under the magnolia tree

In an effort to change things up around here I'm showing a few things I wouldn't otherwise show.  One being a photograph of myself and the other is bad decorating in my house.  I'm sharing this photo of me with George and Magnolia because it was taken on Mother's Day.   I wish I could erase my double chin.  But I can't.  At least not in an instant...sigh.  I had a wonderful day complete with a full morning to myself which included some shopping.  Shopping that allowed me to really take my time and look.  That got me thinking about our screen porch and how I've really let it go.  It's such a tricky space, really almost silly how narrow they made it.  BUT, it's a screen porch and I'll take it over not having one at all. We used to have it decorated kind of cute until the kids came.  I realized it could use some staging for the house showings and so the rest of my Mother's Day was spent redecorating it.  

This is before.

I bought a bistro table to put at one end and brought up some chairs from the basement.  It still looked so blah...

This is the "after".  I didn't have to buy much.  Just some burlap and pillow ticking for the table, a tablecloth that I made pillows out of and some duck cloth for the new cushion cover.  I pulled all of the galvanized pots of the garage.  I also took this old kidney table from storage.  It had a glass pink knob on it and I made a new pull out of knot of rope.  I also exchanged out the chairs for wooden ones.

Considering I spent around $20 for the whole makeover, I think it turned out pretty cute!

Now if we could just get some more people to come through our house!