I’m sitting in my new family room with semi-chaos surrounding me and I’m thinking about our first little house. My hubby and I have been looking through pictures of our first home and we have totally forgotten how much we had improved it! I thought I’d share a few “Before” and “After” pictures. The picture […]
oh, fun stuff Snapfish
Yesterday while cleaning up my inbox I came across an email from a company called Snapfish. I had fallen in love with this site right after my wedding. I created some amazing photo books using Snapfish. I was able to make beautiful leather bound wedding albums and honeymoon photo books for great prices. I’m not […]
Tuesday’s Tips #3 Small Spaces
Hello, I apologize for the week of silence. I hope it’s been a great week and you didn’t over heat too much, It’s been cookin’. Okay, here’s this week’s Tuesday’s Tip… Image taken from besthomegallery.com Designing for a small space can be difficult. It can be a challenge to make a room comfortable and function […]
Life Planner, I Heart You!
Hope you have all enjoyed your weekend! We have been super busy around here prepping for our move. It’s been a bit stressful…The previous owners weren’t completely out of the house on the deadline we all agreed upon, so it set us back a few days, but we have been busy bees sanding, patching, etc. […]
Tuesday’s Tips ~ Sheens of Paints
Tomorrow we take possession of our new home. It’s exciting and daunting and totally overwhelming! And as I prepare for all the upcoming changes, one of the first things on our list is painting some rooms before new flooring is installed. At some point, every room of that house will be newly painted I’m sure! […]
Tuesday’s Tips~Packin’ and a Movin’
Ok…so here is Tuesday’s Tips on a Thursday! It’s been that kind of a week! I recently received an article in the mail from my mom…Speaking of articles, does anyone else’s mom send them a zillion articles to read? At least once every week and a half I get an envelope addressed to me in […]
Moving On
“Tuesday’s Tips” will continue tomorrow just a day late and we’ll be back on track next week. But for today, I thought without boring you with all the nitty gritty details, now was a good time to tell the story that I’ve alluded to a couple of times in previous posts. It all started a […]
Tuesday’s Tips # 2 – De-Clutter, De-Stress
Most of us have stress pushing it’s ugly head into our lives from many angles; work, family, and finances (just to name a few). Our homes should be a calming shelter from these peace invaders. This is actually one of the reasons that I got into interior design. I recognized the power that our […]
Furniture Shopping
This weekend we did a bit of master bedroom furniture shopping. More on why for a post later this week. We were all set to buy this Tango Danby iron bed from Ethan Allen. A few weeks ago I had shown my hubby this bed and he agreed he liked it. Then this past week, […]
Laundry Room Re-Do
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been up to the bay area twice, (once for a design job and once for a family trip) and while I was up there, my parents were working on redoing their laundry room. They have a very large, sun-filled space for laundry…Almost nice enough to enjoy the never-ending chore […]
