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Right here is Elsie’s Pirate Chandelier
Listed below are the beds Elsie talked about
Replace on Elsie’s transfer:
Moved in three months in the past, however in the course of renovating so nonetheless have packing containers in every single place!
Very first thing you probably did to make your new home really feel extra like dwelling:
Emma – adorned for Christmas and cooked together with her husband
Elsie – lit candles, hung artwork and mirrors, put all her quilts out, acquired her puzzles out, and labored on her kitchen
The place to search out Elsie’s quilts
Favourite factor about your new home:
Elsie – It’s her dream home in her dream neighborhood
Emma – She feels settled and loves her neighborhood
Renovations you’ve got finished:
Emma – Repaired leaky roof and painted the outside
Elsie – Making a visitor suite and a house library on the third flooring, including fireplaces, portray, wallpaper, wooden floors, constructed Jeremy’s studio, altering all lighting fixtures
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Episode 199 Transcript:
Emma: You’re listening to The Stunning Mess podcast, your cozy consolation pay attention. This week we’re sharing all of the updates about our new homes, largely Elsie’s. Plus we’re revealing our fall e book Membership choices. Books. Books. Books.
Elsie: Sure. Books and homes. I imply, that ought to have been the identify of our podcast. I really feel like it’s the factor. It’s positively the factor I take pleasure in speaking about probably the most, and I imply, films, books, homes, and films.
Emma: And my child, however I strive to do this an excessive amount of ’trigger I do know it may very well be overload. However that’s just about all I wanna speak about.
Elsie: No, everybody likes it. Okay, so earlier than we leap in, I needed to share my very own private catastrophe. I shared just a little bit on Instagram and I’ll put a photograph within the present notes. It seems so horrible. It was this very unhappy, very mind-melting second for me. So for the previous three months we’ve been dwelling in our new dwelling and we’ve been making an attempt to get it sort of like in control the place we will take a renovation break. And when you bear in mind far again, some persons are like, why didn’t you are taking a break instantly such as you deliberate? Effectively, there’s the rationale why, as a result of it didn’t go as deliberate like per week or two earlier than we moved. And my husband’s studio was alleged to be completed being constructed. It wasn’t even began but. There have been simply issues that occurred and that’s such a standard a part of renovating. So I hoped that we might get numerous stuff finished earlier than we moved in and luxuriate in a peaceable summer time and a peaceable fall. However at this level, a peaceable fall could be probably the most we might hope for. The ship is sailed on the peaceable summer time. We nonetheless have contractors at our home each single day, which is okay. I’m grateful that, you already know, no matter, no matter, no matter. Grateful, grateful, grateful. But in addition it’s been robust. It’s been robust, you already know? So anyway, lately I’ve been making an attempt to complete up our third flooring, which is like two visitor rooms, a visitor toilet, and a house library, which I’m so enthusiastic about as a result of a brand new little child has entered our household. And we might be having particular company this fall. So I wanna have it prepared, a minimum of by Thanksgiving is my aim for that entire house to be excellent.
Emma: Yeah, ’trigger it had no toilet earlier than.
Elsie: It was simply sort of an open attic with two bedrooms earlier than, and now it’s two bedrooms. It has H-VAC, it has a rest room and it has a house library. Fairly quickly it can have painted flooring and partitions and wallpaper too, I hope, and like beds and stuff. So anyway, I had been planning for months this Neverland-themed child’s bed room up there. It began when I discovered a pirate ship chandelier on-line. I acquired it from this enterprise referred to as Houzze with two Zs like a home, however two Zs on the finish.
Emma: I’ve seen that earlier than. I’ve by no means purchased something, however I’ve seen it.
Elsie: It’s round. After which when you simply Google Pirate Journey Chandelier, it’s the most effective. Discover the most effective value you possibly can, they’re costly. And that’s all I’ve to say about it. However discovered the most effective one I might, and for me, it was price it as a result of it was Peace Day resistance or no matter, you already know? It was the magic.
Emma: I believed it was previous too whenever you confirmed it to me. Like I didn’t notice it was new. So like I really feel prefer it seems nice. I believed it regarded superior.
Elsie: It’s positively a press release piece. It’s one of many largest statements in our dwelling. So anyway, I put it up there and I knew it was gonna be low. I knew that from measuring it on-line, and I used to be like, I’m gonna make this work it doesn’t matter what. Then I ordered a few, twin beds from anthropology and I used to be gonna do like two twin beds after which the sunshine fixture, after which after that, you already know, identical to decorate the room and it’ll be finished. So on the day, the sunshine fixture was hung, which I’ll present you an image of within the present too. It regarded superb. It regarded nice. I’ve this attractive image. It seems excellent. You sort of can’t inform how low it’s as a result of there aren’t any beds in there, it seems effective. It seems good. It seems prefer it’s gonna work out.
Emma: It seems low, however not like, you already know, impossibly low or one thing. I don’t know.
