Monday, February 27, 2012

Week 60 Random Pinehurst


Drumming up the courage
to paint the wall opposite this vignette
a bright yellow color.

Found the mini yellow pitcher set
at the local thrift store.

Upstairs guest bathroom
Random Pinehurst

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

10 Home Decor Mistakes I Learned a Lot From | Listable Life

Ahh...
this week's prompt for Listable Life
should be a good one.

Especially because:
1. We've long ago determined that ONLY home stuff gets posted here
2. We ALL know only the good, the great and the perfect gets blogged.

So rather than blogging about 5 general mistakes I have learned from,
here are 10 Home Decor and DIY Mistakes I learned a lot from.


If you live with a dog,
save yourself the heartache.
Don't put dog toys
in one of your fave baskets.
That. Is. All.


Some projects
are just failures all around.
Sometimes, husband really does call it
when he asks "what is that cluster*@! hanging from my ceiling"
When the dog looks up, sighs a deep sigh,
and relocates her fave spot so that she is NOT
underneath the cluster*@!,
then you know for sure the project is a fail.


Know thyself.
Do not purchase garden plants on Friday
on the way home from work
if you have NOT set aside time over the weekend
to get them in the ground.
Two days is just NOT enough time to get it all done.


It is cruel and unusual punishment
to decorate your tree
with shiny white bones.
You get what you deserve when your tree is still standing
but no longer decorated
when you do stupid things like that.


If you have no sense of anything 
(time, direction, budget, length, distance)
then you shall NEVER be allowed to roam alone
in JoAnne's fabric section looking for curtain fabric.
You will NEVER buy enough with your cheap self
and you'll never be able to return it 
because you will do all sorts of randomness to that fabric
in an all out effort to "make it work".


Hundreds of dollars. It adds up.
Pretty as color may be,
you MUST use perennials in your hanging baskets
or you will pay dearly for the "pretty of the week".


Two cans.
At least.
That's how much EXTRA spray paint
I should buy for each chair I think will only take half a can of spray paint to complete.


Procrastination
is a state of mind.
Sure, amaryllis bulbs will not grow in 1 week.
Go figure.
But after the holidays, when you are Sooooo ready for spring
they'll finally start opening up.
And you'll have beauty while the rest fret away.


Rules are made to be broken.
Especially when it comes to growing wheatgrass.
If it seems more complicated than it has to be
(ie, pre-sprouting wheatberries before actually growing them),
then it probably is.
There has ALWAYS got to be an easier way.


Even if you don't live in a glass house
you should not throw stones.
The more IMPORTANT lesson in that?
Glass and stones don't mix.
Ie, shells and book pages are good ideas for a fillable lamp.
Rocks are not.


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Monday, February 20, 2012

Week 59 Random Pinehurst


Found these at Goodwill Des Moines (WA)
for $1.99 a piece.

Just random wall art by the entry 
for Random Pinehurst this week.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

5 Home Blogs that you Should Stalk | Listable Life

Nicole over at Moments That Define Life
has a great Listable Life meme.


Last week, 
you probably missed my
10 things that take me to my happy place post.
Go ahead and peek.  
I did it in the same style that I did my Home Goals 2012 post.

This week, I'm doing a slight twist
on the option to blog about 5 bloggers I enjoy.

I'm going to give you 5 Home Blogs that you MUST STALK.
Well, at least add to your Reader/Feed/Stream/Blogroll.

Ready for some awesomeness?
Click on any of the links to be transported to Nirvana.
Here we go!


5 Home Blogs that you Should Stalk


via DRD Portfolio
Dayka Robinson Designs
sista, vintage, fresh to deaf

Dayka Robinson is an African American Interior Designer after my own heart.
She knows THE PLACES to find greatness
in the form of vintage wares.

She has an amazing (well trained, at that)
x-ray vision eye for furniture with great bones
AND she has a refreshing vision
for how to bring new life to her finds.


Did I mention that she's an African American Interior Designer?
Just saying.  In blogland, I have not come across many sisters with
true street cred.

She's informative.
(this is a post on choosing an upholsterer)

She knows how to "talk good."
(this is a hilarious post on Saarinen table shopping)

She has ALMOST as many Pinterest Boards as I do.
(but her pins are OVER THE TOP better)

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via Brick House DIY Terrarium Tutorial
The Brick House
(Morgan Satterfield)
sigh, clean, pillow crush

The Brick House is a recent find on my blogging adventures.
I long for days in the desert again
and I imagine, if I still had in-laws that lived outside of Palm Desert,
Morgan and I still would have no idea either of us existed.

That said.

She has a clean, uncluttered abode that makes me sigh.
Not in a mournful, jealous way.
Not even in a longing way 
(because, I like stuff and hoarders will be here shortly).
But in a well composed, sigh like you're at the symphony
and the last note has been struck
kind of sigh.

She's your BFF.
(at least she writes like she is as she stalks brutalist chandeliers)
and let's just not start on the Eames Lounge Chair in her den...

She has a pillow thing.
(and like any good addict, a direct line to pillow heaven)

She can hold her own at furniture auctions.
(even if you're a blog reader and try to outbid her)

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via Young House Love Home Progress Tour Gallery

Young House Love

(Sherry, John, Clara and Burger Petersik)
love, DIY, hacks

Young House Love is the house blog
that forced me to look up how to set up a reader
after Bloglines went to hell and back and again.
I love that they are compartmental - like me.  
You don't actually HAVE TO read about Clara or Burger stuff
on their DIY home blog if you don't want to.

