House Porn

In my house we call it "House Porn". Yes, it's kind of an addiction for me. I can get lost for hours looking through home decorating magazines. All the different ideas! All the pictures! I dream and imagine all the things I could do (Im also dreaming about money at the same time since not all the great ideas are free).

I think this addiction scares my husband a little since inevitably I put the magazine down and start talking about all these AMAZING things I just saw that we can buy... build... dream!

I have many favorites: Cottage Living, Country Living, Costal Living,(I know thats a lot of Living) Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Better Homes and Garden, Sunset and my old favorite that went out of print, Domino (that was a sad day for the world). All of these have different perks. Even when they are photographing million dollar homes with items you could never afford there is always some way you can tweak something to make it work for your life and I am a pro at tweaking!

So, I corral my "House Porn" in a cute container and try to pare down as much as I can so I don't become the next person on that show "Hoarders". Im pretty sure though that this addiction is one I wont ever be able to kick!

No problem too big that a little hammock time can't fix. Just add grapes on the vine and some twinkly lights and you can't help but sigh... relax.... repeat.

Another Year

A new year has begun for me. I turned 32 on Friday and I am filled with a whirlwind of thoughts. Is this where I thought I would be at this age? Is this what I thought I would be doing? Is this how I imagined my body looking? Am I as healthy as I thought I would be? Am I financially where I always thought I would be? Where the hell is that baby I always imagined I would have by now?
I am constantly reminding myself to do what my friend Jessica tells me... live in the moment, day by day. What can I handle today? What will I make of this one moment, not the thousands that might or might not come after it.
I will work on this starting with this moment... this second...

Update a boring bathroom door with some wall paper! This makes going to the powder room seem a little more fun! Definitely need two pairs of hands for this one if you don't want to go crazy!

Giant Cork Board

This was an interesting project... I found this frame at a designers "down sizing" yard sale about three years ago and loved it! I had no idea what I would do with it but brought it home anyway and it has been collecting dust in my garage until recently. Finally I set up an office in our spare room, I'm sure everyone has one of these, the room that just collects stuff and doesn't have much of a purpose? Well, I needed a vision board (thank you, "The Secret")

I went to home depot with my measurements and had the nice gentleman there cut me some picture frame backing to fit, went to the wholesale fabric district in downtown L.A. and got some quilting batting and some fabric and got out the staple gun. ... And Voila! Well, kind of. My husband actually had to come home and re-staple everything for me because I didn't push everything down hard enough and my dog wasn't very helpful when I was trying to cut things but other than that... Voila!