Old faves from House to Home UK

Some of my favorite House to Home UK images....these are photos that stopped me in my tracks. Don't you just love when an image does that??

Awesome Shop Alert --> Atmosphere Home Essentials

Atmosphere Home Essentials is a must visit store for those of you living or near the Birmingham, Alabama area. They offer unique, modern & contemporary home furnishings & accessories. I'd love to visit their store someday....anyone out there been to Atmosphere?? What did you think? I can't even begin to tell you how desperately we need a store like this here in Las Vegas!!

Sorry I won't be able to visit all of you or have any new posts for a while. I may even have to delay the next installment for Teacup Tuesday. I'm sending this message from work as my computer at home seems to have up and died on me and I don't know when I'll have it fixed, so I don't know when I'll be back. Soon I hope!! It's going to kill me not having my computer at home until I can get things up and running again. I already feel the withdrawel kicking in.

I promise that as soon as I have things up and running again, I'll be back.

Say a prayer for me that it won't cost me a fortune to get my computer fixed!!!

Even Small Things Can Be Beautiful...

Oh my goodness... The days are just flying by aren't they? Where oh' where does the time go?

Seems like summer just started and now it's rapidly winding down and coming to an end. Before I know it, we will be deep into another long, dark, cold and snowy winter and I can tell you already that I am not looking forward to that at all. With the strange weather we've had here in Minnesota this summer with much cooler than normal temperatures, it almost has me scared to think about what the winter is going to bring.

The best thing I can do to take my mind off of that is to give myself a nice dose of "retail therapy" and I recently did just that and lucky for me, I didn't come home empty handed.

Tucked far back and almost hidden on a shelf in one of the antique shops I recently visited was the prettiest little china basket with a lovely raised pink rose and just a small touch of purple from what I believe are pansy's. So cute and just the perfect size to hold business cards that I aquire from different places. Functional and pretty at the same time.

I hope you've all been having a good week and that you have some fun plans for the weekend. I'm looking forward to Saturday when my family and others will gather to celebrate my sweet niece McKenzie's 8th birthday which is on Friday the 28th. She is growing up so fast and is getting ready to start 3rd grade in just a matter of days. So hard to believe as it seems like just yesterday that she was a tiny little baby that I could hold in my arms. Now she is a beautiful, bright, funny, opinionated and sometimes very stubborn young girl whom I love and adore even more now than I did eight years ago.

Have a great weekend !!

Jessica's Bungalow Home Tour

Thanks to Jessica for sharing these images of her JuneBug Cottage in Portland, Oregon. Don't you just love home tours?? I know I do! It's nice when it's about a home we feel we have something in common with or of a style we can borrow. It's always nice to see homes of people just like us....then it all seems possible & attainable. Jessica shares this 1924 bungalow with her partner Erik & their little border terrier (who's so adorable) Griffin. Please check out her blog, Domestic PDX to get a glimpse of all her collages, paintings & more!

My Son's Two Youngest Boys

My son's boys..Joe who is 9 and Steven who is 5, went to a new school this year .

This morning I went over to get them to the bus stop. Everyone is gone from home

by 7:45 AM and these two don't catch the bus until 8:45 AM

The youngest boys go to the same school.

Joe is so sweet and kind. Steven is sweet and going

all the time.

Two weeks from today, we'll be traveling. woohoo

Carrie's Beautiful Michigan Loft - on the market...

Carrie over at Pattern of Life blog was sweet enough to share photos of her loft-style home with us. Coincidentally, her home is also on the market as we speak! Both Carrie & her husband reside in the West Michigan area in a neighborhood with a pretty large Dutch settlement as well as some of the best industrial design companies. This well-maintained loft is also 2 1/2 hours from Chi-Town, for those of you wondering.....

A little info about their place: built in 1903 in an existing alley way. Large- all white, built in book shelf, modern appliances, sky light in kitchen, hardwood floors, exposed brick walls throughout. One of the brick walls has some black paint, it was an old advertisement that they discovered when they knocked the mortar off the walls while gutting the place. The sign continues downstairs into the commercial space. (You can see this in some of the photos) Very original. So for those of you looking to buy in Michigan & would like to take a peek at their place, or for more info, contact Carrie via her blog.