travel : seaside, fl

IMG_7751this weekend, josh and i travelled with the dogs to seaside, florida for a development conference. i tagged along to enjoy the sun and sand. seaside is a new urbanism community that was beautifully master planned in the 80's and is the location of the filming for the truman show (love that movie!) growing up, my family visited the neighboring seagrove beach every year in august. in the offseason, seaside is shockingly quiet and calm. some evenings were chilly, but the weather was beautiful during the day. we ate great seafood, lots of snow cones, and walked for hours. IMG_7754

{seaside square's quaint post office}

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{their first time on the beach at sunset}

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{lobster rolls at the shrimp shack}

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{all houses are painted in pastel shades, like this tiny pale pink one}

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{hot pink dream house}

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{breakfast tacos and mimosas at cowgirl kitchen}

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{sundog books at seaside square. we stayed at the bookstore owner's rental home!}

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{playtime at the beach}

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{colorful walks through seaside side streets}

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{pastel shutters}

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{the best juice food truck}

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{family walks with my guys}

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{red tolix chairs at the artist's colony}

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{seaside chapel in the community}

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bye seaside! we miss you already.

madeline

2015 in review

happy 2016! we are getting busy back into work over the past two weeks after a long holiday. 2015 was, in a word, transformative. 2014 was a tough personal year for me, so 2015 came as a surprise. i am two weeks late to the '2015 best nine' game, but i thought i would share my highlights. sometimes it's hard for me to absorb all that has happened, but i am so very thankful for everything. mjinteriordesigncollage

  1. made the decision to freelance and left job in a large firm.
  2. started my own interior design business.
  3. my beautiful nephew august was born.
  4. travelled to d.c. for the cherry blossom festival with wonderful friends.
  5. finished my licensure exams and became ncidq certified.
  6. celebrated my husband josh's 30th birthday with a staycation.
  7. travelled to our home in montana with siblings.
  8. we bought our house!
  9. had the opportunity to work on so many amazing projects with the best clients.

also, my husband started his own architecture and development business!

how was your year?

follow along this year on instagram.

a summer of news

i feel like i have so much to update...it has been a summer of new things: a new nephew august! (now 5 months old and perfect)

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a new license (finally)

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a new 30 year old (my husband)

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new fun projects

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a new business - madeline johnson interior design, pllc (officially!)

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new branding for mjid by arboreal creative

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a trip to our cabin in montana, moose trail (a post coming soon)

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and soon a new website(!)...i will be moving my blog to my business website and posting more hopefully.

so much has happened this year and i am so thankful for all the wonderful changes. i am the busiest i have ever been owning my own business now, but it feels great.

i have updated my instagram to username mjinteriordesign...follow me for updates!

much love,

madeline