Sarah Elizabeth - Featured!

Welcome back!  Did you do anything exciting over the weekend or did you play "catch up" like me? 

It's no secret that Monday doesn't exactly have gobs of fans. You never hear anyone wishing the weekend would hurry up and end so it would be Monday already.  

I'm usually not a big fan of them myself until I saw this comment from Hollie at I'm Busy Procrastinating:

I'm so smitten with your table that I featured it today on my blog!

What a great start to my week!  Thanks so much for the feature Hollie, you made my day!

Head on over to Hollie's blog to check out my cocktail table feature and stick around to enjoy her humor and DIY projects.  Tons of inspiring stuff!

Also, keep your eyes open for the unveiling of the new website for my interior design business. It's due to launch any minute! 

Sarah Elizabeth Featured!

If you haven't already stumbled upon Better After on your daily blog roll, now is the time to get with it and check out this fun and inspiring blog.  It's full of DIY projects by regular people and bloggers from all over showing off their latest and greatest projects.  Better After is a really great place to get inspired to do some serious thrifting and refinishing of your own.  Spend a few hours there and you'll find yourself looking around your own house to see what you can repaint, refinish or reupholster. 

 

The best part of Better After? - Not having to scroll through an entire tutorial or post before you get to the really good stuff - the befores and afters!  Oh and while you're there, be sure to check out a sweet little post about a certain dining table refinishing project by uh, your's truly.  

 

 

 

Thanks for the feature Lindsey - I am honored to be on your blog!

 

 

 

 

 

Friday Feature - Imbibing & Inspiring!

I wish I could say that today’s cocktail has been my signature drink for years but sadly I only became aware of them after Betty Draper glided up to a bar on Mad Men and casually ordered one. “I don’t know - a gimlet.” she said.  And with that I knew I had to find out what a hell a gimlet was and try one for myself. 

Photo from AMC.com

The gimlet intrigued me for a couple of reasons; first I had never heard of it before Mad Men came along and made drinking SO much cooler.

Second, because downing just one of these lime green lovelies is apparently all it takes to loosen up a very tightly wound, early sixties housewife just long enough to initiate, not give in to but initiate, some ultra-steamy, revenge sex with a total stranger……in the back room of the bar. Yowza, what’s in those things?

Turns out, just enough to do the trick.