Happy Memorial weekend friends!  I was asked to join 11 Magnolia Lane’s Spring House Tour!  So exciting!  I always love peeking into the beautiful homes they feature.  If you’re new to my blog hello and welcome!  I’m Erin.  I live in sunny San Diego and I’m passionate about organizing, home design/decor and being mom to my three beautiful kiddos.  I’m also passionate about cherry ice chapstick but that’s beside the point. :) My husband and I finished building our custom home about a year and a half ago.  Hard to believe it has been that long!  I have been slowly decorating the house one room at a time and love putting my stamp on the place.  Here is a tour of the rooms I have shared on my blog so far!  Some of them are ready for Spring.  Some of them are just ready for a chair.. or rug.. or anything.  Ha!  All in good time.  We are definitely a work in progress around here.  :)

A peek of part of the front of our house.  I combined everything I loved when I designed our home and it turned out “Craftsman Coastal.”  At least that’s what my architect calls it.  :)  I just added plants and spruced up the front porch for Spring!



Come on in!

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Is everyone enjoying this time of year?  I can’t get enough of all of the beautiful trees and flowers and green green grass!  Plus rain is in our forecast tomorrow!  I can’t wait.  Rain means two things.  First it’s exciting news for us since we are in a drought here in southern Cal.  We need all the rain we can get!  Second, more of my house will get organized.  I LOVE organizing when it rains.  I don’t know what it is about cool, cloudy days.  They make me want to tear my cupboards apart and label everything in sight.  So tomorrow I will be busy.  :)

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Happy May everyone!  Oh my word.  Are your calendars/planners going to blow up?  :)  My friends and I joke every year that May has become the new December.  Such a busy month for so many!  All the end of the year projects/parties/activites/gifts/graduations.  But such a fun time of year too.  Lots going on to celebrate!

Speaking of parties, I have a couple of different events scheduled at my house in May and June and they have been great motivators for me to kick it in gear and get things done around here that have been lingering on the old to-do list for way too long!  For starters I added some Spring touches to the family room so I thought I’d share some updated pictures of this room.  YEA Spring.

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You guys.  I’ve been organizing like a mad woman.  No joke.  We had cloudy weather and some rain this weekend and I don’t know what it is about clouds and rain but they make me want to tear apart and organize every single drawer and cupboard in my house!  Is that weird?!  Maybe.  Probably.  I don’t care.  Things are getting checked off my list right and left and it feels good!  I haven’t had time to take pictures – been too busy with my head buried in cupboards.  ;)  But along with the organizing I also managed to re-style my butler’s pantry shelves so I thought I’d share that since I’m still mid-project with everything else.

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I love this time of year.  I got the kids off to school one morning a few days ago and was cleaning upstairs when I walked by one of our french doors and the morning light was streaming across our backyard.  It was such beautiful natural light!  I had to stop and take it all in.  And then take a picture.  :)  We are lucky that because of our weather we can really use our backyard all year long, but everything looks more beautiful in the Spring!  Our yard is still new so it’s fun to see plants and flowers finally blooming.  It’s still a work in progress and there is a lot I want to eventually do, but after living with such a small yard for so long in our previous house, having all of this space and grass for the kids to run and play on feels like a dream!  I’m going to do a post at some point with more details on our back yard because I get lots of questions about our trampoline, fire pit and bike trail so that will be coming soon!

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Sharing part of my master bathroom today!  I finally took some pictures of my bathtub.  Which is definitely one of my favorite spots in the house!

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