twenty nine

it's been a crazy week. i think once school starts, i'll be back with a more regular posting schedule. i had the boys last weekend for the first time in a long time and we took full advantage of it. on saturday, we took them to the beach and comic con then on sunday we went to canada's wonderland. we also found out that jun (ric) won an ipad from pulse the world (it's a really cool app. go download it now). he picked it up today and we're both pretty happy about it since we were trying to save for it. he's also still trying to finish blake's video and i've been in and out of interviews trying to re enter the workforce. oh and it's my birthday today. we're going to stuff ourselves at a buffet later then tomorrow we will be out dancing (hopefully). have a good weekend!

seen in this pic: me!, my favourite spraypainted mirror,

my favourite vintage teatowel, my favourite flowers

(handpicked by jun in his parents' garden <3)

fashion friday?

i've finally accepted that my boys are going back to school soon :( they've been asking for some back to school clothes so i made us this for inspiration.



when i showed it to them, they thought i created my own store. ha! love them.

pow-wow powder rooms

it's safe to say that the powder room has one of the smallest square footage in a home (if you're even lucky enough to have one) so why not make it a room that packs the most punch. enter wallpaper. i'm DYING to wallpaper my parents' powder room. it's so bland and beige and blah. it's got honey coloured cabinets with a matching mirror. i'm DYING to paint those too. i've been gathering some inspiration and thought i would share them with you.

via thibaut

via hgtv (sarah's house)

via house beautiful

via elle decor

seeing rainbows

so this whole week was met with lots of challenges on how to get my own site and possibly moving everything from here to wordpress. i've had lots of posts planned but i really wanted to do it on the new, shiny and sparkly site (which is still to come). i also have to get through my reader which has more than a thousand posts waiting for me to skim through them. i also can't wait to share a tour of my home, my sister's and my parents' when we're all done. and my still-jobless state means that i will have time to work on furnitures and things and i'm super excited. way to stick it to the man, right? :) here are my favourite rainbow quotes along with a picture the mister took of the first full rainbow we've ever seen. cole was begging to go to the end to see that pot of gold. ah, kids.

"the work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work"

"somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true"

"life is like a rainbow. you need both the sun and the rain to make its colours appear"

photo by ric

bedroom bind

for some reason, the bedroom really bears the brunt of the collective household mess. see if this scenario sounds familiar: you're having a party tomorrow and the living room needs to be decluttered but you don't have time to sort it all so you dump it all in the bedroom. unless you have a spare bedroom or basement, then those places get it instead. it's the last room we get settled into after a move even though we know it is the room that we'll spend most of our time in. this is the room where it should feel serene and calm. not house a chaotic jumble. so i've rounded up a few beautiful bedroom spaces to inspire us all.

via style at home

via martha stewart


via bhg

via house beautiful

beautiful basements

ah, the basement. at the moment, we don't have one but my parents do. and it needs a lift. a huge one. i want to break down the bar. make a little kitchenette. paint it white and de-mouldify like crazy. i am always in awe of spaces like the ones below where it doesn't even seem like a basement. how do they do this? can i do it too? please? basements don't have to be dingy forever right?

via house & home

via hgtv

via rona

via bhg

stop stair-ing at me

a few years ago, i decided to paint my parents' place. including the stairs. it looked dated and i thought that maybe painting it white would update it. and it did. but i don't think i used the right paint because it is showing a lot of wear on the handrails. so now i want to sand it back to the wood. this is what it should look like when i'm done with it.

via this old house

thank goodness for the sometimes power of reversibility of paint. here are some awesome before and afters to inspire you.

via centsational girl

via your home only better


via future house design

i really love the last one. wood adds so much warmth and texture. so scandi. awesome.