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To Step Outside of the Box

To Step Outside of the Box

by shaunnawest | Sep 13, 2019 | before and after, Confessions, Project Gallery, Projects around the house, Reflections

  I sit in the living room typing.  It is the same spot I’ve sat for the last 10 years typing, recording for myself or for you all, here at Perfectly Imperfect.  Today I sit typing, remembering just how far I stepped outside of my own comfort zone over the...
A Loft Fort Bed

A Loft Fort Bed

by perfectlyimperfect | Mar 4, 2014 | before and after, decorating, DIY, grayson and ava, Our House, Project Gallery, Projects around the house, Styling, tutorial

Right before Christmas, Matt decided we should rip out Gray’s floor and build him a bed.  One week out until the big day. What the what? But I got out of the way, and let him love his boy, and well, he built the bed and changed the flooring in enough time to...
Ava’s Room Sources

Ava’s Room Sources

by perfectlyimperfect | Aug 5, 2013 | bedroom, before and after, decorating, design, Project Gallery, Projects around the house, Styling

It seems I’ve had a month of celebrating friendship, and my heart feels like it could burst…but more on that soon. I spent the weekend with Marian, Ashley, and a slue of other fabulous friends and bloggers at Haven.  Our advanced painting class went really...
Ava’s Room Reveal

Ava’s Room Reveal

by perfectlyimperfect | Jul 30, 2013 | before and after, decorating, design, DIY, Project Gallery, Projects around the house

Hello my lovely friends! We just made it home from a quick weekend getaway to the beach, but I couldn’t wait to show you Ava’s room reveal today!! This was little Lou’s (her nickname) room a couple of years ago, and honestly isn’t a totally...
Laminate Hutch & Table Redo with Chalk Paint®

Laminate Hutch & Table Redo with Chalk Paint®

by perfectlyimperfect | Apr 29, 2013 | before and after, CHALK PAINT, DIY, Furniture Makeovers, Project Gallery, Projects around the house, Uncategorized

Happy Monday to you guys! We had a busy weekend at the shop with Troy Fest and I can’t wait to share some pictures for you to see our fun displays and moments from around the festival. Until then, we wanted to share a little project that we’ve been working...

Grayson’s Bedroom Updates with Target Threshold

by perfectlyimperfect | Apr 2, 2013 | decorating, design, Our House, Project Gallery, Projects around the house, Styling

