Since this post is long, I thought a gratuitous princess shot might be in order to lure you in. Now... I was thrilled that this week's "Show Us Where You Live" was a children's room edition. Ella's room is still my favorite room in the house and I'd spend time in there over any other room, hands down. Little has changed in this room since Ella was a tiny baby. We've replaced the iron crib with a big girl bed, we ditched the changing table in favor of a kitchen, and we've added drapes to keep this little one from daydreaming instead of napping. My love affair with decorating started early and the fact that my mom should take over for Martha Stewart only helps those efforts tremendously. She and I worked hard the last half of my pregnancy to make the nursery of my dreams. My regular ...
Summer Is Here
Tonight we grilled out at Garan & Poppy's and I watched my girls swim. Both of them. ...
Weekend List
Friday we ate Mexican for dinner, bought some books at BAM and took a stroll around Wal-Mart because Ella wanted to go to another store. We didn't buy anything there. Saturday we did the lunch date with Ali. You saw that here. Then we went to Ross and bought really big throw pillows for $5.99, bought a yard of fabric at Hancock for another project, got Ella a tiny table from Homegoods and a pedestal table from Wal-Mart (you can see both of those in Friday's post). K & Cory came over for dinner Saturday night. We had lasagna, salad and yummy bread and watched Seven Pounds. Excellent movie, I highly recommend it. Sunday morning I got us ready for church and Ella had a major belly-related come apart. It was better not to subject the general population to her drama, so we put our pjs ...
Missing you
I'm really missing this girl right now. When I went to pick her up this afternoon she was crying because she wanted to go to church with Garan. Luckily, I bought her a cute dress and sandals at Target today. I fed and dressed her while Garan and Poppy got ready. It was really fine because I stayed up much too late on Monday watching Jon & Kate fall apart and last night I was up late painting. I came home, finished up a design job, taught myself how to invoice using PayPal, cleaned up a bit and did some laundry. Then she called me from the car. "Can I stay with Garan tonight? There are blue 'jamas at Garan's. I don't want to come home." How can I resist an otherwise quiet evening alone? Then I asked if she would miss me. She said, "No, and I don't want to come home yet." Ouch. ...
Ali-U Are So Much Fun
My first year of college I met Ali. It has been eleven years since we moved into the dorm with two other girls we couldn't have had less in common with. We didn't know each other before school started and that made it so exciting. We had a four bedroom, two bath dorm room with a decent sized living area. Of course, Ali and I were on opposite sides of the suite, but that didn't stop us from spending every waking minute together. Of our other two girls, one spent 23 of every 24 hours in her room and the other spent 23 of every 24 hours asleep. We had lots of time to ourselves and drove the other two crazy. If you know me IRL then you know I'm loud and I never shut up. Well, so is Ali. One of my favorite memories is that although our doors were 20 feet from one another we would call each ...
The Room We Live In
Well, since I missed out on the first few week's of Kelly's challenge, I'm going to use the weekend to catch up. I'm skipping the guest room because we don't have one, I'll offer up the kitchen later with a caveat, but today I'm sharing the living room. In our house all of the rooms {with the exception of the kitchen and bathroom} are exactly the same size. Our bedrooms, play room, living room, dining room AND laundry. It is similar to a Craftsman four-square only it's a six. When you walk in our front door you walk directly into the living room with our dining room being in the very center of the house. Above is a picture looking from our dining room to the front door. You'll see our "entertainment center" on the left and the majority of our seating on the right. And you'll notice ...
Coming for dinner?
I decided to play along with Kelly's party this week and show off my dining room. We live in an 86 year old rock cottage, which we love. The day we brought our daughter home we grew out of this house, despite it's three bedrooms, because in 1923 they didn't think to build closets. Our house has no hallways or wasted space, but where it is overflowing with character and spacious rooms, it is definitely lacking in storage space. To combat that problem, all of our rooms do some "double duty" and we have to have lots of interesting ways to display and store things. Above is the entrance to our dining room from the living room. There is a large arch between the two rooms and we treat them as one. You can see one of the original light fixtures that I love hanging in the room. We shortened ...
Park Date
Today, like yesterday, we went to the park on our way home. The sky was grey and I was afraid it would split wide open at any moment. Since I promised I would take her and it wasn't actually raining yet, I decided to give it a go. This is Ella's opinion of the swing. The BABY swing. But she's fine with the ginormous rock wall... and the two-story slide! ...