Elsie: So the beds got here up and I’ll present you an image. I’ll hyperlink them, however I don’t suppose anybody’s gonna purchase them after I give this assessment. However they’re from anthropology. They’re very stunning. I’ll say that, they regarded 100 instances higher in photographs. And for one, they didn’t actually match the room. They had been just a bit bit too cumbersome, and it wasn’t even simply in footage, I believed they had been going look antique-inspired, however I’d say they had been very, very, very far on just like the farmhouse sort. So the feel of the wooden is like when you took probably the most jaggedy, splintery, unsanded wooden, after which simply painted over it. Like they’ve a horrible texture. That’s actually, for me, my largest factor. As soon as they had been up there, they had been on the third flooring, I needed to pay further for that. All this stuff, I used to be like, I’m gonna make this work. And for one evening I considered like, can I modify these? Can I repaint them? Possibly I can sand them just a little bit. I used to be like, I’m gonna just about remake these beds from anthropology, that are costly. However I used to be like, I’m gonna make it work. After which the following morning I used to be like, nope, I’m sending them again. They’re simply not proper for the room it doesn’t matter what, and I be ok with that alternative now. So I did that instantly. I began scheduling it they usually’re going again the place they got here from and I believe that perhaps in a totally completely different dwelling, they’d look good. One thing far more rustic.
Emma: I don’t understand how you describe the feel, I don’t know.
Elsie: I hate it. I hate the feel. And an enormous factor in our house is that I would like all the pieces to be previous or look previous they usually simply don’t. In order that’s actually like the primary factor. They simply seem like farmhouse fashionable to me.
Emma: As a result of your chandelier regarded previous. As a result of I believed it was previous. I noticed it in particular person.
Elsie: Yeah. Not all the pieces might be previous, however I believe all the pieces can match into the type of previous, you already know what I imply? Which is completely effective, that’s to be anticipated. And also you don’t even wanna have all the pieces in vintage, belief me. Like a number of the issues they’ve needed to undergo for the vintage lighting fixtures and the additional, you must do numerous further steps, and it provides cash, and might not be price it for everybody. It’s good to search out ones which can be new, which can be the previous type, proper? Like that’s a great factor. It’s not a nasty factor. So anyway, all the pieces in regards to the room and the opposite factor was, I couldn’t even discover one angle the place it regarded good, it regarded unhealthy from each angle. It was the worst. And I’ve guilty solely myself. I measured this stuff. I did and I made certain that they’d match, and technically they did, however like, spatially and visually they didn’t. And so I assume typically you simply have to chop your losses. So anyway, I’m sharing this story as a result of I believe that numerous instances I’m in my dream dwelling period. We have now a great finances and we’re like doing all these thrilling initiatives and it’s so enjoyable and it’s so magical and I really feel very fortunate. However I additionally need everybody to know that it’s not excellent, regardless of who you might be, it doesn’t matter what you’re doing, until perhaps another person does it for you utterly. It’s like there’s all the time gonna be these like hiccups and complications and like disappointments. And for us pivots, as a result of in the end the chandelier has to go downstairs right into a dwelling house now. It could possibly’t be within the bed room, it simply gained’t work. And I settle for that. I nonetheless wanna preserve it. I nonetheless like adore it.
Emma: Hey, I believe you’ll see it extra now that you just’re gonna transfer it down so it’s effective. It’s gonna be higher. However yeah, it modifications perhaps the theme or what you had been planning, and I’m glad you’re sharing it as a result of I believe, nicely, I don’t know what everybody else notion is, however for me, like in my first dwelling once I had a a lot smaller finances and you already know, just about all the pieces was very DIY or reasonably priced, classic, I believe I did have this like fantasy in my thoughts that someday I’d have this home the place there aren’t any hiccups as a result of all the pieces would simply be completely different. I don’t know why I believed that, and it’s like, no, like yeah, perhaps your finances modifications or various things do make some components of it simpler, higher, or simply extra what you need. However there’s all the time one thing the place you’re like, oh, no, did I make a nasty alternative? Oh no. Did I waste cash? Oh no. Did I waste, like, you already know, the transport of one thing and like, you simply really feel annoyed and it’s simply unavoidable that typically you must change issues or pivot or ship one thing again as a result of it simply didn’t work. And it’s all the time a bummer. And nobody will get to flee it. It’s simply what it’s.
Elsie: Yep. It’s true. Yeah, this one was unhappy for extra nostalgic causes. ’trigger I used to be so connected to the idea and the thought, and now I’ve to form of identical to pivot it just a little bit, which is okay. It’ll nonetheless be cute.
I’ll in all probability nonetheless preserve the theme. However I don’t know I may not, ’trigger I’ve to choose all new stuff now. Anyway, this episode is about our dwelling updates. So we’re simply gonna sort of offer you all of the tea about issues which have been happening the previous couple of months. There are positively some continuously requested questions in right here and a few embarrassing tales, and I believe it’s enjoyable. I like speaking about homes.
Emma: So, common replace in your move-in, ’trigger as you stated, you’ve been in your own home now three months, virtually 4 months I assume.
Elsie: We moved on the very finish of Could. Yeah, so like three full months.
Emma: Do you are feeling like all of the packing containers are unpacked?
