EvY at HomE

This would be perfect for a guest room, I will so do this canopy bed thing someday. It looks so happy! Actually I really like this room with the exception of maybe that plum wall color. I like it in theory. I also saw on craigslist a yellow canopy full sized bed that would be almost perfect for the drum room if I painted the walls green. I am obsessed with painting the walls green in that room. I'm totally going to, try and stop me.

Business cards seem such an old fashioned thing but since I am self employed, I feel I should make myself some calling cards with my name, email, and mobile number. I like these: I want something elegantish, with some yellow and letterpressed,with the raised lettering. All else is open to interpretation. How do we feel about calling cards people?

Oh hi my name is Gwyneth Paltrow , I am so rich that I can just buy a place while I'm filming something and hire people to make it over in 10 days so my family and I can stay here instead of a hotel. Must be nice. GP, must be nice.

In theory, if I wanted to, I could just completely change the cover of the sofa just for fun. Create a completely different look without spending a lot of dough. What a tempting thought.

Ah, nothing like taking a bunch of crap out and leaving it with less=more. Stars from Big Lots. The daisys my sister Mari got me in February are blooming again! So exciting! Let me tell you the story of these guys here. I saw them and I was angry, aww man, those stupid plants we took down are coming back, I better weed them out. Then I realized, wait, these are really evenly spaced. Oh yeah, I planted some bulbs. Awesome. Great memory EvY.

WARNING: some pics may be unsuitable for people who don't know where babies come from and how gooey they come out when they do. Nothing graphic, just a warning. Well, it happened. Another sister had another baby girl. I am so thankful that I was home on a day off and was able to drive her to the hospital drama free and be with her. Not that we would have minded an exciting story but she needed a ride and I was home, easy peasy. Here's the about to burst momma about to get on an elevator and checking in at the maternity ward. After I was the designated other labor coach after her baby daddy, my wrist band was upgraded and I could be there all day, I did have the luxury of having lunch with Matt outside and then taking a nap at home for awhile. I can see why there should be two labor coaches, to switch out for lunch breaks. Liz wanted to go as naturally as possible but when her contractions were intense after only 4cm and a few hours and had no where neared where they would be, ...

I decided to doll up the dining area and invite my brother and his WIFE over for dinner. I set it for six even though it would only be five 'cause well, I'm OCD like that.  It seems like a lot of work setting it up like this, but it really wasn't. I own all the stuff to make it happen so I just pulled them out of cupboards. Setup time: five minutes. Never underestimate how instantly fancy a dining situation becomes when adding wine glasses and water goblets. Oh and candles and flowers. For dinner I made a practice run of a quiche I'm planning on making for Christmas dinner. Two things. First of all, making pie crust is bullcrap. For $2.50 you can just buy a box of two refrigerated pie crusts and unroll it onto your pie plate and badamn perfect pie crust and delicious to boot. Secondly. When making mashed potatoes, for the love of all that is holy, make sure you use two TEAspoons, not two TABLEspoons. Ah well, I guess I was due for a cooking error, hadn't had one in...

Today, while I enjoyed sleeping in 'til 9am, I heard a sweet little voice, "Evy?" "Mmm," I mutter half awake. "Can you take me to the hospital?" Liz asks. Bamn! I shoot up in bed. "Are you in labor honey?" "I dunno, I think so." I have never gone from sleepy to awake so quickly in my life. I make strategic comfort wardrobe choices and my sister is ready with a bag and blankets. We head to the hospital, my sister clenching my hand on the way. We joke about how convenient it was that I was home and not at work and able to be there for her and that the baby must've gotten excited about seeing her newly fixed up room that it made her want to come see it for herself. We arrived, at the maternity ward admittance the nurse took her insurance card and then a contraction hit and the nurse asks, "Wait are you in labor now?" So she was admitted and the waiting began. When the contractions got ridiculous, she took some pain meds, ...

I got new lamps for the living room. These are the ones. They remind me of fancier expensiver Jonathan Adler lamps. Only they were $30 each at TJ Maxx.

Something I've always wanted to have. Music in every room of the house, mostly manifested by mini cables & speakers where my iPods & laptop can plug in and play. Office: Guest Room: Master Bedroom: Drum Room: Living Room: The living room speakers are plugged into the network so I could play music from my laptop upstairs into the speakers downstairs and control the music from my iPhone's remote application from any room in the house. Damn I love me some geeky tech.

The white plates I am nuts about 'cause they look like disposable paper plates but they're actually melamine plastic plates. You know I love reusable stuff that looks like the disposable stuff. I don't quite know why.