A Store Called My Favorite Room

Here's another store I can never pass up:

My Favorite Room

If you guessed it's in McKinney Texas,

well...you're right!

Here's three pictures of the inside of the store 

from their page on Facebook:

 

The store's owner, Kathy of KBM Designs,

does design evaluations/recommendations in your

home at a reasonable rate. 
I've heard she does great work and that she has a

whole slew of carpenters and painters and such...

who can implement her designs for you if you

can't don't want to do it yourself.

I would ask her to make my home look

just like her shop if we ever get to the point

where we're able to decorate instead of just
replacing and repairing stuff on the never-

ending Fixin' To Do list.

When we were down in McKinney last week,

I wasn't brave enough to ask to take pictures

in the shop. Most shops don't like it, so I didn't

even ask...

But, I did let them know I was going to take

pictures of their entryway with all the

wonderful plants outside. After all, I didn't

want to be taken for a stalker!

If you saw my last post, now you know where
I got the idea for my entryway pots.

Here's an old fashion bathtub filled with
plants -- love it!

My favorite things to buy at the shop are
these preserved roses. Somehow they make
a real rose last forever.

You can see more of My Favorite Room
on both Pinterest and Facebook by
typing in the store's name.

As usual, all opinions are my own and
no compensation has been received.



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Garden Dreams

Spring peeked in for a few days, so Wild Bill

and I ran down to Costco and bought a few

plants for the planting beds.

We thought the sage bushes, shown here

from last Summer, had died due to the

freezing temperatures this Winter.

They were like sticks the other day, so we bought

a rose bush and two azaleas to replace them.

When we got the new plants home, there were

new green shoots on the dead sage plants!

 

Honestly, do you ever get the feeling someone
'up there' is messing with you?
Here's the new plants...we'll have to start a
new planting bed to put them in now.

Along with the azaleas and rose bush,
we bought 3 geraniums. Two for our planters
by the entrance way...

And one for our favorite neighbor Melanie
across the road...

As soon as we got back with the plants,
thunderstorms moved in and the sun
hasn't come out since...
I gave up and went out and planted the
geraniums in the rain.

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Life Happens

I haven't been able to work my plan to purge

my possessions in the last few weeks.

We've been too busy moving my in-laws to a

 smaller apartment in the assisted-living

section of their retirement community, which
will provide them with a higher level of care.

Instead of purging our stuff, we found ourselves

trying to purge their stuff instead.

Because both of his parents were in the hospital

at the time, Wild Bill and I decided to just buy a

ton of moving boxes and pack up everything that

we thought was just taking up space and not

necessarily "sparking joy" in their lives. That

meant we ended up with about 50 boxes

of the in-law's stuff in our garage.

Yeah...that's right...we are definitely headed

in the wrong purging direction at our house!

I am happy to say my daughter Jaysa really

took the book I recommended in my last post

to heart. She and I are 'storage experts' and, if

you remember, the author Marie Kondo states:

Storage Experts Are Hoarders!

At first Jaysa was taken aback by the thought
that her packed storage containers and shelves
were a way of hoarding. Fearing I'd insulted
her, I had Wild Bill order her the book, that
night, from Amazon with 2-day shipping.


 She got the book one day, read it the next,
and began purging "for real" right away. I say
"for real" because she has been purging stuff
for several weeks before reading the book, but
when she read about keeping only things that
sparked joy, she had a whole new focus.


Jaysa has been posting on her blog all the

progress she is making. Here's some pictures

I borrowed from her posts:
Here's the AFTER picture of her shelves...

I especially like how she purged and sorted her

movies. The ones she kept, she placed in paper

jackets and put in two storage boxes...

She even made perfect dividers, then filed

them alphabetically within the dividers!

See...I told you this book was life changing!

Here's Jaysa's post if you're interested
in seeing more of the pictures:
http://benthewildcard.blogspot.com/2015/04/purging-progres.html

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