Shabby Chic Wedding at a Polo Farm

Tomorrow marks my best friend's first anniversary!

I posted last year about her shower gift before we made the trek from the northwoods down to Georgia for the big day. It was gorgeous! I couldn't believe that a wedding thrown together in months could have so many charming details, but it did. 

I hope you enjoy...

My gorgeous best friend! 

Wearing a vintage dress that was revamped by her mom and aunts.

There were flowers galore! They consisted of greens cut from her parent's backyard, and a large collection of flowers that we picked out from Whole Foods and Sam's Club the day before.

 The adorable shabby chic photo booth that I only took a picture OF and not IN. 

Decorator girl probs.

Photo booth details

 The drink station

Even the napkins were beautiful! 

 This ended up being my favorite combo of flowers! 

I've always loved hydrangeas (my wedding flower), and spray roses are just soooo romantic! 

 The gift table

 I thought this was hilarious! 

The bride specifically said that she wanted all colors of flowers except for orange... 

Well, somehow one snuck it's way in in all of the bouquets that were bought, and then my mom decided to capture a picture of it without knowing all of that! HA!

Each table had it's own unique grouping of flowers in all different kinds of bottles and jars.

Smaller tables had antique silver trays to ground all of the flowers. 

 This shot gives a good view of the gigantic polo field behind the head table.

 An old bathtub of ice water - definitely needed in the GA heat! 

 The guest book sign in table

 The guest book was yet another treasure made by the bride's aunt. 

The lace on it is from her aunt's wedding dress.

 I loved the collection of white chandeliers in the reception area...all anchored by a gigantic white one in the middle. 

 Another shot of the cute drink bar.

 The stable area

My husband hung the lights! We turned him into a little decorator as well!

 View of the polo field from the farm house where the bride and bride's maids got ready.

 Doesn't get much more "Southern" than this!

 Guests staying cool in the shade while waiting for the ceremony to start.

 Becoming husband and wife!

 The kiss! 

Love all of the groom's brother's faces!

 The gorgeous wedding cake that was made by my little sister and the bride's little sister and later decorated "naked" style by my sister.

I'd say she did a spectacular job! 

She was 19 then and on her way to school for culinary arts - I think she could have taught the classes herself! 

 The wedding party along with the bride and groom's parents.

 Excited for cake!

And last but not least - THIS.

I felt like such an awesome photographer for capturing this sweet moment. :)

Daddy's girl for sure.

~Happy first anniversary Kayli & Olivier! 

Enjoy your second year and the big adventure of parenthood!! 

Love yous.~

Have a blessed week ahead! 

~Olivia

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Tiny Vintage Camper Part 1: The Before Tour

WE BOUGHT A CAMPER!!

You will mostly likely look at these pictures and think I'm crazy...

But, it has been a dream of mine for a few years now to "one day" own a tiny vintage travel trailer.

I have this Pinterest board, I'm a Happy Camper, with tons of tiny little travel trailers - a lot cuter than how this one looks, but believe it or not I have some pins that are this exact camper, just in a lot better condition. We kind of stumbled upon this ugly little thing and became campers owners a lot sooner than expected, but I am soooo excited to be! It is hard to find them this small you know. 

So... please take the before tour and I'll tell you the little that I know about it and my plans for improvement!

Here she is! Naming her Daisy because she's a Shasta...

Get it? Like "shasta daisy" ;) I know, I'm so creative. 

But apparently they have to have a name, and I just wasn't going for my husband's choice of

"The Love Shack". ;) So Daisy it is!

Yea, it scared me a little bit too with it's weird, pink rolled-on paint job and mold/fungus stuff growing all over it. But remember, I have a gift of seeing the "hidden potential". :)

As you can see these pictures are from very early spring...

I am forever behind on my posting, and we currently have this thing completely torn apart.

From my Pinterest research it is somewhere between a 1960 to 1965ish Shasta Compact. 

It's 10 ft long and 12 ft with the tongue.  

Matt found a nickel inside of the wall that was from 1964, so I was thinking maybe that's the year it was built. When I was a little girl and my dad was putting up a wood paneled wall in my room he told me to stick some coins back there with the year on them.

