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By Estela - Weekly Bite, April 28, 2011 7:49 am

I want to start by saying I am by no means any sort of professional decorator, and don’t aspire to be… but I do love it! Every time we get into a different house my mind starts racing with ideas of what we can do to it.

Ever since we got back from San Diego, I’ve had ants in my pants. I’m getting anxious. I can’t stop thinking of ways to decorate our  new home.  I know I need to get in the house first to feel things out, but still… my mind can’t stop racing with ideas.

With so many thoughts jammed in my head I thought I’d write it out to clear some space in my already crammed brain.

Please keep in mind that I have no idea what I’m talking about. So if I sound like I don’t know what I’m saying… its probably cause I don’t

I’m a big believer in letting a house set the tone for decorating. For example, the house we live in now was built in 1930. Its a cottage/craftsman bungalow. If someone were to move in and put a lot of contemporary decor inside, it would look strange.

When Mr. Weekly Bite & I first got married, we slowly started buying high quality, classic pieces of furniture. I let the accessories change with the style of the home.  The home we bought in San Diego is completely different. All of our big, classic pieces of furniture will fit the house perfectly, but the accessories need to change.

Here what our living room looks like now. There are several things in this room that won’t work in our next house.

Here’s our new house in SD. When you walk in, the family room is on your left, and the dining room is on your right. As I’ve mentioned before, the house was completely gutted and redone. When the owner realized she was moving, she carpeted all the living & dining areas.

The first order of business is to remove the carpet from the dining, family, and living room, and install hardwood flooring. We actually had a flooring company come out and give us a quote when we were out there.

Below is the family room, opposite of the dining room.

Just off the kitchen sits the living room. This will be our no TV, quiet room

The walls in the house are all white except for a few accent walls. Its hard to tell in the pictures, but the color is a greenish yellow color. It looks nice with the furniture in the pics, but not with our sage green sofa.

I’d like to paint the walls of all the living & dining areas with this linen color. Its a very light color that I think will add a soft touch to the rooms. It won’t clash with our furniture either.

If we decide to paint a few accent walls, we might use this color. Who know… we might just decide to paint most of the house this color…

Or this color…

I’d also like to sew some new throw pillows for our sofa & chairs. Since our sofa is such a plain color, I like add color back in with pillows. It will take up to a week for our furniture to arrive in San Diego, so M & I will be making a pitt stop in Texas to spend some time with my mom. Since my sewing machine will be all packed up, we will be using my mom’s to sew some new pillows.

I really like this yellow ikat print…

Maybe layered with this floral print…

Then layered with this striped print?

I’m also loving these floor lamps! I’ll add these to my wish list

The last thing on my wish list is mirrors.

I really like this one…

This one might be cute too…

That’s all I’ve come up with for now. Knowing me, all this will change by the time we get out there. I’ve been known to do that in the past

What about you? Have you done any decorating, or redecorating lately?

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By Estela - Weekly Bite, August 16, 2010 8:20 am

I hate it when I’m out running errands and all of a sudden become insanely hungry! M & I were out and about and we both got grumpy. She is her mother’s daughter. I was at Whole Food’s to buy some specialty ingredients I needed for a recipe. I knew I had nothing in the house for me or M, so I hit up the Whole Food’s salad bar for both of us. I really had her in mind at the salad bar. I was so hungry I just started grabbing random things I knew she would eat.

Here’s what was in the mix for M:

• black beans
• steamed broccoli
• grilled mango
• hard boiled egg

In the mix for me:

• spicy bean salad (underneath the mango)
• spicy tempeh
• and a bowl of their delicious black bean soup (not pictured)

Here’s M’s plate. She gobbled it up This was my idea of “healthy fast food.” I know not everyone has the option of Whole Food’s… but most grocery stores have salad bars with healthy options

I Like Pretty Things…

I learned something about myself over the weekend. Well, I have actually known this for a while… but this is the first time I’ve ever publicly admitted it.

I consider myself good at lots of things… but when it comes to cleaning… eh… not so much. What I’ve noticed is that i like to focus on aesthetics. If I have something pretty, I’ll keep it clean. New, or “new old” pretty things motivate me to keep it looking that way.

Here’s an example… If I go buy flowers for the house, or a new candle, or new throw pillows, I start to obsessively clean the house… or at least the area of the house where I purchased that something for

Are you like that?

So, I decided to start a new project called Prettify my House. I don’t know how long this project will take… but I’m taking it room by room.

Here are my rules:

• Obviously set a budget for each room.
• Do the work myself (this involves sewing which I’m awful at.)
• Never pay full price for something. I will be shopping at my favorite stores, but will focus only on the sale items and stay within my budget.
• Rearranging furniture counts as “prettifying a room.”
• Do not impulse buy! I’m going to take time with this and only buy things I love.

I will be documenting project Prettify My House on the blog. If you have a room you’d like to Prettify, feel free to join in

The room I will be starting with is my office… it needs some major help! Before pics are coming soon!

WB Updates:

• Check out the new Kiddie Lunch Box page Now you can just click on the page and see pics of all of M’s lunches I’m still adding lunches to it so stay tuned.
• I only made it to yoga once last week, so I’m excited for class today
• Conference call at 1:30pm
• Work on article edits
• Work on WB Newsletter
• Start packing list for vacation

Have a great Monday!!

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By Estela - Weekly Bite, July 22, 2010 8:43 am

Hi

I want to start this post off by saying “I know”… about all the crazy typos in my post yesterday

Sorry about that. I wish I had some cool excuse like “I’m on medication” or something like that… but no… it was just me, typing at lightening speed then hitting “publish.” It wasn’t until my husband read my post last night and said “What were you on when you wrote that post, there’s typos everywhere!” Whoops….

My mental note for today… “Must proof read, grammar check, and spell check all posts.”

Okay… moving on….

Its been a whopping four days since I’ve posted a picture of M… I think that’s a record! I snapped these pics yesterday of her trying to put on her daddy’s shoe. So cute

Since the SPINACH pops didn’t work out so well… I decided to make some MANGO + BANANA POPS

The ingredients were simple….

MANGO + BANANA

That’s what I love the most about making my own popsicles. The ingredients are simple and pure. None of that yucky stuff is added

Ready for the freezer!

There’s no doubt in my mind that these will taste delicious! I rapidly slurped down the leftovers!

Thank you so much for all the compliments on my birdcage and my decorating style Its still a work in progress

I did get an email asking me what my favorite scented candle is. That’s a tough one because there are so many that smell good!

If I have to choose one, it would be my beloved MILK candle by K. Hall Designs. I LOVE the way this candle smells! The smell is Vanilla, Coconut, and Milk, and is made of 100% pure vegetable wax. I want to buy there bath salts! Those smell heavenly!

I have a busy day ahead! I’m hoping to have to down time in the afternoon

Do you like scented candles? What’s your favorite kind?