A finished space is all in the details. When Target asked if we’d work with them to check out their new Threshold line, I was game– Grayson’s room has been almost done for quite some time now.  That almost drives me crazy…I want to finish the...
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How did I grow up to be the mom of a blue-haired g How did I grow up to be the mom of a blue-haired girl? I'll tell you how.⁣ ⁣ They told me I should sit this way, speak that way, faith this way, smile just so. They told me how to be so I could make it. So I could succeed. So I could be their woman.⁣ ⁣ And I did all that and more, and still found moments and years where I was flat on my face.⁣ ⁣ They didn't all tell me out of malice. Some told me because that's what they had been told. Some told me because fear led their way.⁣ ⁣ And somewhere, inexplicably and divinely along the way, I told them thank you, but I got it from here. And now? I smile how I want. I speak how I want. I faith in a way that feels wholly right to me. I succeed and I fail and I'm good all the time, not because I'm perfect, but because I am. I am, for better or worse, my own woman.⁣ ⁣ This journey is not about arrogance. Being wholly who we are is magic. Becoming more of who we wholly are, in fact, usually gives us great pause in spreading harm around us. Becoming who we wholly are helps us give other people permission to be wholly who they are, too. Becoming more of who we wholly are is about the deep searching that happens outside of us, but mostly within us. Searching for the deep, spiritual soul places that lead us back to ourselves and to each other.⁣ ⁣ May I raise my daughters to be just that. Light Workers. Light Bearers. Voice Sharers. To try out blue hair streaks and short cuts, to think differently than everyone around them. To love themselves so much that they cannot help but love the whole world.⁣ ⁣ Dang, even writing it makes me tear up. For you, my darlings, I hope.⁣ ⁣ I hope. I hope. 💫⁣ ⁣ #lightworkers #forourdaughters #womenofinstagram #littlewomen #loveandlight #bluehairstreak
If ever there was a time to truly see one another, If ever there was a time to truly see one another, it is now.⁣ ⁣ We are the same and not at all.⁣ ⁣ It makes this life beautiful. It makes this life hard. And it makes this life human.⁣ ⁣ I keep hearing voices say that people aren't good. That this time shows it unequivocally. And while I'm aware of all this evil or uncertainty or lows...I will try, I will always try to believe that we are good.⁣ ⁣ Because there was a time I needed someone to believe I was good. And I needed me to believe it.⁣ ⁣ You are. I am.⁣ ⁣ Our belief in ourselves and one another doesn't just make a difference. It makes ALL the difference. Truly seeing each other is where our magic is.⁣ ⁣ -S⁣ ⁣ #quote #quotesofinstagram #seeingeachother #writer #wordsforchange #wordstoliveby
My in-real-time, messy but not-to-me painting corn My in-real-time, messy but not-to-me painting corner of our dining room. I hope to spend time with you this weekend, you magical, ordinary, extraordinary spot. 💫 Have a great weekend, all! #studio #painting #beautifulmess
Maybe one of the greatest questions I learned to a Maybe one of the greatest questions I learned to ask myself (after plenty of therapy & seeking) ever. Everything is a mirror. Everyone we meet, every conversation we have, all of our relationships...are mirrors. Each of them showing pieces of us to us. The trick is learning to see, to really see, with eyes looking inward, and not only outside of ourselves. The trick is the learning. And the practice of asking what we can give ourselves we so long for others to. The trick of the learning is hard. Impossible sometimes. But beyond worth my trying. Love to you tonight, friends. Give something to yourself you’ve been waiting for. ♥️ #quoteoftheday #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #writer #paintpalette #givetoyourself
Challenge accepted. Women supporting women today & Challenge accepted. Women supporting women today & every single day. Challenged by my client, friend, businesswoman, and incredibly talented artist @amycrewsartist! #womensupportingwomen
You never had it all together, anyway.⁣ ⁣ I wr You never had it all together, anyway.⁣ ⁣ I wrote this the other day, sitting in a doctor's office, during a scary portion of the visit, and a lot came spilling out. In short, I'll tell you this. I have this tumor behind my retina. It was diagnosed 2 years ago, and is called a retinal hemangioblastoma. While this one is benign, its existence is linked to all kinds of other scary developments. I've had a few surgeries since finding out, and while I am grateful for all it is not, I also acknowledge how scary it can feel to know it is there, with me. We get to be brave and scared and grateful and not okay with everything, all at once. You are never just one thing. You get to be more complex than that. So do I.⁣ ⁣ And the falling apart we allow in ourselves allows new room to grow, to change, to see entirely new things. Plus, we never had it all together anyway.⁣ ⁣ I talked more in stories today about writing this, that day, and my feelings around all of the falling apart/being okay quandary in general. It's all saved in Words and Words II in my highlights if you want to watch.⁣ ⁣ Be scared. Be brave. Be okay. Be totally not okay. Be human. 😘⁣ ⁣ #human #fallapart #writer #quote #quotesofinstagram #landscapepainting #art
This week was hard. That’s it. No qualifiers. No This week was hard. That’s it. No qualifiers. No big explanations. And sometimes when things are hard, and the world is pressing in tightly, I’ve learned to rest. To step away from the extra and the noise. I spent more time cuddling and cooking and holding my kids a little more tightly. And I made one thing. And all of this...helps me to remember this hard week will be next week before I know it. P.S. mixed my newest favorite clay/salmon color this week. That’s all I made. It was more than enough. Swipe to see the time lapse. Happy Saturday, folks! 🎨
Maybe the whole of our lives is to go back to the Maybe the whole of our lives is to go back to the beginning. To find the magic again. To believe in big, scary love and just how much it moves the world.⁣ ⁣ I'll never get tired of writing and painting. Finding ways to blend the two makes me feel ridiculously fulfilled. I hopped on stories this week (you can find in the highlight Words) & said this very important thing: words you read here don't come from having it all figured out. They come from heartache and struggle and tired days and broken hearts and the reminders to choose joy and to keep moving in the moments. They come from what I tell myself first. We're all learning, growing, becoming, and we always will be. I'm no expert. Just gloriously human.⁣ ⁣ Thanks for being glorious humans, too. Love to you. 🧡⁣ ⁣ -S⁣ ⁣ #writer #writersofinstagram #art #landscapepainting #magic #themiddle #quote #prettyquotes

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