Is that a "thing"? Or is that just my dad being my dad and a coincidence that we found a nickel??

A true diamond in the rough.

So, my loving husband, knowing how badly I loved and wanted a tiny vintage travel trailer, spotted this one sitting in someone's yard. One Saturday he knocked on the guys door and asked him if he would be willing to sell it! haha! He obviously said yes, and we drove off with it thinking we got a steal for $250. You certainly can't find them on Craigslist for that price, but keep in mind that this needs to be completely rebuilt.

And, I have full confidence that we will be exceeding our $1,000 budget. ;)

Now that you've seen the charming exterior, come on in!

It was on it's way to becoming an ice shack, so luckily most of the stuff was torn out already.

See the wings? I'm so glad it still had those.

All the paneling had water damage and has been torn out.

It came with it's very own wasp nest!

It has been hard to find a window, reasonably priced, for where this chunk of wood was in place of the original window. We have decided to get a piece of Plexiglas to put in there - anything will look better than this. 

The source of all the water damage. :'( 

 I was pretty excited about this big stepping stone that was inside! 

It's now outside my garden door.

This was on both sides - it has been hard to remove! 

I'm still working on a few letters.

The dents will get banged out as best we can, and just one set of (working) lights will be there!

Here is a picture with all the junk cleaned out. 

This was the start to their bench for ice fishing.

We will have a full sized bed on this side of the camper, and in the middle of this back wall will be a cabinet area to hold all of our pots/pans. On the right side we may do a bench. 

Well there you have it! 

Glad you could meet Daisy. 

She already looks much prettier, I promise.

Part 2 is to come...hopefully soon. 

The trailer is currently still completely dissembled, but we have a big camping trip planned for the beginning of July, so Matt is working hard every night on it, and I am waiting patiently to paint!

Have a blessed week!

~Olivia 

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French Linen Console Table Makeover

I shocked myself on this one.

 I didn't distress it.

I repeat - I DID NOT distress this table! 

No chips, no scratches. 

Just a smooth, waxed finish.

I had been wanting to paint this previously scratched, orange-y, blah console table a creamy gray. 

And I knew just the one I wanted. 

Annie Sloan's "French Linen"

However, I had to wait until my mom and I could take a trip to our nearest stockist.

I was trying to be so patient. We had been talking about going for quite some time.

"Some weekend this winter" we would go - we kept saying.

Then one weekend, very last minute, mom said we were going! Yay! Yay! Yay!!

I brought my French Linen and Old White back home and all the sudden I realized I had so many projects I could do! I had been putting them off until I got my beloved chalk paint.

The console table was the first - it sits right in the entry where everyone can see it, so of course that makes sense. I ended up going with these knobs from hob lob. Not what I had originally planned on, but the ones I had originally planned on seemed a little too big I think. You'll see them shortly.

Right now there is kind of a hodge-podge vignette on top of it. 

It needs some help, I know. I kind of just threw on some random stuff that was still laying around and needed a spot to go.

 But I am currently redoing things around here for spring, so it will get redone shortly.

 These were the first knobs I had chose after going through every single one on the hobby lobby website. There are hundreds. I bought the two sets though, because when I saw these in person they just didn't speak to me as much. I was thinking about using them on closet doors in one of the bedrooms since they are more that size. 

Opinions welcome. 

They are an easy switch - I suppose I can go back and forth between the two until I make up my mind for sure. 

This table looks so much better than it did before - I wish I had better "before" photos. It was really scratched on top. I got it as a $10 garage sale score. The inside of the drawer had a Thomasville stamp, so it must have been much more than that at one point in it's life.

Here is kind of a "before" picture, but I tend to forget to take them until after I've already started working on them.

 Knobs off and getting scrubbed. 

This picture doesn't even show how orange-y the wood looked. In some lighting it was pretty intense. Nothing feels more dated to me like orange-y stained wood.

It is much happier in it's new French Linen outfit! 

One more step complete in getting my home decor to actually look more my style.

If you have an opinion on which knobs look better, please leave it in the comments.

They are pretty similar, and I do like them both, so help me decide!

So far people have told me the smaller look better...

But those weren't my decorating, blogging friends! ;)

Have an awesome week!

Blessings,

Olivia

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