what brooke does

I’ve been bidding on various CADO wall units over the past month and I’m now convinced that it’s entirely impossible to win an ebay auction. It’s so frustrating, I really want one for Daryn’s office.

Ruby told me she really wants this chandie for her nursery…

Ruby Lucille

yay! let the nesting begin!

I had kicked off my shoes as soon as I got to work this morning and I was walking around the office in my socks all day today. When I tried to put my shoes back on at the end of the day, they no longer fit. I lifted up my pant legs and pulled down my socks and to my horror discovered that my ankles had doubled in size!

Seesaw ‘85

Lapdog

I don’t know what has gotten into me today, maybe this is what nesting is all about and since I still don’t have a guest room/closet/nursery to organize and decorate I’m just taking it out on other parts of the house, but I spent way too many hours reorganizing the bookshelves in our kitchen just to put everything back the way it was when I started. I was flipping through this month’s Elle Decor and was inspired by the kitchen pictured above. It may be difficult to tell, but the cabinet to the left of the fridges has stacks and stacks of cookbooks piled high in it. We have a cabinet similar to that one that is currently purposed as a dish hutch, but, upon seeing this picture, I thought it might be better used as a cookbook hutch. So I removed all of our dishes and glassware from it, rearranged the shelves so they were all perfect book height, and moved all of our books from the open bookshelves into the hutch. Then I arranged all of our dishes on the open bookshelves, only to find that the shelves are *just* too shallow to hold our dinner plates, which really bothered me. So back everything went to its original spot.

I really can’t explain why I just wasted the afternoon doing that. Have I gone crazy?

We stayed at the Encore while we were in Vegas last weekend and I totally fell in love with the decor of the entire place, but particularly, the use of black trim in the rooms. It accentuated the taupe walls and houndstooth wallpaper so beautifully. I really wanted to paint all the trim in our dining room Benjamin Moore’s Night Shade, but was having trouble convincing Daryn that this was a good idea until he saw black trim in action in our room. I think the black and white stripes in the dining room would be set off so much more beautifully with black trim to outline them. Though I’m still considering the stripes a temporary fix until I can convince Daryn that we should install this wallpaper in black. So far he’ll allow it in the powder room, which I think is a step in the right direction. And while we’re on the subject of our powder room, we had a total breakthrough yesterday when he realized how high our ceilings are in there. He actually approached me to tell me how perfect a chandelier would look in there! Something I’ve been trying to convince him of since we moved in 3 years ago. But I won’t remind him of that, as long as I let him think it’s his idea I have a better chance of actually getting it.