A Little Recap of 2013!

I haven't spent much time on my computer this past week but that's because I've been busy working away on another room in our house. First, I got all of our Christmas decorations put away (except for the paperwhites and a couple of wreaths) and then I got to work priming and painting the trim in our other extra bedroom and started on the walls. I am hoping to finish up the walls today and then I can start decorating. I am really excited about the bedding from Ballard Design that is going in that room! And I am on the hunt for a couple of things to add in there but hopefully will have lots of pictures to share soon. And then I am starting on our master bedroom. And our new light fixture for our entryway arrived late yesterday afternoon so I am hoping to get it out of the box and maybe even hung this afternoon. So, it may be a few more days but I should have lots to share with you soon! In the meantime I thought it would do a little obligatory year end wrap up for 2013. I chose a few of my favorite posts/projects from this past year:

First up, last January we had Jamie's Baby Shower -You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/jamies-nursery-rhyme-themed-baby-shower.html

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/jamies-nursery-rhyme-themed-baby-shower_15.html

In February we offered our first chalkboard download and print in our shop:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/i-love-you-our-first-handwritten.html

and had a little tutorial for making these fun Valentine's mini cakes:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/mini-valentines-cake-tutorial-with-love.html

and some Valentine's decorating:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/our-valentines-decorating.html

In March we had fun with a Spring Tablescape:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/spring-tablescape-and-dining-room-its.html

then in April we shared some updates in our living room at our last house:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/living-room.html

In May we featured baby Everly's nursery :

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/everlys-nursery.html

In June, we said good-bye to our home that we had lived in for the last five years and gave a final tour:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/final-tour-of-our-townhome.html

and we also had fun joining Jennifer Rizzo and several other bloggers for a 1 Room, 3 Ways event:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/day-3-one-room-three-ways.html

then in July I gave you a little tour of the upstairs and downstairs of our new house (full of very dated before shots!) and shared some photos of my parent's guest bedroom:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-parents-guest-bedroom.html

In August I shared the progress we made in Jason's kitchen:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/jasons-kitchen-and-dining-room-progress.html

In September we shared quite a few things from Lillie and Lola's new room:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/lillie-and-lolas-new-room-not-quite.html

to our kitchen makeover on a budget:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/our-kitchen-makeover-on-budget-phase-1.html

and also my parent's new kitchen:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/my-parents-kitchen.html

Then in October we had several other rooms we made progress in. First more projects got finished up in the kitchen:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/an-oversized-chalkboard-and-bench-in.html

And we mostly finished up our family room:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/we-finally-have-rug-our-finished-family.html

And made progress in our powder room:

http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/progress-in-our-powder-room-before-and.html

Then in November we made our Roman Shade for the kitchen to finish of Part 1 (we are going to be replacing the counters, adding a farmhouse sink and new faucet and a new backsplash for Part 2 - hopefully pretty soon!)