This week our kids are out of school for Mid-Winter Break. Since we haven’t seen much snow this winter, we went east of the mountains to our favorite vacation spot for a few days. There wasn’t much snow east of the mountains either, but that didn’t stop us from driving up as high on the […]
Remember when chalkboards first came into fashion? I mean, before they were in our houses they were in our classrooms, so they were not really new. They just found their way into our homes and allowed us to play with lettering and write special/funny phrases that could be switched out with nothing more than a […]
Happy Friday! My week was half productive, half completely not. Lunch with friends, super hard barre classes, meeting with my spiritual director, napping on the couch, baking, driving to the middle school (twice!) to drop off forgotten lunch and homework, watching that crazy National Championship game, finally packing away all of the Christmas decorations, making […]
Happy Friday! This week flew by … the kids went back to school, piano and basketball started back up, and I finally took down Christmas which led to furniture rearranging (my favorite). rug | couch | lamp | coffee table (similar) | x pillow | plaid pillow | leather pillow | curtains Let’s talk about […]
JANUARY We started 2017 with big plans and plenty of motivation to continue updating our new house. A few big projects were finished in January … The unfinished storage space turned studio was an exciting transformation. Once the shell was complete, I got to work coming up with a classic/modern design plan. We moved into […]
This post is sponsored by Nike When my boys were little, I loved dressing them as sweetly as possible. Fisherman sweaters with those adorable elbow patches, mini flannel shirts, corduroy pants and lace-up leather shoes. Then they got older and all those sweaters were replaced with hoodies, pants were traded in for year-round basketball shorts […]
Truth be told, I really don’t need anything for Christmas. But if you really twist my arm and make me come up with a wish list, these are the things I would be more than happy to unwrap on Christmas morning. Maybe a few of these items will make it onto your Christmas wish list […]
Remember when my baby girl was this little? Many of you have been reading the blog from the very beginning and have watched Audrey grow from in my belly to now – a sweet, funny, cheerful, sometimes-bossy almost eight-year-old. Audrey’s hair is one of her prettiest features. It has always been very thick and gorgeous, with […]
Have you noticed yet that I have a deep love for illustrated children’s books? Whether we’re in a toy store, at the library, on Amazon or in a real bookstore, I am always drawn toward the picture book section. I love the sweet stories and am absolutely captured by the illustrations. At Christmastime, we pull out […]
Today I’m joining a group of bloggers as we share our favorite things from 2017. Melissa, from 320 Sycamore, is hosting and she has the whole lineup right here (there are so many great gift ideas in each of the ladies’ posts!) I am notorious for calling everything my favorite. A new song, the current […]
It all started when I styled our kitchen with a few holiday touches for these photos. It’s that time of year when you can get my very favorite holiday soap as a free gift and I wanted to make the photos pretty to tell you about it. I have very firm pact with myself that I […]
One of the 40 by 40 items on my list is to wear earrings. I had this moment this summer when I realized earrings were missing from my life. I’m not traditionally much of a jewelry wearer – usually just my wedding rings, a watch and sometimes I’ll put on a necklace. There are so […]
Fall is in full swing in the Pacific Northwest and I’m enjoying it this year more than ever. Here’s a peek at life this past month as seen on my Instagram feed. (sweatshirt from here) Last year at about this time we were moving into our new house and getting our old one ready to […]
The kids had half-days last week and I had the brilliant plan on Thursday to take them all with me to meet up with my mom at IKEA. Here’s something I’m learning: I don’t have preschoolers anymore. I used to meet my mom at IKEA regularly when the kids were little – especially when the […]
Oh, the beloved (and much photographed) black and white stripe dishtowel. I mean, when I first started selling these, I truly had no idea what a phenomenon they would be. Apparently we all appreciate a good graphic, absorbent towel. We used the towels in our old kitchen: A set traveled with us on our road […]
