you know you want one.....

... a Purse Pal, that is....

This sucker holds your handbag so you don't have to put it on the disgusting floor... Anyone who knows me well, knows that I refuse to put my handbag on the floor. Anywhere. Gross. I have never put it on the floor in a movie theater or a restaurant (I put the strap over my knee or over the back of the chair or in my lap at the movies) but I SO need a purse hook for when I go out to keep my handbag safe from being on the floor!

Just visit my friend crazymamaof6 and sign up. I know it's kinda late notice, but the contest ends tonight at midnight, so get on it.

Every girl needs on of these... because friends don't let friends put their handbags on the floor.

a work in progress...

For Brooke...

So, here are a few pictures of my condo... Or the condo I lived in before. I actually moved about 2 years ago and don't have pictures of the place I live in now... This is all the same furniture, however, and all the same color schemes. I hesitate to do this... maybe because I design interiors for a living and so there may be some expectation of what my house should be... but Brooke asked twice for me to post these... so here we go.

That being said, please keep in mind that though I like all of this, my home is very budget driven and not exactly my interior design utopia, if you know what I mean. Also, please keep in mind that I in no way find these rooms 'finished'. If I were doing this for a client of mine, there would be some finishing touches to throw in there (not many, as I like a cleaner stream-lined look). Not to mention moving some of the things around... Right now I am not interested in spending a lot of money on fixing up my house because 1. everything I would like to do costs serious $$ and 2. I like the idea that I can be totally transient if I want to be without having an entire house full of furniture to worry about.

My bedroom. In this picture, only one of the walls is painted green, in my new place, all 4 walls are painted green. The palm in the corner has seen better days, but as I said, at this point I'm just working with what I've got and I got that free... lol.




This is my dining area... I did not pick the light fixture hanging over the dining table. Sick. The glass table was $100 bucks and one day when I have the room for a real table, it will be a wood of some kind.

A picture of my living/family room. Again, please keep in mind that it is unfinished (for example... too many things on the end table in this picture).

And there you have it. I did not get a picture of it, but at the end of the hallway in this place, I painted it hot pink and put a black and white sign on it (an old Gap thong ad) that says "It's what you don't see".

I have a guest room that I am going to paint hot pink and I will post that when I am finished... Although, I'm thinking that project may not happen for a couple of months yet. Because right now, I just couldn't be bothered.

Anyway... hope you enjoy!

Month of March

Have you ever felt like you were so busy you were about to lose it? It has been so crazy for me the past couple of weeks. And it doesn’t help that I work full time… It really does get in the way of my life… ha ha. I suppose SOMEONE has to pay the bills.

For the past couple of weeks I have helped my mom paint her fabulous new house. And I just have one question. Ok, maybe two questions. Why is it that paint companies continue to produce paint colors that are mint green and prosthetic arm taupe? The other question: Why do people feel the need to BUY these paint colors and think that it’s ok? It’s not ok. My cute mom’s fabulous new house looks like someone threw up mint ice cream. Everywhere. Sigh. So we taped and painted her bedroom, her office, one of the downstairs bedrooms, the downstairs family room, and her exercise room. No casual undertaking, I can assure you. But it looks so much better and she was able to at least move in her stuff even though we only got 1/3 of the house finished. A work in progress, as it were. She is lucky enough not to have prosthetic arm taupe anywhere in her house… that is MY luxury. I just couldn’t be bothered changing it, though I thoroughly despise the color. And since I can’t afford my own services, it will have to wait. ;) I will say that taupe is one of the hardest paints to buy and get right… because if you have even the slightest hint of pink in that paint, things start to go nowhere good VERY fast.

Speaking of things going nowhere good really fast, 2 weeks ago, I went to the ladies room where I work. We are in an office building that has a shared restroom, which takes about 90 steps to get to. Depending entirely on which shoes one is wearing. (I know this because we have all counted at one point or another). Anyway, as I am walking along in my new camel colored Jessica Simpson 1.5” stacked wedge pumps, I slip on the ultra polished concrete floor. (Pretty safe to say that these people must have an extremely efficient cleaning crew.) Having personally specified colored concrete floors for various projects, I am familiar with the product, and just an FYI, they do not need to be waxed and polished. At least not to this degree. Whatever happened to the coefficient of friction and ADA compliance? At any rate, I slipped. The good news is, I did not fracture anything, but instead, I ended up pulling a ligament in my foot.

And I’ve been gimpy ever since.

Not so fun, to be honest. And not particularly fabulous timing either, considering I board a plane to France next week. So I’m hoping that my foot will decide that it wants to be better so that I can walk again. Interesting how much I take advantage of being able to walk now that I can’t so much…

But it could have been worse. So here's to hoping that by next week, this foot of mine will feel like a million bucks.

And on that note, I'm going to head out and wrap my friend, Andrea’s, baby shower gifts.

Weekend Get-Away

... So a few weeks ago (ok, ok, the weekend of March 1) a couple of friends and I went south for some warmth.

St. George.

The boys wanted to do a little mountain biking and I just wanted to hang out in some sandals without getting frostbite. It was a beautiful 72 degrees and the perfect escape from the snow storm in the north.

I also got to see a very good friend of mine (Amber) from my study abroad days in London. So fun to catch up and see her. It's been years.

The Boys.

This picture is of us in my grandma's place in St. George... Thank you Grandma for letting us hang out at the condo.

It was so nice to get away, even if it was for a day and a half.

Where do you like to escape to for a weekend get-away?