EvY at HomE

1) document a day in my life. the idea is from her. i think a day in my life when i'm shooting would be most interesting since my job is deemed "cool" by the majority and we are shooting thursday and friday so i can try, we'll see how busy we are. 2) a field trip with you guys. currently i think about plants an awful lot so i'm thinking a field trip to H&H Nursery in Lakewood is in order, followed by afternoon tea. might treat all attendees to a houseplant up to $5.00. by the by, this entire post should be read with an english accent as i've been surrounded by an english agency, client, talent, director, producer, and production assistant. bloody hell. bunch of muppets this lot is.

I'd do this. Oh me oh my. I love when someone can add black to beautiful light pastel colors. Turquoise planters and blue painted wood front steps? Don't mind if I do...

Current dining area looks like this. Lovely. Love it. Whoo. Here's the problem, a problem we all saw coming with EvY's tendancy to entertain. It can reasonably only seat about 8 people. Which presents a problem for things such as Thanksgiving and Christmas parties. Enter the Bjursta. When closed it seats 6-8 and is about the size of the two tables that make up one of ours now:   When extended, it seats about 10, 12 if you push it. One more person perhaps if you add a $90 bench. I have bench fever. I want a bench I don't care how I get it but this one might actually be a reasonable excuse!   We know I love picnic tables and benches so it would be phenomenal if I added a bench. It would look like that, with my yellow chairs around it instead of whatever those things are. Le problem. Well Matt's on board because he told me to do that in the first place, to get a table that expands but I didn't because at the time we didn't have much room in our apartment and cou...

I thought your blog would suck once you had a baby. But you're actually still really really good. I've been re-reading your blog and going back to your home's beginning and it's been enjoyable watching it go from ugly to lovely. In particular, I'd love to duplicate this whole thing here for our patio. Keep up the good work.

This picture was taken at Target 02/25/10. This picture was taken at Ikea 03/12/10. Amazing how fast they grow and change and begin to be more interesting. Let's face it, infants are dull as doornails, they just sleep and eat. This kid's getting to be more interesting. And there's a pic of me and my niece on St Patrick's Day. Of course I look good with a baby, she's a good looking baby. And yes I take her shopping, what of it? She's an American girl after all.

Friday morning before work I paranoidedly realized I hadn't watered my gardenia in a few days and so in my work clothes with laptop slung over shoulder, I grabbed the garden hose and sprayed my plants. Then at work I realized I'd forgotten to water my plants in the office, particularly my daisy that keeps reincarnating, and asked my dearest to take care of it for me and he did. I then woke up at 7am on a Saturday, from a dream where I had gone to Lowe's and purchased a bunch of plants and proceeded to plant a big garden. Everyone has dreams about buying boston ferns yes? It might have had something to do with my newest purchase, this book , with its most unfortunate title but really cute looking cover that is an easy, gentle read. It's written by someone young and doesn't treat gardening like a hobby for the rich and retired. Not that there's anything wrong with that, heck it's my goal in life to become that person. She breaks down the basics of gard...

Tabletops. NO cheeseball crap. Simple, wrapping paper "table cloth/runner" and two little vases that cost $1.00 at Target. One flower per vase. I did consider removing the lettering or wrapping it with something but meh, I'm not keeping them, people can take them home if they want so they can do whatever they want with them. Prizes! I was just gonna give them out but found these treat sacks at 12 for $2.99 and put the dollar prize into them, punched a hole, put some ribbon through it, made a tag that said you're a winner and voila... Cuteness. The boy gifts are in the blue and green sacks. Girl gifts are in stripes and pink. Clever huh? I know, I'm so original. I sort of feel bad that the prize will be a disappointment after such cute packaging but I'm hoping that the thrill of victory will be enough. Further decor to explore will be the candy shop. That's always a winner. Like you!

...and my gardenia has a friend!     This morning I just looked out the window and a fat bird with blue tail feathers went on the bird feeder and munched away. Then he left, and a smaller bird with red breasted feathers came and munched away. I hope to catch them in the act tomorrow morning. And I should refill the feeder, freaking fat birds are eating like my cat.

Well Matt and I watched Capitalism: A Love Story. It's about the greed of Wall St and America and how corporations basically own us. And it's about Capitalism, our vicious cycle that makes it so if you don't have a job then you can't buy things, which lowers the profit for a company, which makes them cut costs, which makes them cut jobs, which means you can't buy things and so on and so forth. This is my blog so I'll cry if I want to. The fat bastard known as Michael Moore may be a complete pandering showman that kind of exploits his subject's pain for his movies and way too anti-American for my tastes but I watch his movies and the dude makes some really great points. I love him and hate him all at the same time, you know? Seriously, you owe it to yourself to watch one of his movies and judge for yourself. And if it'll make you feel better, bro's a Catholic, so he can't be all that evil.  Or can he? It wasn't so much about consumerism ...

For the decor, we made these little poufy ball things from a tutorial at MarthaStewart.com. So easy, it's just tissue paper and Mari, Liz, and I spent a few hours on Sunday making like 20 of these and I still have more tissue paper left! We're gonna hang them all over the place to make it cutesy. You should see the closet of the drum room, packed to the gills with poufy balls. The colors are sort of hot pink and green but mainly just colorful. I coulda sworn I took a picture of the proposed table decor but I guess not, I'll upload it later. It's so simple.   I decided on an activity, well kind of one. I made a box and wrapped it with ribbons that go with the projected colors of hot pink and green. Then we will have the guests fill out a card with either baby name ideas (sis has not yet settled on a name), parenting advice, or general well wishes. You write your name on the card and we'll have a raffle with fabulous prizes AKA whatever I find from the dollar section...

I mentioned I wanted magazine files and I think the ones below next to this girl's desk are pretty adorable. Magazine files, the cute ones, are usually expensive, or outrageously priced for something you can make from a box of cereal. Like $10 each x 5. Fifty bucks for fabric on cardboard. Who made up that price?

I've taken new pics of what home looks like now. Check out the new slideshow.

Been re-reading my old Domino issues and found a few images that reminded me why the magazine was so good. I'm not big on backsplashes, but DANG that thing looks amazing Lighting? Beautiful. Glass shelves with just the right amount of cute stuff. Obviously the yellow: I like having a shelf below the cabinets that's open, glass looks good there: From Domino, May 2008.

Magazine displays: Ah, you know it's spring when the little fan comes out of the closet: Matt gave me his Nintendo desk calendar. Generous: Tracking my income tax packages:   Typography print looks awesome: Moved things around again. Waiting for Staples money. Need more magazine files: Liberty of London box. I love how the E looks on top of it:   I frame my inspirations & heroes: Mom gave me the suitcase:

This patio is awesome.

Throwing another baby shower. That's me. Here's the deal. While at first we were going to have the party at our house, we went to the pool/cabana area of our complex and decided since we're expecting about 40-50 people, that having it there would be awesome. Especially with beautiful California weather. I'm waiting to hear back from the guy that's in charge of the pool area to see if it's avail. It has an outdoor seating area:   Awnings galore: A grill: A little grassy picnic area: We know how I feel about picnics: And of course, a pool: There's even some indoor dining available: There's a fridge: And a perfect place to put drinks:   And the best part, bathrooms so no one has to go to my house and pee: Keep your fingers crossed for us.