Summer.

A post with just a few words and zero pictures puts me high up on the slacker scale. I wanted to say hi, and bye, just for now.

Summer is moving way too fast over here, and instead of any projects getting done, we've just been busy making the most of the season.

I'll be back soon internet people :) Thank you for stopping by here, I really do appreciate it!

Camp Girl

Another milestone on the way to growing up just got checked off. Lily started camp this week. I had planned to keep her home for another year, but due to various circumstances it became evident that now was the right time to send her out into the big wide world.

My little, social, funny, and outgoing girl is loving it.

There's nothing like having your baby girl running into your arms at the end of her day and giving you a kiss and telling you just how much she missed you. Knowing she had a great day and is being taken care of puts my mind at ease during the day when I am missing her too. And it is just too cute listen to her talk about "my friends."

There are of course major sleep benefits to camp as well.

Unless this happens first.

Mini Conversations

...Or conversations with the Minis. Because they are a pretty funny pair.

While watching a World Cup match:
Lily: "bad guy fall down!" 
(Don't know how she decided which team she was going for, I wasn't even watching, the game was on in a froyo shop while we were there.)

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Moshe: "Mommy and Daddy got married a long time ago."
Lily: "Mickey and Minnie too!"


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We used the parent swap line, so Daniel and I could both go on the Indiana Jones ride on our trip to Disneyland this summer. Moshe got to ride twice, so he prepared me for what was ahead.

Moshe: It's like the Winnie the Pooh ride, just a little more scarier."

Pull Up A Chair

So let's talk about chairs. 

I've been toying with the idea of adding a tiny "home office" area to our master bedroom in the very limited space that is available. I've been throwing a bunch of design ideas around in my head, but each idea has a ghost chair in it. 

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I love the style of this chair, but I also love how it won't take up much visual space in the tiny area I am using. I would throw an Ikea sheepskin over it, because those are awesome (and cheap) and will be nice to cuddle up to while I do home officey things. Basically, this chair has been on my lust list for quite some time. Then I got to thinking about the spaces I drool over in design magazines and pictures on Pinterest and I realized that in each space I am drawn to the seating. Maybe I'm a couch/fab chair potato. I just really like me some nice chairs. 

One Kings Lane is a website that offers flash sales on amazing furniture and home decor. (You need to be a member to shop the sales, but you can use this link right here, to easily sign yourself up and let your inner shopaholic free!) They got in touch with me to let me know about a new decorating resource they are providing, an inspirational guide to help people when they are purchasing and styling chairs. I read through A Complete Guide to Modern Chairs and loved what they had written for a few reasons. I was a history nerd  major in college. I love history, and I love that this guide combined an old love, history, with my new love, home decor. And I loved that my beloved ghost chair was in it! It was really cool for me to read about the chair, and how it was made modern by making a classic French style chair in lucite. 

And then my little history loving brain exploded because I realized one of my favorite chairs ever is from my grandmother's house, and it's a French style chair as well. My grandmother has rocked at home decor for as long as I can remember. She has amazing furniture and has been the Queen of a well put together gallery wall, for years, ok decades, (sorry, Bobby) long before bloggers were writing "How to Make a Gallery Wall" posts. 

I decided it's pretty cool that my grandmother has this French style chair, and I will (hopefully soon) own the modern version of the chair. Hashtag twenty first century for the win. 

Another standout for me on One King's Lane guide is the Eames Lounge and Ottoman. Once upon a time I walked into my most stylish friend's bedroom and my jaw hit the floor. She had told me about a chair they had inherited from her husband's grandfather, and when I saw it I was all "OH EM GEE you have an actual Eames chair!"

A few months later  she found out it was not an authentic Eames chair. While there won't be any trip to The Antiques Roadshow, I still think it's cool to have a knock off that is actually a knock of from the mid-century as opposed to just any Eames knock off that was produced in 2013. She moved the chair to the playroom and I'm giving my girl extra bonus decor points because she styled this chair in such a modern fun way with bright pillows, and a chevron throw, because it is just awesome to mix old and new. (If brides are encouraged to do it, I say lets all do it, all the time.)

My little sister has been furnishing her first apartment in such a chic way. Instead of running out and buying a bunch of things just to fill the space, she has slowly been collecting pieces that she really loves. (Oh how I wish I had done this way back when.) When she pulled the trigger and bought an amazing chair I was insanely jealous. 

After reading A Complete Guide to Modern Chairs, I decided this chair has the design elements of Scandinavian/Danish Modern chairs. (Lily would be thrilled to know her aunt's chair design hails from the land of Elsa and Anna, or not really, but whatever people I'm writing this late at night.) And this also gets top marks in the styling department. 

I think using this guide can help you find design styles you may not have thought about previously. You can see which chairs designs are related to the ones you like, and then add pieces in to your collection that don't necessarily match, but complement each other. 

I'm going to go dream about the fab chairs I would be adding to my home, if I wasn't so tight on space now. Anyone have a particular style of chair that is high on their lust list? Let me know below! And let me know if you can find it in One King's Lane guide! Happy shopping!

p.s. This was NOT a sponsored post, and as always, all opinions are 100% my own. 

Hey It's Me Again

Hello internet people! I'm back. 

We took a family trip to California last week, and it was really amazing. 

I'm trying to get back into the swing of things, and get used to our new summer schedule, but I haven't quite yet managed it, due to post vacation exhaustion, or jet lag or whatever it is you want to call it.

Hopefully by the end of this week I'll have something new to write. Maybe a vacation recap, or maybe a DIY. Just wanted to let you know this blog hasn't gone anywhere. 

p.s. Palm trees are the best! Nothing screams vacation to me like a palm tree.