Elsie: My gosh. Can’t even say that with out laughing. I’ll simply be sincere, our home seems worse than ever. It seems horrible, however I do really feel like we’re on the ending phases. So presently we’re having each mild fixture modified so much. There’s been these large packing containers of sunshine fixtures in each room for months, and people are all getting modified. Like even proper now as we’re recording. I’ve 4 completely different wallpapers sitting in my entryway able to go up, which can make a huge effect as soon as you already know the challenge’s finished proper, and we’ve our final portray appointment. Scheduled, which might be such a aid, and we’ll have bookshelves after that. That’s an enormous cause why we couldn’t unpack. We simply didn’t actually have bookshelves once we moved in. Like there was one small bookshelf in your entire dwelling and that’s not the best quantity for me. So now there’s gonna be an epic quantity of bookshelves and we gained’t be capable to fill it for years, which is so thrilling. So, yeah, our home seems horrible, however I do really feel that by September, which I don’t know, perhaps that’s when this episode will air round that point, I believe. Yeah, I believe by September it’s going to begin trying good, and within the fall time I’m going to have much more weblog posts exhibiting what we’ve finished to date. And folks all the time ask me like, why don’t you share extra of the center, extra of the mess? Actually, I simply don’t wish to, it’s not enjoyable for me. It’s tense. It’s a headache. And to attempt to make it into content material on high of that, I don’t wish to, it’s not fulfilling.
Emma: Yeah. I imply, when you’ve by no means blogged, and it’s completely comprehensible, however prefer it’s truly numerous work to place collectively any weblog put up. So then when you’re placing collectively one thing that’s sort of like simply to replace individuals within the now, nevertheless it’s not one thing that’s gonna be content material that’s helpful sooner or later, in any significant means. It’s sort of a waste of effort and just like the instances that we spend running a blog or recording this podcast, that is like our time away from our children, so we wish it to be impactful, and we hope that each piece of content material we ever make is fulfilling, however we additionally need it to be stuff that we’re gonna reference again sooner or later. Or actually the podcast is our place to simply sort of riff and be like, you already know, such as you’re telling your story about how the beds didn’t work with the ship chandelier. I really feel like that is the proper place to speak about that relatively than making an attempt to. {Photograph} a room tour that you just’re by no means going to reference once more ’trigger you’re exhibiting how one thing didn’t work and all you’re actually doing is linking beds that didn’t be just right for you.
Elsie: That’s precisely all that it’s.
Emma: So it’s sort of not even that useful of content material for individuals anyway. So sure, it’s not such as you’re making an attempt to cover stuff or be like, our lives are excellent and we by no means present you the messy components. It’s like, no, it’s simply sort of a waste of time.
Elsie: That’s truthfully what it’s. Thanks for summing it up so nicely. I believe that claims it higher than I’ve ever been in a position to say it. It’s identical to, I don’t wanna spend my time making posts that I don’t wanna make. Like, is that okay?
Emma: Yeah, it’s simply not useful content material actually. I imply, it’s means much less useful than you’ll suppose. However there isn’t any secret about how messy our lives are or something. It’s simply numerous effort, we’re not Kardashians, individuals aren’t filming us daily. We must try this ourselves. Manner an excessive amount of work. We will’t do it. We don’t have sufficient time in our week.
Elsie: So yeah, to reply the query, I’d say the transfer went nicely. Our packing containers should not unpacked in any respect.
Emma: I’ve been to your own home, it’s numerous packing containers. It’s a zoo in there.
Elsie: It truly is.
Emma: It’s just a little catastrophe, however you possibly can see what it’s gonna be and it’s gonna be stunning.
Elsie: If it’s not nice within the fall time, I’m gonna freak out in a bizarre means, however I really feel like it’s coming alongside to the purpose the place it’s, it’s like about to have its tipping level and each renovation has that, the purpose the place you lastly get to really eliminate all of the packing containers and also you truly get to take pleasure in your house and hold issues in your partitions ’trigger they’re lastly painted or wallpapered or no matter. Sure, it’s occurring quickly, so all the pieces’s gonna be superb. Okay, so the following query is, what’s the very first thing you probably did to make your own home really feel like a house? I like this. What did you do?
Emma: After we moved in, it was just like the day earlier than Halloween, and so I believe I sort of felt unhappy about not getting to brighten.
Elsie: Oh, that’s a tragic shifting day.
Emma: Halloween? Yeah, and ’trigger our renovation additionally acquired pushed again and pushed again and we additionally didn’t have rails on our stairs till New 12 months’s Eve.
Elsie: Emma had just a little little bit of a painful renovation. Like she needed to transfer right into a home that wasn’t finished and like some disappointments to navigate, which is admittedly regular.
Emma: Yeah. And never finished is okay. I believe the rails, I did really feel sort of offended and needed to simply be over it as a result of it was legit, it was unsafe, and our child was below two and studying to do stairs, so it was very like I carried him up the steps till we had the rails.
Elsie: It was nonetheless like that at Thanksgiving.
Emma: Yeah ee had household over. Sure, my largely blind nieces, my aged grandma. And I simply was like, my home is unsafe and it actually makes me offended that they didn’t end this once they instructed me they’d. However that’s effective. Nobody acquired harm and it’s effective. However at any price, the very first thing they did to make the home really feel extra like dwelling was I simply went forward and adorned for Christmas, instantly as a result of I used to be like Miss Halloween, Christmas, after which additionally I all the time suppose a number of the first instances you prepare dinner a meal in your house, which for me, normally we do extra of a dinner after Oscar’s gone to mattress, he goes to mattress at seven after which it frees me as much as like spend extra time and like concentrate on making dinner. So like cooking, we make numerous steak with risotto or various things like that. It’s numerous meat with a carb. However I like to love simply spend time making risotto or making a pasta dish and identical to, I don’t know, cooking with my husband that makes, that makes it really feel like dwelling to me. ’trigger that’s such a factor we do on a regular basis, cooking in our home.
