EvY at HomE

This gal has great style . I stumbled upon her blog somewhere and it's just so nice and do-able unlike a few other style blogs that just seem... impractical. Which led me to the discovery that I suppose my favorite dress style lately is preppy? I dunno when it changed from t-shirt and sneakers but I am a big fan of looking dressed up now that I'm thirty. With age comes wisdom I suppose. The fantastic bonus about this lovely lady is that she is a DIYer in the practical sense. Making things in a cheaper way that don't look cheap and DIY, which is the worst thing about doing things yourself: when they LOOK like you did them yourself.  See: pretty much all of the website  regretsy  for examples of bad DIY but go to her blog to see good stuff.

Well I finally had the room all ready to go for pictures and immediately upon putting these pictures onto the blog post I found about 10 things I wanted to change. So here's what it looks like for the sake of having something post today and then in a few weeks after the tweaks have been made, I'll upload pics of it again. Need to change the art. I've had placeholders forever and I need to find something permanent. That tray is terrible on this stool. It's gotta go, the scale is all wrong. The picture and the box are not right. Trying to find another solution. I totally copied someone's idea of the nail polishes in the jar. It's staying. Matt finally bought me this copy of Alice in Wonderland I'd been wanting forever. I'd already read it but I really wanted the pretty cover with the flamingos. These fools were nothing, they were seeds, I made them, behold my power! *lightning strik...

An online store of all kinds of things that help make travel much more convenient, which appeals to me since I have to have a gaggle of gadgets and supplies to keep on hand and keeping them organized is imperative. Plus it's sort of a dream site. Imagining the check in, the flight, oh the places you'll go...

Tropical/Desert/Palm Springs Chic. Big ole palms. Bright Colors. Flamingos, obviously. These things appeal to me right now in a big way. I love the heat, so sue me, I do, I grew up going to Mexicali, and the images of poolside lounging mixed with glamour is something I imagine incorporating into my life . Not so much in my clothes though. I like the idea of making a room out of the concept. Like that wallpaper in Blanche 's bedroom that's so classic. Stars and celestial type things. This has been ongoing for awhile, most of my master bedroom pin board is about the heavens. Neon. Big time. I like to incorporate it in small ways though, just a little flash shining through, unlike the family I saw at California Adventure who wore all matching neon green t-shirts. Yuck. Art Deco + The Combination of black and white and green or mint. B&W make me happy always but I'm particularly into what it looks like with green or mint. And art deco, though I'm not...

The journey has begun. It's been two weekends in a row we've spent looking at homes in Burbank. We've been pre-approved for a certain loan amount so this ish is for serious on the real my homies. We're learning a lot about the home shopping process and it's a lot of fun looking at houses as EvY circa now vs. EvY circa whenever I didn't read blogs because I can look at a house and completely picture scenarios I wouldn't have pictured before. Also I'm not naive about how much time and money and effort it takes to make a house a home. Thanks to one particular blog I can see realistically how much it costs to remodel a kitchen if you do it all yourself. So basically nothing scares me when it comes to what a house looks like which is why this particular house we're referring to as "dumpy house" is a prime example.  I will be doing this kinda pictures of houses we liked post every once in awhile. I don't want you guys to get excit...