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Now that we are living at the beach, I am learning a whole new side of both parenting and housekeeping.  There is a constant battle against sand and beach clutter that wants to make it’s way inside the house! We hope to add an outdoor shower at some point to help with all the sand. …

You know those articles in home decorating magazines where the nice smiling family stands in front of a beautifully remodeled home professing that the home was once an eyesore but that they could see the potential, where others would not have looked twice, and they invested their blood, sweat and tears and thereby loved the…

 One of the first things off the moving truck

 . . . safe and sound . . . the truck is unloaded . . . now going to fall into bed . . . and sleep for a few weeks {or at least 8 hours . . . after which I will be too excited to delay the decorating any longer} thank you for…

Yours truly, two hours into the moving experience:   And now, 36 hours in and still going . . . . . . thought you might appreciate an update!

via Greetings!   It feels like a dream somehow, but today is finally moving day . . . we are beach cottage-bound! Please pray for a safe journey {and my sanity}as I will be making the 7 hour drive with Wynn by myself while Mr. Marvelous drives the moving truck!! Chat with you on the other…

These last few days before our move are flying past at lightening speed.  I cannot wait to get where we are going but I also had so may things I envisioned accomplishing before the move and as the weeks become days and the days dissolve into mere hours, I am realizing that certain projects may…

We are closing on the beach cottage tomorrow afternoon!  I just cannot believe it.  We won’t be taking possession for another week, but my mind has already died and gone to decorating heaven . . .  via Coastal Living You might remember from my last post that the beach cottage has original wide plank hardwood…

source I have been looking on craigslist and at local antique stores for a vintage daybed, like the one pictured above, to use as a sofa-alternative in the beach cottage.  I love the white iron and summer breezey look of it, plus seems like a perfect place for a mid-afternoon nap with a certain Wynnbaby.  So…