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Brian finished the closet baseboards (they match our existing baseboards, yay!) and the trim around the doors and cubby holes yesterday...
He brought the cutest little helper with him too...
He was a little less camera shy than his Dad, so I went all paparazzi on him for a minute. He just giggled alot....
...and...
Saturday, May 26th. 3:30pm- Install the first wood plank on top of our existing textured ceiling:
(There's actually wood up above our ceilings in this part of the house, so it made for easy nail gunning. If you're interested in doing something similar, but don't have wood above your sheetrock, just find your ceiling...
Our camera shy carpenter had to finish up a job at another house yesterday and today, but he did start cladding our closets before he left on Wednesday afternoon. So exciting!
I'm probably driving him nuts at this point, but I'm just so fascinated by this whole process!
Next week, he plans to finish up the...
Since this here blog acts as our virtual scrapbook, and I'm beyooooond excited about the closet project we've got going on at our house right now, I wanted to include a picture of our amaaaaazing new carpenter friend, Brian, in today's post....
See him ducking down there in the right hand corner of the photo above?
Turns...
Remember when I surprised Kev with a freshly painted home office/guest room?
Well, since that day, I found a local carpenter named Brian to help us build some closets at the far end of the room, sort of like these...
Our closets won't be as wide as the ones in the inspiration photo, (we only need one door...
Meet Mary Kay...
Meet Mary Kay's new book- Spring Fever...
I'm on chapter 7, but I was hooked by page 2!
Without giving too much away, it's about a woman named Annajane Hudgens and it's set in a small, sleepy, Southern town called Passcoe, North Carolina- a place "where old flames and deep secrets reside,...
The other day I caught Kit-Cat doing something...weird.
It involved Kevin's bathroom sink...
...and a full bladder...
...but absolutely no flushing when he was done.
#gross
I caught him in the act a couple more times since that first time, and Kevin may or may not have been greeted by a....semi-solid...
Hey there- and welcome to another installment of Pick My Presto!
I randomly selected another email from my Pick My Presto inbox this week, and had fun photoshoppin' a picture of a wall niche sent in by a reader named Martha. Her email read:
Hi Layla!
I would love to get your feedback on what you would do...
Have you e-met Lindsay from Life of Splendor?
She and her husband, Chris, bought a fixer upper a couple of years ago and I'm so excited to share their recent bathroom redo photos here today.
Here's what the room looked like when they moved in...
...and here's what it looks like now!
Before...
After!
Before...
After!
Didn't...
We hired a couple fellas to cut down a dead tree in our backyard the other day.
It wasn't the most fun home improvement money we've ever spent, but apparently home owners insurance doesn't cover damage caused by dead trees, so it had to be done.
I didn't want to be all up in their Kool-aid when they first...
Kev went out of town last week, so I decided to have a little "surprise by design" style home improvement fun in his future home office/studio space.
The day he left, I bought sample pots of paint...
...and stared at swatches on the wall...
I went with the second sample from the right- a Sherwin Williams...
One of my favorite things about blogging is that I can release my inner artsy-fartsy.
Wait a second. That came out wrong.
Seriously though, I have had an absolute BLAST playing around with my pictures and putting together photo collages...
...creating and incorporating my doodles and getting my "graphic...
You know my BFF, Shannan (a.k.a Flower Patch Farmgirl), right? Well, since she's one of my favorite writers in the whole weird world, I asked her if she'd put together a post just for me and TLC. She said yes (yay!) and I literally could not wait to read it. I must have hit the refresh button a thousand times a minute yesterday...
I've got a new e-friend named Lucy that I'd like to introduce you to today.
She's one of the most entertaining little gals I've ever e-met and I think her YouTube videos are more fun to watch then most shows on TV. I came across this one she did about "jazzing" up her outfits with scarves last year...
Some...
Today's an interior design post. And by interior design, I'm referring to the kind on the right side of the picture below...
It's about the day I decided to see Rock City and how I forced myself to move a mental mountain thanks to a wobbly walkway that I was positive I'd never be able to cross.
(source)
It...
Just a quick heads up: I'm guest blogging about my top 3 "must haves" when it comes to interior photo styling over at Just A Girl today... ...so if you'd like to read about those kinds of things, and/or would like to join in on the conversation- I hope you'll swing by!
The following post was written by my friend, Shaunna, 'cause she always knows just what to say...
I have this thing for the sea.
I'm not sure how or why, but the sounds of the tide bring me to a place of peace. They roll around in my head, pushing fear and doubt far from the shores of consciousness. The...
Have you seen this? It makes me smile/think/laugh/cry every time I stumble onto it, and I just thought you might want/need/like to see it, too.
iPhone pics + a quote that struck a chord =
I used to think I was the strangest person pet in the world.
But then, I thought, there are so many people pets in the world...
...there must be one just like me.
...who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
I would imagine them, and...
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