Clocks

My clock broke.  I don't remember what happened exactly but it ended up shattered on the floor.  Anyway, I am in the market and I want something interesting.

I found this modern cuckoo clock on Etsy. Unfortunately my husband won't go for it.

So then I found this clock on Craigslist.  I think I'm going to go for it.  I want to paint it ( much to my husbands chagrin).  But it looks beautiful in my head, here's to hoping that vision translates to reality.

Any suggestions on color?

to party

When it comes to parties, I am not a detail oriented person. I don't go all out on decorations, I rarely plan a balanced menu (hodge podge would be a more adequate term for my food selections) and I never make cute tag things that identify everything.

Then I saw this post on Lizzy Writes, and if you replace typed labels with hand-written ones, I think I could pull these cute tag labels off. Maybe my next party will be a fancy one with labels!

photos via Lizzy Writes

front door

I was talking to my brother last night and he told me that he and his wife are contemplating building a house rather than buying one. The concept of building a house is always intriguing to me. How do you go about choosing styles? What details to add and what to leave?

There are two things I know I want, a garage hidden to the side or back

and an awesome front door.
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