Come on in!

I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time.  With Cooper and the holidays coming up, I’ve just been too busy!

I wrote in an earlier entry that the blank wall to your right as you enter my house needed something in order to make that area feel more like an official entryway.  Especially since the back of my love seat is facing that area.  So, we rummaged through the stuff we had and were able to come up with this cute little area for very little moolah!

 The gorgeous gold mirror was the $20 Craigslist find I posted about a few months ago.  I finally had somewhere to hang it, and with the yellow accents I’m trying to bring into the room, it just seemed perfect.

  

The antique table was a wedding gift from Aunt Donna McInnish and was the perfect size, height, and style for this nook.  I looked FOREVER in stores and online for a table that was, more or less, hip height that was narrow enough to fit between the door frames.  While Alexa was staying with us, she saw the table in one of the bedrooms and suggested we use it there.  Perfect fit, thanks Alexa!

The magnolia flower arrangement is not only a tribute to Sugar Magnolia (aka Maggie Canady) but was also a gift from my mother after it was used as decor at my wedding reception.  It is from NDI, which, if you don’t know, is this place in Brewton that sells fabulous artificial flower arrangements.  They look SO real.  I actually have another on my dining room table and another wrapped at my parents’ house as a Christmas gift!  Can’t wait to open that present!

The Domino book, which you have seen in an earlier post, just provided a bit of pretty color for the table and a little height for the flower arrangement.

The wrought iron and glass tray was also a wedding gift - from Terece Shehan.  It had been used as a catch-all in one of the bedrooms, but makes the perfect place for mail and/or keys.

So there you go…an entryway for less than $50 thanks to lots of wedding gifts and a few fab finds!