Elsie: That’s magical. Okay. So for us, the very first thing we did was mild the candles. So I acquired a bunch of recent candles and like made certain that it was like rapid candle time and that it did assist me so much. It made me really feel like a great feeling, and it was a time when it was like, not fairly.
Emma: And it smells good.
Elsie: Yeah. It’s a great vibe and we’ve sort of been doing that, hanging some artwork, hanging our mirrors, issues like that, like make me really feel actually good, identical to getting issues of their place and having like unfinished stuff. I’m okay with it so long as I’ve some completed areas. So we determined lately that we’re like a quilt household. We simply realized that comforters are inferior to quilts. Like we love quilts, like the sensation of sleeping with them.
Emma: We have now a quilt on our mattress proper now.
Elsie: You could have one quilt or two quilts, relying on the season, and it’s like, I like that. So yeah, we’ve quilts on each mattress. I like that. There’s one on our porch, there’s like a porch swing, it’s a mattress, I assume. It’s so cute. So there’s a quilt on the market and it identical to, I don’t know, I felt like that was a extremely good homey factor ’trigger they had been all new.
Emma: I used to be gonna say, the place do you get your quilts from?
Elsie: Yeah. You already know what, I’m gonna hyperlink these within the present notes as a result of I’ve like very particular. However one in all them is from LL Bean, and it’s so random, nevertheless it’s like a tremendous quilt. I adore it. And a few of them are from, I believe, West Elm Children, they usually’re like, they’re not pretty much as good high quality, however they’re actually cute they usually’re actually good for the youngsters. Then I acquired a pair from Goal, so there’s some there. After which there was yet one more, I’m gonna have to simply hyperlink it within the present notes. However the different factor I like about quilts is that they final, they usually age nicely, you already know? So I believe I’ve simply discovered that that is sort of a actually good bed room scenario for us. After which the opposite factor we did to really feel at dwelling instantly was we acquired out our puzzle desk and began a puzzle. And I spent probably the most time in my kitchen. So, in my dwelling, nothing is admittedly organized and nothing is how I would like it to be, however the kitchen is fairly good. It’s positively like a section one kitchen ’trigger I’m certain we didn’t renovate it. We added an island, which was nice.
Emma: The islands are superior.
Elsie: We didn’t change the rest. We simply added a number of little cupboards from Amazon, like bookshelves, principally. To retailer issues after which that’s it. So it positively does want a renovation and it appears like it is going to be extraordinarily higher when it’s renovated on the identical time.
Emma: It does really feel very usable proper now although. And it does really feel good and comfortable and because it all goes collectively. ’trigger you want painted these further cupboards that you just purchased and one in all ’em was like from the vacation home that we had acquired at a classic retailer a very long time in the past and also you painted it. So it goes with the opposite ones, and I believe it feels very nice in there, however prefer to me, I can inform simply ’trigger I do know you that it’s not finished. It’s like a section one however I really feel prefer it’s a extremely good section one.
Elsie: Thanks. We did the most effective we might and I nonetheless really feel just like the kitchen is the toughest half. Like my husband has it cooked in any respect as a result of he’s like, he doesn’t know the place issues are and he’s not like he has a psychological block about it. I prepare dinner daily, however I’m not like, extraordinarily pleased with the place issues are saved and the way, however I additionally really feel prefer it’s not fixable proper now. So we’re simply kinda like making it work and we’re contemplating doing our renovation subsequent spring, which is admittedly not very far-off. And if not that, then perhaps the following spring after that, which might be okay too. No matter, no matter endlessly. We’re sort of burned out proper now.
Emma: No matter, endlessly certainly. How about your favourite factor about your new home to date, ’trigger this may change within the years after all. So anyway. What’s your favourite factor about your new home? Or a few stuff you need?
Elsie: Okay. I’ve two issues. The very first thing is for years I’ve, needed to stay in an previous home. In all probability for 5 years once we had been first searching for our second Nashville dwelling. I’ve needed to stay in an previous home, nevertheless it identical to wasn’t within the playing cards, wasn’t within the playing cards, couldn’t make it occur. Lastly, it occurred and I believe I’m identical to loving and having fun with this intangible previous home factor that it has. And like Emma stated when she came visiting that. Inform them what you stated.
Emma: I don’t bear in mind how I worded it, however primarily my feeling once I acquired to your new home, which I knew the place it was gonna be, however identical to being there with you after you guys had moved for the primary time. It felt to me like your first home in Nashville, your different two homes. So that you had three homes in Nashville and the primary one I used to be like, that is Elsie’s home, that is their dwelling. It appears like their dwelling, at the same time as you’re renovating it ’trigger I had seen it whilst you’re renovating. It simply was like, yeah, that is their dwelling. And the opposite two simply by no means actually felt like dwelling to me. They simply, I don’t know. They had been stunning homes and the stuff you did in them had been stunning, and there wasn’t something unsuitable with them. They simply, I don’t know methods to clarify. They simply didn’t really feel like dwelling. And once I walked into this one, your new home right here in Springfield, I used to be like, yeah, that is the Larson’s new dwelling. It simply felt prefer it, and all the pieces that I see is like placing extra issues up and it’s beginning to look extra like itself as you’ve sort of completed just like the renovations which can be identical to subfloors and placing in toilet stuff, you already know? It simply increasingly more appears like the home that you just’ve been wanting, the home that you just’ve been speaking about and like was making an attempt to make your final home into, which was identical to a extremely cool nineties home and ideal for what you guys wanted on the time, it appears like this was meant to be.
