New Retailer & Painted Cement Floors

Check out this super cute shabby painted cement floor in my newest retailer's boutique, "The Tortoise & The Hair" in Ozark, Alabama.

First let me show you the rest of the super cute place and then I'll get back to the painted cement floor thing.

The shop is an adorable children's boutique in the front, with a cute kid's spa in the back!  

Isn't that the cutest idea?

They also have some really cute shabby painted furniture display pieces.  

Check out these little girl pedicure stations!  Felicity was pretty fascinated by them.

and there's the sweetest little area for doing hair cuts....... 

I also love the cute paint job on the back wall..... so adorable.

Oh, and here is Felicity having a bit of a meltdown on their cute cement floor, because you see, when your sales assistant is a temperamental two year old this is the kind of stuff you put up with during your work day. 

 I love their painted cement so much that now I want to do it so bad myself.

We are planning to build a house in the next few years and now I'm thinking I need painted concrete floors throughout the whole thing!

 Of course, I will have to talk my husband into it.  That might not be easy.

Here are some other cute painted concrete floors that are giving me some inspiration:

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I have found a lot of floors that are super shinny and sleek painted, but I don't care for that.   I prefer the more shabby look myself...

plus that way if the paint ever starts to chip or something, it will look like it's intentional  =)

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This bathroom floor is the only shiny painted concrete floor that I did like...

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I am in LOVE with this floor below....

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These below are decals you can actually purchase and put down on the floor.  I would love this kind of thing in a living room one day.

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Do you have a painted concrete floor, or know someone who does?
I would love to know what you think about it.



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Easy Candied Pecans

Our trees gifted us with a generous amount of Pecans this year.  It was so exciting going out every morning and gathering them up, but shelling them was not fun at all.

I knew Felicity and I would need snacks on our road trip, but I didn't want to spend a lot of money on junk so before we left we made a bunch of simple candied pecans to take on the road.

This is so quick, easy and fun to do I had to share....

Here's what you need:

3 Cups of Sugar 

1 Cup of Water

1/2 teaspoon Cream of Tarter

Pecans (I think I used a little under a pound)

First stir sugar, cream of tarter & water over low/medium heat until sugar dissolves.

Then turn up the heat, stop stirring, and let the mixture boil until the clear syrup turns gold.

Once it turns gold immediately remove it from the heat and mix in the pecans.

Then pour them out onto a lined baking sheet sprayed with a bit of oil.

Once they harden break then apart and eat!

Felicity and I are still having lots of fun visiting Alabama.  I found these super cute flip flops for $4 at a Charlotte Russo store1

.... and we have another new Alabama retailer in Ozark, AL.  I will have a full tour of the boutique later this week.  I don't have all the photos edited yet, but here's one of my little sales assistant having a bit of a melt-down on their cute painted cement floor!

Your work days are always interesting, when your sales assistant is two.

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Valentine Tree, Road Trip (Part Three) & A Giveaway

The day Felicity and I were supposed to leave on our road trip there was a winter storm that moved through our traveling path so we had to stay home an extra day.  We decided to spend the day transforming our Christmas Tree (that we still hadn't taken down), into a Valentine Tree.

The only thing we had to buy was a $1 package of paper doilies.  All the other decorations we made from things around the house.

For garland we used scraps of lace and ribbon and then cut up strips of fabric to go with the leftover red mesh we used at Christmas.

We made a few other garlands with sheet music and twine.  I'm definitely going to find lots of uses for those, even after we take down the tree.

We also hung some paper medallions that I had made last year for decorations at Felicity's Valentine Party.  I clipped on a few of Felicity's pink, red and white satin flower hair clips as well.    

wE raided my jewelry box and draped a couple pink necklaces and a pearl necklace along the branches,  then we hung a few pretty brooches on, as well as a couple of heart shaped pendants that I took off some necklaces.

I couldn't figure out what to use for the tree topper and then finally decided to pull out some dyed coffee filter flowers I made last year for Felicity's Easter Party and attached them to the top of the tree.

Click Here to see my tutorial on dying coffee filters and how to make the flowers.

We like the tree so much that I think we will make this a tradition every year.  It's so much work getting the tree down out of the attic and setting it up every year, that I think we might as well find a way to enjoy it for more than one month   =)

{ ROAD TRIP - PART THREE }

Felicity and I are still enjoying traveling around Alabama.  

Although I still have not figured out exactly what "Roll Tide" means, I know it has to do with football here, but still don't understand what it actually MEANS..... 

People here certainly take the phrase seriously though, I actually saw it mowed into someone's yard yesterday - and it's not even football season!

We visited this cute children's store called "Kids Korner" in Enterprise, Alabama and are delighted that they're going to be carrying part of my line now!  

Enterprise has a really cute old downtown with this brick road and old fountain at the center of it.  I just LOVE it!

While we were on the road we came across this cotton field, it was so pretty, just a field of cotton nearly as far as you could see.

I tried to get Felicity to take a picture by and get down to touch it, but she was grossed out by it and said:

"Yuck Mom, it's Old!"

P.S.

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We are hitting the road again Monday to go visit a children's store in Ozark, Alabama - hoping they'll like our line!

-Pamela

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Valentine Party & Road Trip { Part Two }

Since most of you are new to my blog, you probably were not around last year when I showed the pics from Felicity's V-Day party, so I thought I would share some of the photos, including some I didn't show last year.

Felicity had her cousins over and they had a fabulous time being all fancy, having a brunch that included french toast, chocolate fondue and a punch fountain.

For easy clean-up we used disposable plates but fancied them up by putting them on chargers with paper doilies in between.  For the seating assignments we put each girl's initial on top of the plate.

That's a tutu on the bottom of the cake stand.

You can get this punch fountain from Sam's Club for around $25.  If you have any little girl parties in your future I would highly recommend getting one.  The little girls all LOVED it!

I cannot believe it's been almost a year since we had this party.  It feels like it was just a couple months ago.... time is flying by and my baby girl is growing up way too fast!

Felicity and I are still traveling around visiting children's stores.  

Right now we're in Alabama and we're loving this state.  Everyone we have met has been so friendly and the area we are in is really pretty.

On our road trip before we crossed over into Alabama we stopped in Gulfport, Mississippi so Felicity could see the ocean for the first time......

She loved it, but was really more interested in the sand than the water.  It was so cold and her little nose was red, but she didn't care.  She ran all over the beach and threw the biggest fit when we had to leave.

We will be visiting several stores around here over the next few days in hopes of bringing on even more new retailers of our "Inspired By Felicity" line!

P.S.

I've added a few new Valentine hair accessories to the shop.

www.InspiredByFelicity.com

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