09/29/2017
There are Miracle Whip people and mayonnaise people, those who use their blinkers with ample time to spare and those who don’t use them at all, white wine drinkers and red wine drinkers, thise that call it a button up and those that call it a button down, and then there are those who prefer fitted tops and those that prefer their tops with plenty of wiggle room, boxy tops if you will. I learned while styling that nothing could sabotage a fitting faster than shopping more boxy, drapey, avant garde shapes for a woman who liked her … 
Hola! It’s Sara over here, sharing with you a dramatic before and after that you need to see to believe. I was first connected with Mindy Laven through a mutual design buddy and let me tell you, her remodel work is the stuff dreams are made of. When she first shared this project with me, I thought she was trying to pull a fast one on me because I honestly couldn’t see how it could possibly be the same house. She assured me she wasn’t a schemer…she’s just got a thing for full home renovations and excited by the smell of a good … 
Happy Monday, friends! I hope your weekends were wonderful. Ours was pretty low key, as is the new trend with a newborn. I’m getting more confident about taking her out and about. Parker was so easy about going out– she loved sleeping in her carseat whether it was in the car or the stroller, so we spent at least one day at week at LACMA strolling the grounds and the exhibits and me enjoying lunch and a coffee. Other days we ran errands and met friends for lunch or went to Huntington Gardens. She was an infant on the … 
There’s progress, guys! All kinds of things have been going on and I’m mostly just happy that our future home is no longer green as it has been for months and months and months. The biggest thing to happen is that all of our windows began installation in late June (which ended up being the biggest disaster ever.) Additionally, the wood soffit under the overhangs was installed and looks sooooo good! I wrote about how hard it was to choose a stain– there were multiple trips to the hardware store to by samples and mix … 
