I do my best to update this daily... sometimes I am too busy. Or too boring. No more parties to plan and wrapping paper drives to chair. Now it's time to redirect focus to me and us and our home. The painters started this week. HURRAH! My living room and dining room should be done by the end of the week! Yahoo! Remember my plaid panelled walls? Well they are no more!




Blue Bayou (801) which will be a matte stripe and Ivory Tusk (OC91) below for our trim in both the dining and living rooms.

This is Benjamin Moore's Lenox Tan (HC44) which also happens to be a Pottery Barn select color and will be on the walls of the living room. For a little drama and color the ceiling will be Mediterranean Breeze (799) which is in the same color family (pictured below)as the two in the dining room. I want the two rooms to have separate feels and yet flow.

The living room is right now being stripped of equally hideous wallpaper (I'm sorry I never got around to taking a picture of it) I am so excited! The final thing we need to do is to get a big comfy sectional for the family room so that we can put the couch back into the living room... in another couple of weeks we'll be there and we'll be able to entertain and have dinner parties and this Entertaining Mom is so very excited about that! I need to start planning some meals and appetizers and cocktails of course!

My holiday season has already started and our weekends are filling up. Cheer is in the air. I can't wait to break out my Christmas decor and get the house smelling like the holiday season with balsam and fir and baking!