I Have a Personal Shopper!!

You all know cute little Susie, don't you? If you don't, you should head on over to her place. She is one talented girl. I saw that she had done a little Pottery Barn search and found the PB versions of these lanterns at Wal-Mart for CHEAP. So I just took that as a sign that she needs to be my personal shopper and took the kids over to Wal-Mart last week.

There they were in the candle section - Graham was confused about what we were even going to do with them...but this landlocked California girl had a plan to "coastalize" her desert home. If that is not a word then it is now. Dan is thinking I'm going to coastalize every room in our house. He might be right.

He bought me a happy little starfish on our honeymoon in Monterrey. I love starfish, but won't touch a shrimp to save my life. Go figure. So add a few Wal-Mart glass marbles and some cheapie WM seashells and starfish and we were set. I love it. It's the perfect "beach" meets "french country" that I'll ever see. At least in my house. In the frame is our wedding invitation. I leave that out year round, I loved my invitations that much.

Had to add a few more shells to my Wal-Mart glass candle holders...

A bit of sand to get between your....well, it won't be your toes. But one can dream. Isn't sand on your feet the best summer feeling? In your bathing suit, notsomuch.

I printed out some of my favorite summer pictures of the kids to put on my PB halltree. Found the seagrass and shell at Target two summers ago on clearance. I think I spent $5.00 on both if I remember right. Love that!

So until these summer thunderstorms go away, I've got some summertime happening right in my own family room!

Thank you Susie @ Bienvenue for the great inspiration!