Sore Hiney!!!

Why might you ask... 

do my hunk of a husband and I have sore hineys'?

We've been riding mountain bikes a little too much lately!

We enjoy it, we always have but...

We enjoy it a lot less when our 

out of shape legs & hindsides 

feel beyond inoperable the next day!

We have been home the last two weekends 

which I might add, is a rare occurrence...

So, both Sundays we have decided to take 

a little whirl around the town or state is more like!

Raleigh has an awesome greenway system 

& that's where we have taken our last two long rides.

Last Sunday this was our route...  only 12 miles, not too deadly.

This Sunday however, we took a little longer ride... 

17.15 miles to be exact

Today, as I sit here in my office chair...

I am envious of those will voluptuous backsides, 

or maybe, it is those...smart enough to have 

laid around lazy daisy on Sunday afternoon!

Either way, I guess I will be positive & look for
the Sunshine in our day after the hurricane activities...   

Runkeeper tells me that I burned over 

1000 calories (yeah!!!)

  yesterday on our whirl around town!

Now, I am going to run and make plans for us next weekend
so we are not in the same predicament come Monday Morning!

Where has the time gone?!

I forgot I had a blog?!
  

Most would think so since I haven't posted in months.

To be honest, I just hit a big rut & had too much change! 

Most would say... "That's the perfect reason to blog", but I didn't!

O well,  I'm not going to try to catch up...
I'm moving forward & going to make this a habit again!  

I have lots of fun things I want to share...

I'll leave you with one quick hint
as to what the next couple of post are going to be about.

Until next time...

How about a little... Modern Swank

In my non-existent blogging days (err. months), I have been meaning to tell you all about a little business venture I have been working on....

After we took our wonderful "Two Year Honeymoon" as we like to call it, I immediately found out that  "The Jenkins Architecture" I had been working for... for nearly 5 years was NO longer going to be!  Change of heart, midlife reassessment, whatever you would like to call the owner's decision to venture away from the design business...

I knew immediately that I wanted to start freelance designing.  Having been in the design field for nearly 10 years now, I have learned the projects that I LOVE to work on, and vise versa... the ones I hate.  My life needs a little creativity.  Let me take that back quickly... A LOT!  I have met many contacts along the way & know that with much effort, I CAN BE SUCCESSFUL!

The best part of this new gig is that I am now able to choose the five W's when it comes to my job.  Well maybe not all five... but the what, where, when, etc.  It's been wonderful so far!

So let me unofficially welcome you to Modern Swank Designs! 

(Click link above to visit shop & bookmark it for your next event)

I plan an official welcome once I get all the business plans in order, but for now a sneak peak at what I have been spending my time doing over the past couple of months.

 Not only am I doing design projects, I have also been doing a little event planning!  Would you like to see a sneak peak of one of my most recent jobs?!

 

In my next post, I will give you the back story on this beautiful bride & her awesome groom!

Three Months!

Holy Banana Balls!

Three months...

Have really passed since I last posted. 

Shame, Shame on me!

I was reminded by one of my *IRL. Women's Retreaters...

That a couple of people used to read my blog.

Yep.
Probably not anymore.

I have NO excuses.  I have just been flat out busy.  

Too many other things piled higher on the plate than my blog.  

O well.  Life will go on.

My blog's not the only thing lacking attention.  

Check out my flippin' office.

Yep.  

This is where my husband and I are supposed to be productive....

Mmm. daily.  Oh, Contraire!

You see, this room used to be just a little cluttered.  

One day, I had had enough... I thought!

I decided it would be a swell idea to sell all the furniture in our house.  

I will save those details for another post, ahem.  

This included, but is not limited to
In our office alone....

~ Selling all the book cases
that used to hold those trendy storage boxes

~ Buying for some unknown reason.... 

   15 large green Tupperware boxes
to store the 100's of books & ish in.  

~ Selling the Guest beds that slept three bodies in this room.

~ My husband's anciently old gold "Man Chair".  

   The chair he has worked in...
pajama's, morning hair and all for 4 years.

~ O and I must have sold my sanity too!

What on earth was I thinking?!
(I still do not regret the exciting change though)

Now we are left with a large mess 

Oh & the green lawn chair he is working from each day.  

Comfortable, right?

On a serious note...

This room resembles how I feel our life has been the last several months.

(Not complaining!  Just stating the facts).

Utterly Chaotic & Out of Control!

We are however making headway.

  Things have to get worse before better right?

We have experienced the worst I hope, ha.

In the next couple of weeks...

~ We will have finished painting the trim,
In this newly painted Tennessee Orange room.

~ We will have a new wall of built-in cabinetry
to hold our office supplies

(temporarily stashed in Tupperware boxes).

~ The fantabulous new hounds tooth glider
For my husband to work in daily... will have arrived.

~ We will have refurb'd a new chest of drawers
to match the new design scheme

Walah! 

Before we know it,
this room will be back in tip top shape
& ready for business!

Just as this room will continue to shape up...
So will the other aspects of our chaotic lives :).

In the meantime, I will try to better keep you posted!

Ps.  I will also take time to switch camera lens' 

So that you can get a better glimpse at the room
& not just a fixed 50 view.

Seriously, with the look of this room...
and the story behind it. 

I didn't need to waste my time doing that this morning!