It has been a long time since I have done this segment and I miss it. With summer here it will be hard to spend a lot of time on the computer but I will try my best to show you some of my pins.
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Do you pin?
Today is the official first day of summer. Yay! One of the main reasons why I love living in So Cal is that there is a year round sunshine and we get to spend lot of family time outdoors. I remember growing up during the summer I would spend every single day at the beach, swimming and sun bathing, having those lazy summer days. Now life is completely different, trying to entertain a three year old. Busy, busy, busy!
My summer is definitely not going to be this:
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or this
or this
but lots of this
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Source: myrecipes.com via Amanda on Pinterest
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Source: blog.diapershops.com via Meghan on Pinterest
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Have a great start to summer!
Do you have anything special planned this summer?
Did you put too much thought when planning your bedroom?
Do you use a normal night stand?
When my husband and I first moved in together we had enough furniture to fill in a three bedroom apartment but no bedroom furniture. For three years we used a file cabinet and a storage ottoman for nightstands while our mattress was placed right on the floor. Then we moved in into a current home where we realized that we needed nightstands that provide lots of storage, so we used a small size dressers. Those dressers have been great and are the right height for our bed frame.
Now we have a problem at my mom’s new home. There is nothing there. No bed frames, no nightstands, no bedside lamps, just the mattress on the floor with bed linens of course. At least in three of the bedrooms there is overhead light, but unfortunately for my brother he has the room where you flip the switch to turn on a light that it’s plugged into the wall. While we are searching for cheap nightstands options his lamp is just hanging out on the floor.
I know that I can take a simple box or the paint bucket and turn into a nightstand, but honestly who would want to look at that. I love the different and non traditional ideas for nightstands that I was able to find.
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Do you have a standard nightstand?
I know, I know. I have been very inconsistent for a while. Life has taken over me. Today I am writing this post with the same nervous feeling as I did for my first blog post. Not sure if there is anyone out there who would care about my nonsense. Well, hopefully someone does!
It seems that in the past few months it has been one step forward, few steps back. Even though summer is unofficially here in Southern California I feel like this is my new beginning. Don’t concentrate on the bad but the good, not the past but the future.
Anyways…you might remember me mentioning that I went to Seattle for my friend’s wedding. Can I just say I had a blast…The wedding and the bride were beautiful…I got to see old friends…I was able to let go and just have fun. My daughter was the bubble girl and did an awesome job. I cannot wait to see the professional photos of the wedding since believe it or not I wasn’t able to figure out how my mom’s point and shoot works properly. (seriously her Nikon’s point and shoot is like a mini DSLR camera)
Danielle had put me and her aunt in charge of the set up. Making sure that the tables were set up right, the desert table was the way she wanted. I love it…such a thrill to get things in timely manner.
Danielle wrote a note to her new husband that she is always right without realizing that I wrote the same thing. Now I know why we are friends.
Danielle’s dad had the funniest speech prepared. I was laughing so hard that I had tiers running down my cheeks. 
While I was wondering if I should be putting my friend’s wedding on the blog, I realized that now a days blogging has became part of our daily lives: for some is a full time job with an income, for some is a way to share what they love wheatear that would be family, crafting, design, party planning, education, etc. Here are a few examples of how blogging has become a big part of our world today.
Saw this driving down the freeway. No worries, I had my husband take the photo. I didn’t want to cause any accidents.
Hope you are having a great weekend!
You can ask anyone from my family I do not have a green thumb. I try and try but I am not very good a keeping plants alive. I love gardens and beautiful flowers as much as I love the sea. I love seeing all the colors that a garden has, it is such an inspiration.
As I mentioned before my mom bought a house to be closer to me. As much as I was happy to have my family live visit me all the time I saw their house as my project. Surprisingly for the house being a short sale, the interior of the house was great…no damages to the walls, good quality kitchen cabinets; the only problem was the yards- both the front and the back were not a great shape.
The house is located on a house track with an HOA that is very strict about the lawn. This is what the house looked like when my parents took possession of it. The bushes are overgrown, spilling out to the walkway, full of all kinds of spiders.
So we got to work…
It took us my husband a few days and two shovels later to finally take those bushes out. Think 10 year old bushes that were never pruned. Plus the builder didn’t do they job right so there were random spots of concrete in what is suppose to be the garden.
Here is after the bushes were gone. A very dirty 16 foot wall of dirt. We I wasn’t sure what I really wanted to do with this so I left it like this for a few days. The HOA wasn’t very happy about that. So one lovely sunny afternoon while my husband was waiting for my car tire to get fixed I visited the local Home Depot and $150 later I had the flowers that I wanted.
We started planting…
I love my little helper
The sprinklers came on while we were transferring and planting the flowers which meant a mandatory break.
Since this was done the night before I left for Seattle I didn’t get a chance to take a close up of the garden. I was planning on taking photos when I came back and wanted to give you the big reveal but unfortunately while I was in Seattle the neighborhood’ kids destroyed my little garden. They plucked most of the flowers out. Someone definitely needs to teach them some manners.
Here I am at square one again.
