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June 9, 2015

I have two tiny little home updates for you today!

For my birthday, my mom sent me these ginger jar prints from Ballard Designs and I love them!

They were the perfect thing to hang on our wall next to the television…. it has been sitting empty for months because we didnt have anything currently that I wanted to hang there.

kip fought real hard for his picture of the lady at the bar from bed bath and beyond that HAD to hang in our kitchen/living room at our old place front and center for all to see.

said lady is down in the basement closet where she belongs in this house…… whooooops. to be fair half of my old pictures I’ve had since I was 22 from bed bath and beyond are there too.

also, you may have noticed from my outfit pictures yesterday that I started working on the gallery wall in our second bedroom.

I have more things to add (and need to find prints that are horizontal instead of vertical! everything I found and liked was vertical!) but it definitely brightened up the space and helps distract from all my clothes I tried on the night before being all over the bed.

the top 3 prints are from history in high heels etsy shop.

she also has an adorable blog by the same name and is currently living abroad in Florence and traveling all over Italy so I have been stalking her instagram!

the lower left print is just a postcard from kate spade with the quote “escape the ordinary” that I framed. I just got a pink one with another cute quote that I want to frame next.

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guest room + hopeful gallery wall.

February 10, 2015

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today I’m sharing a small home update + dual purpose/small space solution.

and a very simple + small DIY even morons like me can do

the guest room is serving multiple purposes at the moment.

guest room, but also the closet where all of my clothes are, another TV in case the one in the master bedroom is too far away (DUH), and where I end up doing my make-up and everything because our bathroom is tiny.

I wanted to get a large nightstand but have it serve multiple purposes.

the other side of the bed is super narrow so just a tiny nightstand over there.

you’ll note the baby blue walls, this was the previous owners little boys room.

I ended up settling on a vanity/desk that I found on Wayfair.

I couldn’t have been more pleased – it arrived so fast, was on super sale, and was exactly what it appeared to be online.

It serves as a nightstand for guests, opens up and has a mirror and area for my make-up for when I am getting ready, and most important, it’s another place to throw ma-crap when I come home at night.

I love my jumbo size gold perfume bottle from z gallerie.

The vanity came almost entirely assembled; all I had to do was screw the legs in.

thank the Lord…. I’ve had some nightmarish Ikea assemblies in my day.

Plus it came with a hideous zebra stool, so I didn’t have to spend money on a chair or bring one of our dining chairs upstairs.

Instead I just recovered it with the same fabric we covered our footstools in our bedroom in.

one downfall of it not being a real chair….. less places to throw my clothes.

who doesn’t love changing 27 times and having a chair to toss everything on?

if I could have the chair look like this it would be a dream, but for free, who cares.

I know there’s not a whole lot going on, and clearly no styling, but thought I’d share!

The plan is to do a gallery wall in the area above the desk/nightstand/vanity.

check out my sweet graphic I made below to you can wrap your minds around my beautiful vision.

headboard is from west elm, duvet from macy’s, pillows from pottery barn

I meaannnnnn my graphics are just killer.

I have already ordered a couple of prints, so hopefully it’s a project on my short to-do-list that’ll be done very soon!

as in, hopefully it won’t be like everything else on my to do list and take 7x longer than I intend for it to.

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movin’ on up

September 23, 2014

we have unofficially-officially made the move to our new home.

we still have our apartment with some last minute things to clean out this next week,

but we are slowly settling in to the new abode.

I came home Saturday night from one of my best friends weddings at

2 am to see a strange home awkwardly filled with our furniture.

It was strange. But fun.

But here’s the thing.

This new place……it’s a condo, but it has more of the layout of a townhouse, meaning it has STAIRS.

You non city folk won’t understand this….. but I never realized I had become unprepared for stairs. And I’ve only lived here for 2 days.

It has a main floor with the kitchen and living room, and then downstairs has another living space and laundry with the patio, and upstairs on the second floor are the two bedrooms.

Sooooo its 3 stories. 2 sets of stairs.

I had been so excited for multiple levels and stairs. “STAIRS!!!!! YAY!!!” I thought.

I was wrong.

I have never realized I was a spoiled brat for only having to walk two feet to my bedroom for the last 5 years to get whatever I needed.

In a span of one hour, I go up and down and up and down and then UP and UP when going from the bottom floor.

I AM EXHAUSTED.

Tell me non-city people who have homes and not condos/rich folk who have homes in Chicago/suburban people/normal people who are used to stairs…….. how do I navigate this stair thing??

Because I’m the kind of person that walks into a room, has no idea why I walked in there, walks back to the kitchen, remembers, walks back to the room, gets distracted by some other shiny object, goes back to the kitchen, realizes I never got what I needed …….

it’s a vicious cycle.

and the only solution I can think of is this :