wow, almost 2 weeks of silence from me. that's a rarity. but life got busy. as it will when you're still settling in from moving cross country and prepping your stationery store for the holiday season and squeezing in a jaunt to pennsylvania to visit family. and of course i took not one photo to show you.
wait, i lie. i took a photo. of the bathtub in the middle of the room in our hotel room. seriously folks? we supposedly had priority status at the hotel. i don't think a tub in the middle of the room, closest room to lobby, closest room to elevators (where they continually played music over speakers until we asked them not to) is priority. a reassessment is in order.
we left thursday for the weekend away. while at my parents' we celebrated steve's birthday.
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his biggest present.... a ticket to a dallas cowboys game in november when my brother-in-law is visiting. they're beyond excited. hopefully they'll watch the game and not the cheerleaders.
while at "home", we also went antique shopping, ate excellent thai food, and visited with extended family and friends. and i went back to my high school for a football game. freaky. hadn't set foot there in many moons. but it was great to see old friends.
and it's always fun to come home to this. the pickup from doggy camp is crazy. she literally bounces off walls and then gets in the car and crashes.
and now it's back to the grind.... catching up on orders at
pixelimpress and prepping our house for guests in one month.
my next project is painting our dining chairs in the breakfast nook. i'm painting them off white and recovering the seats with a teal ikat. i happened to find this image below with the same color scheme.
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i'll be sure to show you the before and after.
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pinterest
so i made some new designs in shades of purple. i created a set of 10 foldover notecards with these 5 patterns. my favorite is the suzani-like pattern on beet.
of course i like the leaf stem wallpaper also.
and the offset stripe too. ok, fine, i like them all equally.
and then i was 
i named it brushstroke chainlink in pink ombre. i turned it into notecards also.
it's 12.5"x19" with a 1/2" white border all around. it's pretty. you'll like it.
you can purchase it here.
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my favorite movie. of all time. i've seen it about 617 times. no lie. ask my husband. i believe it should be seen at all bachelor parties. the divorce rate in the country will plummet because no 
man will ever have an affair again. (and yes, i know women have affairs also. another one of my favorite movies is unfaithful with diane lane.)
a lengthy post on camping and airstreams. wow, it's amazing what some people can do with 4 walls. the camper above reminds me of the one we used to camp in when i was little. no, it wasn't an airstream. but the size is similar. 4, yes 4, of us used to sleep in it. seriously. we'd come out of it each morning like clowns leaving a volkswagen. the retired couple in their 25 foot rv next door found it amusing.
this is my favorite guy. maybe cuz he's so ugly he's cute.
i also managed to get the ghastlies up on the wall. also in the dining room.
they make me laugh.
speaking of the dining room, this will be another framed fabric in the room. i bought this on onekingslane last year and have yet to do anything with it. i'm thinking of framing it in gold.
ah, perhaps i can use this room as inspiration for the dining room. lots of cream (my walls), hints of pink, and grass green drapes.
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we left thursday for the weekend away. while at my parents' we celebrated steve's birthday.
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and now it's back to the grind.... catching up on orders at pixelimpress and prepping our house for guests in one month.
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