Alice’s Birthday Party

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!On Sunday we threw a birthday party for our new 7 year old!  Alice and I had talked last year about throwing a supergirl party but between having a two month old baby and a 45 year old invalid (Scott had shoulder surgery 2 days after her birthday with the knee surgery to follow 2 months later) there ended up being no...

A little update to the cabinets

Last spring I saw a Andy Warhol-esque Campbell’s tomato soup display in a glass fronted cabinet in a design magazine.  Within hours I was proudly displaying my own 24 cans of tomato soup in my glass fronted cabinet! I liked it but there were a few too many comments about how much did we like tomato soup so I’ve been trying to figure out an alternative for the cabinet instead. Then the other day as...

Belated Valentine’s Day Decorations

Well… a couple days late posting this but probably not a big surprise. In this house the front foyer has become our go to place for a little bit of holiday decorations.  I’ve come to really like that as it makes the house festive for us and for guests but also keeps the decorations manageable and out of reach of little hands. Here’s how I decorated for Valentine’s Day: I purchased the console and the...

Our Kitchen

When we were house hunting and looking at this house, it was at the drywall stage.  I really wasn’t excited with the design the builder had in mind for the kitchen — it was more modern and darker that what I prefer in a kitchen.   We talked to the builder about redesigning the kitchen as it was just a shell at the time but we were told that wasn’t feasible as the cabinets were already...

Alice’s room

I came across this little girl’s room in a Pottery Barn Kids catalog and was instantly inspired by the scrapbook papered wall and decided this was just what Alice’s room needed! In fact, I was so inspired by this room that I started working on Alice’s room that afternoon!  It took several hours to get all the papers cut, configured and hung but in the end I was very happy with the results.  The only...