***Update: To vote for our project  text LIFE66 to 62345. You can vote once a day until January 20th! Thanks for all of your support! As a part of our big Life Improvement Project, IKEA has decided to give each store $10,000 to make a difference in their local community. The premise of the project is for co-workers to partner...

Have you ever had a crush on something  for your home but you could never find a place for it? Well, I've always been in love with the Knappa pendant, but I really didn't know where I would hang it. There's just something about the shape that's so classy to me.  Insert the Jara shade that I had been meaning to take...

One day before I had to go to work I decided that I would fix up the living room a little bit so that it would start to look a little more like home. I started by adding a slipcover one of our existing pillows. It's a cutie pie cover that I picked up at CB2 a little while back for a couple of dollars. The pillow cover...

Today I thought I would share some photos of our new place. We still have lots of Home Depot boxes and IKEA blue bags (yes, we work for competitors) everywhere, but I thought it would be fun to show you some tidbits, starting with the kitchen. Here's a shot of our kitchen just as we started moving everything in (notice the...

I have to admit, I was pretty bummed when I waltzed into Target the same afternoon that Missoni hit the shelves. I looked upon the empty shelves in horror thinking, "Really? It's all gone? All of it?" As my hubby said, this person who owns this room must have gotten there first. Yeah, it sucked. I guess I should have realized...