monday musings

happy monday

July 16, 2012

downtown columbus

Happy Monday! Hope everyone’s weekend was lovely. B and I went to the food and truck and fest on Friday with some friends and then explored some of the unseen areas of Columbus. The picture above is one I took on instagram. (you can see more by following me on instagram @stuffstephdoes)

This week is going to be especially awesome because B and I only have two days of work before heading to South Carolina for some much needed beach time. I’m excited to soak in the sun (with sunscreen of course!) and catch up on some reading since I never seem to be able to read at home.

Today’s song has no theme, I just really like it, so I hope you do too!

Enjoy your week!

mid week refresh

Blu Friday

July 13, 2012

Have you heard of the artist Blu? We were looking at his work yesterday in the office and I thought it was too cool not to share. I love old industrial parts of cities and Blu makes crazy awesome stop motion animations using the existing urban fabric. Pretty awesome. Check it out.

BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

What are you up to this weekend? Any fun plans?  Happy Friday the 13th! Make sure to stay away from black cats and all that jazz 🙂

house stuff

project: living room refresh

July 11, 2012

project living room

A new project! Giving the living room a bit of a much needed face lift! This idea has been brewing in my head for a while now, but I was hesitant to do it because, quite frankly, I am more than a little embarrassed to show you the before picture of the room. Plus, it’s sort of a weird feeling to be posting my personal space so publicly. But then I figured, I managed to suck it up and show the horrendous weed-covered yard in Operation Front Door, and this isn’t as bad (or so I hope) and that was just the motivation I needed to get the yard cleaned up. Let’s hope that happens with this project, too. Continue Reading…

eat stuff

tasty stuff :: easy summer salad

July 10, 2012

grilled chicken salad :: Stuff Steph Does

We’ve finally hit somewhat of a “cold front” with temperatures in the low 90’s (which is totally amazing compared to the scorching triple digits we had last week). When it’s this hot, it’s hard to get myself to actually cook around a hot stove and I find myself veering toward more salads and other cold dishes.

Continue Reading…

monday musings

happy monday + being social media savvy

July 9, 2012

lucy cairn terrier

Happy monday everyone! I spent the weekend in Toledo to hand off Lucy to my parents for the next couple weeks since Brandon and I are headed to the beach soon with his family (yay!) and needed someone to look after the pup while we’re away. While I was there I took the opportunity to do some sewing with my mom and came back Sunday afternoon with some fun new duds that hopefully I’ll be showcasing on here soon.

Now onto some obligatory housekeeping:

Social Media Updates

Twitter: For those of you that follow me on twitter,you may have noticed that I changed my handle to @StuffStephDoes. Fitting, right? I figure I should try to embed my “brand” into your heads as much as possible by having it show up in as many social media outlets as I can possibly handle. If you already follow me nothing has changed, I’ll just show up as a different name. If you don’t follow me, well, what are you waiting for??

Facebook: I’m really trying to up the ante on my blog facebooking, but my efforts are not being reflected in my piddly stats. Turns out, it’s really facebook’s fault but we can fix it! So, if you follow me on facebook and aren’t seeing the goods I’ve been posting here’s what you need to do:

1. Go to my facebook page 

2. Hover your mouse over the “liked” box until a little box pops up. (you might need to move the cursor over it a couple times until it finally shows up)

3.  Make sure “Show in News Feed” is checked.

Hopefully then Facebook will decide to show you my posts in your news feed! If you don’t already like my page on facebook, well, what are you waiting for??

Thanks for your help and enjoy your week!