Dear Lordt.

My child starts preschool today.

Que emotions.

A+ Nails, people.

Am I the only one incapable of taking care of this task by myself?!  Honestly yall, I'm about to do some free advertising.  If you don't get your toes done often, you totes should at this fabulous hole in the wall right on the southern Raleigh/Garner/Fuquay just outside the beltline nail salon.  They stay open until 730 people!  That's 1930 to my nursing friends. Don't want anyone showing up at 0730, I mean they're good, but they aren't that good, mmmk?

 

So after I'm the last appointment in for the day and the last customer out, I try and take this snobby getaway pic of me leaving their outdated nail salon decorating ways in the dust {thus irritating other drivers in the strip mall parking lot because I'm not exactly proficient at driving the get-away car hungry AND taking a rear-view sayonara pic at the same time, because I've never done it before, honestly}

 



But I had to take two because the first just wasn't right.  That's better.

 



 

Even though you cant even see the store frontage or the parking lot paradise I had backed myself into {or the Subway, Serenity Hair Salon and it's tobacco loving employees out front sitting on the curb, Electric Beans Coffee Shop and/or AutoBell Car Wash-just to name a few, honey} This is all I have to show for my life-saving visit.

 

So why all the A+ Nail Salon accolades you ask?!  Well in a tragic sequence off events Josh stubbed my freshly painted toe over a Buffalo Chicken Sammie I was inhaling, nearly whole {in a very lady like manner} at Tyler's Taproom in Seaboard Station {those last few details don't really matter at all except to prove that I got out of that dreaded "shopping center" to dwell amongst the favorable as quickly as possible thus regaining all necessary and deserved highest regards, knowing that I only eat bar food in RESPECTABLELY located chain restaurants}-I returned the following day, with a smudge I couldn't handle to look at for the next 2-3 weeks {depending on the budget ;o)}WITH AN 18 MONTH OLD and they sat me BACK in the "spa" chair, fixed my polish and wouldn't accept a dime after listening to my child shriek in excitement over what I have yet to discern.

 

So here you go, glenn coco- A+ Nail Salon.  Get you some.

 

Football

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In honor of football season, football pre-season, football off-season:

 

 

Are you ready for some football?

 

Remember when Hank Williams Jr. was clearly extremely sober on Fox News and compared the president to Hitler and Netanyahu?  And then the general public took his comments seriously? And then ESPN fired him from singing on Monday night football?

Because obviously all of those bullet points are interrelated to form a cohesive complete thought thus natural chain of unthinkable events.

Cocktails.

This is the most appropriate and only acceptable response I plan to expect in light of the news I've just shared with you all. 

 

 

French White

And moving on to the next room.  Yes this is quite the ordeal.  Are you ready fo' this? 

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I want the walls a French white-Sherwin Williams Dover White and Alabaster received the ravest of reviews so here she goes...

 

Alabaster on the top, Dover White on the  bottom and in this lighting they look the same but I believe I'm going with the Dover White.  We'll do vertical stripes alternating in flat and high gloss.  I had originally planned on doing these stripes in the same color, but Josh {why does he even HAVE an opinion?} wants the colors to alternated.  I just don't know about that.  I want subtle.  Ultimately, this is the look I'm going for:

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 Catch my drift?

;o)

Shah-co-lahhh

And here we have it, moving on to the upstairs powder room.  Thinking we'll go chocolate brown.   That's "Shah-co-lahhh."  Not "Chocolate"

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Chocolate for small spaces hey why not.

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Chocolate for a powder room?  Even better.  Don't you want to powder up righcheer?

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Or here even?  Ok we're not going that drastic in terms of beautification because if you want to know the God's honest truth, I don't plan in being in this house forever, nahmean?  I mean I may or may not be scoping out fmrealty every now and again for the fun in it.  ShoWhat?  And if you repeat that to my husband I will lie bold faced.

Sherwin Williams Less Brown is the bottom shade and I think it wins.  It has more of a lavender undertone, which everyone loves.  Because lavender is amazing.  The color and the aroma.  Plus I'm trying to be realistic in that the other two look like I smeared Jello Pudding on the walls to entertain my child.

Which I would never do inside my home because I hate cleaning up huge messes of that nature.  In your home, if we were invited, maybe. Probably.
Ok I would because it seems like fun and I know he'd love it.

Since. January.

So.  Nevermind that I've been talking about this since January.  It's actually coming to fruition.  Here we go-pink as a neutral.  Obviously I've done some research...

 



Design by Stephen Shubel; photo by Jeremy Samuelson





https://www.onekingslane.com/live-love-home/the-perfect-pink-paint-color/

Think calm cozy come sit a spell. 

Then I checked into Sherwin Williams' most preferred pinks.  Here you have it party people.  Verbena on top and White Dogwood underneath.  And I am quite aware of the fact that in this image...they look exactly the same.

 

And a Nikon 7 Bajillion would've been nice to more accurately capture the truest true hue of hues, however, you can manage with Siri and the iPhone 4s images, of that I am sure.

 

Ever notice how soooooome people try and lure you into their blog with great images of boring nothingness and you honestly think you've come upon a great blog until you realize.  You've judged the book by it's cover aka the work of an expensive camera.

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No me either.