My highschool bestie is in town from Houston with her hubby, and my mom and I went to the new house with them. My friend studied interior design in school, so I wanted her opinion on colors for all the rooms on the main floor.

When I went looking at fabric with Manda the other day for this fashion art project we are working on together, I found the above fabric and fell in love with it!!! (It is totally different than the art project, btw!)  I am now using this as color inspiration for the new house. It may not be what I had originally imagined, but I think it will work. There are a lot of elements I have to work around, leading to some compromise here and there, but overall, I have my fingers crossed it will turn out cute.

I really just want to move in and skip the part where we have to paint every room and every baseboard, and pack up our loft, and set all our stuff up again!

Right now, I am mentally frenzied with prepping for Renegade Craft Fair, as well as the outfit for the Sweet Streets II art show in L.A. that Manda and I are collabing on….plus I have to design a few more things for the next Yummy You catalog, all this month! Plus we are going to Comic Con in San Diego for a day as well as Disneyland after that. There’s a lot going on, but truthfully, I probably wouldn’t have it any other way!

I am about to update the shop. Give me about 10 minutes to fire away!!!

For Father’s Day, we went to Half Moon Bay to eat eggs benedict. The drive was really pretty, and it’s a shame I only had my phone cam to capture anything!

We wandered around down town a bit, where I found an AWESOME yarn shop!! I need to go back and check it out more closely!

We also wandered into a bakery where I bought this giant Portuguese sweet bread. I couldn’t stop eating it.

I painted a couple closets in our new house this weekend with my mom. Hairy and I were over there tonight, finishing up some stuff, and Bibi and Bunny brought a gross Elmo doll from the yard INTO THE HOUSE! YUCK!! There is all kinds of garbage and toys and giant piles of leaves that needs to be cleared out of there. Who knows what else the dogs will find and drag inside!

Just in case y’all don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook, I posted a sneak of a cupcake coffee cup cozy. They are all finished up (10, all unique colors/flavors!), and I just have to finish up a few more things before uploading to Etsy! Finally! I am thinking maybe getting stuff into the shop on Wednesday. I have a ton of house-related appointments this week!

I crocheted these funny birthday candles for a felted project. Cross your fingers they don’t melt and mutate in the felting process!!

Hairy and I went to Ikea today for some color inspiration. I didn’t find much there tonight, but we did come away with these cookies with the funny name!

My life, among other things, is all about these right now:

I’m not very good at visualizing color in a big space like a room, and I get really stressed out about it. I have to remember that it’s just paint, and you can always paint OVER it.

Retro Minty Kitschen:

Serene, Candy Blue Master Bedroom (I haven’t found paint chips I really like yet for this room. Everything I pulled was too baby-blue.):

Girlie Barbie Bathroom:

Bold Blue Dining Room:

Sunshine Yellow Craft Room and Grass Green accent wall for Living Room:

Hairy’s Man Cave with Bright Red Door Frame Accent:

It looks like we’re moving! I’m partly excited, and partly overwhelmed. The only constant in life is change!