Friday Favorites

Happy Friday! Who's excited for the weekend?? I know I am... It's moving weekend! The next time you see me I will hopefully be all settled into my pretty new house!! {don't worry it's just a rental} Not only am I excited to be moving into a house for normal reasons, but hey hey who wants a home tour?? I'm so excited to have a clean slate and all new inspiration to post about!

Well, getting back to the fact that it's finally friday. Here are my favorite pins from this week!

Style Me Pretty

I love this nursery. I have a bunch of girlfriends who are expecting right now so if there's a nursery on Pinterest you can bet I'm all over it! I love the look of the mid century modern dresser and the watercolor paintings are to die for!

Design Manifest

This may only be a portion of what leads on to be a beautiful living room but that is alright. Look at that side table. Driftwood side tables will never go out of style {i'm convinced!} Love the combination of mixed patterns and colors also!

Pinterest Image | Shop acrylic on Wayfair

One word: Lucite. Ahhhh my latest obsession. Lucite accent furniture and decor is right up my alley so I couldn't pass this one up. For those of you who don't know, lucite is just a fancy word for acrylic.

Makely 

And just one more thing I love, gold accents. This DIY gold leaf vase is an amazing project to spice up any part of your home on a budget! Time to get crafty!

Home Design Collections

Don't you love the look of this eat in dining area? Taking this cozy casual area another notch and adding the pink table base screams creativity. Such a bold move pulled off flawlessly.. my applause.

Design Improvised

Ohh the joy coffee brings to the world every morning around hmmmm 8am? This coffee nook is so adorable I want to create something just like this in my new home!

Home Office Must Haves

I hope everyone is enjoying the cold weather and snow today! If you ask me, North Carolina should not be allowed to have snow.  I'm ready for summer to be here already!  Sticking with the winter spirit [or trying to] it's only January and we're only a month into our New Years Resolutions. How are those going?

If you're off to a rough start getting your resolutions off the ground, take a seat because this might help! Whether you work for yourself, if you're a blogger who has a little creative space in your home, or if you are just very lucky and you have the ability to work from home - This one's for you. Today's Wish List Wednesday is for revamping and organizing that little space that is all yours. The Home Office. The Creative Space.

I'm sure everyone has a new years resolution that has a little something to do with getting organized. Well, why not do it in a stylish, and fun way?  I've been meaning to add some more color to my life... so I personally can't get enough of these!

Here are my top picks for a modern and fun home office:

Home Office Must Haves by defineddesigns featuring Kate Spade

Want to take this organized look to the next level? Add a metallic [brass] table lamp, a comfy desk chair, and a coffee mug filled with your favorite caffeine of choice, and you've got your perfect space!

Side Note: I'm also loving the Sugar Paper LA planners and notebooks for target right now! One of their notebooks is also shown above. Head over to your local target and check out their collections for more! Could any of these items add some flare to your home office? Happy Shopping!

Happy New Year

Will someone please tell me where 2013 went? I seemed to have lost it.

But really - I feel like this past year has been a complete blur.  Anyone with me? Well, I've accomplished a lot this past year and I am so happy with where my life is headed! But I must say, I'm very excited to see what 2014 has in store!

A look back at my 2013:

I graduated college with my degree in Interior Design.

Not to mention with some of my best friends by my side.

I lived with 3 of my best friends for our last year at college!

We lived together in our apartment [long live 401] and in the design building [the black hole of norton]

I got a job doing what I love - With an office [Woo!]

And yes, those are fake plants... they came with the office.

I moved to this amazing city that I now call home!

I attended my first ever NFL football game [more than one actually]

Thanks to my roommate and her job for giving her tickets!

I started an Etsy Shop! [here]

It's still a work in progress...

And of course, I started this blog!

It's been so exciting and I love blogging I can't thank everyone enough for supporting me and reading my posts each day! Especially my mom and dad for being my number one fans!  [And Emily for being my editor and opinion-giver when I can't stare at a screen any longer]

Now go get wild tonight!!

This is available for download at The Kinch Life Blog - This is my background on my laptop and my iPhone. I'm obsessed with it! Check out all of her freebie downloads here!

Happy New Year - See you all in 2014!