The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen

I was so excited to receive an unexpected package in the mail today.  Isn't it exciting when you find a package at your doorstep and you have know idea what's inside because it's not your birthday, Mother's Day, Christmas or your Anniversary?  Well, yes, that was me this afternoon.

But of course, this lovely package was from my wonderful Mother.  The Cottage Mama's Mama always knows how to put a smile on her girls face.  I had mentioned last week that I wanted to get this book - The Farm Chicks In The Kitchen.  And of course, being the amazing Mom that she is, she surprised me and ordered it!

So tonight I plan on reading through this lovely book that I am SO excited to finally have in my possession.  Do any of you have this book?  Thoughts?  Any recipes I MUST try?  Well, if I come across any winners, I'll make sure to share with you all!

Here's a link to The Farm Chick's blog if you want to check it out - it's really cute and has great style.

On another note, I'm on a super nesting kick right now (no, I am not pregnant :-) - rearranging and de-cluttering my house.  It feels great, but I'm in the stage right now where it looks worse before it can look better - ahhhhh.  I'm really trying to work on my lack of patience and understand that this is going to take more than a day, but hopefully I can get it all done this week (we'll see).  Wish me luck!

Hope you all had a great weekend and have a wonderful week ahead!

market: part 1

if you haven’t signed up for the giveaway yet you still have time.  make sure you enter to win $60 from csnstores.com.  the giveaway ends at 6pm tonight and i’ll announce the winner tomorrow.

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this post about atlanta’s market from last week and the week before is slightly overdue.  it has taken me forever to weed through all of my photos.  i didn’t realize i took so many.  i snapped photos of cool things that i saw, but i also took photos of merchandise that i ordered.  all in all i have about 500 photos to weed through.  way too many!

i’m sure you all would get so bored if i showed you everything so i’ve narrowed it down to my favorites.

first of all, parquet flooring and rustic wood flooring in general was in quite a few showroom…barreveld, vagabond vintage, bobo, and more.  i noticed it in january’s show but i think it was in even more showrooms at this show.  it was very lovely.

{parquet flooring at vagabond vintage}

my favorite find for a new vendor was soleil de province.

they had amazing french style furnishings, linens and accessories. 

bobo always has such a beautiful showroom.  i could stay in there forever looking around.  i love the mix of antique objects mixed with the new ones.

and go home had some very cool vignettes.  the ghost bamboo chairs were fab!

to be continued…

LiveJournal Tags: atlanta market,go home,soleil de provence,bobo intriguing objects,giveaway

will’s bedroom and playroom revealed

i’m so excited to show you all a project that i completed about a month ago.  this project was so much fun to work on.  my client was AMAZING!!!  she was so fun to work with and so open to new ideas.  she was also super sweet.  i miss our daily emails and conversations.  it’s so hard to end a project because i know that i won’t be talking to my clients on a daily/weekly basis.  strangely enough i usually talk to my clients more than some of my friends.  that’s just the way it is.  my clients become my friends…they know about my life and i know about theirs.  it’s the absolute coolest relationship.

anyway, onto the stuff i know you want to see.

will’s room

so here is how will’s bedroom started out…(will’s new room was moved into caroline’s old room),

 

this was the design concept for will’s new room,

and here is how it looks now…

i had LH Photography come over and take a few photos for me because i’m definitely no photographer.  here are the LH photos.

 

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the playroom

next up is will’s and caroline’s playroom.  the playroom was originally will’s room and it looked like this.

it’s come a long way.  here is my original design concept.

and here is how the room actually turned out.

and the LH photographs.

LiveJournal Tags: my design,lh photography,kids' rooms