Building Our First Home | Sneak Peek of First Floor

As you may or may not know, my fiance & I signed a Real Estate Purchase Agreement on May 15, 2013 to build our first home. For us, we decided a townhouse would work best for our lifestyle for the next few years because its requires no maintenance of the outside of the home. Traditional single family homes tend to require more yard work and I don't think that is something we want to commit to at this stage in our lives. With that said, instead of purchasing an existing townhouse on the market, we decided to build our townhouse so that we could make design selections that would increase the resale value of our home. The home we selected is 3-bedrooms, 2.5-bathrooms and will be completed in late August 2013. We anticipate we will close on our home the first week of September 2013. Please feel free to share our journey to home ownership with us! We plan to document the entire process so that we can remember this moment forever! 

First video of our home ownership journey can be watched here.

If you want to hear our engagement story and meet my fiance, watch this video here.

If you want to see photos,  click read more below!

Engagement Shoot Makeup | Smoky Eyes and Nude Lips

I posted a lot of pictures on Instagram of my engagement photoshoot makeup that I had 'professionally' done. I say professionally with hesitation because I had the absolutely worst luck with a makeup artist that day! Although I scheduled an appointment at the MAC Cosmetics location a few weeks prior to the day of the photoshoot, the lady who I spoke with had not scheduled the appointment. Therefore, when I got there, the lady who greeted me looked like a deer in headlights when I told her I had an appointment. Being pressed for time, I knew I had to get my makeup done or I would be very late to the engagement shoot. Therefore, it was a team effort between myself and the unexperienced makeup artist that decided to take my appointment. 

With that said, putting our minds and talents together allowed us to achieve the perfect look and I could not have been more pleased with the outcome! It photographed extremely well and also I still felt like I looked exactly like myself, just more glamorous. 

p.s. I absolutely loved my nails! I treated myself to a mani and pedi a few days before the shoot. The color is an old favorite - Essie Nail Polish in Turquoise and Caicos 

If you want to see photos (before and after) and products we used,  click read more below!