best friends.

cafe au lait if you're fancy, or taupe.

french blue/robin's egg blue.

two great colors that go to the mountain of even greater together.

i had these thoughts of grandeur of re-doing my dark navy front room.

paint would be in these 2 colors. one for the ceiling, one for the walls. i hadn't yet decided which one was going to go where. but those grand plans involved painting a pretty large ceiling surface... and painting the ceiling in that large of a room can really put a damper in the way your neck feels, for days. so i'm kinda waiting for that spark of diy to hit again before i take on that large of a ceiling-paint-project :)

so i've stepped back.

and who knows, by the time that strikes, i may have changed my mind again.

this is one of my all time favorites. it was done by albert hadley. genius.

i'm in love. always have, always will be.

better homes and gardens. lighter colors than i'd go but still quite pretty.

domino. duh.

an actual french, french blue. so pretty with the natural stone.

from theonewholooks tumblr.

i just think it's the cat's meow.

thoughts?

and do you know what i mean about painting a ceiling? or am i a total wimp?

JILL

buried. 2013.

so i have been gone for a long time.

i didn't expect to be gone for so long.

and i don't even want to get into why on this little blog of mine.

just know that my little family has been dealt something that i don't wish on anyone. it was and still is sad, but there is light at the end of this tunnel. i am looking forward, not backwards. and honestly, i'm just sick of being sad.

so here i am. moving forward. onwards and upwards!!!!

anyway.....

i have also been buried in snow since last thursday!

with the first of 2 storms, we got 13" on snow at my house on thursday.

some of you up north are like, "so? that's what we get every 3 days... wimp."

but here in kansas city, that just doesn't happen.

our big snow storms are maybe 6". and then it melts and we move on.

this time we got 13" and it was a novelty.

kinda fun, kinda annoying.

kinda fun: snow day.

kinda annoying: spring? spring? bueller? bueller?

obviously i took an obnoxious amount of photos bc it was crazy to see for the first time.

up to my dog's belly. and she couldn't get enough.

whines to go outside all day, every day since.

we don't have a snow blower bc it really isn't that necessary here.

until this week and we'd pay a billion dollars for one.

then on sunday, we had a warm day so stuff was looking up and it was melting.

and after church i made my husband pull over so i could climb this mountain.

i'm telling you, i have never seen anything like such, in my whole life.

it was a monster!!

(dork)

then the news started talking about another storm that was brewing.

and i held my breathe and prayed for the best.

and then on monday night/tuesday morning, we got another 8-10" on top of all the other left over junk from last thursday.

we live across the street from a golf course, and it truly is beautiful.

especially at first.

but it's still snowing.

right now.

and it's very quickly losing its appeal.

i'm over this, too.

like above, that there on the left, is a bush.

on the right, that is just grass. that is now as tall as my car.

this was my view on the way to work today.

i want my sunshine and spring weather back.

i hope you're enjoying far better weather than i :)

JILL

(i'm resuming normal posting from here on out. honest.)

please excuse me.

i'm going to be stepping away for a few days.

just a few,

sorry for the silence.

be back shortly.

love.

JILL

{heartsies}

hey, sugar nuggets.

hope it's splendid no matter who you are or who you're with or where you'll be.

i wore hot pink shoes today to celebrate.

LOVE.

JILL

{images via pinterest}

the goodwill.

i love the goodwill.

do you have to dig through piles of junk that is kinda filthy? usually. do i find something every time i visit? not even close. is it the thrill of the hunt? is it the joy in paying almost nothing for something awesome? yep and yep.

people give away some really good stuff, you guys. and by shopping at the goodwill, you are in fact, giving your money to a good cause. so shop on. just don't go to mine and steal the good stuff!

its rare for me, but eddie ross finds amazing finds, worth alot of pennies, all the time. he's my inspiration.

i just got these on friday and i think he'd approve.

(i lunch at the goodwill sometimes... and then actually eat lunch at my desk.

just to see what they have.)

this time, i win.

i got 13 (odd number but i'm ok with it)

dainty fire king milkglass tea cups.

they all had a price tag on them for 0.00.

so when i got to the cute girl with amazing hair (not kidding) working at the front, i joked that they were free. she looked at me seriously, said, "no sorry. not free, but i can give them to you for .49 cents."

.49 cents a piece is kind of a joke.

if i have 59834 tea cups already (which, although i told you i hoard dishware, i don't. yet.).... i would still have purchased these for .49 cents.

then i picked up a cute set of 6 of these sorbet cups.

they were .99 cents each.

and i might drink champagne out of them, too.

they could pass for a cute little coupe... with glass balls around the bottom.

i love both of these things.

and my mom, who was with me, she gots tons of stuff, too.

it was by far the best luck i've ever had at the goodwill, ever.

dishes.

they're my sickness.

:)

JILL

little did i know...

this is a long winded post. sorry.

but house and garden magazine was my first love.

first magazine love.

i was in college and in love.

before domino came out.

then domino came out, still in college, and it was my second love... but more soul consuming. those 2 still rank at the very top of the magazine hoarding love list.

then they both died.

but this morning on pinterest, i saw this image and i almost died.

(not really).

i love it.

i love the hot pink tufts.

the black and white carpet.

the oatmeal walls.

that mirror.

the pale blue and white stripes.

i have decided i'm re-doing my front navy blue room and this is its inspiration:

(i've been "over" my navy walls for a couple of months now.)

so i had to find more.

i had to see the rest of this house.

luckily pinterest said jacques grange did the design bc the link was broken and i couldn't follow it back to anything. so i googled jacques grange pink tuft and came up with this post from habitually chic.

i love the internet, you only have to ask.

it's the paris apartment of prada's mathilde agostinelli,

from a long time ago when it was published in... house and garden!

(may 2006)

the colors are less saturated than the first image and i like the first image better so i'm going with it.

then i kept reading.

look at this girls room.

i posted about it along time ago, here on the blue house bc i loved those bubble gum tufts.

(june 2011)

and then this room!

i posted about it, too bc i obssess over the wallpaper.

(august 2012)

well, as it turns out.

i love the rest of her place, too.

(you know those pink walls and myself are friendly. you can find more pink walls here, here, here, here, and here.)

well, anyway.

happy monday.

it was for me. and this all happened before 6:30 this morning.

JILL

flowers for friday #132

tgif.

seriously.

my husband's fam is in town this weekend at our house and i'm so excited.

jay's sister's getting married and we're celebrating them :)

i'm also quite excited because i had one of my biggest scores at the goodwill yesterday. i haven't gotten the chance to clean them up but i am so in love. shocker, it involves dishware. ha. i'll share monday.

busy day at work today, otherwise.

gotta get to it, but i hope you have a great friday.

and weekend!

JILL

{flowers via wedding chicks}