Mommypage.com Feature

Good morning, friends!

Not sure how things are in your neck of the woods.  It's a bit wet and rainy in these parts.  I don't mind the rain if I can sit inside sipping hot cocoa and watching Bath Crashers...the T.V. show, not my real life drama.  But I do mind when I have to head out to a soccer game and sit in if for an hour.  Fingers crossed the wetness stops and is completed evaporated in an hour.

Anywho, a few months back, I was contacted by someome from the blog...mommypage.com asking if they could feature me and my little blog.  I was a bit surprised, as my blog is not really a big deal...more of my online diary/idea book.  But, I happily agreed.

Anywho-anywho, my feature was just posted {I discuss how Retropolitan came to be, where I find my inspiration and give a few tips on how you can quickly and inexpensively liven up your home and make it feel fresh again}.

  

So for those of you not familiar with mommypage.com, please do me a solid and help me show them some love by heading on over and checking them out.  They've got other really great articles and links on all sorts of "mommy" related topics -recipes, crafts, coupons, testimonials... 

And...

In other news, Studly recently found out that he won a trip to...Bora Bora {we leave in a week and a half}.  Holy crap!  Where is that even?  Whatever, I will look at a map later.  But, can you believe it?  

I don't think I've ever seen a place so beautiful.

I would be over the moon excited, I mean I am over the moon excited about it.  But I'm a little anxious about leaving my five, crazy kiddos and then flying for ten hours.  I only have a two, deep to the core, fears...snakes {anything appendage-less} and heights /falling from great heights {here's where the flying thing comes into play}...oh, and bumping into David Beckham in my mommy pants, sans make-up.  

Any tips from you seasoned travelers on how I can knock myself out for ten hours straight, so I'm not "white knuckling" it through the entire flight?  

Spring cleaning and some other stuff

Did a little spring cleaning over the weekend, starting with my blog.  How do you like it?  It feels so much brighter and cleaner now.  If only it were so easy to do the same in my house.

Also, Beckie over at knock-off decor featured my wood veneer dresser redo, inspired by West Elm's patchwork dresser.

I mentioned in the origional post how surprised I was at how easy the veneer was to work with.  

I can't say if that is true for all veneers, but it was about the three types I used.

Anywho, this reminded me that I have still a bum load of wood veneer starting to collect dust.  I should start thinking of some projects I could do that would use some of it up.  Have you come across or made any cool projects involving wood veneer?

Knock Off Decor Feature and a "Light Bulb"moment.

Howdy peeps!

Becky over at knock-off decor is currently featuring my industrial metal letters that I made for my laundry room revamp. {Thanks lady!}

I've made it pretty clear that I am a sucker for a good knock off.  And if you are into knocking off ridiculously over priced home decor as well, I would highly suggest hopping over to her place and taking a look around.  It's amazing to see what people can do with a little ingenuity.

And in other news, I have been dreaming of covering every thing I see in contact paper.  It's gotta stop.  I'm worried that pretty soon I'll be living in a house entirely coated in plastic.  But that said, I love my "wood" lamp shade.  I failed to mention in my post about it how it looked with the light on.  My answer to that is  "FLIPPIN' AWESOME"! 

It looks even better with the lamp turned on.  My only advice is to take extra care when trimming off the excess contact paper.  You can see if it's uneven through the shade when the lamp is on.  After I had adhered my c.p., I just took a razor blade and trimmed all the excess off along the support rings at the top and bottom.  Easy, peasy. 

  

Knock Off Decor Feature

Howdy Peeps!
My Anthropologie secret silhouette lamp shade

is going to be featured over at Knock Off Decor tonight. Happy Early Mother's Day to me!

And a Happy {Almost} Mother's Day to all you mommy's out there in bloggyland too.

I just wanted to send a little bloggy love over to Beckie at Knock Off Decor. I love, love, luh-huv her site. Anything solely devoted to knocking off uber expensive home decor is totally my cup of tea. So, If you love a good knock off as much as I do and are always on the look out for a fun knock off project you should head over and check it out. I assure you, your to-do will be significantly larger afterwards.
Oh, and check back later for my Saturday shop Spotlight. It's a totally awesome project you won't wanna miss.

Remodelaholic Feature

Howdy peeps!

I just wanted to invite all of you to check out my feature over at Remodelaholic. Cassity has been kind enough to share my little girls' bedroom makeover...thanks gurl!

It was such a fun project. I love any excuse to go shopping and spend money...to my hubby's dismay.

Head on over and check it out.

Someday Crafts Feature

I feel like a proud mama right now.
My precious teacup lamp was featured over at Someday Crafts.
*SIGH* Seems like just yesterday I was drilling holes into her whilst comtemplating smashing her in the middle of the road...a labor of patience, to say the least.
So glad I checked myself before I "shattered" her dreams.
Might I encourage you to head on over to Someday Crafts to check out some of her other amazing features...she had an inside out caramel apple that left me drooling like a baby.