Surprise!

When we came back from North Carolina our house looked just a little bit prettier. The builder decided to go back and put shutters on all the houses, even the ones that had sold, like ours! This was on our list of things to do to cutesie up our cookie cutter house and we got it for free, AWESOME! Even though the whole street got the same shutters they've helped show that each house is actually a little bit different. Now it's time to get some pretty iron work flower boxes for the windows and maybe get brave and hang the iron work wall art thing we bought a few weeks ago for the large, empty expanse above the garage.

This is a welcome mat I found at Target and just love. It's made out of recycled rubber! It fits right along with my idea to make this cookie cutter into something more italian cottage-esque.

Below are pictures of the decoration for above the garage. We got it at Hobby Lobby when they were having their half off metal decor sale. I can't decide if it would look really cute or really bad. Either way I suppose it would make our house different than our neighbors'!