Summer Time

This summer has been a complete whirlwind between settling into our rental house, traveling, soaking up every minute with Tilley-Gray, and designing some gorgeous spaces. Let's do a quick catch up...

We moved fast and furious into a tiny little rental and are in the search for our next house. We have given ourselves a little bit of a break this summer on house hunting are are just enjoying being outside and on the beach as much as possible. 

Tilley-Gray started her first dance class this summer and is loving it. She may love wearing her tutu just as much as she does the dancing part. I have tried to soak up every single second with her. She is at such a fun age and is starting to say and do things that show her little personality.

One of my very best friends is getting married in September so we celebrated in Palm Beach a few weeks ago. I had never been there and it was so much fun! It was the perfect girls weekend.

Shannon and I have been designing our hearts out this summer with fun projects locally and in Atlanta and San Fransisco. It has been one of those long stretches where every day we look up at the clock and think, how is it already 5pm? Feeling very blessed these days.
One of our Spring projects, the Dudley Mansion, debuted and then sold, but not before a cocktail party to celebrate the historic mansion.

I have missed writing and talking to you all so much! I'm not sure if anyone is reading anymore, but I sure hope that you come back once in a while. I've got a few exciting things to share around the corner!

xoxo

HAPPY

HAPPY video from Lindsey Cheek on Vimeo.

We have survived the toughest six weeks. We sold our house (in 4 days) and moved into a rental house. Even before we sold, Gray and I were frantically looking for our next home, but took a step back and decided that renting and taking our time was the right thing for us to do. We are so blessed to have found the perfect little rental condo until we decide on our next move. It even has a swimming pool and a pond with dozens of turtles. I feel so at peace with how everything has happened.

Poplin & Queen in moving as well into a new office, so I'll be back once things settle. In the meantime, I can report that we are all very happy. And I love that it's Tilley-Gray's favorite thing to say!

Wait & See

The last few weeks have been jam packed, but incredibly blessed. Tilley-Gray is at such a fun age, exploring and learning every single minute. I wish I could just freeze time right where it is right now with her. Every month she gets older, I always say "this is my favorite age" but it just keeps getting better.

We are busier than ever at Poplin & Queen and are working with such fun clients. Running a business is amazing, and sometimes Shannon and I get bogged down with all of the paperwork and bookeeping, but at the end of the day, I know just how lucky I am that I get to work everyday with my best friend doing something that I love. This weekend we are headed to High Point for the the furniture market. It's an exhausting but exciting time. I'll be sure to post some of our new finds. Last week, we found a rug that was perfect for a client's home and they loved it just as much as we did! Isn't it so pretty?

And then, Gray and I decided that it would be a good idea to put our house on Wilmington's Azalea Festival Historic Home Tour. Essentially, we opened our home to the public, left it in the hands of volunteers, and over 2,400 people walked in and out of our house Saturday and Sunday. I have been asked for the past three years to do this, and finally caved in this year. Thankfully, we left during the home tour because if I would have seen all of those people in my house, I would have probably had a nervous breakdown.These photos were in the paper Sunday morning. 

Being on the home tour was a great experience for us. The volunteers were wonderful and we were left sweet notes from some of the visitors about our home (including Grayson's 7th grade teacher)!

 I love our house, but we are quickly growing out of it, so we put it on the market on Friday. It is the craziest experience, even more than having 2,400 people walk through our home to look at it, because now we are having people walk through our home to make it their home. It's bittersweet because we have put so much money, hard work, and late nights in to it, and my grandfather built the built-in shelves that won't be coming with us.  It is our first home that we brought our first baby home to. Our neighbor's are amazing and I'll miss them so much when we move. On the other hand,  I'm happy because I know it's time to move on, and I know whoever moves into this house will love it and add more layers of happiness to it. So, where does that leave us now?

We aren't quite sure, but are praying that a great house will come along, or a great rental until we can build a great house (a summer on Wrightsville Beach would be wonderful, wouldn't it?) Keep us in your prayers that we make the right decisions and fingers crossed that our home sells quickly! 

We will just have to wait and see!

xoxo

Surf Style at Home

Thankfully, my husband didn't come with over sized leather furniture, sports posters, or deer heads, but he did come with about a dozen surfboards. Instead of cramming them all under our house and in our shed, I decided to hang a few of the nicer ones in our house as art work. We have a lot of long walls in our house and 11' ceilings, so hanging these surfboards was great because they took up empty walls that would have taken us a long time to fill. 
I love seeing boards used as artwork in other homes, especially the bottom picture of skateboards hung in Michelle Adams (former Lonny magazine editor) NYC apartment. 

 

I might be the last person to know this, but thought I would share anyway!
Diane von Furstenberg designed a limited collection of bathing suits, cover-ups, and even surfboards for Roxy (think the great DVF prints at the Roxy price)! I love the prints of the bathing suits and wouldn't mind one of these boards on our walls! See the full collection here.

Baby Swagger

She's got moves...

Tilley-Gray dancing from Lindsey Cheek on Vimeo.

A New Outlook

Gray and I are quickly growing out of our little bungalow, and unless we find an incredible deal, we will more than likely start building a home in the next year. While growing up, I moved 17 times before I turned 18, so I would love to build a house that I love and stay put for a good long while. One thing on our wish list when we build a home are steel windows and doors.  I'm not sure they will be in the budget once we add all of our "must haves" but they sure do make a home beautiful. 

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Happy Valentine's Day!

I couldn't get my Christmas card act together (after all, I had a big birthday party to plan!) so decided to send out a Valentine's Card instead. Millie took the photos and Erin pulled together a card for me to send out to all of Tilley-Gray's little buddies. I love how it turned out!

I have a hundred names for her, but from the start, she's been our little nugget. 

Such a sweet photo of our darling girl.

 Hope you all have a great Valentine's Day!

xoxo