Elsie: I positively suppose it was meant to be. For like my fellow simulation nerds. It’s like my proof in life, my proof that I’m dwelling in a simulation is that like I acquired my actual excellent dream home. It couldn’t be extra excellent. It’s my dream home. So like actually my dream home.
Emma: Yeah, you pull as much as it and I’m like that is like Father of the Bride home. You stroll into it and also you’re like, it’s like a Knives Outs home. It simply feels such as you guys had been meant to stay there. And once I see the ladies exterior, I’m like, they match right here. That is their neighborhood, that is them.
Elsie: The opposite factor that I like a lot is our new neighborhood is like my childhood dream neighborhood for my youngsters. It’s a cute childhood neighborhood. It’s simply, it’s lovable, you possibly can stroll to issues.
Emma: Together with grandma’s home. Effectively, they’re nice grandmama, however your grandma.
Elsie: Yeah, they’ve a piano instructor now. They’ve had artwork classes. We have now just a little pottery studio. Similar to so many cute issues that you are able to do.
Emma: Goldie’s favourite restaurant.
Elsie: Goldie’s favourite restaurant, A Sleepy Possum Cafe. So it’s like a breakfast restaurant, it’s like a popup. However yeah. Anyway, it’s magical. So yeah. What’s your favourite factor about your new home?
Emma: I truthfully like, significantly, virtually each single day I’ve a second the place I’m like in all probability working from dwelling or simply hanging out with Oscar, and I’m like, I like this home. I’m simply so completely happy. I really feel very settled as a result of like my final two homes, I didn’t really feel as settled and, one in all them I like hated.
Elsie: The snake home.
Emma: The snake home, off of Ozark. I simply by no means cherished dwelling there. It was actually exhausting to do my work there. I felt very remoted. I felt very far-off from everybody on a regular basis. It wasn’t an incredible neighborhood to stroll in and I like happening walks. I didn’t have Oscar, however fascinated by it now, I’m like, that will’ve not been my favourite home to have Oscar in. As a result of once more, there wasn’t actually anyplace for him to stroll and we had been exterior on a regular basis, strolling up and down the sidewalks on a regular basis. He like has just a little experience on the bus that I purchased from a thrift retailer and cleaned and he’s all the time driving it across the neighborhood. And our neighborhood is hilly, nevertheless it has some sidewalks and like there’s some neighborhood youngsters and it simply feels good right here. I simply really feel very settled and I like our home. I by no means envisioned loving a cut up stage or I don’t know there isn’t essentially something about the home that I used to be like, I manifested it and I’m dwelling in assimilation. I don’t have the identical factor that you’ve, however I do love the home and I really feel prefer it’s the proper combine for Trey and I. It feels precisely like the 2 issues we wish all mixed, and it additionally simply appears like a great home to boost a child in, and that’s what we’re doing, that’s my season of life. So like his daycare’s like 5 minutes from right here. Like I stated, we play exterior on a regular basis. We have now a sandbox, we’ve a yard for our canine. We have now like just a little circle drive that he performs in and sidewalks that he performs on. After which we’ve a neighborhood pool and I’m going there virtually daily after daycare. If it’s not raining, I take him. ’trigger he simply loves being exterior, he’s two. Being exterior is all the pieces to him. And so we’re simply on the neighborhood pool or hanging out exterior. The within of our home is gorgeous and I like working in it. I really feel prefer it’s a simple house for me to work in. The kitchen’s nice and it has sufficient mild for me to {photograph} and do my meals running a blog life, and I simply adore it.
I like our home. It’s an incredible, nice match for us and feels, I hope we by no means transfer. I hate shifting anyway, it’s a lot work. Yeah, I simply adore it and I really feel actually, actually grateful to love be in a home that appears like I’ve settled. Yeah, it’s a pleasant feeling.
Elsie: My favourite factor about your neighborhood, this morning I drove by the Swan Pond and the swans had been out, they usually’re so cute. I’m obsessed that she has swans in her neighborhood. It’s so cool.
Emma: It makes me really feel very subtle. I can’t even clarify why, ’trigger it’s probably not fancy. However someway if I’m out on a stroll and I see the swans, I’m like, I’m dwelling in a Nancy Meyers film and I stay in a neighborhood that’s fancy. Like, I simply suppose that for some cause, as a result of it’s cute and it’s quaint and it simply, I don’t realize it feels cool. Swans are superior.
Elsie: Yeah, it’s a really, very candy neighborhood. Oh, renovations you’ve finished. Okay, nicely you possibly can go first ’trigger I really feel such as you did a full renovation and I’ve solely finished not a full renovation.
