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A splash of color
I came home to a nicely painted house Friday afternoon. Can I just say how nice it is to have this done? It probably would have taken me and Matt quite a while to paint the whole area. So it was really nice to go to work and come home to everything painted. I’m not sure you can really see the color in the pics but I will post a few. It’s a subtle difference but I think it really warms up the space and makes it look more finished.
As you can see we had this weird area where the wall and ceiling essentially met. Matt and I really had no clue as to how to tie this area together. The painter suggested this and I think it was probably our best option.
Over all I am pretty happy with the overall job. There is one spot by the stairs that will need a touch up and there are several places above the kitchen cabinets that were missed. Even though you can’t see them from the floor, I feel like we paid a lot of money and frankly I want it fixed. I just need to email the painter and let him know.
~k
~And let’s not forget today is our 9 monthiversary. We are getting sooooo close to a year. Watch out! 😉
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Cuts and Color
This week has been crazy busy and isn’t going to slow down I don’t think. Last night I got my hair cut. I am really like the new stylist I am going to. For a few weeks I’ve been eyeing this really cute cut I found on Pinterest. It’s basically just a long bob but it’s adorable. For the longest time I’ve been in “grow out” mode with my hair. It finally hit me, it doesn’t matter if it’s long or short I never do anything fun with my hair. I am a complete hair dunce so even when I try to style it it normally doesn’t work. Since my hair is so fine and I rarely use product it is hard to make things stay. (Maybe I should use more product.)
Anyway I finally decided to just go for it and cut an inch or so off and get the bob. I showed my stylist the pic and she gave me something similar that works for my hair. So far I love my new style. It falls just how I wanted around the bottom and I think it will grow up pretty cute too. I even went and bought some product {shocker} today.
Tomorrow the painters are coming. I am so excited. Matt and I just spent about an hour moving all the stuff around and off the walls. I can’t wait to get home tomorrow and see how good everything looks. We are having both stairways and the main floor done. This just leaves the three bedrooms and two bathrooms upstairs. Once the painting is done I can finally get new carpet. OMG I never thought I would be excited about carpet but I am really excited for new carpet. Don’t get me wrong I am happy about paint too. I hope this will start to make our house feel a little more like home.
~k
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OCM – week 1
Just a quick update on my progress with OCM. So far so good. I’ve had a few breakouts since starting but I had breakouts before so I don’t really see any change in that. Overall I guess my skin looks fine. To be honest I haven’t seen any huge changes. I guess that’s not really a bad thing.
I did decide to use my regular Aveeno face wash in the mornings. I felt I wasn’t getting my face as clean trying to do this in the shower. I’m not sure if it was just the weather a few days last week but I also felt my skin was a bit oilier during the day. Again this could have just been the weird warm weather or it could have been I wasn’t doing a great job in the shower. Either way I switched back to regular face wash. Since I haven’t really had any issues I will probably continue with this for a while. I do really like the ease with which my eye make-up comes off at night. It’s nice not waking up with huge black circles from my mascara and eye-liner.
~k
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Boots and a Tip
Since it’s the end of the season I figured it was a good time to find some nice black boots on sale. And score! Thank you Macy’s! Half price off gorgeous Nine West boots plus an extra 20% for wearing red. 🙂
Have I ever mentioned how much I love Nine West shoes? I love love love them! Some of my favorite shoes ever have been Nine West.
Aren’t they amazing? And you are probably wondering how I managed to get them to stand up. As I was paying for my awesome new boots the sales lady asked if I knew how to keep them upright in the closet. I said no. She said to put a rolled up magazine in them. Hmmm. I wasn’t sure exactly sure how this would work but when I got home I grabbed a few old Pottery Barn catalogs, rolled them up and inserted into my boots. When you place the rolled up magazine in the boot it expands and keeps the whole boot leg up. Pretty amazing.
~k
And coming soon our Travel blog.
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What else should you do
with a doll head? I mean the dollar store had tons of random doll heads the other day so my coworker suggested we get one and put it on another coworker’s desk. Of course my inner Martha came out and that just wouldn’t do. I mean everyone needs a doll head snow globe right? 😀
I can’t decide if I’m just crafty or a little demented. Maybe it’s my inner Dexter. HA!
Happy Friday!
~k
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It smells like Spring
Yesterday morning I walked outside to go to work and the day was already amazing. There was a slight nip in the air, the birds were singing, and the air. The air smelled glorious. It smelled like Spring. You know what I’m talking about. That awesome smell that can only be described as Spring.
I know it’s still a little early for Spring but the weather in Raleigh has been amazing this week. Sixties most of the week. I will say I might be slightly bummed that we probably won’t see any snow this year but if the weather stays like this I will definitely not be complaining.
~k
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A little more of what I’m doing
This is Grayson, Rowan’s big brother.
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What I am currently working on…
On Sunday I went to visit our friend’s new baby Rowan. Baby Rowan is almost 2 weeks old and the perfect age to photograph. 🙂 I am really glad my friend’s asked me to come and take some pics of him. I’m still editing everything but this one turned out so well I had to post.
~k
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I’m an Idiot
{Watch out 2 posts in 1 day!}
Just a quick pic from this morning. I’m a dumbass and I burnt my face with the flat iron. FAIL!
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OCM – Day 3
Over the weekend Matt and I ran some errands and while we were out we bought some Castor Oil and Sunflower Seed Oil. Saturday night I started OCM (oil cleansing method). As I mentioned a few days ago the thought is that by using “good” oil on your skin it will help get rid of the “bad” pore clogging oil and dirt.
I used a 70/30 mixture of Sunflower Seed Oil to Castor Oil. This is the recommended ratio for oily skin. I must say it’s pretty weird to slather oil all over your face. If you’re like me you spent a good portion of your teen years trying to remove as much oil as possible. But as I got older I learned more and realized striping all the oil from your skin wasn’t a good idea either.
Anyway, I messaged the oil into my skin while I let a wash cloth sit under the hot water. Once I left I had sufficiently oiled myself I laid the hot wash cloth on my face to steam. {Please use caution with the hot water. You want it hot but not scalding.} After my steam I rinsed the wash cloth and begin to remove the oil. I was really surprised how nice my skin felt after. Honestly I expected it might be kind of greasy but it was soft and clean feeling. And I didn’t get the tight clean feeling. So far I’ve done it morning and night since Saturday and my skin looks good and it feels nice. I even feel like my make-up has stayed on a bit better. Not to mention this stuff is GREAT for removing eye make up. 😉
I’ll give a few more updates before I make my final decision but as I mentioned before as long as my skin doesn’t go crazy I’ll probably stick with this. It a cheap and natural way to cleanse your skin.
~k
