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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.
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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...
So, we've got this guest bathroom. The right side of it is almost done, and the left side of it is...well...
Work in there came to a halt sometime last year, but we did install a ($25) schoolhouse-style light fixture the other day, and it's so nice to finally have a light on the ceiling in there.
Besides...
**THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED**
We've got a fun giveaway courtesy of our friend, Betsy, today!
As you can see from the photos above, Betsy carries all kinds of farmhouse fabulous-ness in her Farmhouse Wares shop. She also carries the wooden herb crates we've got hanging on the wall in our kitchen...
...and...
I e-got together with my friend, Beth, a while back to help her come up with ideas for a headboard dilemma she was having. After a few messages back and forth, and inspired by this family photo of hers...
...we came up with plan that involved two old windows and a new barn door...
Here's what she and her...
We've had this hole in the ceiling in our hallway for, oh...let's see...maybe, like, two years?
After we painted the ceiling, we just never got around to installing a light, and to be honest, we're not really "overhead light people", so we didn't even really miss having one there. But, ever since I got my Notebook...
Kev and I took a little road trip to Atlanta this past weekend, and boy did it feel good to get out and do something different for a couple of days!
We stayed in Buckhead on Thursday and Friday night, but we drove out to Suwanee, GA on Friday afternoon to visit our friends, Alex and Emily Morrison. We had fun helping...
Kev and I had a truly gut-busting time at Brookwood Village Mall yesterday. We ate waaaay too much food court food, and hung out with folks that made us laugh until our cheeks hurt!
Ree and I had talked about getting together at 5:45, and since we got to the mall at 4:45, we had some time to kill...and some pretzels...
I'm on my way to B'ham today, but Kev and Josh are giving away a free pass to their Photography 101 class over at the shootFLYshoot blog today.
So if you're interested reeeeally understanding how to use your DSLR camera in manual mode once and for all, head on over there and leave them a comment on their latest beach...
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