Chicago Love

I love placing reminders of Chicago all over our home. It will always remain such a sweet spot in our hearts.  After all, it was the city where we fell in love, started our first few years of marriage, & purchased our first home. In addition, it's just a really cool city. 


Our long office hall way ( I promise an apartment tour is coming soon) needed additional furniture.  I fell in love with a wooden chair at an antique store, but the $200 price tag was not going to work for me.  I found this "beauty" at the thrift store for $3 and loved the way it matched our current desk chair.  

I painted her black. 

She still looked a little bare, so I begged and begged and begged Joel to let me buy myself a Christmas gift from Etsy.   He's so sweet that he said yes. Not only did he say yes, he also chose not to have any Christmas gifts for himself this year & let me have all the Christmas money...I married well!


I found this adorable pillow, except I hate yellow. Thankfully the owner let me customize my order. I love etsy, like love etsy so much that I will consume hours of my week.

Kitty thinks she needs to be in every picture.

It really is a battle sometimes. 

I'm pretty happy with my new pillow & my chair doesn't feel so naked anymore.  Check out Nestahome on etsy. She has lots of pillow designs from all different cities & was super friendly during my pillow making process.