Emma: Yeah, once we did most issues earlier than we moved in, though as I already talked about, there have been a number of issues not finished just like the rails, however since we’ve moved in, the primary issues we’ve finished is like getting the outside painted and like altering out some exterior lights and issues like that, actually fairly minor stuff. After which like most houses, whenever you transfer in, you uncover a number of issues that want repairs or perhaps I’ve unhealthy luck too. I don’t know, however like are typically a number of issues that break after we transfer into homes, it’s simply the way it goes. So we had some leak points with our roof. We’ve acquired all that mounted and we needed to redo some drywall and repaint it, so we did all that. I’m sincere, and I’m simply being actually sincere right here, ’trigger the podcast is our pals. I’m burnt out on renovating, and sort of adorning, not seasonal decor, however identical to, I don’t actually plan on doing.
Elsie: If it’s not a Halloween skeleton, she doesn’t need it.
Emma: I don’t give a if it’s not a skeleton, get outta right here with that ’trigger I’m not , like proper now we’re recording in my basement as a result of Elsie’s basement isn’t fairly finished. It seems precisely the way it regarded once we toured this home, and I don’t actually plan to vary it anytime quickly, perhaps ever. I don’t know. Like I simply don’t care. I really feel like our home is sweet sufficient and I like each house and there are some small issues I’m gonna do. I’m solely concerned about issues that I can do, like actually myself. ’trigger I’m simply bored with making an attempt to e book contractors, after which in the event that they don’t present up and I work at home it’s just a little bit disruptive identical to it’s for Elsie. Like if I had contractors proper now, you’ll hear them whereas we’re making an attempt to document our podcast, which is part of how we make our dwelling. So it’s simply, you already know, this type of issue of like, I’m bored with having individuals in my home and I’m simply taking a break for some time. I don’t understand how lengthy, however some time.
Elsie: I positively really feel the burnout for the primary time in a critical means, and like I do suppose it’s positively actual that like, you already know, most individuals can’t deal with doing this for that a few years in a row.
Emma: Yeah. Folks all the time ask me like, are you gonna get a sizzling tub? And I’m like, I don’t care sufficient. Like I like sizzling tubs a lot, and I simply can’t, simply the work you’ll get later. I’m like, not proper now. I’m burnt out proper now. Possibly in a few years. I don’t care proper now.
Elsie: Yeah, I’m burned out too, however I’m like an inner conflict inside myself as a result of I all the time wanna preserve doing stuff, even when it’s like not what’s finest for me, and I’m making an attempt to love to do much less, however then additionally like solely do an important issues and it’s robust.
Emma: Yeah, I’m solely like, oh, I’m gonna paint this one little room that’s like my library. Oh, I’m gonna paint the sunroom, however like I’m gonna do it myself, and so it’s simply gonna occur slowly over as I’ve time, you already know, my one hour after Oscar goes to mattress or no matter, you already know. However that’s all I’m doing for some time ’trigger I’m just a bit burnt out and I’m simply giving myself a break.
Elsie: No, that is sensible. I believe that sounds actually good. Okay, so renovations that I’ve finished. So our third flooring is nearly finished, and it’s like a visitor suite and an entire library.
Emma: It seems superior.
Elsie: Thanks.
Emma: The library half is so cool ’trigger it’s sort of like windy. Yeah, it’s cool.
Elsie: It’s positively like an oddly formed house, and I’ll make a video of it as quickly because it’s painted and just a little bit adorned and share extra of it. However yeah, I’m very pleased with the way it’s coming alongside and I’m so excited to get the bookshelves as quickly as they’re painted and cured, I simply can not wait to get out all my books once more ’trigger it’s driving me loopy to have all of the books within the basement. It’s like unhappy. And I really feel like I’m like lacking my pals and like a few of them are reference books that I exploit, sporadically, you already know? So, anyway, the opposite factor we’ve added fairly a little bit of is fireplaces. We added three fireplaces. There’s one in Jeremy’s studio, within the basement. There’s one in our bed room that we’re constructing proper now, and I’m constructing a duplicate hearth from a well-known film. It’s one in all my favourite films when you can guess it.
Emma: You win a prize, however we don’t know what it’s.
Elsie: Sure, you must purchase the prize your self, however you win. And when you’re pondering of proper now, it’s what you’re pondering and it’s gonna be superb. I can’t wait. I’m so excited. I’ve all the time needed to do that reproduction hearth for some cause. After which the place’s the opposite? Oh, the opposite fireplaces in our principal lounge. So the way in which the home was once we purchased it, it was like a really modernized hearth, and so we’ve rebuilt it into a conventional hearth. So yeah, and likewise making them electrical. I identical to realized, I’m like not a fuel hearth girly, and I don’t need fuel smelling in my home ever. And likewise like some individuals who work within the medical discipline have instructed me that it’s not good for you. So for all these causes, I’m out and I’m excited to have the electrical ones. We discovered this one hearth that we use thrice that appears actually lifelike, and it additionally provides off warmth, so it sort of does all the pieces I would like, however with none fuel odor, which makes me really feel, particularly within the bed room so much higher. After which aside from that, you already know, we’ve painted, we’re doing wallpaper, we did our wooden floors and we constructed Jeremy’s studio. Proper now we’re getting each single mild fixture in the entire home switched, and a few of them are shifting round. So I believe it’s gonna be epic. It’s gonna be great. However truthfully, it’s been hell pay this summer time being like a summer time mother on high of engaged on high of working with contractors each single day. I really feel in a not good place, however I do suppose it’s gonna be higher quickly ’trigger we’re taking an intentional break for the autumn.
