my temporary humble abode... pt. 2

so, at long last here is the 2nd and final part of my temporary humble abode. the rest of my house is either very messy or empty, so no more house posts until we move ;) currently, we live in a very stock neighborhood in the suburbs, so i try to make every inch of the space livable and interesting, but since we are downsizing in preparation to move to cali the spare rooms are very empty... and don't get me started on my dining room table... why do men walk in the house and immediately throw all of their shit on to the table!!! NO!!!! there is a very messy man cave/ office for all of that nonsense. lord help me if we end up in a studio loft. yikes. i'll have to blog about space saving solutions in a few months. any who.

my comfy, cozy bedroom is probably my favorite room in the house. i LOVE my bed. so comfy and so bright. the bedding is from urban outfitters and i am obsessed! and thank the lord, we finally bought a bed last fall! the double decker bed from CB2 is ah-mazing. it's low like a platform, but still sits off the ground enough for our big dog hammond to sleep underneath. both dressers are from ikea. it's almost perfect. i'm still looking for the perfect thing to hang over our bed. the picture there now is from previous bedding. any interesting ideas on what to put there would be greatly appreciated.

for funsies, i thought i'd let you into my insane closet. it's crazy packed, so i have been trying really hard to only buy things that i am IN LOVE with. quality verses quantity is my motto these days. i'm terrified of the size of my closet in california. yikes. what am i gonna do with all of these shoes!?! haha. 

so there you go, that's my bedroom and closet. do all the stacks of books and cluttered areas make you make you break out in hives!? or do you appreciate my boho-eclectic-shabby-cluttered chic? any good ideas for what to hang over my bed? what about the closet? how do you store your shoe collection? is 25 pairs of jeans too much?!

my temporary humble abode... pt. 1

so, if your new to llo then you might not know that the hubs is a marine pilot. pause for a daydream of him in his uniform.......... annnnd we're back. this is definitely not the life that i had planned for us. we started dating when we were 16 and we dated for 7 years before we were married. so last year actually marked 10 years together. whoa. well, needless to say i hoped we would move to new york city, la, or chicago... or heck, even live in a posh neighborhood in atlanta. i would be a struggling actor, he would be a successful engineer. well, that's not what happened. life happened. and he sat me down and told me his dream was to fly helicopters for the marine corps. i couldn't deny him that, no matter how terrifying the thought was, so i have now been a military wife for a little over 3 years and there have been ups and downs... lots of downs, but i think i'm finally getting the hang of it.

that brings us to the post. yes, all of my yammering had a point. in the past 4 years, i have lived in 5 apartments/houses. atlanta. virginia. pensacola, florida. milton, florida. north carolina. and to top if all off we are moving to san diego in a little less than 3 months. hooray. i've learned to really have a critical eye when designing for my home. i'm lucky that my aesthetic is very eclectic and modern, but i still try and keep color families pretty similar so that when we move no matter the home's layout i can use all of my stuff together. i also have this terrible constitution where it's literally impossible for me to not decorate a home, no matter how long or short we live there, so here, FINALLY, is my living room. ta-daaaa!

so, this is my delightful and cozy living room. whatcha think? could you live in this space? what do you think i could do to make it better? what's your favorite part!? remember, i love being praised so please, bring it!!!! and stay tuned for pt. 2.

it's fun to be the the most stylish person in an entire city...

so bo and i took a quick trip to asheville, nc to see the biltmore and what we found was the cutest little city full of great restaurants, awesome art galleries, and a whole bunch of tacky hippies. yikesola! these folks were crazy. i'm all for being comfortable, but it was a peasant skirt, patagonia nightmare. i should've taken pictures, but i didn't. i still wanted to feel cute despite all of the tack. and so cute i was. it was freaking cold, so i got to bundle up and it was a great excuse to layer. plus, i finally got to wear my purple tights!!!! yay!!!

aren't we precious? yeah. my teeth look so white and straight. love my orthodontist. actually, he was really creepy...he looked like mr. burns from the simpson's and always smushed my nose with his monster huge hands.
that's me, it's freezing outside, bo seemed to think it was funny.

i was dancing...then i was frolicking. this was the day we explored the gardens. it was amazing, straight out of a jane austen novel in north carolina. so odd. loved. it. i felt like such a rockstar this day. this outfit was sooooo comfy.

i switched up my rockstar outfit and added black leggings and my black slouchy boots.

it's snowing!!!! yay!!!! it didn't last and was oddly one of the warmer days. i felt sooo cute, those purple tights are AH-mazing. i love them.
on our last day, i had some fun with liquid eyeliner and my favorite mac russian red lipstick. i busted out the new cynthia vincent boots, only because it wasn't supposed to rain, it didn't. whew. safe.