Week, and a half through Instragram

I like to do these posts on Mondays, but I let this past week kind of get past myself. I also don't normally post on Thursdays here, but in my fitness and health blogs. Anyways, here is life in South Florida through the lens of my iPhone, and the clever techniques of instagram. 

Scored an amazing iPad2 case from Target

Black bear hanging out on my Grandmas front yard. Nothing scary...at all... She lives in Northern Michigan, just south of Traverse City

I don't go to the mall often, but when I do... I make it count! Who couldn't pass up a buy 3 get 3 free deal from bath and body works? I'd say I am stocked up for the year. 

I prioritized my closet this week, with fitness clothes only. Reaching my -30lb goal by mid August my friends. 

Showing off my freshly manicured nails with a Kate Spade inspired canvas piece. 

Just a friendly reminder

I found this to be rather colorful and inspiring. I have it displayed under my computer monitor as art. 

Lost a couple pounds, treated myself to a reminder of infinite love. 

opps....

Grocery shopping at Target. Getting healthy in this family. What you can't see are the lemon poppy scones... just kidding. 

Feeling oh so pretty with no makeup and my workout gear. 

Having a blast on a day off. 

This stuff is amazing

Achieve & Success

I picked these up from Target after graduation season, on clearance of course. The messages are kind of our style here on the ave, but the colors didn't really mesh well after we moved to the new place. So what does one do? One spray paints the entire thing to a new color (and get rid of the antenna).

Nice right? You can actually make out the words too. Pretty much the moral of the story is, who does love a good can of spray paint? 

Christmas Tree, oh Christmas Tree...

When we first moved to South Florida, we brought nothing, and nothing included all of our lame Christmas decorations left in storage in Michigan. Since we had family staying with us during Christmas, we decided to pick up a tree, and I was happy to pick up a simple, and cheap find from the Target dollar spot. It's nothing to write home about, though I am certain I did in 2009, but I dig it.

See! It plugs in nicely and fits perfectly on top of the wrapped gifts. Hey, the gifts are still considered un the tree! I got a little crazy with the wrapping in 2009. Ok, back to the story, in 2010 we posted a lovely picture on Facebook of our tree, and the in-laws caught a glimpse. Next thing we knew we had house gifts, and christmas gifts of christmas decorations. I can't complain, the tree is right up our alley, and it was fun watching Eric and his mom set it up. She came bearing other lovely decorations like silver ornaments, garland, and an awesome snowlike tree skirt to be used year round. I love this tree, it can easily be stowed away during the off season, and no pine needles! I was never a fan of a "real" christmas tree anyways. Heck, it is the 21st century my friends, were making our own rules on the avenue.

It is pretty certain, if you look closely that Stella loves sitting in front of the tree, or she loves to have her photo taken, never the less, the tree rocks my socks, and the cats can't climb it. Stella makes sure that her presences is known.

The above photo was spiced up on instagram, follow me at flemingavenue. Merry Christmas my friends!

Glam & Glitz Center Piece

Can I just say that I am UBER impressed with my center piece. I lucked out and didn't buy a single thing for my center piece. So even if the center piece isn't impressive, the fact that I didn't buy anything for it this year IS uber impressive. 

I started with 2 trays from the target dollar spot, that I spay painted 2 years ago black. Then I centered and unscented clearance candle (from Target), in the middle of some snow drift candle holders that I made last year (mod podge brushed random goodwill vases then rolled in an epson salt and fine grain iridescent glitter). I had some Target dollar spot ornaments I laid around the candle holders, and then some large pearls from a costume jewelry necklace I broke last year. I'm glad I saved the beaded because my Christmas center piece went from glitz, to glam and glitz!    

Mossy Project

I made this a really long time ago, and possible posted it on an old blog, but since I love it so much, figured it was time to grace its presence here, at the avenue. I made balls using an old magazine and masking tape. I picked up a bag of moss from Michaels, and then hot glued pieces of it around the newspaper ball. After I was done I put it in a goodwill glass vase, and target clearance decor balls. Nothing special, but its still a decor piece in the house.