Heather of Blessed Little Nest

Welcome to Blog Relaunch Week here at Four Flights of Fancy!  I am excited to welcome my first guest poster, Heather from Blessed Little Nest.  I started reading Heather's blog late last year, and instantly became hooked.  I poured over her archives one night and was struck with just how genuine she came across in every single post.  I wrote her, and since then we have exchanged countless emails, tweets, comments and blog love over the Internet superhighway!  I was honored when she agreed to be a guest blogger.  Now, without further adieu, Heather...

Hi there Four Flights of Fancy readers!!
My name is Heather from Blessed Little Nest and I'm delighted
to be participating in Andrea's guest blogger series.

I've always loved fluffing my nest, but in the past few years
it's taken on a whole new meaning for me.  In the Fall of 2007 my six
week old son Samuel died from a rare form of bacterial meningitis.
As I've learned to live this new life of mine without him, I've come to
understand how important my home environment is. 

Before Samuel was born I would spend much of my

time trying to make my house look like something out of a

catalog, when in reality what I needed was a home that was

healing and inspiring, not the exact room setting off of page 12.

 "Whatever else anything is,

it ought to begin by being personal."

Tell me you know what movie that's from.  C'mon!

I know you know.  It's okay if you don't, we can still be friends,

but it'd be a whole lot cooler if you did.

Ha!  I did it again.  What movie's that line from?

Okay, I've gotten completely off track.  Movie trivia

tends to do that to me.  Back to what I'm here to talk about....

I love that quote and find myself coming back to it often.
I believe that no matter what life throws at you, it's important
that we all have a space to come back to that we can call our own.

For me that space includes a mix of vintage, modern, and industrial

with a nice big dose of handmade thrown in for good measure.

I enjoy shopping at thrift shops and junk sales, and love to

upcycle things to fit into my design aesthetic.

  By taking something new, like this pillow cover, and adding a few

vintage sewing notions and a needlepoint design that I found on one of
my thrifting adventures, I end up creating something personal to me.

And since I have two small kiddos at home under my wing
it's important that our home not only have an inspiring, cozy and
happy environment, but that it function as well.  In order
to make that work I find ways to combine the two worlds, like
using old suitcases to hold dress up clothes and using pretty
blankets for fort making.

I'm always thinking up new and creative ways to display their artwork, too.

So, while you will likely never see my home in a catalog

or magazine, that's kind of the idea.  It's created to perfectly suits the four

people that live in it.  And for us, we couldn't ask for more.

Thanks for having me Andrea!

+Heather

In honor of Heather's work and dedication to the Joyful Life Library, I thought it only appropriate to give away a children's book bag from my Etsy shop.  To enter, leave a comment just to say hi to Heather!  Additional entries can be made by becoming or being a follower of Four Flights of Fancy and Blessed Little Nest, Tweeting, Blogging, Facebooking, you name it.  Just leave a separate comment for each shenanigan :)