Happy Birthday to the BF

Happy Birthday Love! I hope you have a good day today!! xoxox me

Oh yea, and a big Happy Birthday to Erin- love you too!

Cake from Charm City Cakes

Have one of these?

If not, you should totally totally get a grommet kit for your toolbox.

I use mine ALL the time, I find new things to do with it all the time. They come in these great color choices too. I didn't like the brass ones that my kit came with, so after a little searching online I found some pretty silver ones.




Here are some great reasons for having a grommet kit handy:

1. Put in the corners of your kitchen towels and hand/make-up towels for easy hanging.

I put one in the corner of all my white make-up towels- it's so much easier to be able hang it back up on the back of the bathroom door and not worry that is going to fall right back down on the dirty floor.


2. Have a golfer in the family? Customize any towel and turn it into a stylish golf towel to hang on their bag.

3. Doing home improvements? Have a grill that needs covering? Turn a plain tarp into a more secure one with the addition of grommets on each corner. Bonus, your husband would be impressed if you suggested this and even had the tools to do it with.


4. Turn any simple sheet or piece of fabric into a chic and one of a kind shower curtain


5. Same goes for window curtains too- or make a cafe curtain like Martha Stewart did here on the right


6. Last (and my favorite) is the hanging storage I made for all my wrapping paper. Since I live in an apartment there aren't many ways of storing lots of wrapping paper without taking up lots of space. I needed something to hang on the back wall of a storage closet.

Grommet kit, pillow case, and command hooks to the rescue!

Orange circles are shown in detail to the right.

Anyone else have other great uses for having a grommet kit around?

Check out HERE to see another of my favorite organizational tools.

Loving This...Jonathan Adler Sofas

I'm loving these new sofas from Jonathan Adler- very modern and colorful, but then again I would not expect anything less from him

love this orange x- bench

Speaking of couches, my new couch gets delivered next week- I cant wait!!

Day Trippin

It's hot days in the city (like today for example) that I wish I had a beach house to escape to. You know, just a hop, skip and a jump over to Nantucket to my summer escape "cottage" like this one here.

Come join me on my day trip for a few minutes, I promise it will be fun!

Here is my little cottage, come on in!



I'll cook a yummy lobster dinner here- clams and steamers too!

This is just one of the many places we could enjoy our meal

This is the 1st of 7 bedrooms to pick from and my fav

You can relax in this spa like bathroom

Another beautiful bedroom

Need to get some work done, no problem. This office with an amazing view of the beach is ready and waiting

Take your pick...this stash should last us the weekend

look at this view...amazing if I do say so myself

Can't forget the guest house...

Complete with another kitchen so you don't have to walk all the way over to the main house for food

So, who is with me? Want to play hookie and go hang out on Nantucket for the day?

If you have an extra few bucks, I highly suggest checking out this place.

And yes I even checked with my mom (again) just to make sure I was not born a princess so I could buy this place. She assured me I was not and that I needed to come back down to reality. Day trip over.