You can always learn a lot about a person by going to their house. So today, I’m sharing my home! Trisha from MomDot created a blog carnival, challenging bloggers to share 5 things that someone would learn about you from walking through your house. So here they are!
{Pardon the photo quality- I just took these all at night with nothing but flash & artificial light. Just pretend they’re super gorgeous shots.}
1. I refuse to believe Shane’s growing up. I can’t bring myself to move our glider out of Shane’s room, despite the fact that he’ll be 3 next week & I have only sat in it with him less than a handful of times in the last year. {It normally houses a giant teddy bear but Shane threw it on the floor, so Bella’s taking advantage.} On the same note, his changing table is still in the room too- despite him being too big to actually lay on it for almost a year as well. He needs a “big boy room” makeover- but I’m just not ready!
2. I’m a total sucker for toys. Shane has toys in almost every room. Of course they’re in his room, and our family room is half playroom- but he also has toys in the office {above}, our bedroom & even the dining room.
3. Our neighbors are trashy. Literally- not figuratively. They’re super nice, but they pile {and overflow, and forget to bring to the curb} their trash RIGHT outside our powder room/ laundry room window. I always really want to leave the curtains open in this room since it’s right by the entrance to our house & could let in some light, but I don’t like the view.
4. I love decorating for seasons &occasions. Problem is, I always throw the decorations up right before the season or occasion is over, and then leave them up for far too long. Take this bunny & watering can for example. They’re part of my “Spring Décor” but I didn’t put them up until LATE May- and they’re still up in early August. Our Halloween décor last year went up on the 29th. Oops.
5. I don’t wear a lot of jewelry. I love it, but I have the same necklace that I wear every day that I got from Justin so I don’t rotate a lot. Because I have so little jewelry & since I wear it so infrequently, I just kind of stash it in one little {pulled out, overflowing} drawer of my jewelry box. I really need to organize it, but with my track record it’ll be another year before I actually do.
What would I find out about you by walking through YOUR house?
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Your dog is adorable! And I know what you mean on keeping baby things around way too long. I think we had my son’s changing pad in his closet up until about a year or two ago. (He’s 7 now!)
Andrew Kardon recently posted..5 Things You Would Learn About Me if You Walked Through My House
Haha! I would like to say we’ll get rid of it before then, but we’ll see.
Your jewelry box looks like mine. I rarely wear any of the jewelry my mother-in-law sends me, but I keep it all so it’s shoved into every tiny crevice of the jewelry box while I continue to wear my one necklace I love.
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i wanna see the neighbor view now!
trisha
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lol It’s even worse than it sounds- they just had a baby so now it’s a large pile of diaper genie inserts full of, well, you know what a 3 month old’s stuff looks like. Not a pretty sight.
We got toys all over our house too. I even believe there may be one or two in my bedroom.
Nolie recently posted..5 Things you would learn about me if you walked through my house.
The overflowing jewelry box is why I changed my ways
Plus then it’s off the dresser and on the wall. I do love the spirit of your decorating – I am very similar. “It’s almost spring..I should really decorate…” but then I get distracted and forget. What a bummer about your neighbors, too 
Rachel recently posted..5 Things You’d Learn About Me if You Walked Through My House
Yeah I seriously love how you organize your jewelry- where did you get the hanger/form thing if you don’t mind my asking? I may have to go that route too.
A friend actually gave that to me – but I found some similar here: http://www.ironarboretum.com/dress-forms.html. She found hers at Ross – she has so much that she actually has a free-standing wrought iron dress form in her closet! I’m not quite up there with the accessories
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Bella is beautiful!!
If you walked into my home, you’d find a TON of toys (probably all over the floor) and not nearly enough space for all the junk I have.
Sara Phillips recently posted..5 things you would learn about me if you walked through my house
Thanks! She’s a handful but I love her anyway.
&Yeah, sounds like my house!!
My jewelry boxes look the same. I love buying it or getting it for a gift – but I still have about 5 pieces that I wear constantly. I just can’t bring myself to get rid of the rest!
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Same here with the jewelry…have a lot of it, but wear the same piece again and again.
deb recently posted..5 Things you would learn about me if you walked through my house
My kids have toy bins in pretty much every room also.lol.
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lol At least it makes for a nice distraction if you’re trying to clean the room in question. Unless you’re trying to clean the floor, and then you’re stuck.
I had to laugh at the seasonal decor, because that has totally been me before! For a year or two I even had a plastic Christmas tree that I decorated for all holidays and just left up all year…LOL! Now I just try not to be too ambitious. I decorate for Halloween and Christmas and that’s usually it. I’m usually pretty good about taking them down no more than a few weeks after the holiday is over.
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The Christmas tree actually sounds super cute! I always see tiny ornaments for other holidays like Halloween & Easter and love them but have nowhere to hang them- not a bad idea!
I got the idea from reading about someone who kept a full-size artificial tree in her closet. Each side had decorations for different seasons. Whenever a holiday came up, she just wheeled out the tree and turned it to the appropriate side. LOL!!
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I love the looks of your dog! I only decorate for Halloween and Christmas and do the outside as well. While still living in town before moving to the Forest I once we went away for Christmas and didn’t decorate and I found out the neighbors were talking about us only decorating for Halloween. Fortunately the raccoons and bears don’t care so we like our neighbors better now.
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lol Yeah, I’d probably prefer your current neighbors too- at least they eat trash & don’t leave theirs in front of my window like my neighbors!
Great post. Love the dog.. so cute
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I can’t believe your neighbors keep their trash right through your window. So not cool. I love the curtains but sucks you can’t get that natural light :/
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Love that the dog is chill’axin! LOL!
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this reminds me that it’s probably time to take down our 4th of July decor!
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Bahaha! At least I’m not alone.
My neighbor goes through, no joke, like 15 gallons of milk a week and when they put them in the recycling bin (15 gallons each week) we always have several gallons of milk blowing all over our street. Drives me crazy.
leah recently posted..5 Things you would Learn about Me if you Walked Through my House!
AUGH! That would drive me nuts, too. &How the heck do they drink so much milk?! That’s crazy!
I’d cover up the view of the neighbors too. That would make me crazy!
As for your toys, at least they’re contained!
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I love jewelery too but wear the same pieces every day. I just get too lazy to dress up for the grocery store.
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I completely understand about not being ready for a big kid makeover. My little one can still use the changing table but we got rid of the bumper just recently and I need to remove the mobile. It’s hard to face that they are growing up. I can totally sympathize with you!
Ashley – Embracing Beauty recently posted..5 Things My House Says About Me
Awesome post!
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I know exactly what you mean by trashy neighbors..we are saving up for a privacy fence so that we don’t have to see them anymore!
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Aww, your dog is too cute! I know how it is to be in denial about the kids getting older! I hardly ever wear jewelry either and have a little drawer very much liek yours!
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I just moved the glider out of Jayden’s room.. and he is 4!! lol! I mostly just moved it because I put it in the babies room. And we have toys everywhere too.
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Toys, toys and more toys … they are everywhere in our tiny apartment! It’s a good thing that I love them too!
Melissa recently posted..5 Things You Would Learn About Me By Walking Through Our Home
my neighbors are a little trashy too, so bad that we called the county onthem last year.
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Your dog is BEAUTIFUL!