's two more days left in June-- if you've been planning on snatching something up from In His Grace, NOW..NOW NOW NOW is the time to do it! :) You get something lovely, of course and you help Davis come home. Which is awesome, you can help him come home.

 So, why don't you head on over.. Take a look around and see if anything catches your eye. I know it will, everything is just.too.cute.

Pst! She also has a blog! 

And, if you want to follow along with the Jupin Family check out their blog right here :)

And, read more about Davis here! :)

Grab This!

The day I got kicked out of Target

But, not really.

Most people know my love for Target. I went through a stage where I went there a few times a week, heck almost daily probably. But today, I want to share with you the day the earth stood still and I had.to.stop. Annnnndddd, go.

My side of the story.

Walking around, minding my dear own business. Sippin' on some delicious Fountain Mountain and enjoying my quiet two year old while she chomps on some popcorn. Did I mention she's being quiet?

Heaven. 

 Wee!

So we mosey our way to the children section (First mistake) bumping ever so lightly into the clothing racks because c'mon they're way to close anyways. Let's all agree to that can't we?
So I turn the corner, so close to the finish line out of the freakin' claustrophobic maze that is the Target children clothing section and *tap* yes, the teeniest, tiniest tap that anyone could make. I did.

BOOM

No joke.

Alright, it was just one rack (and a half) I looked up and some lady just smiled at me and I may or may not have dropped the f bomb, silently because well, my two year old was quiet and people would have heard me. I tried to pick it up, really but this piece of crap wouldn't for the life of me stand and well people were starting to look.
So I double stepped it to the nearest employee I could find... This is when it gets bad, no judgment okay? Are we swinging in the tree of trust right now? Yes, Okay.. I warned you.

"Hi um, my daughter just pulled on a rack and it came crashing down, I tried to pick it up but the rack can't stand up"

Yeah I threw my daughter, my heart and soul, the child from my loins..well not really, c section here, so.. the child who I let ruin my ab muscles-- under the bus. What?
 
I don't think he even listened, he heard crash and went running so I went on my merry way. What the heck else do you want me to do? So I went to the Halloween department, cussing myself out for wearing a V-neck because now my hives were extremely visible. Awesome, just awesome. I also apologized to my daughter and told her I'd buy her some candy. She just ate her popcorn and laughed at me.

Again. 

Awesome.

I throw some stupid Reeses no bake brownie something or other mix into my cart because well, now I had to buy something. I figured it was time to go (thank GOD) I'd made my way around the store and had to peek and see if they cleaned it up so as I'm walking by.. WHAT do I hear? Two employees talking... ABOUT ME! And, I quote...
"Yeah she pushed it over and ran off on PURPOSE. Seriously it took him hours to fix it and like five people to clean it up. It's broken now, she didn't even offer to help or pay for it."

Um, alright.
1.) Maybe it was broken first and that's why my tap pushed it over.
2.) I did try to help, home boy ran off before I could add any other assistance.
3.) Hours? Okay I know I'm slow and out of shape but my pity lap around Target was minutes, not hours.
4.) Forget you, I was probably the biggest highlight to the WEEK, if not MONTH thank you very much. You're welcome for the gossip.

*Snaps across the face*

Giiiiirl. 

End scene. 

So there you go, I didn't get kicked out but I didn't show my face for a while, luckily there was another store across town that I could get my fountain mountain and quiet baby fix.

Target, if you're reading this go ahead and email me for gift card compensations for my suffering.

And the five pounds I gained from Reeces no bake pity purchase.

Feature yourself Friday!

Hello friends. :)

I'm still in awe of all of your compassion and love you're sending my way. Slowly but surely I'm starting to smile again. It's a tough road either way, and I have faith that whatever the outcome is the one that's meant to be. Out of my control.

But, let's not be sad tonight. It's Friday for goodness sakes (well.. almost..) And, we need a little fun around this place.

