Decor Quiz

This is a fun little quiz to determine your decorating style. Apparently my style is {Miss Trend}. I like my home to be "cool and modern (if a little rough around the edges)."

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A great idea

I just saw this on Domino and I absolutely must give it a try. These slices of wood with candles atop would look fabulous on my mantle.
I've seen this idea with painted wood slices too, also very very cool. Imagine the area inside the bark painted light blue. Oooh, I'm getting chills! I may see if my parents (who live in the land of many trees) can scan their backyard for any fallen trees that are looking for a new life! Pin It

Something for the walls

My Arts & Crafts room is pretty bare, so I made these to go on the walls. I used leftover fabrics and scraps from my previous projects. I think it would be cool to have like 7 or 8 of these, and maybe paint the hoops. If you decided to try this at home, I recommend putting the fabric in the hoop and then trimming it, not vice versa!

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Watercolor Nest

My former neighbor is an interior designer and requested a specific painting for one of her clients. I finished this a while ago, and finally got it scanned in. See, I do still paint sometimes.

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Goodbye Woodland Hills

It's with mixed emotions that we say goodbye to our Woodland Hills home. The move was necessary due to loooong commutes and high gas prices, but there is nowhere I'd rather live (in Utah). Beautiful green surroundings, deer and turkeys meandering through the yard (and eating my flowerbeds...grrr), down-to-earth neighbors who are friendly and kind, spacious lots (houses not all crammed together), park next door. We will really really miss that house and neighborhood. We hope to someday return, when work obligations allow it.
Sniff.



The great room (I still need tables). sniff.

The kitchen. sniff.

The master bathroom. sniff.

The living room. sniff.
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It's Aliiiiiiive!

Ok, so this is a little random--maybe a lot random. But I have this vine plant at home that really has a personality. It moves around quite a bit. It reaches out to the blinds and wraps itself around them. It reaches over to the TV and likes to wrap around it too (see below). And then all of a sudden, it grew a bunch of flowers! I never would have guessed it was a flowering vine!

See here, how it is reaching a tentacle over to the blinds, beginning to crawl up?

And here, see these holes in the side of my flat panel TV? The plant reached over and grew into the hole. I tried to pull it out, but it was far enough in there that it just broke off inside. So now I keep a closer eye on it and move it when it starts heading that direction.

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Birthday Fun

I've been on vacation for a week, so I'm now catching up. July 26th was my birthday, and it fell on a Saturday this year. So my coworkers/friends had an early celebration for me. Check out the cuteness and creativity of these amazing people I work with. I loved it!

And this is the card they made for me! It looks just like the purses I make! Amazing!

And mini purses with a surprise inside!

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