Monday, 16 July 2012

Happy Monday!

{This kid is so happy = awesome}

I start up back at work today and so normally I'm not really a "Happy Monday" type of person but this Monday is a little different.  Taking these past 8 weeks sort of off (as "off" as things can ever get with your own business) to spend time with baby Luke & the family has reinvigorated me a bit.  I'm SOOOOO excited about some of our upcoming projects and can't wait to see all of our clients & get back into the swing of things. 

We're off to install the front porch of our client's bungalow-  will share pics this week!!


xoxo, Lauren

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Hey Monday

Hey Monday, how did you get here so fast?  I have been out of town since last Wednesday so today I am catching up.  Before starting though I needed a little pretty to get this week start right.  Love the colors in this picture...
This is the text on Pinterest with this picture:
“A young photographer of a bit over 20 years old cleans up in the old family villa - and finds a trousseau of 14 high fashion robes of his grandmother. This is particularly wonderful - and even more as this young man is the sond of Lucchino Visconti and grandson of Carla Erba."

Friday, 13 July 2012

Simple Pleasures Friday

Evening walks...


...are the best. 

Have you been on one lately?  

 It's something that can happen almost any day but sometimes I feel so "busy" that I forget about talking walks with my family & get out of the habit.  I'm going to try to remember the mental exhale a good walk gives me.

Have an amazing weekend!!

xoxo, Lauren

*walking along the Currituck Sound

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Thursday, 12 July 2012

The treasure map to my slapper of gold

I walked into the kithen the other morning and found this treasure map on the fridge:



"A cruncher like this would be too BOLD, but seek and ye may find a slapper of GOLD!"

At first I thought it was a little treaure hunt/ game that my husband had made for the kids. But then I read it again...  I call the 3-hole punch in our office the "cruncher:"



And so I realized that "slapper" must mean stapler...

And I had just seen the prettiest stapler EVAAA when we were at Pottery Barn...

So I followed to the end of the map...


I saw the drawing of the banana peel & had no idea what that meant  (He just told me that it was a chandelier)
wups!

... but I recoginzed the shelf with binders & boxes and glasss jugs on it as the one from the
back office:

{See the shelf all the way to the right?}

And I ran down there and on top of the shelf where X had marked the spot, there was the beautiful brass stapler that I'd been eyeing!!
eeeeeeeek!!

Here's a quick pic I snapped of it:

{The "slapper" of gold i.e. a brass stapler from Pottery Barn}

I love it!! 

 I'm not five years old any more, but my husband understands that I still get excited about things like a five year-old.  
...and that makes me really happy.


xoxo, Lauren

ps- I love that he thinks that a brass crucher (3 hold punch) would be too "bold" ...  I think he's right ;) ;)

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Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Progress Update

 Last week we installed the lake house we have been working on for a while now.  I thought I took better after pictures but after a 14+ hour day it turns out I did not.  So for now I will just have to share some in-between pictures.  Complete pictures coming soon hopefully!
 I would like to reiterate, these are just random shots taken throughout the day, none are finished.

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

One Day...

While perusing Nordstrom's this weekend with my parents I came across a version of this YvesSaintLaurent bag and decided I surely needed it.  However, when you have a 10 month old at home and are not in possession of the winning Power Ball ticket, it seems an inappropriate time to purchase a $2,000 purse.  
Same was decided in Louis Vuitton where I decided bigger was better.  One day though...