Wednesday, April 18, 2012

BEST GIFT EVER: BRUUUUUUCE!!!!!:

Hi Friends!!

This is not a home decorating post but a
 "best present ever" post!!
My husband and I don't usually give Valentine's day gifts, but this year he surprised me with tickets to see Bruce Springsteen in concert on April 16th in Albany!!...For all of you Bruce fans, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...It was a GREAT NIGHT!!



A BIT BLURRY:  THE GUY NEVER STOPS MOVING...LOVE HIM!!













I love my husband and I love Bruce!!...lol

IN A WORD:  AWESOME!!!!!

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

It's a "PINK PARTY!"

Hi Friends!
I wanted to share some pics from the 
"PINK PARTY
we had for our youngest daughter's 7th birthday!
I really enjoyed preparing for this party...everything and everyone...(except for me an my hubby) was adorned in pink.....so happy with the way it all turned out...:)







My little one chose just about everything...we made strawberry cupcakes with vanilla icing with pink sugar sprinkled on top!

I made pink chocolate Happy Birthday lollipops...I put a foam block in the basket and filled it with pink easter grass...

Instead of a traditional favor bag, we used these pink sand pails.  We filled pink paper lunch bags with treats and toped each basket off with this fluffy pink ribbon!!



LOVE these napkins...I chose those...lol...

This was the first time I piped the icing through a bag (a ziploc with the corner snipped off) for the cupcakes...It was super easy and looked great!




We also served PINK PUNCH, PINK LEMONADE and PINK strawberry ice cream...oh and the BIG treat of the day was the cotton candy machine we rented:  PINK cotton candy for everyone..YUM!!
The PINK party was a success!!.....a great time was had by all!!

xo, Mariaelena



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http://myuncommonsliceofsuburbia.com/
http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com/
http://diyshowoff.com/category/other/diy-project-parade/
http://www.thevintagefarmhouse.com/
http://diybydesign.blogspot.com/

Thursday, March 29, 2012

SPRING DECOR HAS SPRUNG IN THE "BURBS HOUSE"




HI  FRIENDS!!!

It started out as a dark,dreary day here in the Northeast so it was a great time for me to  finally get around to decorating for Spring / Easter.  I changed it up a bit from last year, going with a simple theme throughout:  Spanish moss with muted colored eggs.


Enjoy & Happy Spring!!




My Easter egg tree atop of my tag sale pedestal redo.



Out with the pine cones and in with the spanish moss and muted easter eggs!!





Like I said, I decided to keep with the moss/muted egg theme throughout this year...this is the end of the mantel in the living room.



I added a small ivory candle wrapped in jute to give these urns a spring touch...


Remember???...our mantel is long so I'm giving it to you in sections...lol



You've seen this before...my lit branches mixed with some dogwood and pussy willow!

Large glass canister jars filled with creamy white  potpourri flank the glass hurricane...
old glass knobs surround it.




Springtime server....

I gave my wire bunny a burlap bow...


there are those eggs again...

Oh wait...let me turn that light on for you...haha

our entry foyer table


and the Easter egg wreath is back in it's place once again...


Happy Spring!!

Monday, March 19, 2012

"POWER OF PAINT" KITCHEN FEATURE!!

I woke up this morning to news that our kitchen transformation is being featured today over at Maryann's Power of Paint blog!...for those of you who don't know, it is a spinoff of her very popular blog Domestically Speaking....Please visit the 
Power of Paint to check out so many great projects and some fabulous paint inspiration!!   If you haven't seen our kitchen makeover...please check it out and let me know what you think....I love & appreciate your feedback!!


Have a HAPPY MONDAY!!!

xo, Mariaelena