Happy Monday to everyone! Hopefully you all had a great weekend! I did! Mine was very eventful and I may need a day off this week just to get back into the flow of things.

Friday started out great with a visit from a prospective new client into my design studio. This is a young restauranteur and a bachelor, who recently bought a three storey townhome in the beautiful and prestigious Heights neighborhood of Houston. One of his restaurants is located right across the courtyard from my studio. He’s been admiring a certain wallpaper I have featured on one wall in the studio, which is what brought him in. I have been longing to do a bachelor pad for a while now, so hopefully this will work out great. It turns out that his style is not the usual contemporary, Manhattan chic style you would expect, but more of my personal style – rustic European with a touch of elegance. I am so excited about this opportunity!

 

 

 

 

Sample of the Romo wallpaper that was bait for this potential project

Saturday was the big community garage sale for the subdivision where I currently live. I decided to participate this season since I am moving to a new, smaller home and wanted a change. I am ready for new style and color, plus my bigger furnishings won’t work as well in the new home. So, I got the kids up early at 8:00 and together set up a great vignette of rugs, florals, accessories, furniture pieces and curtains. It started out pretty slow, and I even started to question whether the effort was worth it. But then, like wildfire, the news of the beautiful, and cheap designer items began to spread throughout the neighborhood, and before I knew it, my driveway was packed with bargain hunters who were just clammering for these items. I was even getting requests for items that I didn’t plan on selling. My old comforter sets, for example, were hot commodities! I was running back and forth to my linen closet looking for matching pieces to satisfy the demand. By noon we were tired and ready to lock up shop. My daughter Courtney, who was was the treasurer, counted up our profits…..We made $3428.00!! Plus $485 that we should be receiving this evening from a lady who wants to purchase some furniture pieces in my guest bedroom. I would say it was a very profitable 4 hours!

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are just some of the items out in the driveway, before the patrons arrived

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Staging area in my formal living room the night before

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is one of the bedroom sets I sold. I even got a project out of it. This lady wants me to come to her home and decorate her master bedroom with these pieces and some other items she already owned. Plus she needs new windows treatments

Sunday, the kids and I skipped church for the first time in a very long time and headed to The Emblem 3 concert here in Houston. You may remember them from the past season of X-Factor USA. They are three very talented young men from Southern California, with a very unique sound. My daughter and I are big fans of theirs and voted for them several times during the competition. They didn’t win, and we were very sad to see them get booted off, but they are doing just fine! After waiting in line with a bunch of screaming teenaged girls for what seemed like an eternity, we finally got to see them perform live. It was amazing!!! We even got to meet them after the event, which my daughter was very excited about . For the first time in a long time, I fet like a teenager again! My daughter looked and me, smiled and said “This is the best day ever!” Well worth the 3 hour wait in the Texas sun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the crazy line of teenaged girls!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My son Joshua!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The boys performing. Here’s a short video that I captured of their performance. Not the best quality but you get the idea

Later in the afternoon we went to look at the progress of the new digs. Here’s an update:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Stucco completed
2. Garage Door added, ready for paint
3. Driveway and walkway poured

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Stair parts added
2. Trim in progress
3. Paint in progress
4. Back patio added (Not shown)

So, the new digs is coming along nicely!

Monday is off to an eventful start! Got my fluids in my car changed today….a whopping $204!!! Very necessary though. Next week will be new tires

Today is my Chiweenie’s birthday! His name is Rufus and he turns 4! Help me wish him a happy birthday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He was not in the mood for a photo moment

Ok, back to work for me. I have floorplans to draw and fabrics to pick out. Happy Monday! and Happy Earth Day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be Inspired!