GIVEAWAY - BEADS!

I am on vacation this week!! We are in Florida with my parents and sister + family! I'm so excited for some R&R and maybe a little tan on this baby bump of mine. While I'm gone I thought it could be fun to do another giveaway - this time up for grabs....BEADS!!

Three strands of blue beads to be exact! I hand selected these beads at Scotts Antique a few months ago. Each strand varies in size, shape and color. They look beautiful grouped as I have done in these pictures or you could spread them around your house individually. 

I've long been a sucker for beads and have them layered all over my personal house and Bell showroom! So, you want some beads too? I thought so......

To enter to win these beads all you have to do is:

1. Follow me on Instagram: _courtneyshearer
2. Leave me a comment letting me know where you would put the beads in your house
3. If you tag a friend it's a bonus entry. 

I will pick a winner Sunday night and ship out the goods on Monday morning! 

All photos are my own.

Breakfast Room Updates

We finally hung some art in our Breakfast Room!

This space has been a slow-moving work in progress since we moved in. Last we talked about this room, we had just had planks added to the walls. And like that it sat, unchanged for about 8 months, until.....we happened upon some beautiful rough-edged black and white prints in Highlands, NC over 4th of July weekend. Brent and I both loved the collection immediately and actually had a hard time narrowing our selections down to just 3.

Anyone else like to spread out and take over a store when trying to visualize and make a decision? We finally made our selection and then headed to Michael's once we got home to get the pieces framed. I like using Michael's for framing because they almost always have a sale going on which is awesome because framing can get pricey, especially if you are framing more than one thing at a time. We wanted to go  with simple black frames to accentuate the black in the prints. We also wanted to do a "floating" look so you could see the frayed edges. To give the frayed edges something to pop against we selected a neutral colored linen for the prints to float on.

The framing process took about two weeks. Once home Brent got the prints hung. They were looking good, but my eyes were craving another layer, so I dug around and found some small, gold sunbursts I've had forever and Brent installed one, centered above each frame.

It's like the room came alive! 

I love the scale, color and interest the art brings to the space. Our breakfast room is one of many spaces in our house with big, long walls. They can be hard/frustrating/intimidating to fill, but we knew if we waited long enough the right pieces would pop up and I'm happy to say these prints + those sunbursts on that planked wall were worth the wait.

All photos are my own.