Paint something yellow.
Put some birds in your winter stick trees!
(Here is where Martha Stewart tells us how to make the birds, naturally Martha would make the birds herself!)
Pin some flowers on pillows or tablecloths.
Create a garden trellis wall organizer!
Press your first spring flowers &
hang them from charming frames & hooks!
Have you been entering the Happy Spring Challenge at HomeGoods? Pretty awesome prizes!
Last week I was giving away a HomeGoods card here and almost forgot to tell you the winner! The winner of our first $50 card is Marie from Emma Calls Me Mama! Congrats! Email me your address and I’ll send off the card!
I went shopping at HomeGoods last week while I was in Portland and got some cool stuff I’ll show ya soon! HomeGoods really is the best, even though I had to drive three hours to get there!
I’ve got two more $50 HomeGoods cards to giveaway right now to ONE lucky winner! Yep, this week you can win TWO cards to help you out in your spring decorating. Just leave me comments about what you are doing in your home to bring a little spring inside!
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I’m cleaning out years of inherited and accumulated color, so hopefully I can feel lighter and Springier myself.
I was actually planning on going to HomeGoods this weekend or next to look for a white quilt/coverlet and shams for my bed to brighten up the look in my bedroom! I’m also planning to spray paint a lamp yellow after seeing this post…love the idea!
I just bought a house. So yesterday my daughter and I went and bought a lot of pillows for the wicker furniture in the sunroom in bold colors and designs. Love them.
Right now I’ve been concentrating on the outside! Planting a garden, flowers etc. I think it’s time I focus on the inside!!
hanging tissue paper poms from the chandelier above our kitchen table in fun springy colors.
Bouquets of daffodils, leaving my windows and doors open (nothing like fresh spring air) and gearing up for spring cleaning! I have some painting projects, too, including a dresser, but I’m painting it bright shiny cherry red. More summer than spring, perhaps?
Melissa,
I am afraid I am not able to decorate for spring right now…getting all packed up and ready to move and get married next weekend.
I am very busy and enjoying every minute of it!!! Happy Spring and Happy Easter everyone!!! I will be going Spring decorating crazy as soon as we get moved in!!!
Joyfully in Jesus,
Mary Joy
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Gotta get rid of almost everything…moving into a (much) smaller home. Where to start??
Lots of spring cleaning, which of course means I’ve found a million little areas I’d like to update with some nice wares from HG! And fresh tulips on the dining room table are also a must.
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I’m going lighter! I’m painting a soft grey on the walls, adding some new pillows with a bright pop of color and lots of fresh flowers!! So excited for spring!!
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I am on a turquoise tangent! I have brought turquoise in everywhere! It just feels springy to me.
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I bought some artificial branches of yellow flowers and put them in a vase.
So, far, I’ve just been throwing open the windows and letting a little sunshine inside. Hopefully I’ll get some flowers in a vase for the table soon.
I’m painting a mirror border yellow to put above my desk! It will reflect the light from the window opposite.
I am working on freshening up my screened-in porch and patio. I’m planting flowers in pots and making it all a more beautiful outdoor “room”.
My daughter is coming to help me spring-clean. She’ll get what I don’t want and I’ll have more room for new stuff….. wait, doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
I am adding white to my living room. Taking out the black and bringin in white pitchers with plants with them. I really like it and off course cleaning too
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I just bought a bright orange clock from Home Goods for my kitchen yesterday!
-k
whoops–i actually got my orange clock from jcpenney outlet store, but i DID get some cute little mini dutch ovens from home goods
(sorry for the double comment!!)
-k
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Bathing the dogs! No really, just doing some spring cleaning and putting out new towels and washing/changing out curtains to a light, airier color. I love Homegoods!
Homegoods is the best!! No money to change much right now – about to graduate from college and then I get to work on decorating a new place! I decorated most of my condo with items from there and wow – what bargains they have! Great fun to go there….
I plan on putting up some brightly colored pictures behind my bed (right now it’s bare) and getting some soft, flowly curtains for the master bedroom!! We just painted this winter, now time to make it pretty
I’ve been spring cleaning (getting rid of junk), reorganizing and brightening up my craft area and enjoying working and sleeping with the windows open! Also enjoying watching my hyacinth bloom (the smell so good).
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I’ve been clearing out clutter, and after reading 320 * Sycamore today, I plopped the wooden eggs from Michael’s into the pot of grass growing in my window sill. Have a blessed Easter, Melissa.
Oh Melissa love all the ideas….I want to do them all.
thanks a ton!
Happy Spring
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I know it’s cliche, but I can’t get enough of decorating with flowers. From the yard or from the store, I just love the life that they bring to the house.
Thanks for hosting such a great giveaway!
My little bit of spring is outside. I made new baskets for our front doors and they’re so cute! I love seeing them when we pull up full of spring flowers!
New mantel decor for Spring! Decorated my front porch with flowers (real and fake.) Spring cleaning of closets with donations to the local Goodwill. I’d love to win and then I would re-do my bedroom!
