mini tour

we've been living in this house for almost a year now. we still have unopened boxes in the garage, a few new furniture pieces to acquire for the bedroom and office, and some major landscaping will be starting soon. they say there is always something that needs to be done around the house, and we're finding that phrase to ring very true for us. and that's totally okay. the two rooms that feel the most complete are the kitchen and the living room. it's where we spend most of our time in the house. i knew from the day we moved in that my first move-in priority was getting the living room set up. though it's been a mostly settled room since our first few weeks, things have shifted a bit here and there and evolved. this is kind of just where it's at right now with our record collection, some of my favorite books and plays, and a little taste of our photo booth shots over the years.

and of course i couldn't resist posting a dining room table shot with one of my favorite flowers (ranunculus and irish bells) and some shots of my beloved animals.

renovate.

in lieu of a tunes tuesday post this week i have decided to share with you some of the big changes that have been going on with us lately.

first of all, in case i haven't officially discussed it here i will just say that David and i recently bought a house. since almost everything in the house was original the kitchen and bathroom needed a big update. it was also necessary that the exterior be re-stuccoed and the back yard be given some major tlc. since purchasing our home we decided to get the interior all taken care of before moving in. i mean, live-in renovations are insane. i should know since i've lived through one, which is why we decided to get in done in one go. i'm happy to report that it's almost finished and we will begin the moving process within the next couple of weeks. we still need to finish the exterior, but that can be taken care of while we're living there. 

as for the interior- we had both the kitchen and bathroom completely gutted and started from scratch. since i knew exactly what i wanted to do with those spaces, it wasn't too difficult to witness various stages of the process, including completely gutted out spaces. i knew that what i envisioned would be so much better than how it was before, so it has been a pretty exciting process, even though i haven't always been the most patient (i can't help it! i have exciting plans).

at this point we are pretty much in the home stretch (no pun intended). all that is left to do are the touch ups and appliance installations. i'm excited to share with all of you this process and the evolution of these rooms from start to finish, as well as my inspirations. i recently wrote for Moorea Seal on her blog about this process, which was very exciting. i'm so happy i was able to share on Moorea's blog first. and i'm just so thankful that we are even able to do this and that we will be able to move into our new home just the way we hoped and envisioned it would be. we are definitely blessed.

here are some of my most influential inspirations, taken from my obsession with Pinterest:

this is where we began:

and this is where we are now:

i am very much looking forward to doing some sort of series in the near future devoted to each room in our new home and the inspirations behind the renovations and decor. i hope you tune in!

thanks for letting me share.

xo,

a

a guest post at moorea-seal

good morning!

i'm so very excited to share with you all that i am currently featured as a guest blogger for moorea-seal.com, one of my favorite blogs of all time.

when Moorea asked me if i would be interested in creating a guest post for her blog i was absolutely thrilled. i'm such a fan of her blog and her etsy shop (she makes amazing jewelry!) and of Moorea herself. she is the kind of woman that really knows who she is and isn't afraid to be just that. she is beautiful, inspiring, kind, generous, creative and talented. and seriously so much more.

i'm so pleased to be sharing about our new home at her blog and i'd love it if you could all stop by and check it out, even say hello. and if you are not already following M O O R E A S E A L, you should be!

have a happy friday!

xoxo,
a

my post // moorea seal blog & shop

on the cusp.

i'm just so ready for a clean slate. i'm yearning to purge excess material possessions. i want white walls and clean counters and organized closets, cupboards, and shelves. i want minimal. i want warm blankets and a garden. i want hanging pots and pans and jars of wooden spoons. i want light flooding in through curtain-less windows and a screaming tea kettle on the stove and a nook to read in.

i'm on my tiptoes in anticipation for reinvigoration and change.

(this topic of change is obviously becoming a theme with me)

a new home.

these past couple of weeks have been kinda crazy.
we sold our condo and have to be all moved out in exactly three weeks. yikes.

we put in an offer for a house that we both absolutely adore... but we don't think we got it, so now we have to keep looking. all of the houses we love/like are back up offers, which means we most likely don't have a shot at them. our options are running real low real fast and we're kind of in a pickle.

i'm pretty bummed that we didn't get the house we wanted. i knew it was a bad idea, but while we were waiting to hear from the relator i started decorating the house in my head. i even drew up crude floor plans to get my ideas on paper. even as i was doing it i knew i was probably jinxing our chances at this home, but i couldn't help myself, we want wanted this house so bad. i also started researching affordable new furniture since i kinda hate what we currently have. pinterest has been my bff these days and i've been littering my Design Sponge and Domino books with mini post-its, i've started to draw up a decorating budget... it's becoming an obsession. i know what we like and what we want and i want to make it happen.

it's just frustrating to not know where we're going to put all of our boxes of possessions or where we're going to live in three weeks... but i'm trying to trust that it will work out. God's got it. i don't.

therefore i need to just let go and trust.

in the meantime, here are just a few (and i mean only a few) inspiration photos i've been pinning like a madwoman (i literally have 1,110 pins just for my decorating board... as of right now).

click here to see all of my decorating and domesticating inspiration photos.

around the house

Just a few photos I snapped around the house yesterday.

Hope you all have a lovely Friday <3