My baby girl is turning 6 next week.. can you believe it? Me either.. So party planning is in my future. Love this nautical theme.

 

Anything in a jar is amazing.. pie is no exception.

Love the Anthro Knock off 

Uh holla.. Chevron printable template.

Love it ladies. You never fail to impress and you definitely save my sanity when I can't sleep at night.. 500+ links to the best of what's going on in blog land? Yes please.

Alright, now it's your turn. Party on peeps.

Love, just love.

Wow guys. First of all, the amount of outpouring love I was shown yesterday brought me to tears more than once. I know the blogging world is an amazing thing and it's fun to have friends and see people who have common interests and hobbies as you is awesome. But, when you open your heart and soul to people you don't know and they come and battle for you, truly battle. Links to help me, words of encouragement, prayers. It's amazing and humbling.

I tried to write the post so many times, and I was scared to actually post it thinking-- well what if he changes his heart? What if it works out, people could get mad, think I just gave in, things could get snarky very fast.

But you know, friends only want whats best for you. If the best thing is for God to change my husbands heart then so be it, my true friends only want whats best. If I come back and say I've tried everything in my body and heart and soul to make it work and I just can't, I'm sure it will come with understanding as well.

It's just scary, being vulnerable. I also don't want anyone to think my husband is a horrible person. I can't think that way, he's the father of my children and truly my other half. So coming here and bashing him isn't something I'm here to do, and I don't think I did that-- I just had to let it out. I didn't want to force myself to write up posts about paint colors, and back-splashes when the only thing on my mind is "what will happen tomorrow, next week, the rest of my life" I didn't want to fake it. It was weighing on my heart so much I wanted to scream.

So. I did.

And, I regretted clicking post for about a millisecond and then all of you...You lovely lovely ladies reminded me why I love this little online world so much, that it's okay. You weren't just thinking, hoping, praying, crossing your fingers for me and my girls but my husband too! There wasn't one rude comment (which I was also scared about..eek) just love. Just, what is meant to be will happen. I'm trying to remind myself that. I think the biggest fear is my children thinking I failed them. I want them to grow up knowing their mother did everything in her power to try. So I am. It's just hard, hard to try alone. But, again everything happens for a reason, I'm just patiently (not so patiently) waiting to see what that reason is.

So. That was a lot of words. Basically thank you. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. If you've written me an email --I have read it and I will respond. If you've written me emails recently about anything else, blog-wise, I am getting to it I promise. I have giveaway winners to announce, giveaways I participated in that need to be mailed out, blog ads that I need to tell you about and comments to be answered, and slowly they will be. :) One minute at a time.

xo

Hmm, not really a title for this.

I wasn't sure how to title this post. I wasn't really sure if I wanted to post anything about it either but I figured since my blog has been uber suckish lately I could talk a little bit about why. Which by the way is really hard for me because I loathe getting all personal on the blog. I want it to be a happy place, where everyone can have fun and not walk away feeling sad or icky. So, bare with me. 

10 years ago I met my soul mate. 

I can honestly say he is the love of my life, he knows he is. I would do anything for the kid, we have a ton of fun together and I wouldn't want to spend my life with anyone else. 

But, sometimes life doesn't go your way and you hear things as a wife that you'd never 

thought you'd hear.

Ever.

And it crushes you. It crushes your soul. It's like you get kicked in the stomach and punched in the face at the same time and you hear words from this person you thought completed you. So what do you do? Do you beg? Plead? Do the ugly cry for a week like I did? I don't know what to do, that's pretty much it. I want to blog, I want to fix up my house but at the moment, I'm not fixing up our house and it kind of lost its luster. 

I have two precious little girls right now who need their Mom more than anything and so that's what I'm going to do. Between the ugly cries, and wondering what the heck I can do to fix it. 

Which is nothing. It's out of my control. 

I have to just be a Mom. 

And, it isn't fair. 

Because I just wanted to be a wife too.

