by Jen | Apr 19, 2013 | Fun Style, Happiness at Home, Inspired Style, Interior Decorating
I wrote What Door Do You Use? and did some hard soul searching. What I discovered was not pretty. Alas, our family’s main point of entrance was through our garage. I surveyed the situation and decided that my best course of action was “Distraction”. Smoke and Mirrors my friend, smoke and mirrors. There is only so much that can actually happen for our garage to look good. It has been organized, painted, cleaned, purged and sadly, it is still holding on for dear life in a pathetic confused state of disorder. I decided I needed something to fix my eyes upon, a beacon of hope, if you will. Something beautiful. Something elegant amongst the jumble.
It took 10 minutes total. I googled. I found vinyl-decals.com. I ordered my house number in “2 1/2 inch Hancock font permanent glossy black” . It arrived 2 days later. I eyeballed the door and stuck it on gingerly. I eyeballed the door again. Looked good. I smoothed that decal out and called it a day. Now this siren will call to me as I wade through the debris of life.
by Jen | Apr 15, 2013 | Fun Style, Inspired Style, Life Reflections
Sex and City
This actually isn’t about sex, but I am inspired by the HBO show in writing this post. Today I had coffee with my girlfriends, 3 girlfriends. The 4 of us sat at a table and talked, ranted, comforted, and vented. (Did you know rant means to speak or shout in an impassioned way?) I know that life is approximately 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to that 10%. I want to shout in an impassioned way BLAH BLAH BLAH to that last statement. Ok I won’t, but I kind of already did. Sometimes you have to keep on keeping on in spite of the 10%. Sometimes you have to find a little comedy and a little inspiration to help get some clarity.
Friends can help you get through. Coffee can help too. Pretty spaces don’t hurt either. So just for a moment let’s look at this:
Sex and City 2
Sex and the City
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Sex and the City
Sex and City
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Sex and City 2 Courtesy of HookedOnHouses.net
Sex and City 2 Courtesy of HookedOnHouses.net
Oh gosh, I’m about to do it again (read yesterday’s post???)—Life is “Big”. I challenge you today to think of things that inspire you and that make you laugh when you have to “keep on keeping on”.
Picture of a two sided poster. The words are backwards because this is the back. It’s also the end of the post.
by Jen | Apr 2, 2013 | Inspired Style
I love cottages. I’ve yet to live anywhere where living in a cottage is an option. And by cottage I mean this:
I googled Cotswold Cottages and found this glorious picture. It was actually taken in DEARBORN, MICHIGAN–NOT the Cotswolds–this took a little bit of the magic out of it for me but whatever. It’s Spring and I’m hankering to live in a Spring laden paradise where Hobbits could be my neighbors and bunnies, well, hop, all over, and crown moldings are indigenous to the house–not builder upgrades.
So today for Inspired Style–Cottage Love (cue dwarves singing, harps, flutes, birds etc…)
House Beautiful’s contributing editor, Frances Schultz renovated her East Hampton home and documented it throughout several issues of House Beautiful. You can see it online at housebeautiful.com under “Bee Cottage” or paste this into your browser: http://www.housebeautiful.com/search/?q=bee+cottage.
If you squint you can almost see me walking out the front door… but why would I leave??
The rug is brilliantly perfect in this room.
The ceiling is glorious. It’s like a teal midnighty blue sky lit by sunshine.
Love this aqua on the walls.
The walls are painted in the same color as the kitchen ceiling.
I just need a bathroom with ceilings like this. I do.
(Anybody see Modern Family and the house flipping episode where Cam puts in the “wow” factor? The dancing fountains?)
This pretty much hurts my heart it is so pretty. I almost don’t think I could live here because all I would do is wander and sing. I’m really not a good singer so that would be hard on my family.
For the next Cottage Love Chapter (Inspired Style) I have my eye on a cottage from a movie with Nicole Kidman…can you guess?
