Lisa Souers Designs

a perfect little Monday.

 

February is my most favorite month .  I don' know if it's because Spring is trying to peek through, or the birthday week that has always been with my late Auntie Beth, Mom and I or it's the beginning of a new fresh month.  So I vowed it to be as good as I invisioned it to be.

 

 

Starting out with a birthday roadtrip.

 

There's something about a roadtrip that I love.  I guess what I really love about where we live is that it's 2 hours from Seattle. 3 plus hours to Portland, and 3 plus hours to Spokane. So every chance possible I can take a day roadtrip I do.

 

And Seattle is one of those places that I love to go.

 

So it was a Monday.  My birthday. And I just wanted to waste 3 hours of my day enjoying IKEA.  Rather. Rearranging IKEA.  I am imfamous for "adding items to my cart" and them becoming thrifty and "talking myself out of Swedish Home Goods I really don't need".

So for 3 hours. I did just that.  There's something about IKEA and it's freshness in the Spring that I just love. I love the colors, but at the end, of course my cart looked like it always does.  Stark, simple and "needed goods".  Not these amazing bold duvet covers that kept catching my eye.

 

My cart instead.

And then there is the "AS is" section. 

 

It's like "garage sale digging" in this huge store. Gently used, mismatched, pieces and odds and ends.  I kept going back to this bin of metal ice cream scoops "trying to figure out what I could do with them". 

 

They were calling my name I tell you  "pick me. pick me".

 

I walked away.  But if there was an instant idea for them.  Mr Ice Cream Scoops were mine.

 

I do love a good roadtrip with my besties.  But sometimes a roadtrip alone is fun.

 

There are so many stops in Seattle that are on my "fun list".  But I got a wee bit of a late start because something kept calling my name.

 

It was this workshop.  Again.  Thrifty Lisa talking "really.  spending that kind of money on yourself.  You have a girl in college.  You work at home now.  You can't ...blah blah blah blah."

But there was something about today that spoke otherwise.  And when that little voice in my head trumps thrifty, I have to listen to it.  Because when I don't, it's the regret voice that takes over.

 

So I gifted myself time to create.  Time to meet new friends.  Time to center myself. It's amazing how guilty I  feel even writing that.  But the voice and my gut is never wrong.  Did I say never?  I did.  And it is so true.  All the time.  When I listen to it and go with it without reservations, it always leads me in the right direction.

 

So February is starting out right where I had hoped it would. 

And my new "un thrifty" purchase of another art journal topped off the day.

Lisa

 

sparkles and projects oh my.

 

I'm rushing the season.  I know. 

 

We've had a few days of sunny skies, warm enough temps that I could get into refreshing for Spring.

After so many days of fog, freezing fog, ice that won't go away, it's amazing what a sunny day will do for a soul.

 

So a few days of hunting and adding to my vintage stash of "Mr Projects" and my insatiable love for chandeliers.... the last week has been a fun one adding to our home.

 

This little beauty was a fun find.  I needed one more for an area that was "lacking" some sparkle.  Notice the "needing".  

 

Like I really needed another "chandelier.

 

 

But it was calling my name.

 

"pick me, pick me".

 

I had to go with that inner voice and

you know.

 

"pick it".

 

They say, you really have to listen to that "inner voice".

 

 

I then have one spot where I have picked up 2 cabinets for.

count them.  2.

 

And neither are working out for this reason or that. 

 

Well.  One reason. 

The Mr. stating... "um, not in the mood for that big of a project this weekend".

(one day he will be in the mood for it, but if I am to complete my honey do list, neither one will do .  for now)

 

 

But he loved this pick

and didn't feel it would take too much work to get her back to it's glory.

 

And the size was almost "perfect" for that empty spot. 

(the "one" empty spot in our house)

 

So if the days continue to be sunny and warm,

It will be a great weekend to finish off that

"never ending list of things I want to get done that never seem to get done"

 

Now if it only will warm up a wee bit more so I can wash the outside windows without icicles forming out of the hose.

 

xo

Lisa