Another visitor & a porch sneak peek!

The Bell hotel just keeps hopping!  My mom came to town this weekend for the first time since she & my sweet dad helped on move-in day (26 ft U-Haul and 96 degree heat do not happy movers make...). It was so great to spend the weekend with her, and I loved showing her how our little nest was coming right along!  We bounced all around town, ate lots of good food, and worked on some things around the house.  If you know my mother, you know she is a workhorse.  Laundry machines, completed tasks, and the smell of bleach are her happy place.  If you know me, you know I did not inherit these genes. So having her here was both enjoyable and also very beneficial to us & our home!

At Trivia Night at a local spot...Team Know Nothin' did in fact know basically nothing.

Also, true to form, my mother arrived bearing gifts. She delivered various items that I had called about saying, "Is this at your house?? I can't find it anywhere!"And also a little something original for our guests...

Alice is so funny & clever. And those genes I did inherit. (I kid, I kid.)

Now, let's move on to that screened-in porch that I've been dying to share! There is still quite a bit of cutesy-ing up to do out there, but here is the end of the porch that is almost complete.

And I must give a shout out here to my oh-so-talented and generous brother in law Owen!  He is a graphic designer and so sweetly put together the prints below within 24 hours of my request.  (Talk about service!) I absolutely love the colors on that open wall space. The custom Arkansas print (my nod to the homeland) is my favorite.  THANKS AGAIN, O!

Luckily, the fabric I had ordered arrived this weekend (yay!), so I took advantage of mom's speedy sewing skills, and we whipped out those coral ikat pillows for added color in this sweet little spot!

As if that wasn't enough for the weekend, I did one more quick, little crafty project to help carry that coral print over to the other end of the porch.  Fabric-covered flower pots--so cute and so easy! (Thank you to Pinterest for the idea, and thank you to Allibrad for getting me absolutely hooked on Pinterest!) Loved how this one turned out!

Now onto my second week of vacation... (It's okay that you feel that way. I'd hate me, too.) Hope everyone had a happy, happy weekend!