Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Who the heck do we think we are...
We are going to tell you our story. We get emails all the time asking about us, our home, who we are and what we do - so we decided it's time we formally introduce ourselves! After all, we have been blogging for a while now - it's only fair!
Lana - I grew up in South Florida in a beach community. I went to private school almost my whole academic life, played soccer for 14 years, and was your pretty average kid. My father had a set up in our garage where he would often build or fix things for our home. I was obsessed. Little boxes filled with shiny nails and screws all organized for any possibility your mind could create. I often took the dolly and nailed boxes to it trying to build my own "car". Then, my father did the most amazing thing ever. He built me my first house. It was two stories and had a tree in the middle. I remember putting curtains up and spending time in there dreaming of when I would have my very own home. Sadly when we sold the house, the new owners took down my life-size doll house.
At 19 I moved to NY to work in the entertainment industry, which I did for five years before I became a marketing consultant, vegan truffle maker, learned to sew, garden, met my wonderful husband Joey...wait. I am getting ahead of myself. Learning that I loved the freedom of consulting, I dove into a variety of things I always wanted to do. When I met my super-amazing-musician-husband, who had a flexible lifestyle, I knew I met my match. We shared an apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where we became DIYers. Now I say "became" like it's something we just took up. I don't really mean it like that. I mean it in the sense that we found a partner in eachother to accomplish projects. Then the wedding came, and were were total DIY fanatics and did the whole thing ourselves, from invitations to what people threw as we walked down the isle to decore. This blog actually started as a "do-tell" of our wedding planning! Unexpectatly, we bought a house just a few months after marriage. We actually had paid for our whole honeymoon, then discovered our closing date was smack-dab in the middle, hence, we never took our honeymoon. We figured the house was a once in a lifetime shot (we wanted this one!), and we could always take our honeymoon at a later date. So just a few days before Halloween 2010, we moved into our starter castle (hehe) and began really learning how to do every ourselves. It's a big change moving from a 1000 sqft Brooklyn apartment into a 6,200 sqft house, with land! Our weekends of hanging with our friends all day and night in the city turned into basically living at Home Depot, Lowes, True Value, Target, ABC Carpet and Home, etc, etc...Oddly enough, we enjoy it just the same. It's been a wonderful thing to have people over to our home. Have a backyard, play music as loud as we want, enjoying a driveway (our parking tickets were thousands a year), and feeling the pride homeowners feel.
As for what I do on a daily basis - it's A LOT. I work full time marketing (more like 60 hours a week!), own two companies, and run this household with Joey. We have two puppies, which are more like our children. Their names are Porkchop VanderSandwich and Rocket VonScience. I believe in a home cooked meal, so I always make the time to cook at least four nights a week. I love gardening, sewing, and making vegan desserts (something less guilty about it). The best part of the day is laying down with the Hubs McGruff and our two pups and taking in all we accomplish every day.
So that's my story. I am going to pass you over to Joey......in just a little bit!
Reader Comments (1)
LOVED reading this Part I! Can't wait to see Joey's!