Mostly, I just stand around being fantastic.
Hi! I’m Lindsay…
…a twenty-something city girl through the week and a back-to-her-roots country girl on the weekends. I’m thrilled to now be able to call myself a “mom-to-be” {squeeee!!} I have no idea how to cook, but I enjoy fine food & eating well. I once got in to {and lost} a fight with my vacuum cleaner on the stairs, but I adore a spotless house. I seem to always shrink my husband’s work clothes in the laundry and I still don’t know how to properly iron, but my wardrobe must always be hung in seasonal order and by color.
I’m trying to learn how to be a good housewife, promise.
For 19 months, my husband and I battled infertility, a scary, dangerous, and devastating pregnancy loss, tons of testing, and failed treatments. By the grace of God, we’re now happily expecting our newest family member this September!
Are you an internet addict, too? Find me on twitter, facebook, & pinterest.
Keep in touch? You can get my blog posts emailed to you either daily or at the end of the week, in a nice little week-in-a-day format. Additionally, I send out a pretty fantastic newsletterthat you can get, too. It’s always fun, I promise!
What the blog?
Right now, I enjoy blogging about daily life, adventures, decorating/design, discovering my faith, food, and photography.
*Update: Now that I’m pregnant, you can bet your bottoms that there’ll be a whole lotta baby blogging going on ’round here.
Back in 2009, I started this blog when I did what I call the “reverse Green Acres.” Hubs and I sold our home in the beautiful countryside and moved south to the Queen City; Charlotte, NC {I just adore a penthouse view!} When we moved, I was really, really homesick. I coped with this by staying in touch with everyone as much as I could. Sending massive amounts of emails and photos to keep in touch with all of our family got a little out of control – I tend to be chatty and take a gazillionteen photos a day, so it was decided that a blog would be a better idea than blowing up everyone’s inbox with photos over every single meal I had eaten that day. I liked blogging. I even had a regular LiveJournal from back in the high school days during the late 90′s. Before that, I kept a regular diary since middle school {still have them all}
So, the blog was, at first, completely private and only had a few readers in our family. Finally, I got bored and frustrated that no one seemed to care too much about all of my fascinating daily adventures and cat photos, so I made the blog public. Still, no one seemed interested. Since then, the blog has taken on many looks and went through tons of transformations. “They” {you know, the blog gods} say that your blog should have a niche, a certain topic of expertise. I tried that. 
Designer Wife is a blog about life. Mostly, I just stand around being fantastic.
When I was five years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me that I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.
Let’s make a list.
So, why the name Designer Wife? When we moved to Charlotte, I was working as a freelance designer *and* working through our first year as newlyweds. Designer Wife just fit. Also, it fit in to my mission to design a healthy, balanced & beautiful life. Win/win. How am I designing this kind of life? Basically, I try to follow things like…
- never taking a single day for granted
- fueling my body with amazingly delicious REAL foods
- surrounding myself with beautiful things and people
- always making time for myself to relax and renew
- realizing dreams and setting goals
- laughing at life
- reading the Bible
- letting others know how much I love them
- never taking myself too seriously
- capturing memories in photo
- doing more good
- wearing cute shoes
- everything in moderation
The list is always growing and adapting right along with me.
