Anglophile

 So I'm really excited about yestersay's purchase :)  I've been waiting to get this vinyl wall art for weeks now.   I came upon a 50% off coupon at Robert's craft store and got it for 7 bucks!  Thriftiness teaches patience, methinks.

 The London Eye (the ferris wheel thing on the left) and the tower bridge are in the wrong spots... but oh well.  We only noticed because we've been to London a bazillion times (braggy braggy).  Anyway it turned out better than I'd hoped with the size and everything.  Yay!

St. George

 St. George is the guy killing the dragon in the painting (we saw this in London in the National Gallery).  I think St. George, Utah is named after George Washington.  But why add the Saint?  Who knows.
So we live here now.  It's beautiful!  I love the red rock and LDS church history here.  I especially love that I feel like royalty here just by sharing a last name with one of the city's founders.  We never expected that we'd be back in Utah so soon after leaving Provo a year ago, but St. George is different enough to feel like a new adventure.
We've been so blessed these past few months.  Nathan's parents got a new car and were kind enough to pass on to us their no-longer-needed Saab!  Their kindness also extended to letting us stay in the house they bought for their retirement.  Since Dr. Snow isn't retired yet, we get to occupy the basement of said home.  Upstairs still resides the original owner of the home, a nice old lady named Laverne that's renting the space from the Snows for the moment.  She's such a sweet lady with much lighter feet than our old neighbors...  Nathan has found a job!  A good one too!  He'll be the technology teacher at Springdale Elementary.  It's just been one blessing after another since we've arrived.
Since I haven't found employment yet, I've been in a craft craze.  We've never had this much space to fill, so it's been fun thinking of ways to fill it!  I'll now give you a tour of our new home :)  Starting with the view!!!!

 When you first walk in, there's a big empty space to your left, then our living room!  Hanging from the ceiling is a cute oragami mobile Nathan made for me (with assistance from his sister)!  There's a fireplace (gas) and an area rug (it really pulls the room together... movie anyone?)  Again, it looks pretty bare now because we have next to no furniture.  Our attempts at decorating look more pathetic in the pictures than they do in real life :)

Find the hidden Mickey!  :)

This was a fun project.  It's just fabric hot glued to cardboard mixed in with our Primark London pictures.  About $9 to do!

 This is our media hallway.  The Movies are on the left an the posters are on the right and around the corner is the comic book display.  This was the most fun to arrange/alphabatize.
 I have high hopes for the kitchen in the future.  Right now it's pretty bare.  I'm wating for my teacups and teapots to come in the mail to kick off the kitchen decor.

One thing I'm pretty proud of is my frame/mirror art.  I got the idea from the $698 Anthropologie piece.  I saw it and thought... I bet I can so that for less than 700 bucks.  So I drug Nathan to DI and got 4 frames and a mirror for about 7 bucks.  Booyah!  I picked up some scrapbooking paper, some of which was on sale (yeah 50% off  99 cents), cement to glue them together, and oven cleaner to remove the silvering from the mirror.  Less than $20!  And the dried flowers were already in the little frame, I just gave them a different background.  Between the oven cleaner, cement, and smoke from burning the scrapbooking paper, I inhaled lots of chemicals I'm sure.  Worth it?  Yes!  (Not to worry, I was in a well-ventilated space Mama).

I especially love to frame with the roses on it!

I also beaded the little chandelier thingy.  That was mind-numbing...

Nathan gave it a story about a Victorian ship's captain.

 Welsome to our bedroom!  Above the headboard are wodden letters that spell our "Snow".  Below is another cheap project :)  I just covered two cork boards with fabric I already had and stuck all of my jewelry on it.  Bada bing bada boom.  Practical art!

This is our "poop art".  It's made from toilet paper tubes squished and cut into circles.  I've been adding to it every time we go through a roll.

 

Last but not least, the view from our bedroom!  When the Snows move in I'm sure they'll make it a really sweet patio/garden thing.  Currently it's the awkward area where every morning we hear men speaking Spanish and re-doing the stucco on the exterior.  Every night we have to make sure the blinds are shut or else it'll be muy embarrassing.

So that's our home!  We love it and we love that Nathan's brother, wife, and baby live about 10 minutes away.  Too bad mia familia is still muy far. 

Nathan's calling me.  He just got a magical package in the mail.  He's being cute and waiting for me and I'm being cruel and writing a long blog post :)

Ze City of Love

We went to Paris.  Ahhh, l'amore :)  It was our last Europe hurrah before coming back to the states.  Looking back at my last few posts made me a little weepy.  We've been back in Les Etas Unis for almost two months now, and my heart aches for friends and our Haunted Maison.  Le sigh.  In the next post, though, I'll catch y'all up on our new little home sweet home a la St. George, Utah!  Until then, Au Revoir! (Our cute taxi driver that took us to our hotel in Paris was trying to teach us French and he gave us a mini lesson about "au revoir" and how hard it is to have a drivers license en France.)