Pinterest Inspired EBTH = LOVE

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 You know my intense love for all things neutral. Yet lately, I've been thinking about color. Not all colors....just blue. Its been on my mind since I picked up some Ikat fabric {here} a few months back while on an out of town trip with the Mr.
Well then I realized while scrolling through my Pinterest boards late the other night that I had pinned quite a few rooms with blueish green sofas...hmmmm.

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 This image here below is something I've been holding on to for years...I've been smitten with this room since I laid eyes on it in the pages of Southern Living.

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But what really got me was this image below...gah! It's so good! I wanted to recreate this space completely. But I wanted to be able to do it on a budget because if you have all the money to go out and just buy everything you see in a magazine or on Pinterest then interior styling is so much easier. Obviously!! But if you have to stick within a budget like the majority of us then you must be creative. You need to have excellent resources to pull from and thats where Everything But The House comes in! It wasn't that long ago I was raving about this one of a kind website on here!!

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I pretty much knew I could find the majority of these items on the EBTH website and you are going to die when you see this beauty I found!!! Shut up! So good, RIGHT!!! 

I love this sofa!! {I would totally paint the legs black} I feel like I could do so much with this piece and it fit perfectly in with my plan of recreating this room. Sometime's you just get lucky..this was that day! 

Everything in this design board below is straight from the EBTH website! Some of these items are  currently listed and others are from ended auctions. 

 Every last thing! Which to me is so crazy that not only do they offer all these amazing pieces but at auction prices where the cost is so much lower than retail! 

It just goes to show that you if you visit their website regularly you can build a complete room just from shopping EBTH!

Adding in bamboo shades, fun curtain panels and some pillows would pull the entire room together and complete the space!  Every space needs some living elements so don't forget to add in your plants like the current "it" plant, the fiddle leaf fig or my all time favorite... succulents.

I always look for my main pieces first. The largest items that you will place in a room. They will set the tone for the entire room and what better way to stay in budget then to purchase them on the cheap but still maintain great quality. 

Whomever walks away with this sofa is the luckiest and I would love to see how they style it in their own space because you can see how I would use it....oh I need more rooms!

You can find a link to all of these items {here}

{Sponsored but all opinions and designs are my own}

Missing the Boat

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This is one of those posts where Im most likely going to ramble a bit so feel free to check out at anytime. This is the post that Im writing because I felt the pull to write one and although my initial thought was to finally get the post up about our DIY planked floors, when I went to write it and then edit my photos I realized that my Lightroom membership had expired and now will take sometime in the next 24 hours to start up again! UGH. 

But I thought, Im going to write something anyway. Which leads me to this...staying focused on the goal while everything seems to be swirling around you. 

I have a major goal and one that I have prayed daily about....Oh, please God lead me down the path that is best for my family. Not the one that I think I want, but the one that will make me a better wife, mother, friend. 

I've been working a regular full time job from my home for the past four years and although it can be rewarding it is not where my passion lies. I want to be creative. I want to be around creatives. I want to create and be imaginative and use this gift that God gave me to create something better. I want to make everything around me beautiful and functional and comfortable. Not just in my own home but for others too. I will do this, I am doing this. But this is the thing. I am still working my full time job which has been a real challenge in balancing it all. 

 My husband is my greatest support and he has pushed me and convinced me to give up the full time gig during the day and go full force with my styling services. It scares me a little but Im doing it. 

Life is too short. Something that has been a constant reminder for me as of late. 

So, I'm now in the final stretch of my last days with my full time job while still being a mommy and a wife with everything that comes with it. I am also staying up late working on this little design business, trying to find time to blog with something worthy of you reading it. 

It can be exhausting but so liberating and exciting at the same time. I can't remember the last time I felt this happy. 

But there are those days when I feel like I'm missing the boat. Like I waited too long and it left me on the dock. I unknowingly allow myself fall into the swirling abyss of my own mind where I think I'm too late. But then I have to remind myself that this is my one life and I have to make it wonderful!

So as I write this little motivational message to myself to stay focused, stay positive, don't allow my own mind to make me feel like the possible is impossible, I hope it will give you a little push to do what God is calling you to do.

What it is that makes your soul sing out loud! That one thing that you have hesitated to do because your mind has tried to convince you that you missed the boat! Oh friend, there are so many more boats!! 

Hang in there, I'm not alone, you are not alone. We so easily get discouraged by the perceptions of what others are doing and how they are holding it together so perfectly. We so quickly convince ourselves of these things just by looking at one glossy image that was strategically placed on our Instagram feed. Oh you know what I'm talking about. 

I needed this pep talk, I hope it helped you too. 

Have a wonderful day my friend and stay focused...you are amazing, you will be amazing at whatever you chose to do. You haven't missed the boat.