In anticipation of my anniversary

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Tuesday, October 5 will be my one-year blogging anniversary!

What better way to celebrate by getting back in the swing of writing regular posts? I've been up to so, so many things including a brand new apartment to decorate and lots of other exciting things to update you on.

Here are some things to look forward in the coming months -

New recipes

New DIY projects

New Roommate (!) who's living with Annie

This year's Halloween Costume

& more!
I'm pumped. I hope you are!

Hi there

Gus and I doing field research for work while at Disneyland. Not officially working, but I look to think analyzing the parks as I ride all the rides could potentially help my job.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your patience as I've stepped away from blogging for a few months to focus on my new job. As some of you know, I had been laid off, spent weeks looking, only to land in an even better, more exciting role with the same company (Disney).

I have a few things in the can to share on the blog soon and will try to post something this holiday weekend or directly after. In the future, I doubt I'll be able to return to my 5-post a week schedule but I'm going to make more regular appearances here.

Thanks for staying tuned- have a wonderful fourth of July everyone!

Annie

Friday Reveal: Living Room Loveliness

Ooooo.. the reveal appears a few hours early! A prize to anyone compulsively checking my blog for the reveal update. :)

I've been hard at work on my living room lately and after months and months of frames sitting in my closet, I finally broke out the hammer and nails!

Here's the state of my lovely living room these days, complete with new Calvin Klein table runner ( a steal at $5 from Macy's) and artwork (above the desk) for $20 from Marshall's. Other than that, all other additions were stuff around the house, repurposed or hung up for the first time - hurrah!

A short reminder of a few months ago:

and the uber awesome now...

Interested in the evolution of the living room?

Here's a few posts of what led to this point.

Color Scheming - Choosing the new color scheme from a Pottery Barn pillow 

Dun dun dun office space! From design to execution 

Wall of Awesome - the big reveal! How those stripes got there 

Have a great weekend :)

Friday Sneak Peek

I was a busy decorating bee this weekend. Here's a small sneak peek of what I've been up to in the living room. This is a table runner from Calvin Klein - originally $60 (are you kidding me?) - got it at Macy's for $5! Can't beat that.

Stay tuned for a Friday reveal of serenity/my newly lovely living room.

A Very Muppet Marriage

Spotted these today on a wonderful blog for cupcake bakers, Cupcakes take the Cake. Muppet WEDDING cupcakes! I am about dying right now. Kermit and Piggy forever <3

Check out more, here. Happy weekend!!

Announcement

Maybe it was good juju that I posted about looking for a job... as it turns out, I just got a new one! And it's pretty awesome, and I still work for Disney on top of it.

Hope to be back in the swing of blogging soon. Thanks for your patience!

Beautiful Prints for your home... alert: Young House Love's sponsoring a giveaway featuring a vendor called Vol. 25. I'm totally in love and you will be too - check out Vol. 25 by clicking here.

Color Scheming

Frustrated by a lack of cohesion with my living room, I've recently turned to a favorite source: Pottery Barn to solve my latest decorating dilemma. I have not been able to decide on any color scheme I truly love! For awhile, it was warm beige, black, white, with pops of red. Snore. I got tired very quickly. I've read that a great place to start for color inspiration is with a rug but I have yet to find a rug I'm truly in love with either (that doesn't cost an arm and a leg). I recently tried to shake things up for Spring in this post but it wasn't quite right.

In pondering this question, I remembered that my bedspread in my bedroom is a print from the 'Barn and I've absolutely loved having it and working with the colors in it. I got to thinking that perhaps I found a print I loved for the living room, I could just use that to guide my color scheme for accessories, pillows, etc.


And that, ladies and jellyspoons, is exactly what I've been up to in the living room. A new color scheme of greys, neutrals, light blues, and small subtle pops of yellow (still adding those). Here's a few befores and the (still in progress) after inspired by Pottery Barn's Sydney Palampore fabric...

BEFORES

AFTER