our first overnight guest

January 13, 2014January 15, 2014 Rachel Atwell1 Comment

Yay for a visit with family that didn’t require US being in the car {another bonus to being back in Georgia}!

On Saturday we welcomed our first overnight guest into our home – my baby sister, Ruthie!

Ruthie made her debut here on Saturday and stayed until this morning – after we visited Starbucks, of course.

It was a low-key weekend {except for almost getting in a fight with a stranger at The Apple Store 🙂 } and fun sharing our new little world with her. Saturday night we enjoyed dinner at Farmhaus Burgers in downtown Augusta, which didn’t disappoint in taste or atmosphere. Yesterday we spent the morning at church, out to lunch, and here at the house baking cookies and watching the Golden Globes. We are a party for sure 🙂

Thanks for being our first visitor, Ruch! ps – we’ll try to have an actual bed ready for your next visit 😉

How did you spend your weekend?

High Five for Friday

high five for friday

January 10, 2014January 10, 2014 Rachel Atwell2 Comments

Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday! {Sorry if I just got that Rebecca Black gem stuck in your head.}

I’m excited the weekend is finally here – my sister Ruthie is coming for a visit! But before she arrives, let’s rewind to all that went on this week.

1. I’ve been to Lowe’s many times but never ventured to this side of the store. Did you know they will cut wood for you? How wood-er-ful. {see what I did there?}

2. On Tuesday, we celebrated our six month-a-versary with dessert at The Boll Weevil Cafe & Sweetery. And yes, the chocolate cake I ordered {that had layer of cheesecake in the middle!} is the size of Gary’s head.

3. I finished these letters for our laundry room.

4. We purchased our first piece of furniture! Say hello to Carson!

5. Last night we started Downton Abbey season 4. The episode didn’t disappoint but this is the first I’ve ever watched it in “real time” before, so I’m not sure what to think of having to wait a few days for the next episode.

Hope your week has been wonderful! Happy weekend!

Around the House

function over form

January 9, 2014January 9, 2014 Rachel Atwell4 Comments

This past Sunday we bought our first piece of new furniture!

Since we’ve been married, we’ve picked up alot of items for our kitchen and a few things for the bathrooms – mostly all with wedding giftcards. We’ve also purchased a few of things from craigslist and thrift shops.

But since we’ve moved to our new home, our books we’re stacked high in the guest room. We needed a bookcase.

After looking at a few different places online, we decided to go with the Target Threshold Carson Bookcase in White. I also considered the Threshold Windham bookcase, but ultimately selected the Carson for a few different reasons – it had wider shelves {and an extra shelf!}, it was a little bit taller, and lastly Downton Abbey.

What? You don’t buy things that remind you of good characters from one of your favorite tv shows? Well, call me weird.

Our bookcase~~, Mr. Carson,~~ arrived yesterday morning so G had the after dinner task of assembling it. Once he finished, I started to “style” it with all the best tips I could remember from pinterest. And after a few shelves were started, I called it a night and went to bed.

And then this morning G looked at it and said something about it not having any books. haha, touché, Mr. A!

He was right though. As much as I love a “pretty bookshelf”, we had bought it because we needed space to store our books.

Sooooo, back to square one.

This time around, I’ll try to incorporate as many of our books while still balancing it with some of my ~~random~~ favorite pieces {I’m looking at you, ceramic cow!}.

How do you decide what goes on your bookcase?