Spring Is In The Air

For today's post I wanted to show off some new additions to my house. This past weekend the husband and I jumped into spring cleaning in anticipation of our new bed!

And yes that's my teddy bear Walter in his usual place of honor.
Of course wouldn't you know I'd have a bear with a bow tie!

This duvet has put a bird on it!

There is ALOT of pillow action here and a awesome profile of Walter.

Contrasting bedskirt

We got the bed, pillow, sheets, and duvet set at Macys(something similar here)

I am so in love with this bed, I feel like Snow White awakening from her class coffin with birds singing and fawns prancing. It has definitely freshened up our bedroom and I've been trying to bring more spring into the house in general. With flowers.

Irises and Lillies for the dinning room table have made the whole house smell airy and light.

And I've also decided to change up my regular perfume for the season. I've been wearing Banana Republic W for a while now:

Which has a very crisp scent, that I am attracted to. But I've decided to mix it up with L'eau de Chloe

How gorgeous is this packaging! (You can also see a fig scented candle a friend got me that plays into this whole springtime fresh scent/vibe I'm going for.) I decided on this new fragrance after coming upon a perfume add in Vogue. I like to smell the inserts and if the husband is sitting on the couch with me while I'm flipping through I always like to ask his opinion. When he smelled this Chloe he got a little frisky, so that's sold it for me.

Happy Spring!

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