Farmhouse Valentine Kitchen Decor

I wasn't quite ready but hubby took down Christmas and went straight to Valentine Kitchen Decor arranging. He took our little tree in the fresh eggs daily bucket and turned it into a Valentine tree.

From farmhouse Valentine decor and a little prim Valentine our kitchen is so cozy. As always full credit goes to the hubby as he does all our decorating.

Our Valentine Kitchen

Hubby left all the black and white enamel in the kitchen and added touches of red and hearts that will be the perfect January to February decor.

This little shelf has a place in my heart and holds our main kitchen display area.

This is my mom's old cheese grater and I love to display it. I think it makes a nice prim or vintage Valentine statement.

 A little rustic Christmas tree was tucked into our fresh eggs daily bucket. Some glass heart ornaments and other hearts add the finishing touches. The perfect farmhouse February decorating.

I can't wait to see what hubby has in store for spring.

Farmhouse Fall In The Kitchen

Dean decorated the kitchen in a farmhouse fall decor theme and I think it turned out lovely and wanted to share. It is light and bright and will switch over to Thanksgiving decor easily.

Farmhouse Fall Decor

Black and white enamelware is always in our kitchen so we added the little gingham pumpkins with some more prim pumpkins we already owned.

I hope you enjoyed our fall kitchen decorating this year. We have buttery yellow walls and the black and white enamelware stays up all year but the autumnal colors mixed well with what we already had. Stay tuned. Tomorrow we will share our rustic Halloween decor.
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Sunflower Themed Party Ideas

This past week our we hosted our daughter's wedding rehearsal dinner. We, Dean and I, went with a sunflower themed party idea with black and white check table linens. Perfect idea for a June wedding with the rehearsal dinner in our back garden.

When my husband and I were gathering our sunflower wedding decorating ideas,  we wanted to save money as always and chose to use our collection of black and white enamelware. You can see we even used our wall hanging enamel flower market container. Jars were inserted to hold the mix of sunflowers and zinnias from our garden.

I used white table linens I already had and ordered the black and white check table runners from Amazon and a pack of black and white check napkins. It was very inexpensive to use these to bring in the checks we wanted.

I knew I wanted sunflower cupcakes for the dessert table and found a friend who is a talented baker and hired her to make them. They really were cute and set off the sunflower themed dessert table.

We rented white chairs and filled all of our mason jars with sunflowers for table centerpieces with sunflowers. Along with yellow napkins from the dollar store, we had very frugal sunflower centerpieces for parties or wedding receptions.

 I hope you enjoyed a peek into our daughter's rehearsal dinner.

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Five On Friday - Farm Fresh

Awe, April in Southern California is such a pretty time. Not yet too hot and days are spent gardening and cooking up farm fresh goodies from the garden and hubby is busy putting up farm fresh decor.

Chickens and farmhouse inspired decor have long been what I always seem to gravitate to when I am decorating. Remember the old rooster wall paper borders? Yep, I had some, did you? I think rooster decor will never go out of fashion.

I love my gingham rooster kitchen canisters and probably get asked about those the most. They are from Certified International and Amazon carries a ton of really cute ones so check it out.

My garden is just so pretty right now and loved all our rain Southern California received this year. Cilantro is something I always let go to seed as it makes such a pretty garden flower and then they reseed and sprout for me again in the fall.

I love hanging baskets and picked up this new one to add to our patio. Once summer comes, they won't survive but for now they are beautiful.

The patriotic decor comes out next week and we will keep it up until after Labor day. This vintage Butter-Nut coffee can came from hubby's grandpa's garage complete with old nails in it but I rescued it for the house.
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Fall Decor 2016 - Part 1

It's that time... Happy Fall Y'all Home Tour 2016. Our fun frugal fall decorating ideas will hopefully inspire you to get some autumn decor going in your own home.

Fall Farmhouse Kitchen Decorating Ideas

Hubby has been busy with his fall decorating 2015. Even though we are in the burbs our decor is more city farmhouse fall decor. In the kitchen we kept it easy with simple fall decor ideas.

These vintage inspired tins go well with the orange of the pumpkins. We look at magazines and get fall decorating ideas but mostly the hubby just keeps tweaking. Here is our simple fall decor in the kitchen.

My vintage coffee pot is a new favorite I picked up at a thrift store in Oregon.

We hit the fall decor at Walmart and picked up a $3 bag of fall pumpkin mix and stashed it in our little green window box.

My farmhouse fresh eggs box from a dear friend is perfect with the orange and green on my little vintage chair. Hubby tucked eggs and prim pumpkins in with some autumn picks of berries.

Decorating Cozy Corners

Tucked in a corner off of our kitchen is my favorite corner of the house. Here are hubby's tips on decorating cozy corners. Now don't tell him that is what I am calling his decor. Shoot, he won't mind even if you did.

Over the weekend we bought a new punched tin lamp and some prim stacked nesting boxes. I have always loved stacked boxes. But enough that, now onto the hubby's tips:

1. Pick a couple unifying colors. Here we use mustard and black. Though we have a green couch in here and touches of red, it all works because of the base colors sprinkled throughout. (sprinkled is my word, not his)

2. Mix up textures. Wood, metal, soft, rough, etc. But grouping like collections is always better and make a nice statement.

3. Mix sizes, and decorate in threes. Odd numbers look better in decorating.

4. Leave some blank spaces for the eyes to rest. You can fill a space but leave the table below less cluttered. You don't want to have to spend forever dusting nick knacks. Don't be afraid to tuck things away in a closet. We do this all the time. We rotate stuff given what look we are going for at the time.

5. Lastly, adhere to the advice on the sign at my favorite shop,

Your husband called and said, buy whatever you want.

All decorating by Mr. SunnySimpleLife

Memorial Weekend 2015

Our traditional Memorial day barbecue is tomorrow and will be larger than usual. We are keeping it simple with burgers and dogs that of course we are razzing up with blue cheese or cheddar mushroom stuffing for the burgers.

House is set, food is bought.

But above all else, we remember the sacrifice made by our military families. For this, we are so thankful.

Via: Howtonestforless.com

Wishing you all a safe and relaxing weekend of remembrance.

Farmhouse Easter Decor

 You know I think of our house as a farmhouse in the city so our farmhouse Easter decor follows suit. The hubby did a bit of Easter decorating this year. Really farmhouse describes us perfectly. Decor that is well loved, used, useful and mix and match. How about a little Easter tour?

I stole some of our plastic Easter eggs to drop in a ball jar.

I really find it hard to decorate with pastels but I love yellow and green for spring decorating. These chicks and the chick picture are my favorites.

I found this sunshine pillow at Home Goods and since we are Sunny Simple Life I had to have it. We sure have lots of sunshine in Southern California.

Farmhouse Decor Through the Years

I love cozy country farmhouse looks and I am sharing some of our farmhouse decor through the years. I have always loved prim decor but I am really seeing my decor take a definite lean towards farmhouse decor. Here are some looks through the years that proves just that. You can find all these posts by searching "farmhouse" on the blog on the search section on the sidebar.

This is not mine but from Country General Store in Covina but I sure would love to just move that little henhouse right over to my home.