I  Shop At Poppy & Co.

 

 

 

I thought it would be fun to show some in process photos of the redecorating I have been doing on my own house in the last two months.

 

While for the store I am going very sleek and glam, at home I am true to my roots with rustic blues, whites, greens and yellows.

 

I love to throw a little burlap and seagrass in for texture, and hundreds of shells.

 

 

 

I have been collecting pieces little by little.

 

 

Buying some from the other girls at Poppy & Co.

 

And finding my new pieces on my buying trips for the store.

 

I cleaned, cleaned, cleaned my house this morning. I work Mon-Sat constantly buying, painting, hauling, photographing and then working in the store.

 

One day off a week isn't working for me. I am trying to slow down.

 

Oh, and I have young children. My life can be nuts.

This is leaving very little time for taking care of my house.

{You should see my yard! Ugh!}

 

I have been trying to do better about scheduling it into my daily routine.

 

I am dedicating at least one weekday a week to putting down my brush and picking up a broom. Then I need to go for a run and do more sit ups.

 

It is hard to do it all.

What I am working the most on though is not putting pressure on myself to be the best at everything.

Something had to give. First it was this blog. I am now only blogging when I can.

Next it was painting for the store. I love this part and I love my job but I have to focus more on my family and myself.

 

I also found if I take a day off from my job I am excited to work the next day.

 

That being said I hope to be better with this blog. I sort of went on strike for a while. I hope to be back in action

 

Did you miss me?

d r e a m i n g   o f   a   b e a c h    c o t t a g e

I spent several days last week on Camano Island, WA with my mom and my kids. It was such a treat to play on the beach, sleep with the window open and listen to the waves crash, and search for shells.

I have a dream now to live by the beach.

I know, I know don't we all.

For fun today I did a little house search on Camano. I found this darling house! 

Someday I will live in my beach house but for now I can dream, right?!

Listing here. 

 

I want to be there right now! Well, if it wasn't raining.

f i n d    h e n r y

{henry is my cat if you didn't know}

I was taking some pictures today to share with the other Poppy & Co shop girls of projects I completed this week and my cat Henry kept following me around.

I thought it was cute and you might want to see.

Can you find Henry in the shots?

I had a show last week that I am still recovering from so this week I am chilling at home all day with Henry and cleaning, cleaning cleaning while the kids are in school.

m c c   s t a l k s   t h e   m l s 

Before we get to the beautiful home I am featuring today I have to tease you a bit. I have been MIA for a couple reasons. 

Some boring. 

I have been catching up on bookkeeping, painting for the shop, working in the shop, and preparing for two upcoming shows.

A few more interesting. 

Hmmm... how do I tease this? Let me just say the number one question I get emailed is..." I love your style, I am afraid of color. Will you help me design my home?"

Details coming soon!!!! Really, I promise. I have been working really hard on this. It will happen.

Enough teasing, let's get back to the listing.

This home is probably staged but who cares, it is amazing right?!

Find the listing here.

Ok, so my favorite room is the little girls room. The painted canopy ceiling is darling!!!

Lastly, I have to say sorry if you have tried to comment on my blog and are not able to. I had to tighten up my settings recently due to so many spam comments not being filtered out and showing up on posts. I am doing this for the protection of my readers. I don't want you to click on a spam comment and have it affect you in a negative way. I am hoping that soon I can loosen up my settings but for now I am trying to protect us all!

Ding ding ding I am on a roll! I have painted some of my most favorite pieces of all time this week.

This beauty is just a simple white painted with milk paint.

I lightly distressed then waxed with clear wax. I will probably do another coat of wax and buff before I bring it to the store.

I sprayed the pulls with a high gloss black because I can't leave anything alone.

She will be at the store Saturday.

I need to shower now. I have paint in my hair, on my hands, and dust all over my clothes.

linked up

http://missmustardseed.com/2013/02/furniture-feature-friday-a-link-party-7/

m o r e   b l u e 

I had plans to paint this empire dresser a glossy grey.

Something like this.

 My plans got derailed when I couldn't make it to the paint store yesterday.

So I did what I normally do and I headed to my paint stash.

This is a custom mix of my favorite blues.

The sparkle of the knobs make this piece extra special.

I can't bring this to the store until Friday because I have several sold pieces still in my store and there is no room for this lady. 

Today I am painting the most amazing black and white buffet. I can't wait to get started on it, pictures tomorrow!

linked up.

http://missmustardseed.com/2013/02/furniture-feature-friday-a-link-party-7/

m o r e    f o r    t h e    s t o r e 

I have been painting my little heart out the last two weeks. My goal is to not have anything in my basement or studio by the end of the month and not buy anything until the first week in March.

Let's see if I can do it!

It feels good to do a little spring cleaning before spring. 

I am sticking with the fun bright colors this week, but almost everything I am painting next week is black and white.

This bar cart is so sweet. The glass center actually comes out and it becomes a tray.

I hauled everything into the store this morning.

Now I am home laying on the couch. This girl is sick. I should take a quick nap before I pick up the kids from school.