Sad, but true...ever since I began having children 6 years ago, I have realized that my body is like pizza dough.

Cousin Phil (below smiling) is going to have a baby brother this December, and Henry is going to have a new cousin! So now there will be 4 Bartholomew boy cousins within about a year to a year and a half of each other.

I am almost finished with Mimi's bedroom. The color palette is bright pink, green and light blue. We'll see how it all comes together. I painted a tree on her wall (below is a picture of me in the process). Henry takes naps in her room twice a day so it is hard to get things done during the day and they sleep in there at night, thus making it hard to do it at night! Motherhood is a great big juggling act.

I love love love these horizontal cedar fences by builder/designer Peter A. Kirsch-Korff. They are beautiful, modern and natural.

It's no secret I love Pierre Deux. These are some lovely things I found while looking at their online store, my idea of window shopping.
Last week I taught my children the meaning of window shopping. We needed to kill some time so we went into one of my favorite stores, TJ Maxx. The kids always beg for toys when we go there so I sat down and explained to them that we were "window shopping" today. I explained to them what that meant and amazingly enough they got the concept and were actually okay with it. I heard Max telling some boy as they were looking at Avatar toys together, that he was just window shopping today. Ha!
The below picture is very nostalgic for me, it reminds me of the flee markets we visited in France. Vendors would sell pictures from antique books. My parents bought 2 pictures at a flee market that still hangs in their home and they are just beautiful.

Some pics I took driving along the coast. We went through a small town and Steve and I saw this old factory and we had to stop and take a picture.

When you marry into a family that has 11 letters in their last name, it's quite an undertaking (especially when I used to be just plain old Nelson). It took me 4 months before I could say my last name without getting marble mouthed. I couldn't believe how long it took me to sign my name on a check at the grocery store. ;) But...

I love to look at pillows...who knows why? Probably because they are pretty and within my price range.
Well, I am on a crazy diet right now that takes every bit of will power I have. I just keep thinking about eating something with lots of fat and flavor! So tonight I thought, "I wonder if they make pillows in the shape of food?"
Low and behold. THEY DO! In fact there are many varieties...from hamburgers to sushi. Strangely enough the PB&J looks the most appetizing to me right now.
yep, I definitely have food on the brain! I think I'll go turn on the Food Network...

I think it would be so fun to mix these bright colored pillows from Horchow with the traditional chairs below.
These chairs do have a little frill to them, but that's one of the things I love about them.

Max wore this shirt once when I noticed a bleach spot on it (I still have no idea how it got on there).
So I googled "dinosuar silhouette" and printed out this little dino. I used this as my pattern and cut out the dino shape on a piece of frabric. 1. then I cut the shape out agian on fusable web (bought at any fabric store). 2. I ironed the fusable web to the fabic and.... 3. peeled. 4. This makes it so you can fuse the pattern to any other fabric surface by ironing it on.

I wish I had better pictures, but above is the mirror I bought from the DI for $10. I bought some "oregano" colored spray paint and washed off the hand-painted embellishments from the mirror, taped around the wood with painters tape so nothing got on the glass and sprayed....

While talking to some friends of mine yesterday I explained that I often feel uncomfortable sharing experiences I have had during my 'growing-up' years of High School and college, especially in groups of people or with people who I don't know very well. Because during these 'growing-up' years I often lived outside of the country. So when I tell a story and it takes place in Paris, Luxembourg, Grand Caymans, Philippines or some where else, I sound pretentious or "ooo, look at me"...but really I just want to tell the story and the place I lived in plays a part in that story...so here I go again, and tell another one of those stories...

While visiting the Oregon coast I fell in love with the grey cedar shingle styled homes with their bright white trim. I have been to Cape Cod and Wilmington, North Carolina but never noticed these beautifully designed coastal homes until now.