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Random Feng-Shui(ish) Monday

by Jen | Sep 23, 2013 | House Tours, Western Feng-Shui

Two Things.

Did you know if you open your windows and clap your hands you empty the negative energy from your house?

Trust me. What do you have to lose except negative energy? Plus it is MONDAY…

We did it.

AND did you know that getting rid of 21 things frees up the energy in your house?

I did it. Just don’t tell my boys.

The energy in the play room is PHENOMENAL. 21 things gone.

Monday’s challenge. Open your windows, clap your hands, and get rid of 21 things.

Positive Energy is waiting.

Tweaky Tweakerton

by Jen | Sep 11, 2013 | House Tours, Inspired Style, Interior Decorating

I’m a house tweaker. That is really exactly what I do. I prefer it vs starting from scratch. Handy dandy Google defines tweaking as: Improve (a mechanism or system) by making fine adjustments to it.

I kind of want to make up a song about me. “I’m a house tweakerrrr…yeah yeah…I’m a house tweaker”. Anywho.

I did some tweaking to my own house.

Fireplace felt bare. (Click here to see before.) And I was intrigued by how Starbucks always makes their chalkboard signs look so nice…turns out they use chalkboard markers. So I went to handy dandy Michaels’s and bought some.

Here’s what I made:

Can you find the cat?

Then I washed my dining room tablecloth. It was a tad damp so I laid it out on the foot of my guest bed and did a double-take. That looked pretty good. A 108″ tablecloth from TJMaxx that cost $16 was the perfect size to lay on a queen size bed as a coverlet. I mean, who uses a coverlet? It’s just for show. It’s just for color. It’s just for interest. It’s just for texture. It’s just to make your bed look like a Pottery Barn photo shoot. So for $16 vs spending a lot more on an actual queen sized blanket I have a pretty nice looking bed, if I do say so myself. Tweaked.