Apartment Therapy

Well I can officially check something off my life to-do list. Something I did is on Apartment Therapy. This has always been a goal of mine, something I joked about but never really thought would happen until, prompted by my best friend, I submitted my finished kitchen to their before and after contest and lo and behold I was selected! It was the most incredible thing to see my kitchen on this site that I read every day and I couldn't be more jazzed about it.
If you are interested you can check out the full kitchen here and the tutorial for the painted floor here. It feels sort of like prom for houses, with the prettiest girl winning with the most votes, so if you like it and want to vote for it that's amazing but as they say during Oscar season, "It's an honor just to be nominated."

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I made a pretty spectacular pumpkin curry this week in the crock pot. It hasn't really been cold enough for cozy autumn foods but I've been craving them nonetheless. This was made by putting a can of coconut milk and spices (tumeric, curry, and garam masala) in the slow cooker with cut up pumpkin, sweet potato, onion, garlic and chicken, and then cooked it for six hours before serving it over black rice. It was the perfect seasonal colors and it made my whole house smell delicious. Now I just hope I don't get sick of eating it every day...

busy and a wedding

Just popping in to say a quick hello and unfortunately it seems everything that I've been working on (and most of what I will be working on for the foreseable future) isn't really sharable here. So it's been real quiet round these parts. But I went to a truly spectacular wedding this weekend so I thought I might share a few photos of that in the meantime.

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always one little change left to make

Just tweaking the living room bit by bit with the advent of the new couch and more space. 

This last weekend I moved the Moroccan wedding blanked (diy see here) to behind the theater chairs.

I also filled the bench behind the couch with books and magazines. No need for it to be empty and also it's nice to have reading material on hand. 

Lastly, I moved the little wire end table back into my bedroom and replaced it with these two suitcases which work just as well and also double as overflow kitchen storage.

Simple stuff but each little adjustment makes me like the room more, or even just makes it feel fresh and changed for a bit. Especially great when it's all stuff I already have on hand.

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A sneak peek of some new work.....

September muni people

I can see the change of the season in last months muni people, from shorts to sweaters it was pretty clear, it's fall now. Also I'm three quarters of the way through this project, still trying to decide what to do with them all when I finish.