Well...

...nothing new really to report. And I don't want to seem whiney, so I'm going to keep this short and sweet. I'm feeling fat. And tired. And clumsy.

In other news, I've finished up my last two projects until baby gets here...one of which you can see here. 

When I finish a project, I always feel like I'm coming off a design high and if I don't have something to immediately delve back into. I go through a little design withdrawal. So I'll keep up with designerly-type things on my design blog for the weeks to come. 

But if you don't hear much from me here, it's probably because I'm trying not get too repetitive with the whole "I feel huge and am ready pop" stuff. 

Anyway, here I am at 34 weeks with my pretty friend Lindsey at her wedding last weekend, a lamp that I love in Eva's nursery (love that it looks like a little lady hat), and Mo. Just keeping the Cuddle Bunny warm for her for a couple weeks. How thoughtful of him. 

Little by little!

Well, things are starting to shape up around here! Slowly, our new house is starting to feel more homey. Obviously, more space means more things to fill it up...and more means, well more. More money to spend, more time to instal. And more is something that we don't necessarily have right now. So the little things get me really excited. And little by little we'll get there!

We've replaced the generic (aka ugly) chandelier in our dining area with this vintage-cool pendant (love the light bulb!), have a lot for the bathrooms, just need to find the time to paint, replace light fixtures and mirrors, etc., and we have curtains for our living room. But those won't go up for about another month when poor little Gigi gets declawed.

That's another story altogether. Last week, I took both cats to get declawed and got a call that Gigi has a mild infection and so her surgery has to be postponed while she's on antibiotics. Have you ever tried to give a cat a pill? Sometimes it's fine, other times it's miserable. And usually she just throws it up. So I'm just praying really hard that these antibiotics will work. Otherwise, I don't know what we're going to do.

If your friends with me on Facebook, you may have seen that I was thinking of giving her away. Well. I don't want to do that. But I can't have her with her claws around the baby. She's just a little too crazy.

In other news, I'm trying to take on a little bit of freelance editing work, so wish me luck on that!

Oh, and it's Leap Year Day! Which means if you're a lady, you can propose to your man. Whatever. Happy Leap Year Day!

Christmas YAY

So I know I mentioned before that we put our tree but not the ornaments. This is why.

G loves hanging out in the tree. She might be the only ornament we need.

In other Christmas decoration news, our house is the definitely the best looking of all on our street. We may or may not have gone to such extreme measures as using our neighbor's car in lieu of a latter for putting lights on our palm tree. I have better pictures, but here are a few from my phone.

And one more thing. It's cold. I thought I'd miss cold Christmases when we first moved here. I was wrong. For one thing it is cold here and for another I'm not into it. Gimme 60 degrees!

Aaaand one last thing. I love Charlie Brown Christmas. It is better than all other Christmas movies.

That is all.

Easy Like Sunday Morning

Good morning! The weather this morning is divine. I've had the windows open since yesterday and there are fewer things more refreshing than waking up to fresh air and bright morning sunlight pouring throw every window of your house. Lovely.

Brendan's been in Clemson this weekend, camping and watching football with his college buddies, so I've had the house to myself, and I must say, I've been pretty productive.

Recently, I found out that my insurance covered 22 free massages a year {CHA-CHING!}, so I decided cash in and had one yesterday morning. I can't really think of a better to start off a Saturday!

Feeling like jell-o (and a little spoiled :/ ), I made my way over to World Market on a mission to "make our house look like fall" at the special request of my secretly style savvy hubby. Yeah Brendan, you may be having fun being all rugged and manly in the wilderness this weekend, but I know what's really important to you ;)

I think I was pretty successful, but still have some loose ends to tie up. Gigi seems to approve.

I also discovered what might be my new favorite place for cocktails in Charleston. It's called The Gin Joint downtown on East Bay (where Robert's used to be). Think 1920's speak easy. Swanky music + suspenders + juleps + gin = totally fab. And even in all of it's Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan fabness, it's still really laid back and chill and just a great environment. I will forewarn that it's a bit pricey, but take it from me, all you need is one drink. They are legit. So unless you want to be tripping all over yourself and maybe breaking an ankle on the cobblestone sidewalks downtown, do yourself a favor and sip your julep or knickerbocker slooowlllyyy and enjoy! We sure did!

Yes, I did say drink only one. The julep's not mine, but I just had to have a picture with it. The silver cup, silver straw, huge sprig of mint...so pretty!

Hope you've all had a wonderful weekend!

xoxo

♡

So you might as well just read The Pioneer Women's blog.

I'm sorry. I just have to give P-Dub another shout out because LOOK AT THIS CAT!!

O M G. I love.

Just read it. I mean, come on.