I love peonies (and believe they helped me find my husband) and am smitten with these from photographer Kari Herer.

First seen at Cup of Jo and then reminded again over at City Sage

Inspired by Jordan’s use of removable wallpaper from Sherwin-Williams’ “Easy Change” line in her entry way  I’ve been browsing the Easy Change line website (which is NOT user friendly) and thought I’d share some of my favorites with you (see all of my picks in my Flickr).   If you like any of these and want to fine them on the Easy Change website, try searching on the “skew” number, ie SW7KC4073 in the image below.

I thought this would be nice for the nursery…

This could be great on one wall of our entry way…

For a wall of our bedroom?

This is the same pattern Jordan used, but in green. It could look great in on one wall of our entryway too.

PS you’ll remember how much I liked Jordan’s old entry way.

You’ve got to try these all natural chocolate bars from Q.bel.  They are the most delicious food I’ve had in long time.  I will say that one of the best parts of pregnancy has been that food just tastes SO GOOD.  Just to check my taste buds (I wouldn’t want to lead you astray), I fed some to my husband, and he loved them too.  I’ve given up conventional candy bars because they are filled with all sorts of things I don’t think my baby boy needs to consume.  So I was delighted to find these which have:

No Artificial Colors
No Artificial Flavors
No Preservatives
No High Fructose Corn Syrup
No Hydrogenated Oils

I found them at Whole Foods (they were tantalizingly in my path during checkout).

PS: I found the blog Candy Yum Yum in the course of searching for images of the bars…a blog devoted to candy…this I need in my life!

This photograph makes me believe in magic (and in spring).  From photographer Nick Meers.

Our kitchen has dirty white UGLY tiles that date to its 1980s renovation date.  I’d love to cover them with some wall to wall carpeting which I know at first sounds like a terrible idea — carpet in the kitchen?  However, I love this image for Domino featuring navy blue carpet. I’ve been thinking about using faux sisal (basically a polyester rug) but cut to fit like wall to wall since one of my least favorite things (after ugly tile) is rugs that slip.

I like this example above (although I think I like navy more).  You can find more faux sisal here where it costs $8.70 a square foot.

So I’m not quite done with the year of flowers: I turned 30 with 7 envelopes left!  I somehow hadn’t opened them in the last couple of weeks of house hunting, packing and moving.  See all them all here.

Ahhhhhh!  From photographer Francesco Lagnese.