~ This Looks Familiar ~

Let's see if you can figure this out. This room should look familiar to many of you.

Anything yet? Let's go a little wider on the zoom then.

How about now?

Right! My master bedroom! You can see the article from Newsday, with some other pics, here.

All photos courtesy of Newsday.com

~ Scrumptious ~

For some reason the word "Scrumptious" is in my head {I don't know. . . .}, along with the image of Julie Andrews and some singing going on {was that Mary Poppins?}.

At any rate, it got me looking at some things that I would label Scrumptious {the capital "S" is compulsory}. As an interior decorator, rest assured that I would never use that word to a client to describe something.


From Oooh la la Cadeau {who also has a blog called A Gift Wrapped Life}

From Oooh la la Cadeau

From suzeeez.blogspot.com

Dining room from BH&G

Pillows from Calico Corners

More pillows from Calico Corners

From BH&G

Have you seen anything Scrumptious lately?

~ A Milestone Giveaway ~

Monday morning I hit 50 followers on my little blog here. A small number compared with some other, more popular blogs, but a milestone to me nonetheless. {Taking into consideration that in March of this year I had about 5 followers, this is a big deal to me.}

So, what better excuse to have a GIVE. A. WAY!!! Plus, it's Wednesday ~ we can all use a little pick-me-up to get over the hump in the middle of the week.

Some of you may recall that I purchased some pretty storage boxes from Michael's a little while ago. I had one I specifically purchased for a giveaway, along with a few little goodies to tuck inside.

Cute storage box with magnetic snap closure.

Journal, notepad and note cards tucked away inside . . .

To enter this giveaway all you need to do is leave me a comment below AND become a follower of my blog {hey, we need to get to the next milestone so we can have an even better giveaway!}. You'll have until midnight on Sunday, August 16, 2009, to enter and I will announce the winner on Tuesday, August 18th. This giveaway is open in the U.S. and Canada.

**There seems to be a few questions on where my "follow" box is. When I follow someone's blog I usually just click on the banner above the person's blog header that says "Follow Blog". There is also a box at the very bottom of my blog, where it shows the pictures of other followers, if you prefer to go that route.

~ Major Issues With Blogger ~

I don't know if anyone else is having this issue on Blogger, but the blogs I follow list has disappeared ~ COMPLETELY! I can't add new ones either. I understand other people are having this same issue so it's Blogger and not me {or the two computers I've been getting frustrated on}.

If you are having this issue too {you may never see this post}, but I wanted to let those that I frequently comment on know that I am having serious withdrawal and it is not by choice that I have not visited in the past 36 hours. Argh!

~ Blog Of The Week {Design Ties} ~

One of the first bloggers to befriend me when I started putting more effort into my blog earlier this year was Victoria over at Design Ties ~ and Kelly was close behind! My Canadian friend is very supportive and I believe we have a lot in common. I tend to think that when I feel this way about people I've never met, meeting them in person would be a gabfest as if we knew each other all along.

Over at the Design Ties blog you get that same feeling ~ like your sitting down with Kelly and Victoria and having a chat over coffee in Victoria's newly redone kitchen. Between the two, they come up with fantastic topics and the pictures to go along with them. I love knowing that Kelly loves purple and that Victoria is building a retaining wall in her front garden.

Victoria's Kitchen Redo

They also have some majorly nice giveaways! This tassel was one such giveaway, and I wound up purchasing a tassel for myself.

Good fun and good friends!