Yessirr, We Have Us Some Winners....

Happy Monday peeps. So bummed that we didn't win that $600 million powerball, but hooray for the lucky people who won our anniversary giveaways of these fab items:

Congrats to Donna Raye who won the Martini Side Table from West Elm Village at Gulfstream and Mary Beth Hamilton of My Morning Coffee who will be rocking a GlamourMash necklace this summer. 
Thanks to all of you who cast over 400 entries. Y'all were serious! Apologies to all of you who sent me side messages begging me to rig the votes - this aint no Scandal around here! I love ya, but I had to leave it in the hands of the good people at random.org.
Thanks too for all the birthday wishes. Truly a blessing to be in good health to be able to live each day to the fullest. Cheers to a great week.
   

Go Girl, It's Your Birthday!

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Age is a funny thing.....
The older I get, the less concerned I've become with celebrating each birthday with a big bang of a celebration.
I've learned to savor the moment, to dance in the wind if you will, to just revel in the awesomeness of being alive to see another year.
In truth, I'm just happy as punch to be in good health, to be a new mommy, a relatively new wife, and to have lived long enough to learn how to surround myself with true friends.
This year I'll gather a group of those close friends for a dinner celebration to toast to those simple things.  

 

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Of course, since it's a freaking birthday celebration, some cake will be had...

Thank you all for welcoming me into your lives - albeit virtually. 

It's been quite a year and I'm truly blessed. 
Happy birthday too to all my Taurus peeps. You guys rock.

P.S. Some lucky peeps will win these giveaway items tonight. 

I'll announce the winners on Monday. 

Have a great weekend y'all, or as we'd say in Jamaica, walk good.

Giveaway Homestretch....

One of these yellow martini side tables from West Elm Village at Gulfstream could be yours, just enter our anniversary giveaway.

Yessirr, we're in the homestretch of our fab anniversary giveaway. 
I hope you exercised your gazillion right to enter, enter and enter again. 
What will you win if you're the lucky one? Hmmm, one of these fabulous necklaces from Holly at GlamourMash

Fun accessories for you to rock this summer no?
And if those weren't enough, then how about one of these equally fab Martini Side Tables from our friends at West Elm Village at Gulfstream

Enter, enter, enter peeps. See below for all the ways you can enter to win. Bonus points given for those who post a comment below. The giveaway ends tomorrow and we'll announce the winner on Monday.

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Feeling Blue. In a Good Way.....

 

Modern Home Office by New York Interior Designer Carolyn Miller Interiors

It's Tuesday, so what's there to be blue about? A lot. But in a good way.

I've been obsessed with royal blue in recent weeks and I have two clients to blame.
I purchased two of these amazing blue chairs from West Elm last night for this project and I now can't seem to get the rich textures of this color out of my head. It brings instant glamour to a room, especially when layered with black, white and gold. It can also just scream fun, that you're a bad-ass who could care less about living on the wild side in your design choices. Come see what I mean: 

Modern Living Room by Woodbury Architect Marc B. Spector

Contemporary Living Room by Saskatoon Interior Designer Atmosphere Interior Design Inc.

Contemporary Dining Room by Houston Interior Designer Sally Wheat Interiors

Eclectic Hall by New York Interior Designer Nirmada Interior Architectural Design

 

Contemporary Living Room by Mississauga Interior Designer Elizabeth Metcalfe Interiors & Design Inc.

 

Traditional Powder Room by Houston Interior Designer Carla Aston | Interior Designer

Contemporary Bedroom by San Francisco Interior Designer Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs

Eclectic Living Room by Other Metro Interior Designer Debbie Basnett, Vintage Scout Interiors

 

Don't you just feel the blue love? If you don't, I'll forgive you, but tell me what color combos have you drooling these days.
In other news, we're in the home stretch of our anniversary giveaway. Have you entered? To win, be sure to follow us all over town, and follow West Elm Village at Gulfstream and Holly at GlamourMash. Winners will be announced on Monday. You gotta be in it to win people so enter away. On this very blue Tuesday, please be fab.   

