casey and laurel

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

nightstand

Still working on my resolution to get the guest bedroom finished this year. I found this awesome nightstand at Nadeau.

The room will need some more brown in it, but I think it works perfectly!

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Monday, January 23, 2012

I'm thrilled that we're making progress on the guest bedroom, which is one of my new year's resolutions. I use this room for all my painting projects. Recently we attached these magnetic storage strips and bar for hanging supplies to the wall by my desk.

This is still a work in progress, but here's what's going on at the moment with my workspace:

Still my favorite part of the room: tall set of storage drawers!

The only other piece of furniture in the room is this bookshelf, which still needs some work as well:

The room still needs some work, but it's coming along!

Sunday, January 22, 2012

building our new bed

Our main purchase at IKEA was a new bed for our guest bedroom (which also serves as my office). It took about 6 hours to construct this thing, so I'm glad I like the results! :)

Headboard complete!

A bit overwhelming

She wants to be part of it all

Big bed in a tiny room

Can I help?

Finished constructing!

Final product!

Best part

Glad to have some attention again

I love having a real bed in the room instead of just a frame! It's cute and it has great storage in the drawers underneath! When we move one day, hopefully we'll have a bigger room and can use the set of drawers on the other side of the bed too.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

atlanta

Casey and I have a New Year's tradition of going to Atlanta. We always save up and plan for our annual IKEA trip, which was pretty successful this year:

We also ate lots of good food, including a place called The Porter and our old favorite, the West Egg.

Friday, January 20, 2012

christmas eve

I've spent every Christmas for the past 26 years in Kentucky. Since Casey and I got married, we've had to adjust our traveling schedule, so for the past couple of years we've missed one of my favorite Christmas Eve traditions: Mom singing "O Holy Night" at the church she and my dad grew up at. This year we made it in time! Kathryn, Dad, and I kind of laugh about this now because Mom has been singing the same arrangement of the song for at least 15 years. I love it though!