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

an update of sorts

This week has been CAH-RAY-ZEE.

Seriously, it flew. 

The opening weekend of the show ended. 

I baked that delicious apple pie. 

Dave got ready to leave on his business trip to Paris. 

I packed up some stuff to stay at my mom's while he's away and got ready for the second weekend of shows by baking cupcakes for the cast. 

Then yesterday morning I woke up early to bake cookies for the awesome cast party we had at Sue's house after the Sunday matinee. 

One of the actor's had to go to the ER literally an hour before the Sunday matinee performance so we had several actors take over for his scenes. It was scary and fun and adventurous, but mostly we just hope Dwayne is okay. 

I came to my house this morning to spend some time with Bogart (he really missed me) and clean the house to get ready for  girl's night which I hosted this week. 

Chanell was the only one who made it, but it was awesome. We locked ourselves out of the house because we were walking to her car so she could get a book for me to borrow. We both left our cell phones in the house, so we had to knock on my awesome neighbor's door to use their phone. I called my mom who is also in Paris because I don't have my husband's cell phone number memorized (I know, I'm a doofus) and I needed my mother-in-law's number so she could bring over the spare key. I kept getting cut off from my mom so we called a locksmith instead. He couldn't pick the lock, so instead he jumped through the window and I paid $135 for that, which REALLY blows, but it was hilarious and now Chanell and I have a funny story to tell and I'm just thankful we got back in the house.

So about those cupcakes I made... they were incredible. I made four dozen. Yes, FOUR DOZEN. By Saturday there were only 4 or 5 left.

I got the recipe from Erin at Sunshine and Carousels. Her cupcakes and baked goods always look so amazing and I've been meaning to bake something from her blog, so I used this opportunity (and that huge jar of Nutella in my cupboard) to do so!

I made the Banana and Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Nutella frosting and I'm telling you they were EXTRAORDINARY.

One of the crew members had at least 3 or 4 of them. Everyone loved them. I'm so happy they turned out so amazing. You should definitely check out the recipe here.

I wrote little notes of thanks and attached them to each cupcake so that the cast and crew knew how much I appreciated all of their hard work. They all seemed to love it.

While cleaning the house today I gathered together the remains of the bouquet of flowers Erin and Jon gave me when they came to see my play and they added so much color and life to the living room!

Bogart really is the king of the castle around here.

I guess he's really into Seinfeld now.

The flowers from Erin & Jon, as well as the ceramic tea set and platter they gave us as our wedding gift.

She & Him 

Volume One

I'll be continuing to stay at my mom's house for the rest of the week and she doesn't have a working computer so I won't be blogging as regularly and I definitely won't be able to keep updated on everyone else's blog, unfortunately. 

I'm sorry in advance to all my favorite blogs out there! I hope you know who you are :)

~Andrea~