Want. Want. Want. Is how I feel about this giveaway!

How perfect would this pillow cover be in our in-progress kids room? Pretty stoked about this giveaway along side a wee bit jealous! Moxie Mandie has some pretty sweet hand sewn items to boast! I am pretty in love with the carefully selected fabric choices. So start your week off right and enter to win this super cute pillow cover to add some fun to a room in your home!

Speaking of rooms! We have progress to share this week. Finally! Missed you this weekend. :)

Giveaway info:

• Prize:a 14 x 14 inch Black & White Chevron Stripe pillow cover by moxiemandie.
• How to Enter: Leave a comment and tell us what else you like from moxiemandie! 
• Extra Entry: Tweet: I entered to win a fabulous @moxiemandie prize at @makeahouseahome!
• Giveaway Ends: Sunday October 30th at 9:00pm EST
• How Many Lucky Winners?!: One Lucky One!
• Ships to: US Only
• Also: Please only enter once, with the exception of the extra entry. We select our winners using random.org and will select a winner by November 6th and notify by email, so use a real email address!



It's Progress Report Time People!

Hi there love! How was your Monday? I spent most of the day painting the downstairs guestroom. It already looks soooooo much better! Lighter, brighter! I would totally share photos, but it's a stencil project, and what's the fun in sharing the first layer? We also started hanging the refinished cabinets up in the kitchen! I do however have some photos to share! After 40 days and 40 nights of rain in the NYC, I finally got some shots of the upstairs guestroom with some sun light. She's done!

When I say "done", I mean shes in a condition we don't dread, and we know some other stuff needs to be done, but we are happy for now. It's totally our POW room. Everything in the house is pretty neutral so far, and it's a pretty random room. See we had a pretty colorful apartment, and I had so much stuff from Etsy and Anthropologie, I just had to make a room to justify keeping some of those prized possessions.

I had some left over fabric from the closet curtains, so I whipped up a little pillow for the reading nook. The chair I grabbed from the garden room and the fan we found ages ago at Elephants Trunk. The chandy is from Urban Outfitters, maybe 4 years ago.

So we are crossing this off the good ol' list! It was awesome to do a room at no cost! The only thing we paid for was the lamp and $100 for the fabric. I am dedicated to getting the next guest room done twice as fast. If you are keeping track, here is where we are at:

1.) Finish the kitchen cabinets (oil polyurethane yellowed, now we need to redo with water based. we were warned).

2.) Finish the curtains in the guest room; I reordered the fabric! Should be here soon! + Finish styling

3.) Greywash fireplace in bedroom

4.) Greywash heater covers in bedroom

5.) *Bonus* Greywash whole closet in master bedroom.

6.) Patch water leak in dining room + paint entire dining room

7.) Patch water leak in foyer + paint entire foyer ceiling

8.) Paint/Stencil downstairs guestroom - 1/2 DONE!

9.) Patch wall in downstairs bathroom

10.) Move couch to Joey's office; two flights of stairs...ugh!

11.) Buy new dishwasher and have it installed

12.) Buy five (yes five!) fans and install

13.) Install backsplash in kitchen

14.) Install counters in kitchen

15.) Purge my closet, big time - Hello Goodwill!

16.) Install light outside we bought two years ago - I know, I know...

17.) Hang pillars in bedroom + finish that window wall

Now that your down reading this, go enter this weeks giveaway!

A White Unicorn of a Giveaway!

***This Giveaway is Now Closed!***

I have heard, under good authority, that certain desk candy is pretty hard to come by. A white stapler for instance. A white tape dispenser. How about a pretty white ruler? Well my friends, we have a pretty sweet giveaway today from our dear friends at Poppin'! How about a whole desk set of *unicorn* level hard to find white supplies? We thought we would get your attention with these!

I am super jealous of whoever wins this. We happen to be a Poppin' household, so if you have never heard of these guys - I suggest you check them out. They have a bunch of stylish goods (in tons of fun colors too!), at affordable prices and I got a peek at what's coming out - there are no words. And I know a few things about their current products that you should too. First, I insisted on the legal pads being part of the giveaway. Why? Because they are THE BEST PADS IN THE WORLD! I swear! The back of the pad is super sturdy and you don't need to lean on anything to write. You can use the pad to bang a nail into a wall. Serious. I have to carry a pad and walk around a lot so it's been SO nice to have that support. Such a simple thing.

Another thing to take note is their super cute hand-held notebooks - I fly through these guys. They live through the torture of my purse, which is rare. And people keep stealing Poppin' pens from my office because they are so worth stealing. Anyway, I feel like an advertisement so I am going to stop blabbing and let you enter this sweet giveaway.

Giveaway info:

• Prize: A White Hot Desk Set (pictured above) with Love, from Poppin'.
• How to Enter: Leave a comment and suggest a new color, fun pattern or product they don't currently have for Poppin'!
• Extra Entry: Tweet: Winning a white hot unicorn @makahouseahome from @Poppin - Come back and comment you did!
• Giveaway Ends: Sunday October 23rd at 9:00pm EST
• How Many Lucky Winners?!: One Lucky One!
• Ships to: US Only
• Also: Please only enter once, with the exception of the extra entry. We select our winners using random.org and will select a winner by October 27th and notify by email, so use a real email address!