Shop With Me At Joss & Main
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Time for us to get to shopping together! I’ve hand-picked items for the Nesting Place sale at Joss & Main and I hope there is something that you can use or that can inspire you for your Beautifully Imperfect home. In my 17 years of home making, I’ve learned that it’s fun to start with a neutral base to ground the room, like that stuff in the photo above and then…
And then add pops of color and interest and QUIRK like this stuff:
- pops of color
- bread board for your Bread in 5 Minutes a Day
- painted furniture if you don’t want to have to paint it yourself
- lockers because I want them so bad it hurts kind of, not really but you get the idea
- lighting: I’d bet my favorite pair of lamps that you don’t have enough lamps in your house
- velvet
- things that are tufted
- mirrors because of my aversion to mass-produced wall art
- a stump table because I just had to add it, in case you don’t want to mess with cutting up a tree that fell in your back yard
- dog beds because believe it or not, ours is one of the most asked about items in our house
- the Amy Butler rug from my office {another often asked about item}
- the chair from our bedroom, such a great deal
- Mrs. Meyer’s because I love her cleaning supplies
- Wall Candy removable chalkboard wall decals–what I used on our fireplace surround
- Chalk markers–what I used to draw the bricks
- a bust planter because mine is one of my favorite things
- quirkiness because I don’t want to take myself too seriously
find out how here
I love an unmade bed
I have two more things to say.
1. For the Risk Avoiders
You know that thing you see that makes your heart beat faster and you think, oh I LOVE that and I wish I could pull that off in my house but only other people can use things like that in their house and my Mother In Law will think that I’m ridiculous if I put that in my house so I will play it safe and surround myself with the semi-beautiful, average, unremarkable and uninspiring? Yeah, that? Stop doing that. Here are step by step directions on how to pull something off if you need them. Whether that things that makes your heart pitter patter is in this sale, in a garage sale, something you can make, it’s time to stop thinking you can’t be who you are and embrace what you love. I know women whose husbands are telling them to please, feel free to spend a little money and make this house a home already and fear is gripping them as if choosing a lamp is a life or death decision. Life is too short and decorating is supposed to be fun. Enjoy it. Take a risk. Buy the lamp.
2. For the Cashless
There have been times in our marriage that I’ve had more time than money. Times that I needed to DIY my way to pretty. And if you are in a season of that right now, I hope that you don’t see this sale as something you cannot be a part of but as fun inspiration for your next project. And Joss & Main may read this and delete my sale right now but I have to say this, none of these items, as beautiful and charming and lovely as they might be, are worth putting on a credit card if you can’t pay it off immediately. As much as I want you to love your home and as much as I don’t want Joss & Main to think my sale failed, I don’t want anyone to feel any pressure to spend money you don’t have. It’s a process, beauty takes time. Enjoy the process.
Now let’s go shopping together!
Sale ends in 72 hours
Joss & Main offers a $15 referral credit for anyone {you too!} who refers someone to their site when that someone makes their first purchase. They also compensate all of their curators with a small percentage of the sales.
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