Lavender Kay

Hello and happy Friday! Today I wanted to share another color palette with you.  Aren’t good color combinations so inspiring!?  Lately, I have had color on my brain as I have been trying to decide the colors for our nursery.  It is just so hard to choose!  Right now I am leaning towards peach + white + natural wood.

I choose this image for my color palette because I love the soft blush tones in the background combined with the mustard yellow couch!  Stunning!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

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Hello!  I am sorry it has been so long since I have posted here!  I can honestly say I have missed keeping this place up-to-date.  I am hoping to get back in the swing of things here on the blog and post more regularly.

Today I wanted to share a picture from our Chicago trip last week.  Let me just say, Chicago is absolutely amazing!  I will never get tired of visiting this wonderful city!  One of my favorite things about living in Milwaukee is that we are a 90 minute train ride from downtown Chicago.  We can just jump on the Amtrak for $21 and be in Chicago in an hour and a half!  It is wonderful!  The Amtrak is also a really comfortable ride with free wi-fi and fun scenery.  Growing up in Washington, riding the train somewhere just wasn’t really an option (or at least not a very good option) so I hope to take advantage of this great resource as much as I can!

Once is Chicago, we spent time eating at some fabulous restaurants, explored the city, bought some cute baby clothes along the Magnificent Mile, and walked around the Navy Pier.  Because I am pregnant we had to take it pretty slow but it was still a wonderful time!  I can’t wait to go back!

I designed this illustration a little while back and I thought I would share it today.  Doesn’t it seem like the seasons change so quickly?!  Jonathan and I keep trying to decided when summer is actually over, and although we are starting to see signs of fall, we just aren’t quite ready to let summer go.  So we are choosing to believe these are the last days of summer and are soaking up as much of the warm weather as possible!  Have a wonderful Tuesday!

Lately I have been thinking a lot about our baby girl’s nursery.  I assume this is a natural part of the pregnancy nesting process.  Because we rent we can’t do any major changes to the room but it is still fun to think of creative ways to jazz up the new nursery.  I have found that I am really drawn to very simply, natural design.  I really like rooms that are all white or have a light brown wood accent and maybe a small pop of color.  Here are a few nurseries I have been crushing on lately.

via the animal print shop

via erin michael

via fashion loves people

via mami decora

via apartment therapy

One thing I know I want to do is make a cute mobile like the one above.  Isn’t it fabulous?!

Have a wonderful day!

One of the fun things about exploring a new city has been learning all about it’s history.  Milwaukee has such a unique culture/heritage and I have loved diving into it head first.  The other day our neighbors invited us on the Pabst Brewery tour.  Pabst started in downtown Milwaukee, and at one time it was the biggest brewery in the world.  We had so much fun learning about the Pabst story and seeing some of the old buildings.  Thank you Craig and Mark for bringing us along!

The time has finally come to announce our big news…we are pregnant with a sweet baby girl!  It seems kind of crazy to be finally sharing this news because we have been keeping this secret for so long!  But, now the secret is out and we are over the moon excited about this big change in our life!

Lately, Jonathan and I have been day dreaming about what it will be like to raise a little girl.  We already love her so much and can’t imagine how much more love we will feel once she is here.  I keep thinking about how I felt when we were in the ultrasound appointment waiting to hear if she was going to be a boy or a girl.  We had to wait until the very end of the appointment to find out because she was situated in a way that the technician couldn’t tell for sure.  And, when she finally told us I instantly cried.  I just felt so much love and emotion for that sweet little girl.  Such a beautiful and crazy experience, and one I will never forget.

So far being pregnant has been quite the wild ride.  No one can really prepare you for what your first pregnancy will be like – especially because experiences can vary so much!  My first trimester wasn’t a worst-case-scenario by any means, but I will say, being nauseous from morning to night is no walk in the park!  And, my cravings weren’t outrageous but for awhile I was eating 3 to 4 oranges a day.  I would practically have a panic attack if we ran out of oranges in the refrigerator!  Mostly, I am just happy to be out of the woods with that part of pregnancy and have my energy back.

Well, that is our exciting news!  So happy to share it with you!

Hello!  Today I wanted to share a few pictures from my  Milwaukee Domes adventure that I talked about last week.  Aren’t they magical?!  On Saturday I enjoyed checking out all the booths at the Farmer’s Market, and then sat myself down in the tropical down for a good hour to read and bask in the warm air!  It was so wonderful, and such a lifesaver in these polar temperatures!

Good morning friends!  And, happy Friday!  I can’t tell you how much I am looking forward to the weekend!  One reason I am especially excited is because of a recent discover I made.  I don’t know if any of you have heard of the Milwaukee Domes, but they are seriously fabulous.  They are these three huge domes and inside each one is a different conservatory climate: tropical, desert, and rotating dome.  This winter my favorite is the tropical dome because it feel so tropical.  When you walk inside you are instantly transported to a warm, tropical land where birds are chirping and there is beautiful plant life everywhere. I have know about the domes for awhile but my recent discovery is that they host a winter farmers market every Saturday and admission is free!  Tomorrow I plan to get there right when it opens, buy some coffee and sit in the tropical dome and read.  I am so excited!

Today I also wanted to share with you a recent project I have been working on.  The above image is a baby shower invite I designed for a friend.  It is a co-ed shower so we wanted to keep it simple and incorporate neutral tones.  Here is the final product.

Have a great weekend!

I know it has been a million years since I have blogged, and I am so sorry.   Life got a little crazy for awhile, and I just couldn’t find the time!  But, recently I have made of few changes in my life and I am hoping to get back to a routine around here soon!

Today I don’t actually have anything too exciting to report other than it has been insanely cold in Milwaukee!  I mean don’t-leave-your-house-for-days cold!  That pesky “polar vortex” has been hitting us pretty hard!  Today the high is negative two and the low is negative seventeen!  And, this isn’t even the coldest day!  I used to think Spokane had cold winters, but now they seem like nothing compared to this!  Although, I have heard that this is the coldest winter Milwaukee has had in a really long time and that does make me feel better.  But still, I am really hoping it starts to warm up soon because this weather is really starting to get to me.  I am ready for some sunshine, and vitamin D!

Have a wonderful day friends!  Stay warm!