Thursday, April 9, 2026

Thursday Finds

​I'm a little late this week! 

ONE - I have two patterns in this dress and it's the best. I wear it with a jean jacket if it's chilly. 

TWO - love these glasses. What a great birthday gift for a friend! 

THREE - getting ready for a member guest I was invited to play in with these super cute earrings. 18k gold

FOUR - my niece had this top on with leggings and it was so cute. I ordered it in three colors for Molly Anne and I feel like I may need it too. $12!

FIVE - some new sandals and $70


Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Bar Area and Minor Closet Reno

​We decided as part of our third floor project we wanted a pebble ice maker in the bar in our main area. We knew one day when we built our house that we may do this so we already had a water line back there. 

Eudy's cabinets basically transformed a 24" wide space we had used for a mini fridge to a 15" space for the ice maker and made a custom wine section in the other 9". (There was a 24" wine cooler here)

Progress..

Ta Da


Also, while Eudy's was in the house doing the downstairs bar and upstairs cabinets, I got some cabinets in my closet! Yesssss! These have been sooo amazing to have. They hold so much. Our cabinets have always been one of my favorite parts of our home. 

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

The Hang Out House

Lately, we have really enjoyed being the house where the doorbell rings every afternoon. It is sometimes wild if I'm just getting home from work but it's truly a joy to be where the kids want to hang. Don't get me wrong, they hang in other house in the hood too, but I love them being here. 

I've always heard to have the food and drink and they will flock right over! I'd rather them be here than anywhere else. 

One thing I think has helped is finishing our third floor that I talked about last week. It has been so nice having a space for them to play and have a little hang area with "fun" drinks. We got a Big Joe huge 7' bean bag which has been a huge hit for sleepovers and jumping on it. 

Anyway, bring on all of the friends!

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Thursday Looks

ONE - a great dress to have in your closet . 15% off right now 

TWO - love these earrings  

THREE - I have this top in ivory and wear it so much

FOUR - wear this dress to work with flats or out for fun with sandals

FIVE - finally getting on board with these kicks 

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Third Floor Project

​Oh boy, this was the longest project of all time. In fact, we built an entire Dollar General at work in the time it took to finish one room and one bathroom in my own house! 

When we built our home back in 2017, we didn't know how we'd live in the space. Grady didn't exist either! We decided to leave the third floor semi finished but not totally. We did the hardwood stairs to it, hung dry wall and painted it and then plumbed the bathroom and left stubs. We didn't floor it, we just left the subfloor. The space counted for our SF in our cert of occupancy when we built the house. It was conditioned etc.

We decided to move the playroom from the second floor up to the third and make the second floor more of a theatre/gaming room. 

So this was our list to do for the third floor:

Put carpet down

Tile the bathroom

Add a frameless shower door

Get plumbing fixtures

Get a pretty light and mirror for the bathroom

Add three cabinets - one in the bathroom, one big "closet" for games etc because there isn't a closet up there and one wet bar so they could have drinks etc. 

Granite for bar and for the bathroom cabinet

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We started in July and finished in November. It was ridiculous but I'll spare you the details. Here is where we started and finished!

Our storage room...


And the finished product:



Should I mention how horrible of a tile job it is? Or how he used brown grout instead of gray and I had to paint every spec of grout to fix it? Or how we had a water pipe burst when the cabinets were installed? Or the two countertops it took to make sure the sink was in the middle? Or how the granite for our bar we picked out wasn't big enough even though they said it was? Or how the big closet cabinets couldn't fit up our doorway so they had to take them back to their shop to cut them in half to then bring them back? Or how the zillion pound beverage fridge was broken and I had to haul it back to the UPS store? Or how they didn't order enough tile? Like so many things went wrong. 

Details details. We are happy with the end result. These pics don't show the big bean bag we got or the current state but this was when we were sorta moving stuff up there!