Saturday morning, 9 AM
Mal goes through phases where he gets extremely cuddly- he’ll follow me everywhere and rest his head on my lap any time I sit down. This weekend he’s decided to be my cuddly little shadow, and I’m in puppy heaven :)
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This past spring I opened up my blog to sponsors for a limited time- like instead of having a blog I actually run an extremely quiet public radio program. It was an interesting experiment & in the past few months my little blog has just kept growing.
I wasn’t sure if I was going to continue with ads, but in talking with the people who were kind enough to support me in the spring, it seemed like with a couple changes it could be a good fit. So after a bit of thinking & looking at my traffic, I’m going to be bringing it back. I know that ads are a funny beast, but I’m excited to work them in here in a way that works for readers & sponsors alike.
What this will look like for you:
If you have a blog or a business that you’re looking to attract some attention to, please visit my advertising page or e-mail me at kylaroma [at] gmail.com for info & traffic information.
Thanks so much! :)
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I love my little house. It’s tiny, well worn, and more than a little bit quirky- but it’s mine. Lately I’ve been wanting to redecorate the living & dining rooms, and I’ve been having visions of warm small spaces that will keep me cozy through the winter. But before I show you what I’m aiming for, here’s a little about where we live.
Our house turned 101 years old this year
It’s a cozy and tiny 780 sq. ft
There are seven little rooms in our house + an entry way, front & back porches
It’s one and a half stories & has lots of sweet little character features
So when I say “house” please take your idea of a house and lop off about half of it, add kitchen windows that steam up when you cook in the winter, and hard wood floors that are worn and comfy. Is it in the middle of the city, and do the houses around it need a bit of love? Can you hear teenagers practicing guitar and games of pick up basketball in the distance? Then you’re getting close :)
We’ve done a lot of work on it in two years, from electrical work, new doors & windows, painting the exterior to scary shanty/ future meth lab removal. But in spite of a lot of work done on the outside, we’ve mostly left the inside as we found it. That means that it’s full of semi-mismatched furniture bought for our old apartments, and odd paint colour choices from the last owners.
We’re on a tight budget, but my little house has great bones and I want to let them shine. I would love to take wide pictures inside the house without having to edit them because the dark paint pulls all the light out of the room. It think all it would take is a little paint, some bright colours and a little love.
So? This is going to be my fall project & these are what I would love my end result to look like…
Bright, crafty & modern! That’s the idea at least :)
Are you an interior design rock star? Please, tell me your ways…
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Elsie at A Beautiful Mess is hosting a really wonderful challenge to pick four simple goals for the rest of the year- but not results oriented goals, ones that will get you doing things that make you happy. Every month when I pick my goals for my inspiration & type a-ery posts I seem to focus on end results rather than the process, so I was really excited for this challenge.
So much of my work revolves around the computer that my back pain has started to get the best of me again. With giving up my 5K challenge, I need to have something that gets me moving, grounds me and calms me down – and after my first Moksha class last night, I’m hooked!! I can’t wait to go back & keep at this, my back feels amazing :)
Jesse & I have been crazy busy lately, and a lot of the time my work takes up my evenings and weekends. I’m excited to make sure we have designated time to have really focused, fun time together every week. The plan is that we alternate planning them, which I’m really excited about because we tend to be all about consensus building, so it’s fun to plan little surprises for the other person.
I have a really hard time when I’m around any kind of conflict and I tend to deal with it by trying to diffuse it immediately, no matter what. But you know what? As long as no one is trying to be hurtful, disagreement is really just a difference and that’s allowed. (And lets be honest, if someone is actually trying to be hurtful, I’m not going to have much luck diffusing that!) I love when things go smoothly, but I’m trying to take a step back from playing the negotiator all the time & just let some of it go.
I have So! Many! Plans! I’m excited to start transforming the inside of our house into my perfect cozy cottage. We’ve done so much work on the outside, and I can’t wait to focus on out living space & my craft studio.
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There’s something about rainy weekends that make it easier to get things done. In the past few days I did more blog design work than you could shake a stick at, got my resume updated, and even remembered to return my latest batch of library books on time! There is so much coming up in the next few weeks that getting through items like that on my To Do list is a huge win. I’m working on getting my etsy shop ready for launch, I have two little trips coming up and a house guest coming in September. It’s all exciting and wonderful stuff- but to get through it all in good time I’m starting to batten my hatches and just work through my To Do list with as much energy as I can muster.
That being said, the weekend did have some intrigue in store. Sometime on Friday night my car was broken into. Someone let themselves into our backyard, popped the car doors open and turned everything inside out. Thankfully there was nothing valuable for them to take, but it was strange to wake up and find everything upside down. I found a formidable padlock that’s keeping our big gate closed from now on. It boggles my mind a litte- have’t people stopped keeping their valuable possessions in their vehicles? Did they mistake my Ford Focus for a Spanish Galleon?
(I always forget to lower its sails, I was probably asking for it.)
After I got my car cleaned up, Jesse & I went out of a really fun errand. I’m a huge boardgame geek and so we’ve been scouting 2 – 5 player games to play in the fall. We settled on one called Smallworld this weekend and went out to the historic downtown of our city and bought it along with my favourite chocolate covered cakettes. We spent all Sunday reading through the rules, playing, eating popcorn and refusing to leave our pyjamas. It was my perfect Sunday & I’m so happy to have a new game to play! Smallworld party anyone? :)
There has been a lot going on lately, and when that happens my favourite thing to do is dig into the things that ground me: cooking, crafting & hanging with my family. I’m looking forward to a week of all three.
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