This isn't pretty, I just want to remember it because it's funny

"Why did I propose to Kate Middleton? My hairline was like, "uh-oh, lock that shit down!", so I did."

This is from Mindy Kaling's Twitter.

I was reading a blog where someone said they were grateful for her Twitter, so I started reading it and now I'm grateful for it too.

wall mouldings

So my heart basically stopped beating when I saw this room on Design Sponge today.

I think all it would take to make me blissfully happy for the rest of my life is some decorative wall mouldings and a beautiful wall color. Also a couch with a chaise lounge. But that's it, seriously. Forget the fact that I have an entire blog dedicated to stuff I want.

But really. They are so great. I was watching HGTV Design Star the other day and they did this . . . let me look for it. Found them. Isn't this room great? Well, it's actually a studio apartment, but that's basically like a room.

image from here.

image from here.

image from here.

I love this place. And I love that show, it's my new favorite thing. It's like some reality show people got together and thought about me and what kind of show I would love.

A shift in what I want

So for years, I have wanted to live in houses and neighborhoods like these:

But lately, I'm finding the idea of that less attractive than it used to be. And now I'm wanting something a little more like these:

I don't know what it is. It could just be a fad of my brain. Or it could be that I really just need SPACE. For the last few years, every time I've driven to Salt Lake, I'm overwhelmed by all the housing developments that have cropped up there in the last . . . how many? 10 years, I'd say. I'm still not used to the new Lehi, or how crowded the south part of Salt Lake valley is getting. I don't want to live in a cookie cutter neighborhood where every house has just small variations from one another and they're only 10 feet apart. It's Californication, is what it is. And I'm not a fan.

It could also be that I have this sort of vision of me living in a farm house, and it seems so nice and romantic. Let's see if I can convey it using polyvore. Lots of people do that on the internet, right? Convey things using polyvore?

Let me take you on a little tour. If I lived in a farm house, we'd of course have a big beautiful willow tree, and I could sit under it and write letters to my friends in the city, saying, "You've got to come for a visit! The kids would love to see you!" I would make homemade jam to spread on my homemade bread, and I would feed the chickens every morning. I would wear a cozy cardigan and floral prints, and of course have Hunter green wellies accessible. It really does sound nice. And I like the idea of 6 pairs of little boots cluttering the entryway, too. We'll see. But for now, that is my fantasy.

Better After

I found a cool new blog, Better After. And it's just full of Before and Afters of great projects. I love stuff like that.

Plus, would you look at THIS? Be still my heart.

This makes me want to immediately buy any piece of furniture I can find with decorative moulding and make it blue.

Stripes

From here.

Why are stripes so amazing? MY GOSH. I want some stripiness in my house so bad.

Awesome pillows

From here.

Kid's room

Found here.

I LOVE the blue stripes on the ceiling! I love the idea of doing something interesting on the ceiling of  a nursery, because the baby will actually see it! And that wall of books is GENIUS. I love having them all displayed, it would make it a lot more fun to choose a book to read.

Office

LOVE THIS. I would love it even more if a couple of those frams had silhouettes in them though.

I used to think that all I wanted was this office

Because one time I read a thing in Domino about a pink office and I LOVED it. But the blue might suit me better.

Oh, but that pink . . . it's hard to say. When I get an office I'll let you know.