Happy to bring you another post compliments of my girls:
Katrina
Angie
Stephanie
Em
This week's topic:
Around the House
We Ventage Girls - we keep things real.
We don't mince words. We don't pretend to be things we aren't. We laugh hard. We cry hard. We live our lives to the fullest. That applies to our fashion sense (as seen last week). That applies to all aspects of our houses - the decorating, the cleaning, the dreaming, and the organizing.
I present my house via Instagram. Filtered but unedited. Uncensored.
I pin just as many beautiful home ideas as the rest of you. I see other people's beautiful houses and carefully curated spaces in blog land. I don't lack in inspiration. I lack in ambition and execution. I'm trusting that I can't possibly be the only person with these short-comings and am coming clean here in hopes of encouraging other housekeeping underachievers to stop hanging their heads in shame.
Geotag from Kelly Purkey
- The view from the outside. Notice the leaves. They are everywhere. They haven't been raked. They aren't going to be raked. Someone else can do that.
- Kitchen counter. Cookbook holder filled with magazines and a grocery shopping list from several months ago. Stacked on top of cookbooks. Sitting beside my catch-all space for jewelry - it gets dumped here at the end of the day.
- My bedroom. No dust ruffle. Nothing on the walls. Clothes on the floor. A bed that's never made. It's the part of my house that is the most neglected. I will work on that in the next place I live.
- My awesome (custom ordered from OhDier) sign. I want this to eventually be the centerpiece of a whole wall of awesome-themed art. For now, it's balanced on top of my giant entertainment center and paired with another cut-out and a printing press "B."
- The deer. It stares at you the moment you enter the house. Clearly, this is not something I contributed to the decorating. It was a source of pride for him. Now, it's a constant reminder of him - how different we are, how different our priorities are. I will not miss the deer.
Moving day is only 10 days away. I'm 10 days from a fresh start - a chance to dream again of decorating possibilities and creating a space that is all mine.