But trust me.
You'll want to.

They (yes, both she and he blog) are super easy to keep up with.
(they do a monthly superlatives post to get you up to speed)

They are hacks.
(They hacked together their fabulous kitchen cabinet doors.)

They live a rather interesting life in their closet.

My apologies to John and Sherry.  
I asked all the rest of the bloggers here for permission before including them. 
Couldn't find a direct email to the Petersiks.
Good news is I doubt my mom's click over to view their blog will break the server (smile).

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via Chez Larssen Chevron Tray Tutorial

Chez Larsson

(Benita)
pure, international, white

Chez Larssen is a blog
for the person who likes their home/design posts
short, sweet and to the point.
Benita will tell you with crisp, gorgeous photos
and occasionally, she will throw in a few more words too.
Crisp, Euro styling with clean white simple lines...
color is used with meaning in her abode and
she's the coolest cat lady I've had the pleasure to 
glimpse into the life of.

She is crafty.
(I used to get craft boxes of goodies. Now I live vicariously through her)

She's no wallflower.
(especially when she does unconventional things with wallpaper)

She likes to play with light.
(love the photos on her blog? This neat tool helps her create magic)

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via Centsational Girl DIY wood cutting block tutorial

Centsational Girl

(Kate)
eye candy, expansive, stylist

Centsational Girl is not only a blog
that I stalk, I also look for Kate's home
in the various DIY mags and special issues that come out.
What I love about Centsational Girl is that
along with glimpses into her own home and life,
Kate does a lot of features of other blog eye candy.
Each week, the "Blogs I'm Reading" list in my sidebar
grows with another blog found on her site

She is all over the place.
(Well, in features too.  But I mean she does it all in home blogging)

She also almost has as many pins/pinboards as I do.
(and yes, you will never leave your comp once you follow her)

She can convince even YOU that sewing is easy

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There you have it.
5 super exceptional blogs (6 bloggers)
that I stalk every morning
as I procrastinate getting out of bed.

What blogs can you not WAIT for a new post to go up on?


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Monday, February 13, 2012

Week 58 Random Pinehurst



On a hike on an unreasonably warm
and sunny day,
I spotted these sprouting through the bark.

Almost spring.


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Friday, February 10, 2012

Pinterest Weekly Fix - All For One

For the Pinterest lovers of the world.


Clearly, I spend waaaay too much time on Pinterest.
I am a little ticked that the iPhone Ap
generally only allows me to "like" but not "repin" stuff.
Couple that with well over 3000 pins
and I MIGHT need a Pintervention.

I might as well share the wealth.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road, err...the links,

 to be taken to any of the previous boards of the week.

Mellow Yellow

Be Still My Heart
My Funny Valentine















Happy Pininng!


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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Be Still My Heart - Pinterest Weekly #4

Here was the inspiration for this board:

Heart Rock from Everest Base Camp, Tibet

Introducing
Be Still My Heart


Be Still My Heart
February 2012


It is the month of love and loving.
There are so many clever and crafty hearts out there.
Though my first board this month was all about
My Funny Valentine
this board is about hearts and nothing else.

 
Check out and follow my Pinterest Boards here
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  I've curated a 
Hit the original sources
and see an eyeful of heart loving.

What have you been pinning lately?


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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Things That Take Me to My Happy Place | Listable Life


Nicole over at Moments That Define Life
has a great Listable Life meme.

I am a generally (okay, mostly) happy person.
I tend to be the glass is half full,
sickeningly happy in her own little world
chick in the corner just taking it all in in stride.

At work, in the various community orgs I'm in and just randomly,
people ask me what I "do."

While I know they are often talking about my job, 
you know, the one that pays the bills.
But a few people have a secret glimpse into this life and as such,
they are really asking what REALLY makes me tick.

Here's a unique take on what makes me happy
as told via Scrap Art.

I did a post 
in this same style. 

Check it out and be sure to pop back over here.
I'll wait (smile).

Welcome back.

So here we go:
10 Things That Take Me to my Happy Place


We all know I have a weakness for beauty queens.
Especially if they are under 6 years of age.
Toddlers & Tiaras takes me to my happy place.


I'm a Sagitarian.
Which means, by default, I am lucky.
Almost always lucking into awesome opportunities 
takes me to my happy place.


Hiking Mount Rainier.
Hanging out with two of my fave dudes in the world.
A summer day in the Pacific Northwest 
takes me to my happy place.


The ONLY place I spend more time online
is Pinterest. 
But twitter takes me to my happy place.


You should click through and see this one up close.
Letting go of the negative
and getting to the positive
takes me to my happy place.


That first blush of love
when you first realize that the one you are infatuated with,
loves you even more?
Just recalling that moment takes me to my happy place .


Getting in the car
going with purpose
and creating new traditions
takes me to my  happy place.



Going international.  
THAT takes me to my happy place.



Watching him with her.
He's such a dog person.
I love his devotion.
Watching it and benefiting from it
takes me to my happy place.



Going to the market.
Super market. Farmers Market. Mall.
Truly.
I love to shop (smile).
Shopping takes me to my happy place.
Paying the bill off takes me sky high.

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