Fairgrounds...

Not to much has been going on. Still trying to eat healthy lately. We went to San Francisco last weekend for a night and I ate pretty bad the whole time so it's been hard to get back into the swing of things. It was fun either way! I'll post pictures soon. :)


I wanted to post about a clock that I got a long time ago now, in the first week I lived here actually. When Dave and I got to Monterey (after our cross country trip) we stayed at a hotel that wasn't far from the Fairgrounds. Dave, being adventurous, wanted to go take a look around and came upon this area at the fairgrounds where they have tag sales on Mondays. Anyone can go set up a table and sell stuff. Mostly old beat up stuff...

He told me about it when he got back and we decided to go back down. I looked at everything and came across this clock.

It needed a new battery and a little cleaning up but for $3 I felt it was worth it! And Dave even paid for it :) So this was the first thing I bought for the house as soon as I got here.

Ross and I finally got a new backing for it. Which included having to get new hands for it. (the old ones were longer and cooler looking :( but I still love it! The color is what attracted me - it lives in our living room for now.

You can kinda see in the picture above that it was made by Seth Thomas. I looked up Seth Thomas Clocks and found a cute little history on them. :)



Thought I'd share! Thanks again Dave!!



Cathy

Grey Florals...

Been trying to add a few healthy habits to my life lately. Eating healthy, exercising and taking vitamins everyday, and working on fighting negative thought patterns. Rough days ahead implementing those. But I'm hopeful.

Okay, on to things that make me happy no matter how I'm feeling...


New Pillows! :) I'm so easy and hard to please at the same time. Is that possible??


I stated that I wanted some cute pillows for the new chairs in the living room that I posted about here.


Here's what I found:








































We were shopping in Marshall's one day (For Med's Christmas gifts, he's so spoiled) and I came across them.  There were about $16 each. Normally, I wouldn't spend that much but they were feathered filled (the only kind I use in my decor). AND I loved the pattern.  Not going to lie, I've bought pillows just for the feather insert and thrown the pillow case away! So this was a twofer!

It's kinda sad/funny that I spent more money on these pillows than on the chairs themselves. :p


New furniture premieres soon!



:)




Cathy

2013!!...

Hi! So we had a great month of December. I'm going to recap Christmas and a few things from Ross' holiday vacation and go over New Years Resolutions!!


So Christmas was nice and quiet here. Just us and the dog.

Here's the living room with the tree and stockings. :)

And the family room :) My sister Michelle made the Christmas quilt for me a couple years ago and I put our Christmas pillows out!!

We went a little over board with gifts again this year. Always just a ton of small things, so there's more to open :) Some of my gifts included a new watch that I love, this journal that I wanted, some yoga stuff, some design books and my Vera Bradley planner for the year. Always so spoiled :)


We didn't do much over his break. Just relaxed and watched movies, went for a lot of walks and slept in! We did take a drive down to Big Sur and it was beautiful!

Here's a few pictures!

News Years was a little lame. We didn't even stay up. But I did make a few resolutions to start off the new year right.

Some include:

Read something everyday
Start running again
Remember everyone's Birthday this year by sending a card
Celebrate ALL holidays more joyfully
Grow out my hair!

Very general ones this year and not too hard. Setting myself up for success.


I have done a few projects over the last few weeks so I'll post again soon!



:)


Cathy