There are several pros and cons to open shelving. To me, the most important pro is the way they open room with the most important con being the necessity to stay organized. Which is only a con if you are bothered by those kind of things – which I am!

They’re much easier and affordable to install if you’re looking for a change, and open shelving provides endless ways to style your dishes and accessories and to also add colors and textures to your kitchen. And if having shelving that’s all the way open is too much for you, you can add sliding glass doors or something similar, as in the last image above!

So, what are your thoughts on open shelving in the kitchen? Do you love this look?

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Happy Friday! Hope you have some fun and exciting weekend plans!

Here’s this week’s weekly six:

1) Add a special touch to your baked goods with homemade sprinkles

2) Would you live or even stay one night in this Bubble Tent?

3) Creamy avocado pasta – a quick 15 minute meal

4) Obsessing over the light fixture in this image – if it does indeed light up? Who cares I love it!

5) Dreaming of a vacation at this gorgeous resort

6) A bright DIY for neon push pins and a linen memo board

Have an awesome weekend!

My fiancé is big time into watches. A few years ago, it was really bad. He would watch ShopNBC almost every night and order new watches all the time. In addition to all of those, he has a few nicer watches, but for our wedding I’d love to get him a really, really nice watch. Probably the most well-known online watch retailer, Chrono24, stocks nearly 100,000 watches ranging from a couple hundred dollars all the way up to $1m and more. I don’t know if I could ever afford one of those pricey ones, but you never know right?

Just check out some of these expensive Panerai watches to see what I’d really love to get him. (And don’t worry if my fiancé sees this – our wedding is over a year away, so he will definitely forget about this post by then!)

Oh and yes, you saw right. That’s $970,000 for the most expensive ‘listed’ Panerai watch! (Anything priced at over $1m is only available on request.) More realistically, second hand watches can be considerably cheaper though, just in case you (like me) don’t have a cool $1m to spend.

As we all know, fashion takes many forms, and for all those wanting something a little retro, you can buy original military watches for a reasonable price. By original military watches, it literally means a watch that somebody wore when fighting a war! How cool is that?

I don’t know about you, but I do consider a watch to be a fashion accessory as well as a collector’s item. But when I do spend a small fortune on buying the perfect one – you can bet I’m going to make sure my fiancé doesn’t drop it in this!”

If you’re married or getting married soon, what have you given or what are you giving your spouse as a wedding gift?

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It’s only appropriate after yesterday’s post, right? After all of those pretty picnic images, I thought why not find all the stuff to plan your own? I didn’t include food because there would just be way too many delicious things that I would want to bring – so I stuck to the essentials. You know –  iPod dock, basket, blanket, wine bottle stake!

What would you bring on your perfect picnic?

iPod dock / Bamboo Table / Picnic Grill / Picnic Basket / Wine Bottle Holder / Picnic Blanket

It’s kind of a given that warm weather makes one dream of outdoor activities. While it’s always fun and stimulating to go for a hike or a nice long walk, it’s often just as nice to be a little bit lazy and lounge on a picnic blanket.

For my perfect picnic, I imagine a flowery blanket with a traditional brown wicker picnic basket. Some red wine, crusty bread and smooth cheese to snack on, along with some fresh homemade blueberry muffins for something sweet. If only the weather would warm up a bit!

How do you envision your perfect picnic?

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In looking for animal heads on Pinterest for all of the different ways they can be incorporated into home decor, I didn’t realize that I had found six – quite appropriate, though, isn’t it?

Anyway, it seems that faux animal heads are in trend right now, and I wanted to see all the ways they’ve been featured. So here we go!

Starting with a flat animal head, we move on to a cluster of wicker animal heads, which is then followed by a colorful animal head and a paper mache animal head, then rounded out with stuffed animal heads and a mirrored animal head.

If you were going to hop on the animal head bandwagon, which way would you go? Me? I’d go mirrored all the way!