Emma: Yeah, you’ve needed to be a robotic who’s like, I’ve no emotions. I simply do the duty.
Elsie: Yeah, I used to be telling Emma that I’ve cried the final thrice we’ve talked or frolicked. Like every time we speak, it’s like I all the time begin crying simply because I can’t, I’m barely getting via.
Emma: It’s simply numerous emotions too, and numerous house for them.
Elsie: It’s been a difficult summer time. It’s been very difficult, identical to scheduling-wise and, taking up an excessive amount of. So anyway, is there the rest we wanna speak in regards to the dwelling updates?
Emma: Possibly you need to inform ’em about your entrance stoop as a result of it’s sort of humorous, the squirrels.
Elsie: Yeah. Okay, so one final replace earlier than we transfer on. So our entrance porch, once we purchased the home, the paint was chipping just a little bit and we had been like, we should always in all probability repaint this. Then a few months later we began to comprehend that the wooden regarded actually torn up and I used to be like, our contractor’s boots being actually tough. I used to be like actually confused about the way it was trying so unhealthy so quick, after which someday we noticed squirrels on the market and it regarded like they had been consuming the wooden. They’re consuming the steps to her home. So we regarded it up they usually’re truly identical to sharpening their tooth or like gnawing on it. They’re not truly consuming something however they’re nonetheless destroying it. It doesn’t matter. In order that’s fascinating. So we needed to minimize a bit of our deck off. So there was a day when part of our deck was lacking and it was sort of scary. You simply needed to take a extremely large step over it. Oh, you came visiting to the home on that day?
Emma: Yeah, I used to be over that day and I used to be like, Hmm.
Elsie: Yeah, and then you definitely changed it and now it’s simply primed. So we’re ready till the painter comes quickly, after which we’re going to color it. I’m truly gonna paint it sort of the identical colour as Marigold’s bed room, which is a dusty pink colour. It’s sort of a press release colour for a porch. However our entire neighborhood is, it’s very large and it’s all previous homes, and I’ve checked out each single porch colour, and that is what I made a decision. Suits this home the most effective ’trigger I actually like the homes with purple steps. However typically I believe a purple porch is an excessive amount of. So I made a decision to do a dusty colour I believed could be extra, I’m a pink particular person. I like pink. I don’t use it as a lot as I used to and never as brilliant pastel as I used to, however I’ll all the time love pink. It’s positively an incredible colour. It goes with so many issues. And for this porch, it was grey and it regarded good grey. And I used to be initially gonna paint over it with a grey, however I simply felt prefer it wasn’t thrilling in any respect. It was the alternative of thrilling.
Emma: Yeah. You’re simply fixing one thing that was damaged, which is okay. However not very enjoyable.
Elsie: And I really feel like this can simply add just a little little bit of a particular one thing, so I hope it seems nicely. I’ll make a video as quickly because it’s finished, and I’ll present it for certain on Instagram. I hope it’s finished quickly. However yeah, that porch has been fairly a, I believe that I’m studying in regards to the commitments of previous homes proper now as a result of there’s positively, you already know, they’ve their surprises, their little shock electrical invoice.
Emma: Shock, the squirrels ate all the pieces or sharpened their tooth on all the pieces. No matter. I do love your entrance door although, with the like humidity architect message factor. It’s probably not a message.
Elsie: Sure. So for anybody who hasn’t seen it on Instagram, I’m going to make it a everlasting video. It’s referred to as like Ghost Writing, however what it’s, is basically at one level there was some sort of closing or painted signal on this door, and it’s been scraped off for a very long time, however each time it will get tremendous humid, you possibly can see all of the letters once more, and it’s so cool. I heard about it from the unique home itemizing, which was like an previous itemizing, however I had by no means seen it, it took months. After which someday it was there. It was so thrilling.
Emma: It’s fairly cool. And you already know, as a lot as you like spooky stuff, and like, I imply, it’s actually referred to as ghostwriting. So I simply really feel prefer it’s excellent. And it’s simply cool when you like previous stuff. It’s neat to see just a little piece of historical past that’s solely revealed when it’s humid. I don’t know, it’s enjoyable.
Elsie: It’s an indication for an architect. So at one level, an architect was functioning their enterprise out of the house, which is fascinating.
Emma: Or the door was from, perhaps they took the door.
Elsie: Yeah, that’s true too.
Emma: Who is aware of?
Elsie: I truly suppose the door is completely different, so perhaps. Fascinating. Okay, I’ll determine that out. I’ll crack this case.
Emma: Report again. All proper, now we’re going to let you know our fall e book membership choices. So we’re going to do three fiction books after which one non-fiction e book, and I’ll allow you to inform them in regards to the non-fiction e book. Why don’t you try this first truly?
