Smelly Goods...and cleaning ones too

Have you ever walked into Anthropologie or Bath and Body Works {I will use these two stores since they are my FAVS for yummy, smelly goodness} and just stood and took in they delicious aroma and wished your house would smell like that....FOREVER!!! HA  Well I have and I'm sure the people standing around me thought I was a nut!  Oh, well...I enjoy the small things in life :0)  Just found another yummy smell CITRUS CILANTRO found at Pier 1.....LOVING! While shopping for  the kitchen I ran in there and boy OH boy, I fell in love.

I bought the sachet to empty in my vacuum...haven't got around to doing that yet because it's in the kitchen and smells to good to take out..haha.  They have the diffuser so I will need to go get that for the kitchen.

What I am currently loving

Anthropologie 

Golden Amber Resin






Bath and Body Works 

Sunflower

Island Margarita




MMMMMMmmmmmm.




Remember a few weeks ago in my Friday Favorites I mentioned the Mrs. Meyers cleaning products?  Well I got my first cleaning product!!!!  I was so excited. Was shopping at TJMaxx (one of my sweet deal shopping places) and you know those little stands at the front where you check out.  They load all kinds of gadgets and stuff to catch your eye while waiting for the next cashier...well it caught my eye!  A whole bunch of them...haha.  Just got one products..I was good :0)

Tried it when I got home...It's FABULOUS!!!


If I get the whole set, just might clean everyday...well, on second thought......


Do you have any?  What are your favorites? Any suggestions?  HMM????

Kitchen Makeover {Design Blueprint}

Kitchen Design Blueprint by pdbungalow on Polyvore.com

Ideas I'm currently looking at for the kitchen design.  Neutrals with a touch of dark purple.... LOVE!

The two birds up on top are salt and pepper shakers!!!

Baskets above kitchen cabinets.

Clock: would like an oval one.

Already have the glass canisters.  I think I will order the chalkboard labels from Bradensgracewallart

Greyish brown wall color.

....so excited to see the end result!!!

Bungalow Remodeling....{Kitchen Makeover} PART TWO

If you are just tuning in, the Bungalow is undergoing a "much needed" kitchen renovation.  Yesterday started the 1st day of it all by laying down the new flooring, which I LOVE!!!!  It took the guys from 1pm to 6:30pm to complete...and boy did they make it look like a whole new room! 

Pictures taken while in process of taking green marble "peel and stick tile" up and laying new floor.

Miss B, not knowing who they were or why they were in her house, kept by my side all day long...my shadow.  She called them "the mans".  Her curiosity would get the best of her and she would run the hallway from the "Tinkering room" to the kitchen, put her hand on her hips and say "I just looking" and run right back to my side.  Thirty minutes before they were done with the flooring, she warmed up to them being in the house and went to her room and played. Thinking that it was a big victory that she went to her room to play 

{ALL BY HERSELF} she calls out "I made it, mommy!!" HA!!

When the guys were done laying the flooring, I went in and squealed with delight!

What an AMAZING difference! 

Please excuse the blanket...we were getting ready to paint!!

Isn't it beautiful??  We are truly thankful that we can now run and slide on the new floor instead of the floor catching our socks :P

........................more to come

......Day 2 

>>>>>>>>>>>PAINTING!

Bungalow Remodeling....{Kitchen Makeover} PART ONE

Good Monday morning to you! Hope all my lovelies had a wonderful and restful weekend.  The beginning of 2010, the hubby and I decided that a few rooms in the Home SWEET Bungalow needed a little and ALOT of TLC!  

To give you a quick summary of our HOME:  

We currently reside at our church's parsonage (Mr. Adkins and I are the associate pastors) in which I have named the BUNGALOW.  It is a 2 Bedroom/ 1Bath dwelling place...one in which we are TRULY grateful for.  With Mr. Adkins still being a full time student and I being a full time stay-at-home mommy the upgrades at the BUNGALOW have had to be put on hold.   We moved in 5 years ago and have made a lot of improvements.  My family is always teasing me that every time they come over the house is rearranged. Ha!   I guess that is my way of trying to keep the Bungalow fresh and new.  I am a organizer/design/cleaning Nerd!!!! Call me crazy but I LOVE it!

The kitchen, main hang out in the "Adkins Household" needs an uplift...in a bad way.  The tile (hunter green marble look...ewww eww ewww) is peeling up and we are always getting our socks caught and once it decides to release the sock... we go flying!  

Well, this weekend  we went and picked out our SwiftLock Hardwood flooring. 

FLOORING: Fireside Oak Swiftlock

 TODAY, it's being put down and I am ecstatic beyond words!!  

This was us acting goofy after we bought our flooring.  We were soo excited that we laid a few pieces down to give us an idea of what it would look like...haha :0)

Such a BIG helper...

A ballerina dance on the new floor :0)

Cute saying from Miss B: 

While all the sanding and sawing is underway for the new kitchen floor, the smell of wood being cut enters into the room where Miss B and I are.  She looks up at me and says "Mommy I want Popcorn!"  I start dying laughing when I think of how the wood being cut smells just like fresh, popped popcorn. haha.. Oh, I just love how little minds think :P

Make sure you check back in for.... 

Bungalow Remodeling...{Kitchen Makeover} PART TWO

.....Flooring Completed!

(can you tell I'm just a tad excited????!!!!! hehe)