Baby Steps to a Fabulous Front Yard

I am so excited to get started on our front yard and really give our home some major curb appeal, but that has been getting tossed by the wayside. I tend to get caught up in other projects or just plain lazy un-motivated. I got off work today at noon and the weather was FABULOUS. Like, I wanted to sit outside and bask in the Spring glory all day. So we did. We ran to Lowes to get some black mulch and to give our front yard a MINI makeover. We didn't want to spend a lot, so we figured giving it some new mulch would be the cheapest route. We spent around $16.00 and I feel like it transformed the front yard in such a great way. 

     

   

So our to-do list looks like this:

• Paint the front door (black, red or a teal-ish blue)
• Plant some colorful flowers
• Get rid of the rocks and either extend mulch or plant grass in its place
• Paint the railings and ceiling
• Replace the doorbell
• Change out the light hanging in the covered area and next to the garage

 

Are you getting into freshening up your curb appeal? Starting your garden up? Planting some flowers?

FREE Spring and Easter Egg Banners

Spring is in the air in good ole Texas and today is the first day of April. I am so excited! However, I have not had any spring decor in my house until this past week. I was on the hunt for FREE Spring/Easter Decor and lo and behold I have just the thing for you. I cannot take credit for the ideas or creations, but will let you know who can. 

First up was the paint chips turned Easter egg banner. The Genius

She even provides the egg template for you. I decided to just use my one color paint chips, but she uses the multiple colors per chip that way the middle white section looks more like an Easter egg. Feel free to do it however you please.

After I got done cutting how many I wanted in my spring colors I mixed in the white egg templates just to see if I liked that better. My pattern was a shade of green, shade of purple, shade of blue, shade of pink, white, and repeat. 

I really liked how the white broke up the colors and added some interest to it, so the whites came into my banner. 

Next up is the "Hello Spring" banner which is so festive and adorable. You can get it from this genius. 

These are I phone pics so it's not the best picture, but you get the point. It is really the cutest thing ever. The graphics are so spring and cute. I love it so much.

I lined my backs with some paper from the Target dollar section just to give it some extra pizzazz. I punched a hole in each top corner and threaded through twine for hanging. 

I love the little pop of spring that it brought into my home.