You spoke. I listened.

Kind of.

The overwhelming response to my last post was to go with teal for my bedroom walls, so I started scouting for the perfect shade of blue-green. The trouble was that I couldn’t decide if I should lean towards a bluer teal or greener teal, and all of the swatches I examined just seemed so bright. I was afraid I would feel like I was living under the sea or, at the very least, near the Mediterranean …

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One of the projects I hoped to accomplish while my husband was deployed was to finish decorating our bedroom, which including painting the walls and buying curtains, a rug and nightstands. So far I’ve only purchased nightstands. I have about month to go before J returns home, so I need to start making some decisions. The most crucial decision, though, is paint. That will determine what color window treatment and floor covering I …

Welcome to a day in my life!

On a typical Saturday, it’s not uncommon for me to sleep in until 10 AM (yes, Briscoe is able to hold his bladder for a crazy long time) and not get dressed until the afternoon. But on this particular Saturday, my alarm went off at 8 AM because I had a unusually busy day ahead of me. Like I do during on weekdays, I hit the snooze button a couple of times and got …

When my husband and I moved in our home, which is our first house, I had a clear vision of how I wanted to furnish and decorate most of the rooms. With the exception of a couple of small things — a credenza in the dining room, proper nightstands in the bedroom — we don’t need much more furniture.

What we do need, however, is art for the walls. We’ve been in the house for over a year and a half, …

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Hello, friends! I can’t believe I have been absent from EADL for so long. Back in March, I turned thirty, which, to be honest, was a bit traumatic for me. Although I am happily married and live in a lovely house with an adorable dog, as I transitioned into my thirties, I couldn’t help but think of all the things I haven’t accomplished yet. On the top of my list: no kids and no career path, two …

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Back in the day I subscribed to the now-defunct design magazine, Domino. I religiously tore out inspirational pages and glued them into scrapbooks or slid them into clear plastic binder sleeves; I never saved the entire issue. Then I got lazy. I stopped cataloging my favorites and just started stacking past issues on my bookshelves. In retrospect, I’m glad I decided to keep a year’s worth of Domino. It’s fun to flip through them to see what strikes my …

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This year my husband and I will not be exchanging Valentine’s Day gifts. The decision was mostly his. He doesn’t believe in the Hallmark holiday and would prefer to save our joint income than spend it on jewelry for me. It’s not that he doesn’t love me or that he is particularly frugal. We show our affection for one another daily, and when we go shopping together, he hardly ever denies me the things that I “need.” I think …

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Yesterday at the hair salon, I was talking to my stylist about the woes of being a responsible adult. She recently was invited to a friend’s 40th birthday party in Las Vegas but couldn’t attend because she’s saving her money to buy new curtains for her new house. Getting window coverings is certainly not as glamorous or fun as a romp in Sin City but she made the decision that it was more important. That’s a very adult choice, …

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We’re almost half-way into January already. Wow! How many of you are keeping up with your New Year’s resolutions? I set a couple of goals when the calendar changed, but my husband and I are continuing to brainstorm ways to better ourselves and our relationship. That’s why I’m writing this post when normally I’d be sleeping. No, it’s not the middle of the night or the wee hours of the morning. It’s 7:30 am–and that’s early for me!

Being self-employed, …

When my husband and I moved to Omaha and began making friends outside of the Air Force community, it just so happened that everyone we met had a house and a dog. At the time, we had neither and were jealous of doggie playdates they used to have with each other. As soon as we moved into our house we mace a bee-line for the Nebraska Humane Society to find our very own fur-baby. We adopted a 4-month-old Maltese-Poodle mix …