There are a few last minute projects that I did before the big gathering on Sunday that I didn't have the chance to share with you last week. And since I am right in the middle of shopping around for a new, fancy shmancy camera, I thought today would be the perfect time to talk […]
There were threats of a storm, but there wasn't a drop on this Marcum parade. Our house was bursting at the seams as 27 Marcums gathered for family dinner yesterday. Although most of us try to get together at least once a month for dinner, this dinner was special because Chris's brother, Jared, and his […]
The last time you saw the left side of our family room , it was right after I painted Robert Frost's poem on a really big canvas (we did show you a few more sneak peaks of this room when we figured out an entertainment center solution in this post). Although we love the new […]
Giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Ashley Swift, lucky number 101, winner of a $350 Rejuvenation Light!! No sad faces here, we have plenty of giveaway gold to hand out. Stick around. Love, Passion and Obsession. Do I have your attention? That's how Rejuvenation describes their relationship with lighting. The company is built on a […]
We are hosting the Marcums for dinner this upcoming Sunday as a farewell to Chris's brother, Jared, and his family who are moving to Hawaii for work next month. The Marcums are not a small bunch--we are expecting right around 30 people. Chris is cooking up a stellar menu and I have been working on […]
But he wasn't the real Santa. He was a fake. A skinny Santa that takes his beard off on his break and smokes a cig out back. He can't scurry down the chimney either....in fact, he can barely get through the door without causing damage. Our new refrigerator was scheduled to be delivered this morning […]
You asked...repeatedly...and we answered...finally. Really, I answered. Chris proofread. And Greta napped. For your curiosity's pleasure: How many times are you gonna paint your house? I guess it depends on how long we live here. I am not afraid of painting over something 24 hours after I paint it the first time. Although, I do […]
Stenciled hallways aren't for everyone, and we have come to the conclusion, they aren't for us. And the funny thing is, we don't think that it looks bad. Which may leave you as confused as we have been since I finished stenciling our hallway a couple weeks back. I love the sheen. I love the […]
What a gorgeous living room, right? I love the mix of patterns and the chunky coffee tables and those turquoise glass globes. Those caught my eye first. My next thought--after I noticed the big chunky books and started thinking of my big chunky books that I want to display--was, a toddler doesn't live in this […]
I think we win the award for the most ghetto entertainment area in history. For the last 4 months, this is what our family room looked like: A large box that carried all of our mirrors from our apartment to our house was just big enough to hide the router, a slew of cables and […]
Saturday, we were in the vicinity of Ikea, so we had to stop in. Of course. We left with our cart full and a couple weekend projects we couldn't wait to tackle. Creating some open shelving in the kitchen has been on our list for a while, and after selling the zebra-printed rug last week, […]
Today Apartment Therapy is featuring our living room as a part of their series called "The Color Cure." EEEeee!!! I know the readers are gonna be honest---VERY honest because that is how they are over there. Feel free to check out the full article and me blabbing about all the details here. And here's […]
Although our kitchen has undergone a few cheap, cosmetic changes over the past 4 months, I have mentioned before that these quick fixes are just to tide us over until our major kitchen renovation in the next year or so depending on how quickly we can save up the funds. In addition to […]
Yesterday, I mentioned that we bought some countertop paint and I am back to give my first full report. I painted our mauve countertops last night. The whole process was quick! It only took me 2 hours total including a one hour dry time in between. Before I spit out the results, let's rewind and […]
Our countertops are muave. Pink, really. And it has kinda been an elephant in the room on the blog. Even when we painted our cabinets, it was such a big transformation--but it almost made the counters seem MORE pink. And you all are too kind to say so. But take another gander: […]
Confession: Chris and I went to Pizzeria 712 again for date night. It didn't disappoint. Before dinner, we stopped at a fabric store so that I could scout out some swatches for a roman shade in the kitchen as well as fabric to reupholster our headboard. We got some good ideas for the headboard and […]
Admittedly, I am no fashionista. But I still keep a modest-sized pin board entitled "Stylin'"where I collect my wish list for looks and threads next to my massive pin boards dedicated to all-things-home. And then today I realized, all of my pins on my Stylin' board have one dominant thing in common: Which begs the […]
J:"Yeesh, planes, trains, and automobiles to get home, babe!" C:"Trains?" J:"...hmmm. Well, OO OO! The trains in the airports that take us to the different concourses!" C:"Or, there were trains in the movie!" (We watched Water for Elephants on the plane.) We didn't get home yesterday like we expected. In fact, the last 24 hours […]
Last Thursday, in the middle of the night, we left for Tallahassee, Florida to see our best friends. We thought a red eye flight would allow Greta to sleep the whole way--we were wrong. No matter how trying it was to fly with a 17 month old (yes, I pulled out all the tricks), we […]
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