Home tour: my backyard

Okay so I know my home tour has been all over the place, but whatevs. My blog, my home tour this is how you get it. So I just wanted to share my new favorite place in the entire world. This is my backyard. My little corner of heaven in the city. That blue thing is my husbands studio and those twinkly lights.... AWESOME!

You know when you are a kid and you see those house in movies where they always have these pretty lights and set ups in their backyard... yeah that's what I got folks. It's one of those dreamy things that comes with home ownership. After you realize that you pay your mortgage payment of $$$$ and only about 36$ goes to the actually cost of your home.... yeah, so when I sit in my backyard and enjoy these lights I realize I do love my home and am lucky to be able to own it...or at least pay the bank that owns it.

home tour: stair well

Okay I know I know, I have totally let my home tour fall off the radar. I fully intend to share an actual room with you all soon. This does however count as part of the home tour. This is my stair way or the top half anyway. I have little bits of art all over the wall going up the stairs, but these 3 are my favorites.

The little deer is one of those velvet paintings from the 70s, the etching on the left I won in a giveaway on Freckled Nest, and the cat is a card that is the spitting image of my old kitty cat Stinky. All in all it's a nice little collection. Wouldn't you agree!

Now onto some more personal news....okay so showing my home is personal but this pertains to my life as a whole. As some of you may know if you follow me on twitter I have been waiting to hear about a promotion at work. Well folks.... I heard this week, I got it!!! Now, I don't talk about work on here in specifics and I am still not going to go there. However,  I did get something that I feel I deserved and I am super proud of myself. So raise a glass tonight to me and my awesome sauce accomplishment won't you. Thanks!!!! XOXO

*cheers*

Home Tour: Front entry

Welcome to my home.... I am starting a home tour and we will begin at the first thing you see when you come over, our front/mud room

This is the sight you see when first entering my home. Gotta love that fugly window unit that we don't use. Need to remove that sucker. 

 

This classy piece of furniture is in fact a kitchen island, but since our kitchen doesn't have room for an island and it cluttered up the dining room we moved it out here for storage. I think it works.There on the right is our little mail corner, where we put outgoing mail.

 

I put a bench here so you can take off wet shoes or put on boots to head out the door. We also keep the dogs leashes and hats out here.

 

We also stash our collection of watering cans, mason jars, and old lanterns out here. 

This room always confuses people. So to explain a little. This room was once an outside/side porch, but the previous owners closed it in and made a front/mud room type place. That's how we use it.  Everything you need to run out the door on an adventure.

Now to actually enter my home you have to go through that door on the right. That leads to my living room... the next room to be shared. Hope you enjoyed seeing in my home, and want to see more! XOXO