So far to celebrate spring I have replaced our arctic-weight down comfortable with something lighter – in both color and weight. Although 10 inches of snow are forecast for the next couple of days so I may have to rethink that! Perhaps just pin a few flowers to my tablecloth instead!
Hey there: Well, it’s been a long cold winter for this girl living in Romania! So, a couple weeks ago I decided to try my hand at growing a few herbs on my windowsill and also potted a few flowers. You can see them on my blog, should you like.
You may be thinking, what would a girl in Romania do with gift cards in the states?
Well, my state of residence in Oregon and my city of preferance is PDX! I’ll be there for a visit with my husband this summer…(June!)
I’m new to this site, so I was wondering around and saw you are a pastor’s wife…then I went to the site about your church…clicked on the link about your husband…I’m a Multnomah alum also! My husband and I work in Romania with kids-at-risk and are part of an organization called Word Made Flesh, serving Jesus among the poorest of the poor.
Therefore, what with so much cold and poverty, I’ve been hungry for spring!
And so, I’d love for you to take a look at my blog (I’ve been a bit inactive of late…but I’ve lots of ideas churning) AND I’d love to chat with you via email about just that…churning ideas and websites. But, I’ll try and be in touch with another way, too.
With 8 kids I’m not the shopper ususally but I know my Mom finds lots of fun stuff there so it would be nice to add some touches of spring.
We’re definitely using lots of yellow–dwell for target grey and yellow quilt, 1 yellow wall in the kitchen, and rearranging furniture.
Our nod to spring is bugs in jars! My 4-year old and I have now brought in two different bugs in jars (complete with air holes and leaves).
So far, I’ve done most of my spring decorating in my classroom! I work with young toddlers and they’re fascinated by some of the buds and new flowers we see on our outdoor walks, so I put some of my household plants into glass containers and put them on up behind a clear plastic partition so the children can look closely at them. Of course, now that I’ve done this I want to put more plants on windowsills in my own home
We are moving so I am decluttering, and dreaming of bright, airy colors in the new house. Oh, and I am treating myself to fresh flowers every week! They make me smile – and they are “stuff” without adding to the clutter!
I’m preparing for spring by making colorful patchwork pillowcases in bird/flower motifs. I also took my daughter to buy a pansy the other day, and we’ll be painting the flower pot together. I’ll replace all the fabric wall hangings with cheery new spring fabric, as well. A few more plants, and voila! Spring has sprung!!
We’ve opened all our storm windows and started digging in the garden. As for decorating, we’ve got seedlings going in every window and my husband has been so sweet as to keep a steady supply of tulips coming into the house.
I’m going to my local farmer’s market to purchase local fresh flowers to fill up my milk glass collection. I put them all around the house…tadah instant Spring decor!!!
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Currently looking (craigslist) for a good entry bench to replace the lonely chair…I’m also thinking 2 matching metal bins for shoes (will repurpose my current single bin as…a planter?) and a cute way to have socks/slippers handy for guests, maybe pillows for the bench. Want to make it functional for family, inviting for guests, and lovely to look at for me!
Do you do Q&A? If I get a wood craigslists piece (traditional lines), what color would I paint it? Biscuit walls and a black secretary in the room already. A chambray and burgundy antique quilt will hang above it on the high wall.
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I am cleaning to prepare for some painting projects! Nothing like a clean slate!
I am painting everything white. :p My house is a dark cave, and I am sick of it…so I bought a can of white spray paint, and am busy lightening everything I can get my hands on. lol
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I’m busy with lots of Spring cleaning, de-cluttering the house, shampooing the carpets, pressure washing the porch, deck, drive, etc. and of course starting to plants flowers and garden seeds.
I’m also putting away all the winter bedding and replacing it with lighter quilts. I also change out the throw pillows in the house.
I love bringing in bunches of fresh cut daffodil blooms and branches of Dogwood & Apple blossoms!!
I’ve never heard of Home Goods before, but did a search and there is one in my state, so I just may have to explore it!!
Cleaning, then rearranging my decorations to highlight the reds and yellows. So glad to be able to work outside again, also.
I’m feeling the urge to attack everything in my house with some Heirloom White! My husband just smiles and shakes his head…
For this Spring, I’m trying to keep fresh flowers all around the house. On the bathroom sink, at my desk, on my nightstand. It always brings a smile to my face to see fresh roses smiling back at me
I am bringing spring indoors with bunches of daffodils from Trader Joe’s..they are cheap and say Spring better than anything else I can think of!
Hi Melissa, I read your blog always and really I enjoy it!
Happy Spring and Happy Easter!
I’m transitioning my color palette from reds and browns to one that is made up of whites, blues and greens. I’ve never used these colors before, so it is a long and arduous process, but i get excited just thinking about the final result. I hope it looks as good in reality as it does in my head!
Chalk paint is definitely in my near future.