Better Homes & Gardens December Issue

I have to admit, I've been looking forward to this issue for awhile.

For one, the Christmas edition is hands down my favorite when it comes to all the home & lifestyle magazines. 

But this one is special because it features a fellow blogger's home.

Lauren's blog was the very first blog I ever discovered.

Up till then I knew what blogs were but had only seen the very big, commercialized ones.

I had never seen a regular (albeit a fabulous designer's) blog.

Written by a working mom about her own home, which at the time I started reading Lauren's

was in the basement of her mother's house while she was house hunting for her own. 

She shared images of homes & designers that inspired her,

shared stories about her family and motherhood, and her up and coming business.

 I was hooked and within days was reading a slew of other blogs too.

In the past three years her blog has become one of the most popular,

but I feel like I can say I "knew " her when. 

Congrats to you, Lauren!  You, your home, and your family look gorgeous! 

images from  Better Homes and Gardens scanned by me