Mondays, blogs and I need to upload pictures

Happy Monday everyone.

I go through a ton of home decor blogs every morning and they prove to me I need to get a part-time job. Long story short, my web design biz hadn't been tended to (alcohol is a bad thing for me) so the income levels are pretty low. When I go through these blogs, I drool over the creativity of so many people around the globe. It's a feast for the inner "hip" woman inside.

I started thinking about my attempt through the years to make my houses (apartments, houses, town homes that I have lived in through the years) a home I can love and enjoy regardless of where I am. Since I've moved from a house to an apartment recently and hopefully will be in a house again by the end of 2009, I want to focus on core items that I can take from drab to fab. The sad part is, it's only the smaller things I can afford at the moment so the blogs help me dream a bit.

Now, one thing I have learned from looking through the blogs and doing a timeline in my head of things I have purchased (and gotten rid of) over the years, I am finding that it's better to try to stick with timeless and stay away from trendy.

The 80s mauve dishes went bye-bye many, many years ago to be replaced by Pfaltzgraff "Midnight Sun" in black around 1995. I got them at the outlet stores in Silverthorne, CO and had been discontinued. With a quick gander at their site, low and behold, they are back. A testament to design and quality that don't go out of style and if they do, not for long. Probably one of the best home items I have ever plopped my money down on.

Also, in the mid 90s I purchased a bed all by myself. I know, sounds silly but I inherited the family antiques and they are all fabulous but the bed is only a full size and in dire need of some serious TLC anyway. I will have to upload pics of it but it's a black wrought iron looking bed that can have the canopy or you can leave it off. With the smaller size of this bedroom I elected to keep the canopy off so as not to overwhelm the room. A bed frame that has options and still has style? I would say that's a great investment.

What about trendy? Well, I think trendy is fun but I am also not into cookie-cutter interiors that look like an IKEA catalog or what have you. I think developing your own style is much more creatively satisfying and that's why I drool over the "good" home interior blogs. They may not have my style but I appreciate that many have adapted old and new to make it right for them.

So, with all that said, I will hunt down pics of past and present (I also need to get batteries for the camera) of my stuff to show you what I have to work with. It's not all saucy and I am still living in my 20s with a lot of my furniture but as time goes on, I hope to have grown-up things or hacked my 20something stuff into something fabulous. I have a pretty good blank slate to start even though I am in my early 40s...oy, where has the time gone?