YOU KNOW MY FONDNESS FOR AQUA…RIGHT? WELL, I have been thinking….If I can’t have my DREAM sink in the kitchen…. since I can’t have my dream sink in the kitchen…. perhaps….I could have a version….thereof…in the kids bathroom. Our plan is to take the kids bathroom cabinet AND our bathroom cabinet and link them with… Read More VESSEL SINKS….Who knew!

IT IS A   QUANDRY “HOW MUCH should we invest in a kitchen that we Neither OWN Nor DO OWN and would GUT renovate, if our ship came in…???.” This is in fact the position we are in with our kitchen. The LAYOUT is fine…unless we can take down a wall… And taking DOWN a… Read More MONDAY MAKEOVER – SPIT RENOVATION

GOODBYE If EVER  there was a month that ran the gamut… ….filled the spectrum the highest of highs and and the lowest of lows… this was the one…   LIFE IT just keeps going…and going. I am Blessed.  We are Blessed. and I am Grateful.

BALANCE THE YIN AND THE YANG…. HOW MANY PAIRS CAN YOU COUNT IN THIS PHOTO….? I am the FEATURE FRIDAY at   6th Street Design School today  so if you would like to see more symmetry and me head on over!!! and if you would like to see the  KIDS ROOM CONTEST WINNER ME !!! AT THE  WASHINGTON… Read More SYMMETRY feature friday

I AM A FIXER I am a Mother and  Nurse. I see something that is broken…and the wheels start spinning… .”How can I fix that?”  ….make it better, hurt LESS…be more beautiful, more functional… ….but HOW does one … fix a broken heart?  Times like these… I long for the days when I could pop… Read More FIXING THINGS like hearts

I LOVE MY BLOGbecause of my blog I have friends now from as far away as Croatia  and as close as Charlotte…. ….which brings me to my blogger buddy:LISA MENDE I am 100% certain that if there was a “sville” at the end of Lisa’s townCharlotte…  ….that we would be BEST buddies.  We share so many… Read More LISA MENDE DESIGN giveaway!!!

I am 100% certain that it was a man who coined the phrase… “If it ain’t broken…don’t fix it!” Decorating Boys rooms is  TRICKY AND EASY at the same time. Tricky because they don’t like change and EASY…well, because they don’t like change.  and for as many times as I have done makeovers of my daughters… Read More DECORATING BOYS ROOMS

Phoebe’s Room AGE 6Laura Ashley“Plaster Pink” PHOEBE’S ROOMS Age 8“plaster pink” with periwinkle stripe Age 9Benjamin Moore “Birds Egg” AGE 10Benjamin Moore “Tickled Pink” AGE 11- TWEEN ROOMBM “North Hampton Beige” AGE 13BM “Downpour Blue”, “Cotton Balls” and “Pink Ladies” AGE 14TWIN BED MAKEOVER   Phoebe has only lived in 2 houses…her whole life, but… Read More GROWING UP WITH PHOEBE