And When You Slow Down…
…You could just slow down. You could cook breakfast once or twice a week. You could sit on the porch and watch a flag blowing in the wind as the sun comes up and the dew stretches its legs. You could wear pajamas all day because that doesn't make you lazy (hello,...
Or You Could Slow Down
Life moves quickly. Better keep up. Better make the best pie and take it to the most potlucks. Better go to the gym more than any other mom. Better take the kids to the every single sporting event this year. You better clean the house every spare second & cook...
fresh looks using what you have
Another beauty of simplifying your home (in addition to having a little less to deal with), is the eye you develop when shopping, Pinterest-grazing, and magazine flipping. While you crave certain looks in your home, you become much more selective in what you actually...
the linen wingback with nailhead trim
Once upon a time, there was this chair. She was lovely and feminine but she was a sturdy gal, too. She had great legs & a strong head on her shoulders. She also wears the loveliest accents…she knows how to dress herself. And, sister, she is all mine....
Finger Knitting
I'm not much of a seamstress. In fact, I don't know that I could sew a button on if someone handed me said materials. What I don't do certainly makes for a lengthy read, and while sometimes that can haunt me so, life is filled with too many full moments to focus on...
new perspective & the year ahead
Like so many artists and creatives and entrepreneurs, a new year is like food for my soul. Maybe it's the controlling, type-A side of me, but I like to think it's the dreamer in me (P.S. my little brother makes fun of my dreaming, but I say "Bah. Humbug." to him....
Perfectly Imperfect at Market
Well, friends, I didn't mean to drop off the face of the earth on you. I had high plans of scheduling all my blog posts before heading out to market (in Atlanta) last week, but of course, with all my mad cleaning, that just didn't happen. And I thought I'd be able to...
Completely Organized in 3 months
We've talked about my organizing philosophies before. It's not perfect here, and never will be. Sometimes it's five miles from perfect. But, the last few years we really have paired so much stuff down and started to change the way we live…. This pic was from...
Boy’s Room Design Board–the plan for Gray’s room
Good Monday morning to y'all! I'm anxiously/excitedly preparing for a 21 day nutritional challenge (which I'll share more about later this week), so I'm cooking chicken ground turkey by the pound ahead of time and packing 90 florets of broccoli into individual...
Worthy Reading
Hello, friends! It's a pretty chilly day here in south Alabama, so we're all cuddled in blankets and I have a hot mug of peppermint hot chocolate in hand as I type. Well, not as I type, but you know what I mean. I was perusing around the web, and ran across two drool...
Staying Flexible
Happy New Year, friends! It's been a week of cleaning, and (finally) taking down Christmas, and spending some wonderfully lazy days in our post-traumatic Christmas life. It's been lovely. We've also been purging. Since last year when we began simplifying our excess,...
Favorite Ramblings of 2013
…And speaking of top posts for the year... I couldn't resist sharing the most popular reflections/confessions/ramblings posts of the year, and so many of them happened to be my favorites, too. I usually feel like I share as much with you as I share with the closest...
Top 10 Home Projects of 2013
2013 came and went in a blur. I mean, truly. It was insane to say the least, the shop growing and taking up more time, and the homeschooling of both kids…and continuing to write and work on our house as we wanted. We even started work on my parents' beach condo this...
Repeat the Sounding Joy
I have three or four must-see Christmas titles during the holidays. Love Actually, The Holiday, and The Family Stone are my absolute favorites. I'm not sure which I love the most, but each leaves me with a different feeling. I leave Love Actually feeling hopeful and...
Merry Christmas from Perfectly Imperfect!
Merry Christmas, friends... from our wacky little family to yours. Oh, and in case you want to know who you're emailing/talking to/etc., here's our amazing team! Back row from l to r: Lori, Matt, Shaunna (that's me), Natalie. Second row: Julie,...
Shop Christmas Displays Peek & a Sale for You…
Y'all. There was just not much time this year. I'll be getting our shop's Christmas display pics up so you can see what we did in there this year (it really did look pretty magical!), but I just couldn't pull it off before Christmas Day. It all started with giant...
Christmas Lounging Activity–a simple kid project to the rescue
I love every single part of the family get together's during the Holidays. Especially after the pomp and circumstance, when you all have a second to lay around on couches and in chairs. That's when the magic happens. There's some sweet moments that happen during all...
Mountain-Moving Gifts
To say this has been a year of blessings would be almost silly, in no way doing justice to the love, support, and community we've felt from you here and in our shop. The growth in our shop blew us away, and of course, our blog and homeschooling the kids kept us busy...
Chatty Cathy
Ever just feel chatty? Like there's simply too much energy inside that brain of yours to keep it all contained? That's kind of the mood I'm in today, so this post will be a little bit of this and that. I threw a couple of simple Christmas touches in the master...
Christmas in the Kids’ Rooms, Imperfect Mess, & Hair-brained Projects
Morning, Friends! We spent the better part of the weekend being lazy/working on hair-brained projects two weeks before Christmas. Thanks to those of y'all who left comments on our Office Christmas Tour this weekend! It's been a lot of fun for me to show more of our...
