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Something hit me hard with this past home move in November.  In the midst of packing, unpacking, trying to clean out things we don’t need anymore, figuring out how to decorate the new house, all the overwhelming decisions…. all of a sudden, I realized, I don’t want to decorate for a job anymore.  I really enjoyed decorating for my own home, but once I got settled, I was done.  Finished.  Didn’t want to keep thinking about it.  For my own home, or for others. So I found myself in this weird place. I retreated from social media and blogging and…

  Oh my gosh, I have to pack up my office and move it to a new place because I have a new home to decorate! With the new month brings new changes and this weekend the hubby and I are packing up and moving again for what hopefully will be the last time this year… and for a few years to come!  Over the course of a year, between Nashville and Jacksonville, this will be our third move while living in a temporary situation until we found our new house back in Jacksonville, and I’m happy to say the house…

With my favorite boys, my husband, Stephen, and my poodle child, Rhett, sharing ice cream from a food truck. My husband and I have started a new tradition called “S” days.  It kind of got started b/c we’ve always called ourselves “S&S” for Scarlett & Stephen. It usually consists of a lot of “sun, surf, & sand” here in Florida, but it also becomes a game of figuring out what else begins with “S” through out the day.  Like, when we went to the zoo, and our favorite part of the day was petting “stingrays”.  Or when we went to M…

In any path to success lecture, you might hear the words “Fake it til you make it.”  I’ve never understood the dishonesty in that.  I would rather succeed being true to who I am instead of succeed hiding behind a mask.  Yet, I still find that others have a perception of me that is so far from who I really am at the heart of who I am.  Social media can sometimes over-glamorize and mistake our true identities with all the pretty pictures and highlight reels we share with the world, but today I want to take the mask off…