Posted by erika on April 29, 2010 – 7:52 pm
Filed under Etsy, Home, Life, Prints
So many reasons to smile:
- the weekend is almost here
- after running around all day, I’m home
- I have a great friend that came upon a mirror and gave it to me
- I’m not cooking tonight
- I am surrounded by supportive friends and family
- I am loved and love in return
- My eyebrow will eventually stop twitching. It has to. Right?
- I have pics of our pale gray bedroom paint and the key wall project.
For the key wall I found the numbers at Anthropologie, the keys at Pottery Barn and the limited edition prints are available in my store.
I’m just happy. Can’t help it I guess. Happy Thursday!
Posted by erika on February 16, 2010 – 9:13 pm
Operation Clean Up.
I talk about it a ton but I can’t help it. I have been overhauling this condo for awhile now but I’m finally seeing some real progress.
Not the, oh-this-can-be-stuffed-in-the-closet-too type progress but real I-could-show-our-house-in-an-open-house type progress. See the thing is, I have been in the same home for a little over 10 years and have gone through the just-moved-out stage to the going-to-college stage to married-and-no-longer-living-by myself stage. I have improved immensely with my organization and it is starting to show.
(This is turning into a hyphen-saturated post, my apologies).
This past week I did a complete closet makeover which resulted in a big whopping $18.55 from Plato’s Closet and the rest went to Goodwill. I have had a wall unit/media center probably since 1990, so that housed a lot of books, magazines and a standard non-flat-screen TV. So when Raul and I decided we were going to get our dream flat-screen TV and realized our tastes had changed (he had a huge TV/media center monstrosity in his condo too and got rid of it when we got married), we had to find room for this extra stuff. I would keep going through magazines and gutting them for different categories: inspiration, recipes and workouts. Although I got rid of magazines, this pile of the good stuff was still a back-burner project. I got binders and sheet protectors and I’m loving the results. Magazine butlers were needed for my Anthropologie and J.Crew catalogs that I consider art magazines. They also house a select few Martha Stewart Living magazines since that magazine isn’t standard size. The pages won’t fit in sheet protectors.
Operation Clean Up has been a big project but I’m seeing the finish line and I am excited. I figure extra stuff = extra boxes = extra money when the time comes to move in the future. Just planning, we don’t have anything lined up but hopefully in the near future we will. Thank God for my parents that have a little area in their basement for some of our stuff, but mostly we have purged quite a bit.
I just had to share because it feels good and friends encouraged me with their clutter clean-up stories too.
P.S.
I hope you had a great Valentine’s Day full of love or just hanging out. When I was looking for a card for Raul I saw a card for best girlfriends’ night in. Pretty sweet.
Posted by erika on February 9, 2010 – 8:07 pm
The sun came out today but it is still really cold. I was loving the light.
A couple weeks ago I went thrifting with Raul and I found this little ceramic milk jug. I love the illustration of the hen and her chicks. I want her handkerchief.
The bed is messy but I loved the light in our room.
These little wooden figures are from New York and of New York. There is a little Statue of Liberty not shown here. I never knew the MUJI store existed before I went on my trip and now I wish they had one here. But we don’t even have an IKEA so I won’t hold my breath.
Posted by erika on November 6, 2009 – 5:54 pm
Filed under Home, NaBloPoMo
I’ve wanted an aloe plant forever. I love the organic shape and ease of this little guy. When I was little I remember getting some silly injury on a car fender at my Auntie Karen’s house. She had this big beautiful aloe plant, clipped off a piece and rubbed the aloe on my cut. Easy access to natural medicine is a bonus.
This planter was a bonus too. Found it at Target but there was only one left. Looks like it is a seasonal item and they won’t be getting anymore. *sniff*
*We’re naming all the plants George like George Foreman names his kids. I like the name George.
Posted by erika on September 28, 2009 – 9:01 pm
Started day off grumpy.
Was sure I would start a bar fight at some point.
Released lots of that negative stuff on the treadmill and weights.
Ran a couple of errands.
Came home and cooked some salmon and chow mein noodles.
Went on a mini mission for another office lamp. Not enough light in here at all, feeling like a cave.
Mission was a FAIL. Will sleep on it.
Got ready for bed, goodnight.
Posted by erika on September 8, 2009 – 4:18 pm
At some point during this summer I wanted a new addition to our little household. Not of the baby variety, so rest your eyebrows. 
But a dog, fish, bird, something. It was a little weird and intense. So one weekend my husband and I went out and I announced, “We are coming back home with something!”. And we did. This cutie patoot little geranium. I named him George, after George O’Malley on Grey’s Anatomy. The plant had to have a name right?
This was supposed to be my thing but it soon became realized that the taking care of this plant ended up on Raul’s list. Every time I went to water it I got, “Ah ah, already watered”. When a rain was coming, he would move it underneath the overhang so it wouldn’t get flooded. Imagine when we have a yard someday!
It’s pretty sweet actually. Just look at how our little plant has flourished, he’s proud of it and so am I.
