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Hope you all had a fabulous long weekend! Our was spent unpacking A LOT, organizing, and purging of all the stuff we don't need.  There is a LONG way to go still, but any progress feels good!  In between all the unpacking, and seemingly endless errands, we enjoyed some pretty sunsets off the back deck... ... we also started up season 2 of House of Cards... in bed... with coffee.  Such an indulgence!   Side note: is anyone else as obsessed with Kevin Spacey as I am??? I love evil Kevin Spacey and his saucy southern accent. And my honey got me some absolutely GORGEOUS flowers for Valentines day... Aside from smelling the roses, admiring pretty sunsets and watching TV in bed, I made some progress on the living room... kind of. I painted. It all started out great! All the holes were getting patched, cracks, chips and wall scuffs from four years of wear and tear were getting covered up, and the paint was going on as a pretty light grey. I even had a little fun with the pa...

Let me preface this post by saying, I'm not a big Valentine's day girl - the hoopla of it all is overwhelming, and the pricey set menu's at every single restaurant make me want to stay in... which is what we do every year.  We make dinner together, and cozy up with some wine.  The one thing I do like about this day though is the conscious effort everyone makes to say I love you. With everything going on I haven't given much thought to Valentine's day this year - no fun crafts, and I haven't even gotten my cards in the mail (sorry mom and dad!)... but for whatever reason, I woke up today in the celebrating mood. And what better way to feel a little festive for perhaps the most over-hyped, over-rated holiday than to dress a little special?? I have a little bounce in my step after putting on a VERY similar outfit to the one below... a full red skirt (with pockets... LOVE), a silky floral blouse, some fun kick-y booties and my beloved pink coat.  Mine is from Jcrew,...

Thank you for all the sweet comments and emails over the past few weeks!  So touching, and it really means so much!  So much has been going on (and so much is STILL going on), but I've really missed my little blog and wanted to check in with you all! In the last month since I checked in, the big update from my world is that we've moved!  It was a very tiring Saturday for me last weekend - especially after getting back from NY in the wee hours of the morning - but we survived! Even in the rain! This is what the dining room in our new apartment looked like on Saturday morning before the movers started unloading... And.... here's what it looks like now... This is my life. Not to scare you, but this room is looking 100% better in the above picture than it did at the end of moving day!  We've probably unpacked half of the boxes that were in there before, so this is a HUGE improvement! Just use your imagination to picture what this looked like Saturday night.  You lit...

No I haven't quit the blog... but I have been on a break... it's not you... it's me... No really. This happened... WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!!  We're engaged!!!! It's been SO exciting, and SOOO fun, and we literally could not be happier.  Kris has already taken to calling me wifey which makes me laugh every time, and I've been trying to remember to introduce him to people as my FIANCE (so fancy) -  not my "boyfriend". A gratuitous ring shot for you guys... While the excitement around being newly engaged is reason in itself for me to be taking a little break from the blog world... this is also happening... No... not a baby - despite what the box says - our apartment has become a little storage facility, filling up slowly with boxes on top of boxes. We're moving. Soon I'm a stressed out little bunny. With every box that gets packed, I look around and feel like I've hardly made a dent.  I mean, seriously??  How did we get SO MUCH stuff?! To a...

It's time for another installment of one of my favorite games... splurge or save. This week, we're talking coffee tables.  What is it about this week??  The theme here seems to be "living room inspiration"... I just can't get enough!  Well I'm going with it, to let's talk about glass topped coffee tables, shall we? I love a good glass top coffee table - super elegant, and simultaneously modern and traditional.  Clean lines, but a bit feminine at the same time... Can you guess which is the splurge and which is the save?? I think these are perfect if you have an amazing rug you don't want to hide, or a smaller space that you want to visually open up... since you can see straight through them, they sort of fade away and let other elements in your living space shine... They are also really easy to clean which is a bonus (Windex and a paper towel), but not ideal for a house of kids (cracked head anyone?) or for a pack rat.  You've got to be able to keep...

Sooo... yesterday we talked about the look of worn rugs acting as a neutral background for a slightly more traditional living space... While we're on the topic of rugs, let's talk about animal print... kind of the opposite of "traditional" Source I'm a fan. My favorite pair of flats are leopard print, and I wear them like a neutral - literally with everything.  Could I do a leopard print rug?? Or antelope?? Contemporary Staircase  by  Houston Interior Designers & Decorators   Sally Wheat Interiors Or cheetah?? Contemporary Entry  by  Ballwin General Contractors   Terra Nova Construction Modern Living Room  by  Burlington Interior Designers & Decorators   Cynthia Taylor-Luce Eclectic Hall  by  Burlington Interior Designers & Decorators   Cynthia Taylor-Luce I mean if it's good enough for the editor of Real Simple... Source And it's good enough for Erin Gates... It's amazing, right?? Well, I came across this bad ...