you guys are the best!

a million trillion thanks for all the lovely words yesterday.

i never have a problem pouring it out to you guys over things like,

my butt, my buttzits, my vagina, my anxiety disorder,

my poop disorder.

but showing your design work on a (mostly) design blog where people are looking through their savvy design eyeballs (judging) is real scary.

not that i know i can't make a pretty room, i surely can..

but not having it EXACTLY where i want it means that it isn't EXACTLY what i want to show you.

and that can be dangerous if you're a decorator person.

but i couldn't wait another 3 months to show you what you've all been patiently waiting for.

plus this way those of you wanting to decorate your own spaces can see that it doesn't always come together perfectly and mistakes ARE made and you CAN change your mind and you WILL change your mind.

and because i am crazy for decorating i already want to change things.

somehow i can't seem to get brown and white gingham out of my head.

how sick would that headboard look in a brown and white gingham against those purply walls?!

i'll tell you one thing..

would be a lot easier for me to pick bedding.

but as i said, this room is for fiona not for me and i don't really have the means to decorate a corner of a doll house let alone a real house right now...so 

there you are.

but anyway..thanks.

i mean it.

in honor of my thanks i give you this:

 

 raise your hand if you watched all 90 minutes of this bullshit the other night and were like..

you guys seriously had to rehash last year's ramona hurt luann's feelings with her weekend mom comment!?

at a set up party no less?

that was such a bullshit flavored set up that even aviva's bag of legs gave andy cohen the (wooden toe) finger.

and i of course loved every minute of it..

here are my takeaway thoughts on this whole parade of insanity.

#1  jersey housewives are my favorite housewives.

rosie is my hero.

#2 luann looked mesmerizingly beautiful in every single scene.

#3 heather-

mario and ramona were RIGHT!

shut the fuck up already.

and if ramona is talking you need to shut your giant man face and listen.

it's RAMONA!! 

respect.

#4 heather i am sorry your baby was born with a liver condition i cannot imagine what that must have been like and a million hugs to you for having to endure that.

BUT SHUT THE FUCK UP ANYWAY!!

#5 ramona- you shut up too.

this way heather doesn't have to not listen to you.

#6 sonja- my sweet sonja.

i love you and have nothing bad to say about you.

#7 aviva- 

sorry about your leg. 

you seem to be handling it like a boss.

and you have 4 kids.

ultimate respect.

i can barely manage one, with BOTH of my legs.

#8 carole-

you seem like a no nonsense gal who maybe takes downers?

ramona and heather need a little of what you're on.

i love your hair.

why are you on this show?

thoughts on the best show in the universe?

and thanks again for yesterday.

i love you guys hard.

 

yes

not sure what it is if it's not just everything..

that little yellow chair for starters.

and the liquid chocolate walls.

but let's all punch ourselves in the neck over that box in front of the bed that holds the most important thing in the universe..

a television.

 i would never ever leave this room.

speaking of TV.

season 2 of the best show ever, downton abbey, airs this sunday on PBS.

if you haven't seen season 1 then i encourage you to take the next 6 hours to watch it here.

if you already watch then you are in for a treat tomorrow..

so come back here.

for your treat.

 

some things to think about..

working on a slight zshushing of the bedroom..

this of course stemmed from the fact that i desperately need new sheets.

i already have a great big coral puffy quilt and i love lavender with coral..so BAM!

lavender sheets.

already have the lamps, just need new shades.

window shades are being made as we speak.

just need a brass headboard and a 5,000 dollar rug

and i'm all set.

JK!

i would NEVER buy a 5000 dollar rug bc i have 4 cats and they will pee all over it 1000 times.

anyone know of a rug that is exactly like this but pee resistant?

also..

this show melts my face off...

so fucking INSPIRED!!!

it was nice to finally hear the "cocktail" of pills kim has been taking.

i love it when people who use drugs that are prescribed by doctors seem to think they are not using drugs somehow and that it's ok.

we aren't talking 1 antidepressant here folks.  

so don't get your panties all ruffled.

this bitch is toxic.

 basically she is a legal junkie.

new light was shed on paul for me this week.

how he puts up with that passive aggressive bitch adrienne is beyond me.

i hope he has a side piece.

slowly but surely.

if you haven't read it already,

please read this..

because it's awesome. 

p.s.

seances are the new BBQ's.

"i'm excited for this project though because anything we do is gonna make it look better"...a novogratz discussion

(beach house before)

(beach house after)

wise words cortney novogratz.

i could have rubbed blood and dead cats all over that place and it would have looked better.

HOWEVER...

was anyone else side-eyeing the "$40,000 budget" talk?

i thought for the clients (2 young surfer chick sisters) the house they designed was brilliant.

here is what i am thinking...

the smeg costs what, about 3 grand? right?

the pink stove was prolly what...5 grand?

the new kitchen cabinets were at LEAST 10 grand, on the low end?

the shades for ALL 11 windows downstairs plus some upstairs..were probably 2 grand? 1 maybe?

plus there were the floors (refinished), the stairs (rebuilt), all of the furniture, the 3,000 dollar piece of (heinous) art,  the graffiti artist who came to do an art installation (though he prolly did it for free so he could have some free advertising), the wallpaper (anyone know what that was?)..etc..

all in all i am guessing this makeover cost them more like 100,000.

thoughts?

p.s. the top picture is totally not the before of this house but it was super gross like that sort of.