i treated my girls...

a makeover was in major need...so i took my blogs to the salon. kelly at fabulous k creative couldn't have been a better stylist, i mean design master! especially since the client was so high maintenance! you know designers, we have opinions on everything, especially when we are pregnant and on bed rest :) and the best part about the whole experience, we didn't even need to come home and wash and restyle our hair afterwards...kelly was perfect from the start! i don't think she could have created a blog that was more "me" if she tried!

so that knocks off one item from my to-do-list w/ my business....now onto finishing my website...

*images courtesy vantage photographs/ etsy, fabulous k creative, domino

monday, monday...

it's offically spring break for my two yr old....and it's raining. off to look and see what martha has to offer in the way of entertainment....maybe we should make bunny cookies.

*images courtesy of eva lindh, beach bungalow 8, table tonic, verdigris vie, fairlight day

Table= new bench?

I have had this old antique table that my grandmother gave me for quite some time. I have been looking at it, wondering what it could become.You see, it has met its days, especially because it has lived outside both at my grandmothers and here with me for the past little while. It has been painted and repainted before by grandma's loving hand...but I can't bear to leave it outside for another day, not when it's just so pretty! I mean look at those curves, those legs! Where can you get detail like that these days?

So I am going to do the impossible and bring it back from the dead and take it from a table to a bench...I will be Dr.Frankenstein!! bwaahaaahaa! Sorry about that...

Here is what I have planned. Clean it up and then paint it out white. Add foam and batting to the top and reupholster the top with some fabrics I've been sourcing, and finally bring it inside where it belongs.

So my lovely readers I need your help, I've picked out some fabric samples and would love your opinions, which fabric do you love, and what suits my neutral decor best?

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life is good.

doctor's apt went good, kiddo is staying put- check

pretty, warm weather- check

i get to go to tay's easter egg hunt- check

avett brothers playing on itunes puts an instant smile on my face- check

life is good- double check ;)

* images courtesy of brunch at saks, simply seductive, chocolate therapie

brown and white= the perfect combo....

i kind of feel that way about my husband and i...

happy b'day dear! i love you...

{i promise to one day make up the two birthday's, 30 & 33, you have had to celebrate while your wife's on bed rest. }

*images courtesy of city sage, love that too, canadian house and home, meyer davis studio, house and home, le love

SICK DAY...or is it week?

Yup, that time of year has come again...I have a sore throat, runny nose, my ears are popping, swollen glands and I am feeling feverish...I am sick. I just barely brought myself to write this, I am taking every antibiotic known to man! Sorry my lovely readers I promise I will be back soon :)

spring

the weather was perfect on saturday....sunny and warm. i am hoping that it stays that way so i can start enjoying the back porch a lot more often. being able to go and swing and watch taylor play and warren cook out is a great way to spend a day.

*images courtesy of harsh rule, house and home, elements of style, lonny, house of turquoise, brabourne farm

beauties.....

these interiors are so pretty...

i love the clock, i would skip around the room if i had two of those beautiful x stools sitting in my LR, that designer doggie bed makes me think twice about the gigantic ll bean bed barron sleeps on, that bedroom seems so peaceful- i like the unexpected lighting, and that bathroom, man, i love it all.....

*images courtesy of love that too, wisteria, tricia joyce, aubrey road, decor pad

celebrating green...

my way of celebrating st. patrick's day has had many different meanings over the years...in elementary school i celebrated it by seeing how much green i could actually put on my body, in middle school i toned it down to just a pair of earrings, in high school i think i wore pink b/c i was trying to be cool by not wearing green, in college i chugged green beer, and currently i traded in all of that green for a bowl full of guacamole....

happy st. patrick's day...i hope you enjoy the green, whichever way you choose to celebrate it :)

*images courtesy of design sponge, glimpse of style, partierre garden, google image

personal touches

lately warren has been on my case about adding some personal touches to the house....and by personal touches he means family pictures. he thinks the house feels too much like a 'show house'...believe me, my house is far from a show house but it does have tablescapes in the main areas and to a 33 yr old man, that means a show house. we do have family pictures scattered around the house, but they are mostly in our bedroom. i have a gallery wall of black and white pictures of taylor that were taken when she was one. i guess, i have kind of moved away from tons of pictures on every table...am i at fault? my personal touches are items that have meaning like an antique bowl that was my great grandmother's or a great find that i discovered while out thrifting one day (men don't get these things, especially warren). last night taylor asked if this antique fan worked and warren replied "no, your mother likes to put old things around the house that don't work for some odd reason". am i a victim to wanting an over-decorated house? does this mean i lack personal touches? please advise....i want the house to have pretty tablescapes but i also need to please my husband b/c after all, it's his house too!

*images courtesy of jean randazzo, domicileid, unknown, verdigris vie, david jimenez, belle masion, domino, vogue living, shelter