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ne so that s my friday news what do y all have going on this weekend 379 comments labels life shop work may 10 2016 if you have a life and it isn t on social media does anyone notice it hey i remember you long time no see i may have had to do a bit of internet sleuthing to remember my password to login to ye old blog but now that i m back it is just like riding a bike you hit enter at the end of a paragraph right ha i ve got some fun stuff to share with you but i can t jump into that without addressing my absence that would be like trying to dance around the giant elephant in the middle of the room and if you know me then you know i don t dance the obvious question is just where the hell have i been and why haven t i been blogging about whatever it is i ve been doing i ll answer the first question by saying that i continue to work with really fun clients on really cool spaces and they keep this girl on her toes i try my best to be with my babies who are less and less like babies every day tear eve is going to be starting kindergarten in the fall which would make many a mom sad but i just gleefully think about having both girls in school five days a week all damn day i m one excited mom i talk to the hubs about how we should have more date nights but never get around to planning said date nights you know the basics i m not going to sit here and tell you that i haven t blogged because i m that horrible 4 letter b word that is a copout everyone is b y it s called having a life even my 5 year old told me the other day how b y she was it is all relative people and i do not dare to think nor do i want to insinuate that my daily schedule is any more difficult more important or more fascinating than anyone else s and therefore gives me the excuse to not do something not gonna happen so this leads me to answer the second part of that question why haven t i been blogging about whatever it is i ve been doing now to be technical i do instagram all the live long day except for the past week or so but i ll address that next time but instagram and a blog post are far from the same thing so i m just going to lay it out there for me blogging became tainted is the first word that comes to mind when i decided to join this blog world way back when it was for an honest desire to share my design thoughts and ideas with like minded people who enjoyed ogling at well designed spaces and talking about fabric paint and furniture placement and i just like to write it was no more thought out than that i liked the community sharing ideas building friendships over similar interests braiding flowers into each other s hair while we sang in a circle ok maybe not that last one but you get the idea it was fun just fun and then over time it became about making money affiliate links following the oh so important eye roll blogging schedule getting professional pictures taken for a post on changing out a shower curtain and other general hysteria in short it wasn t fun anymore i wasn t into blogging to make a career out of blogging i blogged to escape from my career for an hour or two a day so i dropped the mic and went on with my life i would think about it from time to time and say to myself i really should write something but it was like when you haven t run in two years and you think back fondly on that marathon you ran way back when it is a nice memory but the idea of getting back into it seems overwhelmingly hard so i didn t and then about a month ago i ran into someone i hadn t seen in quite some time and we had a glorious catch up until she said so what are you doing now a bit confused i said still at my design business things are going great actually i m about to oh she stopped me mid sentence i thought you quit that you know since you weren t blogging anymore oh hell to the no girl she needed that mat from office space because she was doing some major jumping to conclusions but i couldn t be mad for long because she had a point one of my greatest joys in life is also what i do for a living lucky to say that so of course my general chatting about design stuff would occasionally cross over into chatting about my design business stuff which would then end up on my not about work but about fun blog how s that for blurred lines so i had a talk with myself and agreed that i shouldn t give up something i enjoy doing talking about design and writing just because the forum in which i was doing it was no longer fun don t hate the player change the game so i m not going to worry about the rules of blogging i m going to blog like its 2008 when i ve got something to share i ll do it sometimes there might be a picture sometimes there won t gasp i won t worry about what time to hit publish in order to maximize my readership or make sure to give my post a title that will increase my search probability on google and i won t be plugging anything except my damn self there it is my friends i m putting the fun back into blogging boom so if you want to hang out grab a drink and let s chat and if you are long gone that s ok too after all i gleefully wrote on this sucker for months before anyone noticed cheers this is getting too long so i ll share my new news next time what a post with plans for another one i know crazy right 80 comments labels life work august 25 2015 it all comes down to books and flowers while doing some prep work for a photo shoot recently i went thru my stacks of magazines books binders and pinterest for some inspiration and y all know what i realized all you really need for styling is some flowers and a few books miles redd jeffrey bilhuber the really good photos are where the rooms speak for themselves a little bit of life aka flowers is added and a simple stack of books to say hell yeah this room gets used and you ve got yourself the makings of a great photo deborah french of course this is with the understanding that the room itself is great but really that s what you are wanting to see the details of the room the more accessories that are added that more they take away from the design just some flowers plants and a few books and you are good domaine angie hranowsky peppermint bliss everyone is in danger of overdosing on accessories i ve totally been guilty of this i mean come on how many times have you come home from homegoods with a whole bag of things you didn t even realize you needed maybe sometimes we should let those things pass now understand i m not into absolutes so i won t say get rid of your knick knacks all together but let s try to use a bit less fluff and instead really show off the furniture lamps pillows curtains and rugs that you ve spent quality time reinventing and refinishing or quality purchasing let the big details shine am i alone here do you ever get the less is more itch are you happy dusting all of those bits and bobbles let s discuss 69 comments labels inspiration styling august 11 2015 you ve got to kiss a lot of frogs a quick note first to say thank you all for your kind words about the blue and white event we will no longer mention each and every one of you put a smile on this mom s face as dolly parton said laughter thru tears is my favorite emotion i often do posts on here and on instagram of the wonderful things i find when i m out and about in the grand world of antique stores however i think sometimes all of those grand finds may mislead you to think i am always finding great things or that i only go to stores that have wall to wall awesome