 

Thankfully Mrs. Nato has gone though this, and bless her little heart even though she lives 5 billion miles away from me she deals with my emails every 5.2 minutes and phone calls and texts at 3 am. She'll answer the same question I have every time "Will I be okay?" "How do I do it!?" "Why can't I make him come back" And, that sweet sweet friend just tells me what I need to hear, even if she already told it to me 100 times. The only thing I know for sure is you can't make someone love you. Even though you tell yourself you will NOT be a statistic and you can do everything in your power to make a marriage work it takes two, and if the other person isn't willing to give it their all then it wont work. Hopefully, something changes. Hopefully God will change his heart, because we honestly do have something really good. Too good to lose. We made vows to stick it out, and that's what I plan on doing, and it's being pulled away from me.

This is hopefully the only time I'm going to vent about it, because well. Like I said, a decor blog isn't really the place for the sads. But if you're the praying type, I would absolutely love an extra one (or two) right now.

Bei Fiori {Giveaway!}

Hello friends! :) Do I have something fun for you today! My lovely friend Marilyn owns the cutest little Etsy Shop called Bei Fiori and has graciously offered up a giveaway to her shop!

She has the ca-utest pillow covers. Tons of ruffles.. Rachelle likes ruffles okay? Super duper likes them.

She also makes totes

and other pretty vintage inspired things!

Want to know what you might win today? Well, a THIRTY dollar shop credit.

Whoa!

I know, that's a lot of pillow cover awesomeness going on isn't it? Yes. Yes it is.

Want to know how you can win? I thought so. Let me show you the ways.

1. Take a look around her shop and tell me what you'd like to spend your credit on

2. Become a fan at her facebook page

3. Blog/tweet/facebook about this giveaway

And, as always please leave a separate comment for each so it's a tad easier for random.org to choose the winner! :) Good luck!

Feature yourself Friday!

Hi ho Hi ho what a fast week huh? I was a seriously slacky blogger this week, but if you heard my venting on facebook, I just have 1000 projects half finished. I need a kick in the butt ya'll.. and some sunshine! Stupid Michigan. But.. I did get one thing done-- I used random.org to choose a winner for our long lost giveaway last week.. remember? Yeah.. see my mind is mush! 

The two winners from the Creativity for Kids art set.... 

#17 Sarah and #32 Rachel G.. Look for an email from me tomorrow ladies! :) 

You also have until Sunday to enter the E-Mealz giveaway going on here. 

Want to see some pretty features from last week? I thought so. 

Loving everything about this seating. That table? Yeah it makes me wish I didn't paint ours.

Super big fan of these no sew pillows. 

Oh my, how fun are these chairs?

Love them ladies. Wish I had a you've been featured button but alas.. I do not. Just know that I heart you.. tons. :)

Everyone else ready to party? Okay, just not too hard, we have to be on the up and up for Fathers Day this Sunday.. :)

Guess where I am today..

Guess where I'm hanging out today? Won't you come join me?

E-Mealz Giveaway

Whoa buddies! I'm so excited for today's giveaway! When I was contacted by E-mealz and asked if I'd like to try out their awesome meal plan, I of course JUMPED on it. I've heard of this before through some of the meal planning blogs and recipe sites that I read so I knew a little about it before but I didn't know exactly how awesome it was.

If you aren't familiar E-Mealz is a meal planning resource for busy Mom's and frugal families.

They..

...are written and created by REAL moms with REAL families
...are balanced and family friendly
...are as easy as possible, but delicious and kid tested!
...consist of favorite recipes collected from hundreds of moms
...come with an organized, aisle by aisle grocery list
...are for 4 to 6 people
...are based on the current week sales at your grocery
...are priced at approximately $75 per week
...Two person plans average $35 total per week

Seriously, it's so affordable and so fun. 

I can cook, really I can. It's just I HATE planning it. I hate thinking about what I'll make for the night let alone the whole week and their plans make it so easy! You can even choose a plan by what store you'll shop from. Then-- you shop the sales and it's even MORE affordable. Holy cow. 

