A NEW PROJECT

I am sure we are all getting ready for Thanksgiving....lucky me my sister owns a restaurant so cooking is something I can cross off my list!  But....I am still working and had to ask my clients nicely if I could have Thursday off:)

Here is some exciting news though.....

A picture of my kitchen from Atlanta Magazine Home!  Out now this very minute...whoop

My friend Lisa Mowry wrote the article and she made me sound pretty cool and hip:)  The photography is by Anthony-Masterson.

First project is a total renovation from Ladisic Fine Homes.

Foyer floors...yes please!

Ceiling trim!  So pretty!

The kitchen is almost in....

This Circa Lighting fixture is on the butlers pantry.....

Basement....

Club room

Clubroom plan.....

 

It's coming along at a swift speed scheduled to move in right before Christmas.

The next project is a second home down in Madison, Georgia for my neighbor who has the beautiful backyard.  I wrote about it here....

You can also read about it here

Anyway we strolled down to look at it the other day....because she said it needed a little bit of work.

Huh.....a little?

Hmmmmm......kidding right?

A brown sea of furniture and deer.  I have been working on a plan which includes changing out 10

sconces  that look like this...

Sprinkled all over the house.  Did I mention there are 10?

This one will take a little thought don't cha think?

Anyway....I gotta scoot for a curtain install this morning so I hope you all have the best Thanksgiving ever!

Shagobblegobble

 

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MY DAMN NEIGHBOR

Some of you may remember a while back that I wrote about my neighbors back yard.  

Even though she is a yankee and goes up to some "waspy" island in Maine every summer for a month I am still friendly with her....or so she thinks.

Eye roll.

But here is the good thing.  Silver linings baby.

She has 2 Portuguese Water dogs and I have one rescue Old English that needs socializing.  

I'm always thinking about poking my fingers in her eyes when she's talking but in-between "we are leaving for a month....renovating our bedroom" I heard "bring Cami over to play and have a glass of wine".  My ears perked up and I thought I can suffer through that for my child.....only I will bring my 6.99 wine over instead of drinking her 2.99 swill.

Thank goodness our dogs got along and played for an hour since I had to sit in her just OK  pretty darn nice paradise  backyard....cheap wine or not.

There's my girl!

That's Henry [the "show dog" of course right?] who was quite smitten with my big girl!

 I can put my envious feelings aside because....Cami and Henry are now fast friends!  Success.

If you follow me on Instagram then you saw that we spent a few days in Boulder, Co visiting our daughter and her husband.  Love that town!

Can you believe they put us up at this cute hotel called The Bradley Boulder right off Pearl Street.  Clearly they did not want to clean the house:)

I give it 5 stars!

We ate dinner at Blackbelly Market 

 If you are a foodie then you know Chef Hosea  won Top Chef....and yes those that know me will laugh because I only stumbled upon that information.

Crikey.....bread pudding.

We also stumbled across this great gelato shop......Fior di Latte

 Cute huh?

We left very early Saturday morning to hitch a ride to the airport with Cari.  Like.... 4 AM early.  Since our flight did not leave until 10:30 I decided to get a little exercise at the terminal.  Remember that bread pudding....that was just the beginning of "the great Boulder sugar overload".

I walked 4 miles up and down concourse B.  In sandals.  And now I have blisters.

So there you have my week.

Monday is here to punch me in the face....real hard.

Sheriky freaky

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PEA GREEN WITH ENVY......

My neighbors backyard...or as I like to refer to her as "the bitch next door".....

Let me explain.

I have lived in my house for about 19 years.  We were the first couple to renovate on our street so I was pretty smug about my home.

Then THEY move in about 5 years later.  She hires my favorite builder to renovate.  That pissed me off.

Now here is where the trouble begins..... she hired another designer to work with.  WHAT????  Does she not know the "talent" that lives next door to her????

AND she proceeds to build a nice big bad ass house.  Making mine look like Barbies play house.  Secretly I still begrudge her but that is her insecurity to need the "bigger house".   Whatever.

Don't get me wrong.  We drink wine on her front porch and all is forgiven.  Then she built a screened in porch with a fireplace.

"What" I said to her...did she rob a bank, is it her life's purpose to just keep pushing our "neighborship"?

Well...just recently I noticed a lot of activity going on in her backyard [although I can't see what is because of bushes].

I felt my blood pressure rising every time I would see her walking her dogs and she would say "you need to come see what we have done".  I would say through clenched teeth...yeah sure bitch "neighbor" [our pet name for each other].

She begged invited me to come by Friday night for a bottle glass of wine.

Here is what I saw.

Are you serious.  You did this just to see the look on my face?  It is not quite finished yet...some awesome cool thing to be done to the concrete wall...I stopped listening.

Nice organic garden on one side.  When she is out of town I will let my dogs in there to pee on it.

More beauty.

Of course..... a water feature.

I am starting to feel real hatred towards her.

Wildflowers.  Wild this bi....atch.

The porch.  

The fireplace.....my wine which I am about to toss in her face.

Did I mention the swing?

AND...this is where we sat while I told her why I resented her so damn much.

Oh we tossed our heads back and laughed. All the while I pictured her losing all of her teeth at an early age.  Or something like that.

Finally I couldn't take it anymore and stumbled home to take out a frozen pizza for dinner.  I am sure she served something worthy of a spread in Martha Stewart on that f*#@**.....back porch.

I will be pouting all weekend.

Happy Memorial Day.  

Sha poo poo.

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