In a world where there is already so much oversharing, I’d like to dedicate this post to those random things that don’t get shared. And those lovely, “if you’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it a thousand times” moments…. like my infused water right here. All of you misfit moments are having your moment right here, right now for Casual Friday.
Lemon, lime and mint water. Am I at a spa?
Organizing things that have yet to be organized.
And here’s a bunch of random pics of me potting plants on a Sunday night. I just randomly got that craving to use my DSLR more! Nothing special. Just a photo where it looks like I’m about to injure myself with a plant. Cool.
What’s up in your world, sister??
Oh, just working. In a fairly messy office. With a sleeping dog (who snores!). And what looks to be some pretty dirty socks (I swear they aren’t as bad as they look!).
I took a few photos from around my house one random morning this week just to give you a sneak peek. This is pretty much my view everyday as I rarely leave the house during the week except to buy supplies, run errands, go to occasional meetings for the bar, and sometimes I get lunch or coffee with a friend. It’s funny, but there are days at a time when I don’t leave the house at all since I work from home. Which I don’t mind at all, but it is kind of funny and very different from my life last year.
Here you can see my living room. I’ve been kind of working on this room since we moved in. I’m thinking of moving the rugs into the bedroom, as we don’t have any rugs in there yet, and I think these might go with the vibe in that room more.
I’m also getting a big arm chair reupholstered, so I put this smaller, brown leather chair in its place this past week while our usual chair is gone getting a facelift. I’ll share some pics when he comes home.
Still need to hang up artwork too. We moved in over six months ago, and I STILL haven’t hung up all our artwork and pictures. Oh well, maybe next week.
And here’s a beautiful site near the kitchen. Where we live, you have to pay extra to get recycling service (pick up) or you have to drop it off at the recycling center yourself. I used to drop it off, but since we live much farther away and I just feel so busy, we pay extra for the service. Anyway, for some reason they didn’t come last week and our bin was completely full because we had cleaned out our garage, which still had lots of boxes from when we moved. And then I got some items from IKEA and Amazon this week, and so now we have what feels like a whole mailroom full of boxes sitting in the living room, waiting to go out on Friday. I don’t want to set them out before then because if it rains, they could get all soggy or they could just blow away and I doubt our neighbors would love that.
So yeah, I’ve got some recycling problems this week. 🙂
But here’s a pretty spot! Trey has bought me flowers twice in the last few weeks (aaawwe), so I’ve got lots of pretty flowers sitting on our kitchen counter. I had some on my desk, but it got so full of papers that I had to move them. Ha! Also my MIL got me this candle, and it smells amazing. So I pretty much light it everyday.
Alright, there you go, some random peeks around my everyday world. Pretty mundane. 🙂 xx. Emma
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I love these posts. Thanks for sharing a realistic and lovely view of your homes.
Lovely pics girls 🙂
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Love these little casual sneak peaks that are less orchestrated and more organic! And yay for Burt’s Bees (my husband works for them and I am so excited they now have candles and soy wax melts!!).
It’s so nice to see simple messy everyday things 🙂 Definitely makes me feel more okay with the amount of clutter I seem to accumulate during the week. Also, I work at home! Any tips for achieving zen with rarely leaving the house?
psst Emma you made a typo between your first two photo’s: expect instead of except ;).
I also have the mailroom issue except that I then forget to set the boxes outside for weeks :(. I put them in a corner so they don’t eat up all liveable space, but maybe that’s why I keep forgetting them.
Thanks Erika! I’ll fix that now. 🙂 -Jacki
And this is why i love you gals! <3
So glad not only my flat is so messy 😉
Love the posts ladies! Thanks for sharing your world!
“all those misfit moments”–loving that phrase, and posts like this full of random bits are my favorite. I too have lived in my home for 6(well, plus) months and have nothing on my walls. doh!
This is a fun post, would love to see more like this. Thanks for sharing 🙂
I love to see some mess behind all those beautiful pictures you take, thanks for sharing this behind-the-scenes!
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The stuff of life! Thanks for sharing this post Emma, Elsie. I love seeing the more personal and casual details of your fabulous lives. And a Burt’s Bee’s Candle?! Looks amazing.
As for me, I’ve had a pretty busy (and SO satisfying week). Announced my new small biz adventure, prepped product for my first ever craft show later this month, and did a bit of knitting here and there 😉 (I’m so bad at it, but it’s my new favorite hobby).
My Friday looks like a few hours logged on school work, some house cleaning, and then a lazy late afternoon drive and pizza run with a few girl friends :).
Anyhoo, wishing you a magical weekend!
– Micayla
Such a refreshing post to stumble across! I’ve been moved into my house for 8 years and most of my frames/wall art are still in storage. =X
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Love you guys for keeping it real! These posts are great 🙂
Elsie do you happen to know what type of cactus that last rose looking one is you’re holding? Was trying to google the type, really like the shape but just getting succulents…I like your spiky one!
I really enjoyed this post… I’d like to see more like this. 🙂 It was nice to see a more relaxed side of you.
Love this post! Real life, so refreshing! 🙂
You are so funny! I loved this post and it inspired me that not every single blog post has to be this big thought of plan and that we can just do a casual post and it still be really rockin!
I love this post!!! May I ask where Emma got that stunning rug in her office??? Happy weekend ladies!
I have to ask a seemingly dumb question. I also live in Springfield, (howdy neighbor!) and as of yet haven’t been able to figure out how to get an IKEA delivery here. Is there some magic pixie dust that I need to sprinkle?
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It’s from Rugs USA 🙂 -Jacki
I love these posts too!
Laura
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I didn’t know Burt’s Bees made candles! Where can I find them? I bet they smell amazing!
Laura
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Although I’m a daily reader of ABM, it is the fist time I comment a post. I just wanna tell you girls that you have inspired me so much, I became a photographer because of your influence and I can’t imagine my routine without the blog. Thank you very much for everything!
loved this post about the little things in your life =o) sometimes it’s the little moments that are most interesting
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Just beautifully casual. Very relaxing post for the a Friday. Love it!
Ahhh, these posts are the best! I have been a long time follower so these feel like your “old school” posts. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I love this post 🙂 So real and refreshing – who posts photos of their cardboard any more?! no one – this is FANTASTIC.
Lucy xoxo
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They also make wax melts too which are awesome and they do smell amazing. I have tried the lemon and eucalyptus mint so far and approve of both. I think I have seen the candles as well at target which is where I got the melts.
Where did you get those offwhite/cream orangization boxes? Ikea?
I love this post… I am a new Aussie follower of your blog and I love watching you all transform your everyday lives into amazing lives.
I have lived in my house for 7 years and I am still finishing it off. And I am not sure that it will ever be finished. And the boxes I have days and weeks like that too…
Elsie–where did you get those cute white/brown storage boxes on your shelf? And are those matching photo albums? Love the simplicity of them. I’ve been looking for something similar to organize/hide my various junk and keep track of pictures by year:) Thanks so much and lots of air high fives to you guys for being so awesome!