To Mom, With Love

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So grateful everyday for my mother's love, words of encouragement and her fighting spirit. Grateful even more that I've been blessed to become a mom to a little boy that makes my heart sing every second of every day. Happy Mother's day to all who have been blessed with the gift of caring and nurturing a little soul.

Our Anniversary Giveaway! Woot Woot!

Funny how time flies when you're having fun.
We started this blogging journey a little over a year ago and had no clue what we were doing. Along the way, we've made some great friends, redesigned the blog, learned that word verification was the killer of all comments, and countless other blogging rules of engagement. 
To celebrate our one year adventure we gotta have a giveaway of course no?
And in true Miami fashion, it's gotta be loud, it's gotta be the mother of all giveaways, with not one one, but two freaking prizes for two freaking winners.
Hold on to your hats people, hold on.
First up, our friends at our local West Elm (Village At Gulfstream) have offered up one of these swanky Martini side tables. Yep, you get to sip martini on one of these bad boys. I've used these in a project, or three, and they are hella cool.



Then Miss Holly over at GlamourMash was also generous enough to donate a necklace from her awesome collection. I purchased the Nicole necklace recently and can't wait to rock it out this summer. The winner can have the necklace of their choice.

That's it. Two awesome prizes. Two winners. You know the rules.
You must follow us on Google Friend Connect (GFC) and Bloglovin.
Bonus points for following us on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook.
Follow West Elm and GlamourMash.
That's a whole lot a following right? But what's a little follow love for these goodies? Our giveaway ends next Friday, May 17 -  on my very own "21st" birthday. Winners will be announced on Monday, May 20. Good luck Peeps! Now go on and win them prizes!

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New Project, New Updates and Breaking News...

The foyer in our latest project, will have this insanely fabulous wallpaper. I have not been able to stop staring at this beauty, and it aint even installed yet!

Whew, my Monday was a doozy. Car broke down at 7:45 a.m., while on my way to a potentially very tempestuous meeting with two of my contractors. Funny how life works eh? My car was perfectly fine and then boom, no juice. Guess what? I never made it to that meeting and they ironed out their issues all on their own. Sometimes God works in mysterious ways.
Anyway, let's get up to speed on this renovation and design project.

Plans for the kitchen and eat-in area includes some Chippendale chairs.

If you follow me on Instagram you know the deets about this project. We signed the contract last month for some pretty dream clients, as in clients who have some amazing tastes, handed me the keys and said, get it done in 6 weeks! Yikes. The pressure. But who am I to shy away from a challenge? Let's just say things have been a whirlwind ever since.
So, we initially planned to sand and stain the floors on the main floor. Psst..these are the pictures of the home with the previous owners items so no, this is NOT what we are working with people.  

But sometimes a good sanding can reveal some pretty bad things and we discovered flooring that wasn't in the best of shape. In addition, once we started to shop for carpeting for the bedrooms, and saw the insane price tags for said carpeting (I rarely install carpet in my design projects so this was an eye opener) we soon realized that it made sense to bite the bullet and go for the gusto: install amazing dark bamboo floors everywhere.
Here's a preview:

Our newest NWD team member Tamisha, getting down and dirty on demolition day! She learned quickly that this aint all glitz and glam or just keeping track of the budgets, her main gig. Hehe, sorry mama.

We completed the floors this weekend, and also all our lighting selections.
Here's a peek:

 

 

We are designing for two little girls here as well and will share some of those design decisions next week.

In other news, we sorta celebrated our one year blogging anniversary back in February. I know, you missed it right? Of course you did because there was like zero fanfare. So, to make up for that little indiscretion we'll announce the mother of all giveaways tomorrow. It's major people, as in so major that Debbie and I'll probably create fake name/email accounts so we can enter to win the items our damn selves. Brace yourselves. It's gonna be bananas.