It's just really neat, and I wouldn't lie. :)

I had the any store meal plan and some of the items on it were Buffalo wings, Angel hair pasta, Chicken pot pie.. And, it helps you with the sides too! Then along with it is your shopping list for the week. It seriously couldn't be any easier. Especially if you're like me and you loaaathe trying to think of the dinner ideas. It does everything for you. Everything I tell you!

Going on vacation? They have one for that too! How about as a wedding gift for some newlyweds? They have a two person meal plan too. That would be pretty neat, and you know it'd be unique enough that no one else would have gotten it for them and you'd get uber cool points. Yup.

I think the best part of all this is how affordable it is, it's 1.25 a week and personally, knowing that someone else is doing the "dirty" work of figuring out what's for dinner. That's well worth it.

So today E-mealz is offering up a THREE free months subscription to one of you lucky ladies (or gents!) I'm excited for you, you're going to LOVE it. Seriously. 

Want to know how you can win? Let me tell you the ways 

1.) Leave a comment letting me know which meal plan you'll be choosing if you win

2.) Head on over to the E-mealz facebook page and follow along! Be sure to leave a comment and tell them who sent ya ;)

3.) Subscribe to the E-mealz blog

4.) blog/tweet/facebook about this giveaway

As always these are optional so you can do one or all of them, just be sure to leave a separate comment for each so it's a tad easier for random.org to choose a winner! :)

Feature yourself Friday!

Happy Friday friends... :) Hope you're having a wonderful summery day! It was the last day of school for my sweet one today. I officially have a first grader. Oh. my. gosh. It was a very weepy day, that's for sure. Now we can officially start checking off our Summer to do List! Woohoo!

How 'bout a highlight reel from last week eh?

Love this easy feather tutorial.  

*Drool*

Love this summer mantel. 

There isn't one thing I don't like about this. The color, the bunting, everything.

Okay friends, your turn! Have fun!

What's on Rachelle's phone

I still can't find my camera cord. I'm going to be royally p-i-....you know the rest, if I don't find it and have to buy a new one. That's all I'll say about that.

So, I thought I'd share my life in pictures. Because sometimes iphone pictures crack me up. Maybe they'll crack you up too, or maybe you'll get bored and wait until I can come back with my other projects that I'm dying to share... (Kitchen back splash done..  new kitchen shelving..done..girls curtains..done! So happy.. ) Either way, here you go, Rachelle.. ala Iphone. AND..GO.

My idea of a good night, fixing the toe kick and pizza hut and it'd delicious fake cheese.

Totally kidding pizza hut, don't sue me. I love your cheese, whether real or fake. ;)

A photo I found while cleaning out our garage. 

If you ask me, it completely explains my irrational fear of spiders. Thanks Mom, not so funny now is it? 

My friend Dawn sent me this forever ago but I never put it up thinking we were going to get new siding, I was annoyed at waiting. The day after I put it up a guy came to our door.

Guess what he sold.

Siding.

This was going into Chicago for my birthday. 

 This was leaving. I assumed the rapture was at home waiting for me.

Clearly.

Yes, we're klassy and have a plastic blue pool. We also ride motorcycles with our kids on it.

But that's not what I want you to notice.

This is...

It's a full size motorcycle. We're just giants. I feel better now that that's out in the open. ;)

The most amazing thank you note ever.

Us Moms do a lot of stuff, don't we?

This was the conversation after "Dad, I tried to make you one but I couldn't think of anything you've done for me lately"

ha. not so funny.. but it is. She settled on thanking him for making her lunch. 

Beadboard back splash, hello. I love you already.

Instagram makes my flowers look ah-mazing, doesn't it? Pretty proud of those suckers.

I said smile.

This is what I got. 

They fell asleep in my bed the other night and before I took them upstairs I noticed how they were sleeping. ha..ha.....ha ;) Poor things. 

And, look at her. Is she seriously three years old already?