“Fall” in love with The Painted Sofa

Is anyone else ready for fall? This Kansas heat has really started to mess with my head and to be honest, I can’t take much more of it. I need sweaters, boots, hot coffee and can we please for the love of cold weather enter socially-accepted soup season?! (Every season is soup season in my […]

Brunch Punch Love

You should probably know that I have a deep love for brunch. I mean, who doesn’t like brunch?! You’ve got coffee, cocktails, breakfast foods, friends, and family all wrapped up in the happiest two-hour little package. Brunch entertaining is relatively new to me. For some reason, before we had kids, it never occurred to me […]

5 Tips To Create A Beautiful Entryway

Entryways are hard to style in my opinion. Large ones can feel overwhelming and small ones can feel cramped. In our case, we had no defined entryway. Our light-blocking front door opened right into our living room with no separation and no pause before you entered the rest of the house. I just plopped an […]

Time to “Spruce”

So there’s this sweet little shop called Spruce just a short walk from my house in old Leawood. I can tell you it’s always worth every step to get there for it’s inspiration and it’s inventory. I’ve been here several times and I always find something(s) to take home. (I’ve actually learned to just drive […]

A Pretty Place To Lay Our Heads

I’ve been dreaming about this room for a while. Will and I have had at least 5 bedrooms in our 11 years together in various houses/apartments, none of which felt anything but functional. I remember our first apartment together. We were so hard up for cash having just moved to California that we slept on […]