Shall we have a moment of domestic realism?
Clearly we have some unpacking to do at the new house.
Category: Corners of Our Home
A Taste of the Energy to Come
I keep waiting for that gigantic burst of energy that’s supposed to arrive in this second trimester. Hello, energy?! Where are you?!
I really shouldn’t complain. Instead of trying to direct all clean-up activities from the couch (as I tried and failed at all summer), I now have the energy to tackle some of the giant piles of kid stuff that sprang up while I was in the first trimester:
Check out the second trimester organization:
Ah, that’s so much better.
Affordable Art Prints
The wall above our bed is completely blank.
I know, it looks TERRIBLE!
I’ve been trying to decide what type of art we would like to hang there. Here are some possibilities from Etsy:
Featured above:
1. Slow breathing by Samantha Finch
2. 2012 Mountain Calendar by Pam Lostracco
3. Leap 33 by Roz Young
4. Glamorous Women in Greys, Golds and Reds by Kristina Laurendi Havens
5. Lake Waters by Samantha Finch
I’m leaning towards prints 4 and 5. Color wise I think they’d go nicely with the paintings on the wall at the foot of our bed (clearly, those two paintings both need to be rehung):
(above, the left painting is a portrait of my grandfather, the right was painted by our friend Sandy Urban)
Which affordable art prints would you go for?
New Living Room Configuration and Wall Art
Here’s a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while now. Earlier in the summer we rearranged the furniture in our living room.
This is what it looked like previously (it’s actually decorated for our daughter’s third birthday party last January):
Here’s an alternative, more messy realistic view:
And, no, it doesn’t always look like this.
Nevertheless, the wide open space in front of the couch frequently became a bottomless pit of toys, hard to keep tidy and forever a place of stubbed toes.
We decided to move the couch from resting against the wall to bisect the room and take advantage of the phenomenal view from our front window!
This weekend we finally hung artwork on the wall and the room feels more cohesive:
The upper right and center pieces are prints of paper-cuts by artist and author Nikki McClure, with a photo taken by me in the lower right of our daughter at the Cornerstone art installations in Sonoma, and an Art Doll Print called The Wind’s Bride by artist and doll maker Christine Alvarado.
The room is starting to feel more cozy and, well, us.
That being said, I have plans. Stay tuned!
Simple Bedding Transformation
Our adventure began innocently enough, “Mama, I want pink sheets.” That sounds easy, right?!
Evidently not so much. We found finding affordable, plain pink, organic sheets to be a challenge. So we reused some older white organic sheets that we already owned, and threw them in the washing machine with pink fabric dye and a cup of salt, and ta-da!
We have beautiful, bright pink sheets, perfect for a three-year old.
An easy, quick project with satisfying results.
And now I keep thinking, what else can we dye?!
There’s nothing like making a simple request come true to illicit an “I love my room!” romp-around. Sweet, sweet girl.