Hi friends! I’m off to DC to visit my sweet cousin (who is expecting her first in February!!)… We’ll be working on the nursery while I’m there. 🙂  But I didn’t forget about you; you’re in for a real treat today. Krista is a creative and talented gal with such a knack for beautiful projects. Please make her feel welcome!…
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Today I have a beautiful kitchen to share with you. I cannot take all much of the credit for this one; my mother spent hours and hours planning and designing this kitchen with both functionality and beauty in mind. I think her hard work paid off! I had the privilege of attending Blog Elevated weekend before last, and I’m still…
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It’s been a crazy week month at Maison de Pax… which is a long story for another time… but it has me thinking a lot about perspective. This is the back of our house. Is it perfect? No. But look where it was when we moved in. See the sidewalk heading out into the middle of the yard nowhere? And the…
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Please tell me I’m not the only one… I feel like I can’t follow anything through to completion these days. We began working on the office when we leveled and laid new wood floors, and we did actually manage to finish the built-in bookcases in there, but then the work stopped. We started a master bedroom makeover (since I hadn’t done…
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I mentioned when sharing my fall mantel that my three-year-old helped me paint some of the pumpkins for it… but the majority of the painted gourds actually landed on our entry table. I had a revelation this year (behind the times a bit?) that I didn’t have to use orange and red for my fall decor… and chalk paint helped…
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