Welcome Leslie!!

Hooray — a new Guest Mom! Please say Hello to Leslie of A Room Somewhere. I'm so excited to have her with us this week. I receive recommendations for Guest Moms all the time, but I think Leslie has been suggested at least a dozen times. And it's no surprise. She's lovely. I know her blogs and I've seen a sneak peak of what she's posting on and you're going to love it. For sure. So, Welcome Leslie! I'll let you go ahead and introduce yourself:

Hello Design Mom Readers! I'm really honored to be posting on Design Mom this week. I hope you'll like what I've found to share with you. I welcome your input and comments!

I've come into this design blogging world kind of accidentally. I don't have a background in art or design; I was an editor by trade, and only for a short time. I started my blog, A Room Somewhere in 2006, several months after I started my "family" blog, Flowerchain. I had so many saved ideas from magazines and websites and needed a place to deposit them, and a pretty new blog was just the thing. (I also thought my parents would rather see my babies than a skirt I liked from Anthropologie.) I really enjoy filling it with pictures of beautiful rooms, ideas for interior spaces, beautiful architecture, Etsy finds, and project ideas. And a cute skirt now and then, too.

I was born and raised in beautiful Southern California, where life was good and the sun always shone. My parents took me around the world when I was a girl, from Asia to Europe, the South Pacific to Scandinavia, and often to the British Isles, my favorite of all. I'm so lucky to have had those experiences. My parents thought they would do well by their children by showing us the world. I firmly believe that my travel experiences shaped the person I have become and have influenced my style preferences as well.

I went to college out of state, where I met my Southern husband. We came from very different majors (I was English, he was Molecular Biology), backgrounds, and cultures (seriously), but after he sent me flowers and I ran into him at a Morrissey concert, I knew he was meant for me. Soon after we were married, we moved to Houston, Texas, where all three of our children were born (Audrey ,6; Parker, 4; and Miles,1). We spent a quick year living in West Los Angeles, where I grocery shopped in Beverly Hills and my dentist husband pulled the teeth of celebrities' children.



Now, we live in a pleasant, slow-paced suburb outside of Houston. Our life as students will be ending soon, since my husband graduates in June. He's a hard worker and a doting daddy. My kids somehow find a way each day of surpassing the limits of cuteness. We have a lot of fun, and they are my favorite people to be around. I spend most of my day taking care of them, and when I have spare moments, I enjoy finding and reading new books, chatting with one sister or another, browsing Etsy shops, dreaming of world travel adventures, and sneaking kisses from my baby.