Daily Click - Mini

Starting on a new miniature house! The theme? Secret. But I will give you a clue. The inhabitant has a tail...

Daily Click - Spiderwebs

Spiderwebs? Check

Black light bulb? Check

Corpses tearing out of the ground and attacking people passing by? .....dammit....

Next Halloween.

Daily Click - Wardrobe

My humble closet. 

Daily Click - Work Space

I spend a large chunk of my day at this desk. Editing photos and videos, posting artwork, taking care of It Works! business, updating my website, paying bills etc. 

Above is my goal/dream board.

Desk is antique. Of course...(I never buy new furniture if I can help it).

 Macbook is 6 years old and still kickin' it. His name is Gizmo.

It's definitely time for an iMac though. So if you want to send one to me, go right ahead. 

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Daily Click - Mess

In honor of my earlier post, my photo of the day is what my kitchen table looks like this very moment.

Not to mention that a certain child of ours wet their bed, got into their siblings bed, wet that bed, got into our bed, and wet in our bed. All in one night. We were all sleeping on towels by morning. I totally forgot to buy said child nighttime dipes. So I have three beds worth of linens that need warshing. All I want to do is take a nap.  

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Supermom I am NOT

This article appeared on my Facebook feed at just the right time. In fact, it's something I should read at least once a week to remind myself that I need to STOP being so hard on myself. (Am I allowed to use "myself" in the same sentence twice?).

Even though I wrote this post awhile back, I am still guilty of framing things just so in order to appear that I have all my crap together, when in fact I do not. My house almost is always messy. My kids fingernails get clipped only when I realize they are 7 inches long and have dirt and who knows what else caked underneath. My daughter dresses herself like Punky Brewster daily and I encourage it. Who doesn't love one Hello Kitty sock, one robot sock, a batgirl cape, and a dinosaur mask all at once?

Anywhoodles, my life is chaos. It's a daily battle to accept that and love it. I'm working on a free printable just for you guys, to remind you that it's the memories that matter most. Stay tuned!

Daily Click - Bloom

I have no idea what kind of flowers these are, but they bloom for a few days, then go back to regular old bushes. It comes out of nowhere, so it's a beautiful surprise to wake up to and enjoy for awhile. Wish they would stay this way! (Wow, I sound like an old lady..."Oh..they are just such a joy! Just...such a treat!!")

Toilet Room

STOP PICKING YOUR NOSE!

How I get my kids to clean and LOVE doing it!

Ten years

We've been married ten years. It sounds like SUCH A LONG TIME! It has flown and I'm sure every year on our anniversary I'll be in denial, sounding like an old woman flinging my hands in the air and exclaiming,"Where has the time gone!"

I loved our first place together. You can see the inside here.

Anytime we are visiting Utah and get the chance, we drive by it. This last trip I took the kids over and got some shots of them in front of it. So cool.

And when my mom and I did 30 Strangers, Justin's studio was right down the road, so we walked over and got some shots. I think maybe I'll buy this house one day....

kitchen

(cool story about why we live here)

I have a love/hate relationship with this kitchen.

+LOVE the open shelving and the vintage wallpaper. 

-HATE the tile. I don't know what the previous owners were thinking. It confuses me. I look down and I'm like,"OH! I'm outside again...."

+LOVE the old fridge. We had to get rid of it a few weeks ago because it was leaking. BOO. 

-HATE the lack of counter space. I can slice like...a carrot and then I have to clean up and start on a tomato. It takes me an hour to make a salad.

+LOVE the gas stove! 

I bought this box of vintage reading cards a long time ago, and it has a bunch of cute pictures I will eventually frame. For now, masking tape will do. 

I love my vintage Coffee tin.

Blurry picture. Found the Song of the Gout at a thrift store. It cracks me up! My good friend Janice painted the ladies on the beach. 

The old fridge. I miss it. :(

This window leads out to the laundry room. I thought about getting little curtains, but the I need all the light I can get in the kitchen. So I just deal with the water spots on the window.  

*back to house tour*

House Tour - Front Room

It's been almost a year since we moved into this cute little house (cool story about why we live here), and I still haven't posted any pictures. I keep thinking I will once I'm "done" decorating but I'm never done. There is always something I want to change or add or move around. 

So...here it is. Always a work in progress. The front room:

-The view from the kitchen. Love that floor -

 - An antique that made it's way across the sea with immigrants. I painted it aqua and I'm just in love with it. It's my favorite piece of furniture-

-My art and photography books, and monster posters that we'll frame eventually-

 -Engagement picture, Disney Family Fun magazine article Mae and I were in, family history photos, a lamp that needs some kind of shade.-

 -The kitchen has a small room built off of it that is supposed to be a dining area. It is so awkwardly shaped that our table didn't fit in there, so we chow here and I made the nook my art studio-

 -A photograph I took of my daughter and a drawing I did of my husband, daughter and I.

I need to draw a new one with Sawyer-

 -My sock monkey made for me by my sister and a rad "Lord of the Rings" video disc. Remember those?-

 -The time out chair-

-My grandmothers hutch and a chair I painted in high school. It's an old Wendys chair. -

 -He's not excited that you're about to put your ass on his face.-

 -On top is a Madame Alexander doll my mom passed down to Mae, a chess set from China, my Mickey Mouse ears, and my bridal picture.-

 -I love everything in my hutch. My house has to be filled with things that has a history and sentimental value. I'm a sucker for anything with a story-

 -Vintage cameras, postcards from family, and a Geisha fan. I love Geishas!-

 -Vintage Mark Twain books, reading picture cards, and vintage Yahtzee and Scrabble-

 -My mom and I while she was going through one of her many rounds of chemo-

-Vintage Disney books and Tom Sawyer. An interesting fact about this book: A few years after I had Mae, I just knew that our next kid would be a boy. I also knew that I wanted to name him Ender or Sawyer. I came across this book in a shop and had to buy it. A few years later I got pregnant, it was a boy, and we named him Sawyer. I love having a book with my husbands and my sons name on it.-

-Random knick knacks and an owl candle. It makes the hutch smell so good-

-Crafts that Tom and Mae made at free art museum day-

 -Vintage Mickey Mouse doll, and of course, one of the greatest gifts I've ever received "Little Ballerina"-

-Whale salt shaker. You know how I feel about whales...-

 -Acquire! A tradition in my husband family. Okay, obsession, actually-

 -This is a door. It opens and closes.-

 -A couple of our Disneyland posters. We get one every time we go-

Well, there you have it, folks! This is by far my favorite room in the whole house. 

*back to house tour*