not the case my friends as my grandmother used to say about estate sales you ve got to kiss a lot of frogs for every great thing i find there are 10 horrible things i see really that s optimistic it is probably closer to 30 horrible things but you get the idea so i thought i d share some of them not only for a good laugh but to show that in a store full of crazy crap there can often be a great gem don t write off a place by what you see in the window and with that i think i m fresh out of clichés let s shop oh the irony a sign about everything being for sale with a big fat nfs tag on it the dreaded nfs not for sale is something that usually makes me angry to no end but in this case i was quite alright with it slap my ass that is certainly a piece of work there are always spooky old dolls always perfectly normal item to see but not really just don t if you were going as run dmc for halloween these would actually be useful clowns are pretty ubiquitous as is bad art so this one scores on both counts taxidermy is also pretty common unfortunately but notice this is just inches away from great silver and gold champaign buckets and just opposite the isle from the booth where i got my bamboo bench body parts in a bag this and my favorite piece of all this has been in one of my favorite shops for at least two years i m all for ironic art and i enjoy good humor but this is not for me or apparently anyone else two years so remember it only takes one good item to make a crappy store turn into that cute little place you found that great fill in the blank here there is never a shop i ll refuse to check out the thrill of the unknown is just too great i have a pretty regular list of places that i stop in weekly bi weekly or monthly depending on their success rate and if you go often enough you can breeze thru a place in under 15 minutes making it a great thing to do in between appointments when you are a little early on your way to pick up or anytime you have a free patch of time where are your places to shop do you get overwhelmed by the places with wall to wall stuff need help finding something email me and i ll find it for you cheers to the hunt 27 comments labels shopping july 30 2015 a moment of silence for my blue and white i can still hear the crash it s been a little over a week now but it hurts as much as if it just happened my oldest was grabbing a bowl from the bottom shelf and for reasons i still haven t gotten a clear explanation for she grabbed onto the top shelf putting all her weight on the corner and there by causing the top shelf to come crashing down working downstairs when it happened i heard a big thud lots of breaking whatever blue and white is made out of and a quick i didn t do it and then tears her s and mine the hubs and i both arrived in the kitchen at the same time to see the carnage all he said was go downstairs i ll take care of this of course it should go without saying no one was hurt and that s what s most important blah blah blah but damn my heart is hurt big time not only because i love my blue and white and have worked hard over half my life to collect all this stuff but also because there were several sentimental pieces that were broken the foot bath i was going to use in my wedding which i bought on a day that still ranks in my memory as one of the best as well as the blue and white bowls i ended up going with for my centerpieces i couldn t get enough foot baths and a small blue and white jar i got at one of my first auctions things that cannot be replaced ugh the humanity now many would say see that is why i don t have nice things with children around but i see that as a huge copout i accidentally dropped a pair of scissors on my foot yesterday and took a big chunk out of my toe true story but that isn t going to prevent me from keeping scissors in the house life happens i grew up with a house of treasures and antiques and believe me when i say many pieces were broken over the years but my parents continued to collect and that home helped to develop my sense of beauty and joy kids climb things things break mommies cry life goes on luckily this wasn t my entire b w collection and now i don t have to feel guilty that i have too many pieces when i buy a new piece so that s something and in the grand scheme of life this isn t a big deal upsetting yes life altering no but just don t ask me about it i still might cry what s broken at your house did you ever reconsider putting things out with little ones around do you keep your broken pieces in an old shopping bag in your basement just me 60 comments labels blue and white kitchen life my house june 24 2015 i will never stop collecting chairs in the spirit of my post on my former mantel i thought i would address a clear hypocrisy i know i just told you that it s good to acknowledge the elephant in the room and remove things that aren t working in your space true and i know i ve discussed many times my love of riding and purging crap that you don t need very true however there is a time when all of those rules and truths go right out the window and that is when you encounter a killer chair curves lines wood fabric chairs have it all they are addicting here we have just a small sampling of chairs i have in my small home that don t currently have a place i refuse to get rid of any of them nor will i get rid of their siblings that sit in rejected groups in other rooms of the house the hubs often suggests selling them but i scream from my cold dead hands and he walks away shaking his head some of these do have in the near future plans but others might be headed to storage for a vacation and damn it if i m not on my way out to look at more chairs luckily i can often share my chair habit with clients and know that the beauties are living in a happy home somewhere where i can visit them but i will never stop collecting never and one day i ll have cause to hold a large gathering at my house where everyone will need a seat and i won t have to rent a single chair so that s something don t make me feel alone here what do you hoard anything you don t have the room to keep but refuse to toss have any chairs i can take off your hands 26 comments labels furniture life my house june 17 2015 she was a good faux elephant when i change things up i change things up i may have mentioned recently that i am making some changes to my living room thanks to welcoming home this baby truth is though she was just the push i needed to start making changes that i ve had in mind for quite some time remember what i always tell the hubs by the time i tell you about a change idea i ve already been mulling it over for a few months and before my mother anyone rolls their eyes at the fact that i m changing things up again i just did a little research and realized that the last time i changed the ol living room was 2012 thanks to the blog for keeping track of these things for me dude 2012 is a long time especially for a girl who used to change up her bedroom so often i d get in trouble note don t switch your bedroom with the guest bedroom without asking your mom first even if you are cute and 10 it won t go over well when we were house hunting all those years back a fireplace was at the top of my wish list right behind three bedrooms and two bathrooms proof that you can score 0 for 3 on your wish list and still end up with the perfect house but that s another post long story short we put an offer in on our house and i made a 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