2012!

Happy 2012

First off, this is a long all text post but as the year ends I find it refreshing to get it all out in writing.

I read a few articles recently. Start the year of with this article called “Screw the New Year’s Resolution – Try Designing Your career” and this article about "7 Questions to ask when you’re not sure who you’re becoming" that I found very inspiring.

To start off there are some things in my life that I would like to maintain, but improve on: 

- Exercise 3+ days a week. Since last April I have been working out 30-60 minutes, 5 days a week during my lunch hour with co-workers. I lost 20lbs and have never felt better in my own skin! My group is moving to the ‘burbs this spring which will eliminate our opportunity to any similar classes at the YMCA near our new location.

- Which leads into my next, I would really love to continue working downtown. I love the vibe, activities, and the commute is traffic-free by taking the uber convenient bus. I also have a better opportunity to read my silly novels I love. This means if my group is moving I need to make a decision to either look at other opportunities within my company or branch out.

- Be creative! I (guiltily admit) that I love when I have made my own clothing/accessory/etc. and people gush over it. Take a few fashion sewing classes to get the structural issues I have been fighting with out of the way. Also, take a photo a day to get better at taking pictures. Which leads into the next...

- Blog more, now that I have a camera (thanks love!) I have zero excuses to put it off.

- Continue getting through school, these past 6 months have been a struggle. A lot of things were changing professionally and I am struggling through a lot of things personally. School was the easiest thing for me to drop.

- Continue working on my novel, even if I never plan on publishing it. I really enjoy writing it.

What do you think? What are some of your goals this year?

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Fur Vest!

I am loving the fur vests or fur-lined for fall this year :

Belk

ramzrevell.blogspot.com from Belk

Wilsons Leather

Macys

I am going to attempt to make one this week using a sweater and some faux fur. Fingers crossed I can get my sewing machine up and running.
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A little exterior refesher

We finally got around to painting the exterior of our outdated, paint chipping house.

Here is the house before:

After in Behr's Rocky Ridge.:

A few other things we're looking to update is the front door:

And maybe adding a few not too modern, not too country looking shutters:

I am really digging this deep peacock color as an accent, so we'd build a patio set to match for the new patio too!  

And for the details, touch up the old house numbers (I might just go buy new ones though), hardware and paint the lanterns on either side of the garage door.

What do you think? Anything else you would add or change?

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IKEA Fix This Kitchen

Have you all heard about IKEA's Fix This Kitchen?


A&E, Apartment Therapy and IKEA are teaming up to fix up kitchens.

Send your kitchen design questions, along with some photos of your design-challenged kitchen Here

All submissions are due by next Friday, Sept. 16th tune-in for the next installment of kitchen design fun, airing Saturdays this fall at 9:30am (8:30am CT) on A&E.

I have submitted mine, view the 80's kitchen I am stuck with:

I'd love to rip out this wall with the bakers rack and the peninsula and make an island with trash and recycling pull outs.

Pintrest

A couple notes on these, we had a contractor out and told us this wall is not load bearing so thats good, but the bad news is the bakers rack wall has the TV on the other side, so I will need to rearrange my living room:

Next, rip out the sofits and install taller upper cabinets or just new doors and add glass front cabinets on top with lights like this:

Pintrest

What are your big design challenges? Are you all going to sign up for the contest as well?


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Pfister Fixture Forward Sweepstakes

Pfister's Design-Inspired Sweepstakes  win $5,000 or one of three $500 giftcard by sharing your style!

My style (surprise surprise) was the Vintage Decor:

Click HERE to enter!




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