Friday Finds: Here’s what I’ve fallen head over heels for this week

Happy Friday!!!

What a week it’s been with far too much to do and so little time to get it all done … thank goodness the weekend is almost here! We have SO much to look forward to this weekend with our precious little man turning two on Saturday (I can’t believe it) and who could forget all of those lovely little treasures I purchased for our gallery wall that I just can’t wait to put up?!

Hoping you enjoy this week’s finds as much as I have!

Favorite Cake Recipe for Spring

Favorite Ikea Hack

Favorite Pallet Wood Project

Favorite DIY Entryway

Favorite Foyer Makeover

Favorite Rustic DIY

Favorite Freebie for the Laundry Room

Favorite Linen Closet

Favorite DIY Bowls

Favorite DIY Remake

Favorite Wall for a Boy’s Room

Favorite Front Porch for Spring

Favorite DIY Bench

Favorite Kitchen Remodel

Wishing you a lovely weekend!

15 Inspiring Gallery Walls that you Simply Cannot Miss!

HAPPY MONDAY!

As planned, we had a lovely and productive weekend here in the Mercer house! We had some playtime at the park with Carson, a lovely breakfast with friends and enjoyed some walks outside taking in our gorgeous Spring weather. Even with all this fun, we were able to cross all sorts of jobs off of our to-do list and, though it was really satisfying, that part of our weekend was much too ordinary and boring to write at any length about. So instead, I’ve found something much more fun to share:

Continuing with last week’s theme of tackling projects I’ve been meaning to do for far too long, I’ve started working on a gallery wall for my living room. It had me scouring Pinterest and Houzz for inspiration and I found SO many fabulous ideas that I couldn’t help but share! If you’re designing a gallery wall in your home, hopefully this post will help you to get started and if you’re not, these pictures are sure to inspire you to change your mind!

I’ve shared this one before, but I’m seriously in LOVE how eclectic and comfortable it looks!

Isn’t this a brilliant idea to fill a long, empty wall? I love how simple it is and how easy it would be to switch out the pictures and art.

This one couldn’t possibly be any more interesting or unique.

I love how nothing matches in this one, but it still somehow looks so put together.

The layers and different spacing in this one are really interesting and the wall colour absolutely makes it all pop.

I pinned this gallery wall long ago. It is so simple, but the black and white give it a ton of dimension and impact.

This gallery wall drew me in with it’s eclectic mixing of pieces and the bold blue wall colour.

Seriously, there’s no way I could pass this rustic gallery wall by! With the skis and snow shoes, this would look perfect in our basement!!!

Love the clean lines in this one, especially when paired with that beautiful, rustic bench.

Another one of my absolute faves! I just can’t get enough of the mixed metals! The black and white photography and the classicly styled frames help give this nontraditional layout, a very classic look.

Very simple, yet the contrast has such an impact!!!

This one is so random and the large spaces between pictures goes against everything I read, but keeping with the colour scheme makes this all work.

Young House Love did a fabulous job “wallpapering” their halls with this gallery wall!

A gallery wall without pictures … LOVE it!

Loving this eclectic mix of metals, art, photos and other interesting pieces! You definitely need to check out the other photos at Abode Love!

As I mentioned on Friday, thanks to these inspirational ideas and my online shopping addiction, my gallery wall reveal will have to wait. Instead this week, in between a day of teaching grade two, packing for our trip to Mexico (more on that another day) and of course getting the house spotless before I can get on a plane, I am hoping to work through a couple of projects that I can’t wait to share!

Wishing you all a lovely week!

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Friday Finds: Here are some of my favorites from this week

It’s been another week of lovely weather in Rossland, so we’ve been enjoying many walks and have had some lovely playdates at the park.

Since experimenting with chalk paint on Tuesday (read about it here), I’ve been super busy crossing a million boring tasks off my ever growing to-do list. Though it feels good to get things done, it hasn’t been much fun and certainly hasn’t inspired me to write much. I did start work on a gallery wall (those that follow me on will have seen some pictures). I had full intentions of making Brady help me put it up that night, but as I scoured for some inspiration, I ended up finding more pieces to add to it … FIGURES! Anybody that knows me, knows that I can ALWAYS find a reason to shop online (maybe Brady’s suggestion of a post about NOT shopping for a month wasn’t such a bad idea!). So, even though I’m CRAZY excited to share what I’ve come up with, it’ll have to stay spread out on our guest bed for a while (I promise to share some sneak-peeks on as things arrive!) .

