Weekend Catch - Up

Hello everyone!  I've had a busy Monday so far.  Which is a good thing because I love it when Mondays just fly by.  Now lets just hope the rest of the week goes just as fast.

Don't you hate it when you've got a bunch of little home things you want to do but never get the chance to because either you are too lazy (ok maybe just me!!) or you're waiting for your husband to do it?  :)  This week we finally got around to some home decorating.  Now...it's nothing big and fancy, but sometimes the smallest completed touches makes a huge difference.  Not to mention, it made us feel accomplished!

This weekend while we were getting to know our area a little bit more, we went into an Aaron's Brothers to check out some frames on sale.  There we saw that a perfect sized mirror was on sale.  Our hutch is our "catch all" in the hallway before entering our great room.  I thought a great way to anchor this "wall" was to hang a mirror there.  And here it is...pretty cool eh?

Please excuse the VERY dead flowers on the hutch.  They really need to be thrown out!

There's also an odd space between our fireplace and the formal dining room.  I believe this was meant for a hutch or one of those cabinets people store their beautiful dishes in, but we're already using our hutch somewhere else.  So we decided to use this space to place our wedding guest book.

Later we'll anchor this area with a decorative arm chair which will make for a great conversation gathering area for when guests are over.

Finally, my letter hooks from Anthro arrive Friday!  I had the hubby hang them on the wall near our entrance and I have to say, it looks great!

A lot of times when I put my shoes on, I need a place to sit...especially to pull up my boots.  Currently I use the stairs, which is right to the left of this picture.  But we've had our eyes on this to place right below the COAT Anthro hooks:

The top of this bench lifts up and there's storage which we can use to store our work bags or whatever junk we want to keep from plain sight.

Along with my Anthro COAT hooks came my navy Clinton Trench!  I tried it on right away and have to say that I love this version a lot more than the khaki version.  Both are nice of course but the navy just made the coat that more interesting.  Besides, this is the first navy coat I'll own!

Of course it's a bit wrinkled!  And oh..please excuse the non-made-weekend-hair!

Phew...before I leave, Chris went out a happy hour to celebrate our first month of being married.  We then hopped on over to El Gaucho (a local steak house) and had some beef tartar!!!  We were a little late in celebrating and we actually totally forgot on our official one month date.  So this was to make up for it and here's what I wore to work that day and then night:

Tee and Cardi - Anthropologie
Tights - HUE (Anthropologie)
Boots - DSW
Bag - Marc Jacobs Nordstrom

I'm not a huge bag person but I love my Marc Jacob's everyday bag.  I'm in the market to get something else this Christmas season though so stay tuned for a special purse post!

Good night!