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4 Things to Try

1 / Try patterns on your bookshelf.  I’ve been turning my books backwards for years (see here and here), but I’ve never tried patterns, like this.  I think its worth a weekend try. 2 / Try making your...

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Beautiful Brass

I don’t know about you, but I’m still la la loving the brass trend.  Funny thing is, I have a good amount of brass in my master bath.  Not current brass, but the 90’s variety.  I loathed it, but now...

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House Crush / South Kensington

No surprise, here, of the probability that I might be crushing on a house in South Kensington.  I love the area and I love London style.  The old meets modern gets me every single time. But…. the...

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Be More Here

It was a Saturday night and we decided to eat out by the pool.  We love to take our dinner outdoors during the summer months, since our winters are so long.  This Saturday I decided to make us a...

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Fun Ways to Display Family Photos

image : Elle Decoration A few years back I got rid of all of my table top frames…the silver fake antiquey ones from TJ Maxx kind of thing.  The only place I really have to display framed photos (other...

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House Crush : Color

I confuse my seasons.  When it’s cold and the ground is covered in white outside, I tend to crave a little color inside.  Maybe it’s my mind remembering summer.  Green grass that cushions and carpets...

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Currently Reading

It’s been awhile since I’ve shared what’s on my nightstand and on my Kindle.  No need to keep repeating that . . .     I love to read and I usually have several books going at the same time.  I like...

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Sweet + Simple Last Minute Valentine’s Ideas

In case you didn’t have time to craft up your own original Valentines or can’t be bothered to conjure up new inventive creative ideas…. let me help.  I didn’t have it within me either.  So, I thought...

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On my mind

I hesitate on my post title, because I think, “does anyone really care?” Yes, I know people care.  People care too much. Not about what I am saying, but they care too much about what everyone is...

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Front Door Dreaming

Spring must be in the air….because I’m front door dreaming. Before I get the urge to clean up and make our back patio cozy, I always feel compelled to paint the front door. It started about eight...

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Currently Reading

One of my favorite things to ask others is, “What are you reading?” One, because it tells me about the person and two, because I’m always looking for new books to devour. I’m a serial reader in that I...

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Stuck

Lately I’ve been having trouble blogging. Or is it focusing? Or is it lack of time? Or is it just summertime?   I think it is that there is so much swirling in my busy brain that it feels too much....

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House Crush : Austin

Sometimes it starts with a bathroom, this thing I call a “house crush.” It can begin with any room or detail or color that catches my attention, really.  This bathroom, the old sink, the old copper...

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The Hardest Working Room in My House

Do you have a room in your home that you would consider the hardest working room in your house? You’ll be surprised to know mine . . . Do you have a room in your home that you would consider the...

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Currently Reading

Here’s what I’m currently reading (and have recently read) . . . . A few game changers, a few to get lost in, a few to inspire! Present Over Perfect / This goes on my favorite list for 2016. I’m...

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Wise Words for the Week

I just wanted you to have these words. I needed them and wanted to keep them where I can return to them. Each line is one to meditate on: Trust the wait (Sometimes life gives us no other option but to...

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Go-Getters Chasing Slow

For all those go-getters who’ve gotten a little tired.  This is for you. Pinky promise.   We all chase things. Only we don’t like to call it a chase. Go-getting sounds better, doesn’t it? Hustle...

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Your Purpose is a Path

The other day I had the privilege of talking to a group of twenty-somethings. We talked about purpose and calling and destiny and if there is a difference. We talked about our lives being poetry....

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Currently Reading

It’s been awhile since we’ve talked books . . . Here’s what I’m currently reading (want to read and have read) . . . . I’m not one to hoard information. In fact, I am most myself when I collect it and...

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Everything will be Alright

A little note for the stressed, the frazzled, the uncertain. RELAX, EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT. Did you know it actually says this in the Bible? In more than one place (Jude 1, Lamentations 3:57...

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