Elsie: Okay. So the non-fiction e book known as Really feel One thing, Make One thing by Caitlyn Metz. They usually’re a tremendous artist that we love from St. Louis. So additionally from Missouri and yeah, I acquired the e book. I pre-ordered it. I acquired it on the day it got here out, and it’s unbelievable. It’s precisely proper up our alley for A Stunning Mess podcast listeners, so I can’t wait so that you can see it, and skim it. It’s sort of like a hybrid of like numerous illustrations, numerous pages are full illustrations. After which there’s additionally like so much you can learn. I’d say it’s in all probability a simple learn, like it could take a few hours to learn the entire thing and it has initiatives in it. So it’s a e book about, you already know, expressing your emotions and likewise making issues. And there’s an entire half on the finish about making little zines, which I believed it was like, it gave me the best rush of inspiration. So, yeah, I believe it’s gonna be a lot enjoyable to work on collectively. And I additionally acquired like 5 further copies to place in our neighborhood free little library ’trigger I used to be like so enthused about it. Like I would like everybody to learn it.
Emma: I adore it. Yeah. I actually didn’t know something about it, Elsie despatched me the duvet and I used to be like, oh, an instantaneous sure. It simply regarded like one thing I used to be very concerned about instantly. After which the three fiction books we’re gonna learn is we’re going to learn Sensible Magic by Alice Hoffman, which is a e book, nevertheless it’s additionally the start of a sequence. So when you wanna preserve going after that with a sequence, nice. However Elsie and I are each gonna learn that. We’ve by no means learn it. We have now seen the film and we talked about it ’trigger I like that film a lot, however I’m excited. I like that writer and I haven’t learn the sequence, so very excited. It’s excellent for the season.
Elsie: Yeah, the followers have instructed me that the primary e book isn’t even the most effective one, which I all the time love as a assessment sequence.
Emma: I do too. That’s thrilling. After which we’re additionally gonna learn All Good Folks Right here by Ashley Flowers, which when you’re a real crime junkie like I’m, then you definitely already know who that’s as a result of she does Crime Junkie, and I believe she’s additionally the founder or one of many founders, I’m unsure of Audio, Chuck, they usually do an entire bunch of various sorts of podcast about crime, true crime and different issues. However anyway, this can be a fiction e book. All Good Folks Right here, and really my husband purchased this e book for me some time in the past, and he learn it first as a result of we had been like, oh, let’s each learn it, we solely have one copy, you already know, no matter. And he stated he actually preferred it. It’s a thriller. You’re making an attempt to unravel against the law, and he stated it has a few twists and he didn’t see it coming. And he all the time sees the twist coming. He’s a type of individuals. So I really feel prefer it’ll be enjoyable. So I’m excited for that. After which we’re additionally gonna learn the Heaven and Earth Grocery Retailer by James McBride, which I’ve truly by no means learn this writer earlier than however I’ve heard so many nice issues. I really feel like Barack Obama cherished one in all his books and put it on his summer time studying record or one thing like that. However the premise of the e book sounded just a little bit spooky. I believe that they’re like tearing one thing down. They’re gonna construct one thing they usually’ve found these like skeletons or a skeleton after which that’s sort of just like the jumping-off level for the e book. That’s my understanding. So I believe it sounds actually fascinating and I’m excited to learn a brand new writer that I’ve a sense I’m in all probability going to like, however by no means learn earlier than.
Elsie: Good. I’m very excited for this season. It’s gonna be a great studying season. Yeah. I wish to get extra individuals concerned with our e book membership. Like I’m unsure methods to make it just a little extra interactive.
Emma: I don’t know. That might be enjoyable although.
Elsie: If anybody has solutions, like perhaps we should always do extra Instagrams about it or one thing. I don’t know. However learn together with us.
Emma: Learn together with us. We’ll put all of our pics for the autumn within the present notes for this episode. And as traditional, we’re a bit random, so we’ll announce just like the episode earlier than what e book we is perhaps doing, however we don’t know what order we’re gonna do these in but essentially. So, and particularly the nonfiction e book.
Elsie: We will’t play by these guidelines.
Emma: We actually can’t. We’re not organized, okay. We aren’t organized. We’re simply doing our greatest. However the nonfiction e book, because it’s sort of a, it’s not a workbook, nevertheless it has workouts.
Elsie: It’s sort of a workbook.
Emma: In all probability that one will come final in order that we’ve time and you already know, you all can have time to love to work via it just a little bit, and never do all of it without delay ’trigger you don’t have to really feel all of your emotions in someday. That’s an excessive amount of.
Elsie: Everybody’s gonna adore it, it’s superb.
Emma: Okay, now it’s time for a joke or a reality or meditation with Nova.
Elsie: All proper this week we’ve a particular visitor. It’s Marigold and Nova. Marigold, do you’ve got a joke for us?
Marigold: What sort of key opens up a banana?
Elsie: What sort of key opens up a banana? I don’t know.
Marigold: A monkey.
Elsie: Ah, good one.
Nova: I instructed her that joke, and she or he instructed it to that podcast.
Elsie: Good. Oh my God. She’s doing so good nonetheless. It’s so cute. She stated, Mommy, I higher document a joke or a reality with Nova, or else nobody will hearken to your podcast.
Emma: She’s not unsuitable.
Elsie: You’re in all probability proper. Thanks a lot for listening. You’ll be able to submit questions at podcast@abeautifulmess.com or name or voicemail at (417) 893-0011. We’ll be again subsequent week with our 2 hundredth podcast episode. So yeah, convey some champagne. We’re very enthusiastic about that. We’ll be letting you already know the teachings that we discovered from recording our first 200 episodes.
