kitty updates

kitty endorses new logo

ellie - always a little ham...

billie, always sharing my office chair

also they LOVE the christmas tree. they will not stay out of it and they pull the ornaments off and roll them around the house. we have had many discussions about this matter, and well, they dont care....lol.

settling in to their new home

ellie & billie are settling right in and we couldn't love them more. they are just so sweet and love to snuggle with you and play lots. it's getting easier to tell them apart though in these photos its still impossible to tell who is who. i've grown accustomed to calling them "little faces" recently! the pictures in the shag rug were taken by our friend beck.

ellie & billie

welcome home little kitties. the kitties were a bit reluctant to leave the carrier when they first came home, we eventually lured them out with the little balls with bells in them. now they are running around in every room happy as can be! this last pic is my favorite because her little chin is resting in sean's belly button!

after muuuuch deliberation and maaaany suggestions we landed on the names ellie and billie for ella fitzgerald and billie holiday. it's so hard to tell them apart - for now ellie is the one who purs really loudly and billie is much more vocal with the little squeaky meows. we are going to need some color collars because they are nearly impossible to tell apart otherwise!

kitties!

these sweet little guys are coming to live with me and sean!

photo courtesy of rachel at puremotif design & photography

i am so excited for them to come! we need to kitty proof our house right now! so much more to post about as i am so not caught up. i have been pretty unproductive since the return from our honeymoon. time for that to change, hopefully that will mean more regular posts!

i can only aspire...

i just read about this on Jenn Ski's Blog. who by the way is an awesome graphic designer with lots of great work.

this house is amazing. i can only aspire to collect this many awesome retro things. just the clocks alone totally rock. i'm in heaven i swear. as seen on apartment therapy (click for even more photos)

thirft store tuesdays

yes. i am know it is not tuesday. though, for the first half of the day i thought it was tuesday as i planned this post in my head. so, oh well, its thrift store tuesday on wednesday.

i haven't been thrift storing in a realllllly long time. so this post is going to be about all my existing thrift store finds in my family room. please excuse the sucky pictures, they were taken a while ago when i was playing with settings on my camera.

1. This was the inspiration for this whole room. Leather chair, found at my church's flea fling, $10.
2. Leather foot stool, at the perfect height, found at City Mission thrift store, $10.
3. Funny little table, I refinished the top by stripping off the existing polyurethane and stain, I restained it, painted the edge and coated it with poly, found at the Amvets on Hertel, $12.
4. Two light fixture, a thrift store find from my mom so I don't know the details. Hard to see in this picture really... but the paper shades are perfectly in tact which is hard to find.
5. Two tier TV stand, free from a friend
6. This is actually a desk, the very skinny strip above the 3 drawers is a pull out writing surface, and the space above with the verticle slats opens up for more store, I painted the shelves (they had red ink stains on them), added a fresh coat of stain to the whole things, new hardware on the drawers ($1.50 each), and my dad reglued the bottom leg on. St Vincent de Paul Thrift store, $20.
7. Hard to see on here, but there are 4 vintage cameras (now 5) on these shelves, my mom found these as well, a few bucks each.
8. Solid wood coffee table, a couple of scratches on top covered with matching stain, The Stock Exchange on Hertel, combined purchase with #12, $175 for the two(minus $100 gift card!).
9. Light teal lamp, hard to see in this photo again, another one of my mom's finds, not sure on info, it think $2.
10. Lamp shade, City Mission Thrift Store, $7.
11. End table, solid wood, with brass wrapped on legs, A+ Thrift store, $30 (my mom and I trying to get this in my Jetta - priceless. Sean had to come get us with his parent's van)
12. Leather chair, just cleaned up with some lemon juice and cream of tartar, also from The Stock Exchange on Hertel, combined purchase with #8, $175 for the two (-$100 gift card)
    

so that's everything so far. my mom joked I will get all the furniture in my house for under $1000. now I am not sure she is too far off....

ps: what does everyone think about the glass block wall? i have a love hate relationship with it and have a different plan for it everyday.

some redecorating

well, i am very excited to say that i finally wallpapered my kitchen! i have had this wallpaper since we first bought the house last spring - so it has been quite some time. (by the way, this wallpaper was an awesome clearance find). i have not done the soffets yet - that will hopefully be a project for this weekend. they are going to be wrapped in the paintable wallpaper, and painted too look like tin ceiling!

by the way, this is my first wallpaper job ever (i prefer paint). but the walls were really rough in this room, and wallpaper can hide a lot of sins. my friend came over to teach me how to do it, it's kinda of like a design mock up project. lots of measuring and cutting and problem solving.

i also took a spur of the moment trip with my friend and her sister to ikea (just over an hour away in canada) and bought a rug for our family room.
here are some pictures!

the wallpaper looks like paint, no? you can see the space above the cabinets are still white, or have old wallpaper on them - thats where the tin ceiling-esq wallpapering will be done.

new rug! its shag white, 100% wool. it goes with all of our mid century modern collection of furniture. more pictures once this room is done, it could be a mile long post for thrift store tuesday some week!