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Big week for the blog... second post this week!  Woot woot :-) Earlier this week I posted about the rustic shelving DIY project that I worked on, and today I wanted to share some photos of the completed project, now that the shelves have been styled. I am certainly no expert on styling bookshelves, but I did learn a few things as I went - especially after several failed attempts at styling them.  They were looking messy.  Cluttered.  And I was frustrated because I loved them with nothing on them, and was hating them with all our stuff. The challenge for me, is that these shelves are not just for display.  They actually needed to be practical (ugh, I hate practical) and store things - mainly books and magazines.  It's not like we have a ton of books since I have done most of my reading on a Kindle for the last several years, but we do have SOME, and I'm not willing to part with most of them. All my design books, which happen to be big and beautiful and perfe...

Our dining room has new shelves!!  They are a little rustic... a little glam... and totally perfect!  I'm SO THRILLED with how they came out! Just look at them!!  So pretty right?? I spent the better part of Saturday afternoon, with my drill, level, and measuring tape, hanging these bad boys up. These shelves are a DIY I'd started a few months back, and then they got totally neglected out of sheer laziness.  They'd been sitting in our garage for about a month after I stained the wood, and then sitting against the wall in our dining room for another few weeks before I finally decided to do something about them. I don't know what came over me this weekend, but I was on a mission to finish unpacking, and with several boxes of books staring me in the face, I knew it was time to get these shelves installed. Originally, I'd been envisioning a lovely rustic bookcase like this or this , but in the end I didn't feel like I could commit spending that much on a bookshelf I...

Oye... I'm having flashbacks of my childhood days, trying to write in my diary.  The story would go something like this: After picking out a new diary from the Disney/Sanrio Store (you know Hello Kitty, right?), I'd get home and write an entry along the lines of "Dear Diary, I am so excited to write in you EVERY day." The rest of the diary would be completely empty. I do not want my blog to be my "diary" of my adult years, so I'm checking in with you all!!  Since I last posted about our fabulous new fireplace, I've made so many other updates to our new place - many of which I'll be posting about soon enough, but for today, let's talk about the new curtains have gone up in our dining room. They are a light grey. They are linen. They are perfection. Here's a close-up of the fabric... Gorgous right?? You'll never guess where they are from... I'll just tell you - Ikea.  Yup.  Ikea is amazing.  Two 98" linen curtain panels for $50...