This weekend will be a busy one, working to accomplish more things that nobody wants to do, let alone read about on a blog (taxes, cleaning windows and installing screens). I promise that I do have some fun posts in mind to get us all through it though! 😉 For now, I’ll leave you with some of my favorite things this week:

Favorite Design Series

Favorite Dresser

Favorite Living Room Makeover

Favorite DIY Boxes

Favorite Shoes

Favorite Gallery Wall

Favorite Closet Makeover

Wishing everyone such a fabulous weekend!!!

Friday Finds – Here’s what I’m crushing on this week

I really don’t want to jinx it, but I think perhaps, just maybe, Spring may have actually arrived on time this year!!! We’ve been enjoying the great outdoors and taking in the gorgeous Spring weather all week. Seriously, I am SO excited for Summer that I can’t even fathom complaining once about the heat (I can’t believe I just put that in writing!).

Anyway, as always, I’ve been super busy around the house this week planting an indoor herb garden (pictures to come soon), making shopping lists (yes, multiple) for our trip down to Spokane this weekend & how could I forget the painting and “distressing” of those elusive shelves I keep talking about (hoping to get them up on the wall this weekend, so I can post about them next week!!!). I’ve also spent enormous (I’m talking embarrassingly huge) amounts of time in front of the computer this week – not only did I search for new blogs to nominate in passing along my Liebster Award, I also worked incredibly hard to rework my blog design over the last few days and I’m actually pretty thrilled with how it’s all come together!

I came across some absolutely AMAZING ideas and posts this week in my search of fabulous new blogs and I am so excited to share some of them with you today!

Favorite Kitchen Makeover – LOVE this wall colour!

$Favorite Jewelry Display \ making it in the mountains$

Favorite Jewelry Display

Favorite DIY Shelves

Favorite Must-Try Recipe

Favorite Kitchen Nook

Favorite Mudroom

Favorite Copycat DIY

Favorite Gallery Wall

Favorite Dining Table

Favorite Family Room Update

Favorite Ikea Dresser Re-do

Have a lovely weekend!

Friday Finds

We’ve had such a lovely week in sunny Rossland! I’ve FINALLY been able to run outside, which is infinitely less boring than running on the treadmill. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy the challenge, fresh air & time to myself … it’s SO nice to find myself looking forward to my runs again! Carson has a new pair of rain boots and so, we have been putting them to the test every chance we get. Though we are absolutely loving this amazing taste of Spring, Carson is definitely hoping for some rain so he has an excuse to play with his new umbrella (he’s woken up asking for it every day since he got it!). This weekend I’m really hoping to conquer those shelves I’ve been talking about for far too long – hopefully I’ll have another finished project to share next week. In the mean time, here are my favorite finds from this week:

Favorite Dining Room

Favorite Office Makeover

Favorite Target Find

Favorite Boots for Spring

Favorite Light Fixture (wouldn’t this look amazing in our front entry?!)

Favorite Way to Blog

Favorite Must-try Breakfast

Wishing you a lovely weekend!

Friday Finds

It’s been another busy week in the Mercer house – is there ever any other kind? We’ve been getting over the last bit of our colds, working on some shelves for the landing on the stairs, and enjoying more time at the pool with swimming lessons. We’re hoping to have a super productive weekend finishing up the shelves and heading to Nelson for some furniture shopping – wahoo! Though we’ll just be looking and definitely won’t be bringing anything big home with us, I’m super excited!!!

Here are some of my favorite finds this week:

Favorite Rug

Absolute Favorite Room. Period.

Favorite Must-try Recipe

Favorite Lights – perfect for our entryway!

Favorite Touch of Spring

Favorite Ikea Find

Favorite Scarf

Favorite Bed

Have a lovely weekend!

Friday Finds

It’s been a super busy week of Spring cleaning, swimming lessons and walks toting rocks around in the sleigh. I’m working on a couple of projects that I’m super excited to share, but in the mean time here’s a list of my favorite finds this week:

Favorite Kitchen Island