Feeling immense gratitude and abundance in my life mainly for the relationships and experiences I have been afforded... Sending love to you on this Thanksgiving Day! 🦃🍁🍽🙏🏼🎉 . . #gratitude #thanksgiving #relationships #love #cortonaitaly 
Our House 🏡 We have a house! It did not come about very easily in this very competitive COVID market that is absolutely a seller’s market right now. We benefited in September when we sold our house in Glencoe in four days, but being on the buying end in this market is not for the faint of heart! About eight houses that we had become interested in and looked at would sell right after we were there! Buying a house is a very emotional experience for me. This house was one that I liked online, but it had a contingency. I left it alone and didn’t seek to even go look at it until we had seen about 18 other houses and exhausted the ones we thought we would like. I asked Bob our realtor to check on the contingency, and it had been going for a while, contingent on the sale of the buyer’s home. We decided to go ahead and look. To my surprise I loved the house even more than the pictures online and fell in love with it the first time I saw it!! Tom loved it, too, and we decided to make an offer on it the next day. We waited for Bob to give us the seller’s response later that day, and he called sharing some somewhat bad news. Another party made an offer the same time we did and won out! 😖😫😩 Surprised and dismayed, I was very upset, and it took me a couple of days to get over it. That house had checked all the boxes for me. High ceilings, architectural character, nice kitchen for Tom, art studio for me, extra bedrooms... It’s not a perfect house, but I thought it was a great fit for us. I decided it must not of been meant for us, and moved on. A week later which was last Thursday, Bob called and said “You will not believe what has happened.” The deal with the buyers fell through and the seller wanted to offer it back to us for just over what we had offered. 😵😵😵 We went to look at the house for a third time just to be sure, and we signed an agreement that night! 💃🏻🎉❤️ We are post inspection now, and we will close on December 11 and move right after! 💃🏻🎉💃🏻🎉💃🏻 . . . #newchapterinlife #thisoldhouse #vintagehomes #architecture #victorianhouse #stpaul #interiordesign #art #artiststudio #chefskitchen #househunting #covid #gratefulbeyondmeasure 
How can you have a bad day when you sit up in bed to this?! 😵 Good Monday morning, everyone! 🌅 Make it a great day! 🌅 #sunrise #riseandshine☀️ #seethebeauty #love 
Some of the details of houses and two warehouse condos we’ve seen in our home search. Lots of architectural beauty! We’ve missed out on one (💔) and will be waiting and hoping some others to come on the market soon. That swing? At least 6’ long. Could’ve been great coffee time on a 3 season porch! 😩 Hope you enjoy these... . . #stpaul #househunting #purgatory #holdingpattern #stuck #newchapter #letsgo #architecture #architecturaldetails #interiors #style #timelessstyle #design 
Right after I shot this, I sprinted back to my car. 🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️ I knew it was going to be windy today but that wind is a FRIGID FORCE!!!! This is a beautiful spot at Summit Ave and Mississippi River Blvd. The temps will be warmer later this week, and I’m planning on taking my Sony full frame camera 📷 out to shoot some things. I’ll be posting here. 🥶 What are you doing this beautiful Sunday? . #transitions #smilethroughitall #stpaulmn #findthebeauty #love #portraitmode #iphone12pro 
SUCCESS! 👚 As we are still house hunting, all of our house and stuff from Chicago will remain packed up in a warehouse until we find a house. That means my months-worth of clothing is growing thin. I did not pack any of my plaid shirts and certainly nothing festive for the holiday season. Last weekend we went to the Goodwill that’s close by and I was looking for a flannel plaid for the holiday season. I wasn’t really successful last week finding flannel, but I do love the warm colors of the one I got. Today, we ventured to a different Goodwill in Minneapolis, and I found the perfect one! This tartan plaid is a classic one for the holidays, and it will be a staple of my wardrobe these next weeks... 👌🏽❤️🎉🌲🎁 . . #goodwill #tartanplaid #flannelshirt #holidayseason #fashion #mystyle #wearwhatyoulove 
Happy Veteran’s Day! Thank you for all who served and who have given so much! My two favorite veterans right here - my husband and Dad! ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸 . . . #veteransday #happyveteransday #thankfulforyou #america #usa #🇺🇸 
Belle says, “Let’s get this next chapter going!” I’m ready, too! 🎉💃🏻 . . #newchapterinlife #moving #boxitup #bullterrier #bullterriersofinstagram #letsgo #letgo #househunting #covid_19 
Might THIS be happening soon? 🛷🌲❄️⛄️ “Sledding” 16x20 acrylic on canvas DM to inquire! #snowstorm2020 #stpaulmn #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #contemporaryart #contemporaryrealism #modernart #clairekayser #clairekayserfineart #interiordesign #interiors #decor #commissionsopen #commissions