If you are not familiar with Jessica and her wonderful blog, Make Under My Life, then I highly recommend you head over and get inspired! Every week she asks a guest to write about their life intentions in a guest post called Design My Life and I was very excited to be asked for this weeks post. It was a very thought provoking exercise and definitely required me to open my eyes a little and consciously come up with some plans.

Thanks Jessica!

I promise I haven't been trapped under a pile of precariously stacked furniture (almost though!). I've just been busy with this little person.

Okay, and there has been a lot of this as well.

That is my "To-Do" list. But since that is all mine, I will do it when I please~

And tonight it pleased me to do quite a bit! I got to this guy:

And this guy as well as his big brother, an 8 drawer dresser. By most standards these would be considered unsalvagable... but they just needed a LOT of love~

I get a lot of questions about where I work, and while it is far from magical alot of magic happens here. I get to play, think, and create... all in one half of a garage. Dolled up in my paint clothes, an old silk scarf over my hair and a pair of old purple Uggs I usually feel surprisingly glamorous. Because I enjoy every minute out there mixing paint and patching up old knob holes, and because it is quite a luxury to say you can do that for a living.

Specially when your commute is a doorway away to this.

About 2 months ago I received an email from Angelica, who had just moved into a fabulous new home not too far from us. She was on the hunt for something to fill a wall in her kitchen and eventually found a really beautiful vintage cabinet which she graciously sent over for me to work on. By far, this was one of the sweetest pieces I have ever played with. The detailing on it felt very sea-inspired and it even featured shell-like moulding on the bottom cabinet drawers. I was soooo excited to hear from her again recently and discover that she also has a blog as well, Frugal Contessa.

She actually chose all the hardware later on, once she got it home and I was SOOOO thrilled to see a minty-green glass knob on the cabinet to play up the beachy-theme.

Hopefully in the next few weeks we will meet up again and grab a coffee~