Nina looks like she’s been rode hard and put up wet. Now get your minds out of the gutter people. What I mean by that is that she looks rough.

When @roomfu interviewed her she made this statement.

You’ve written bad things about Emily Henderson.

I wrote nothing bad about Emily.

You posted a comment about her on Design Blahg.

Oh, that was in defense, because Emily has written a lot of bad things about me onher blog.  In her interviews, she’s literally called me a bitch, as well as written on other people’s blogs negative things about me and for me, that was one too many.  What I wrote was, “Emily is not nice.  She’s not cute.  She’s actually very annoying to work with.”  That’s what I wrote.  It wasn’t a nasty thing.  It was a comment in response.  It was a reaction to her action.

1830: You ornary fellow! do you pretend to call me to account for my language? Massachusetts Spy, May 28. You see that right there pulled from the Massachusetts Spy, on May 28, 1830. Ornary is a euphemism for MEAN. That is EXACTLY what I would say if I were Emily. The very first episode she tells the other designers she wouldn’t want to work with Emily. Not to mention Stacey said the same thing and was more aggressive toward Nina and she doesn’t even mention her. Why is that I wonder?

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I use euphemisms like no tomorrow. They are basically the nice way of saying something without being too blunt. Keep in mind that I can be very direct and blunt but that isn’t appropriate behavior for a Southern Belle even if I have been transplanted to California for quite some time. I’m keeping this as PG as possible without voicing my true opinions of this educated designer; that makes at home designers with no education look far superior.

Nina thinks the sun comes up just to hear her crow. I’ve got news for her. She’s acting crazier than a sprayed cockroach! Now when I first read what she wrote about people from Oregon and Arkansas being a very different breed it was aggravating. Things were all hunkey dorey until I kept on reading and saw this. I wanted to put an Arkansas toothpick to use lickety split. Not really, but I was as mad as a mule chewing on bumblebees! I resorted to pirate phrases ARGH and bear phrases GRRR.

See what she said below or read the article yourself. http://roomfu.com/2010/07/hgtv-design-star-season-5-interview-with-castoff-nina-ferrer/

You said that you were “on The Nina Show.”  Tell me about that…why would you say that?

Out of twelve people, I’m the person that everyone remembers.  I’m the person that everybody is talking about.  I’m getting the most recognition when I’m walking outside.  People know who I am.  I would think that in some way, shape or form, that’s a success.  It’s something to be noticeable.

NINA YOU’RE LYIN’ LIKE A NO-LEGGED DOG! I would explain that to you but I doubt you would understand. You have issues. Serious issues. First of all, you are not the person that everyone remembers after five episodes. Dan has a massive amount of followers and the votes show it. Julie has a huge about of fan votes. Last I checked your fan votes were at 0%. Out of 12 people you were the one everyone was thrilled to see go home. The only success was the judges waking up from the stupor.

When Nina kicked the bucket on Design Star we were all thrilled. Not sad. GOOD RIDDANCE! Excuses are like backsides. Everybody’s got one and they all stink. She can’t cop to one thing that she did wrong or said wrong. She can’t phase Dan Faires but boy that girl could make a Saint cuss! Heck, she could even depress the DEVIL! She is literally one of those people that could argue with a brick wall and start an argument with no one home.

Nina smiles like a goat in a briarpatch. She was a manipulator from the start. She never said she was bohemian chic and never proved it either. Yet she threw Courtland under the bus in the very first episode. She was about as useful as a pogo stick in quicksand on Design Star! I don’t say mean things but have strongly considered telling her to take a long walk off a short pier.

So, in ode to Trudy the most adorable pig ever, you can tie me to a pig and roll me in the mud, Vern (along with the other judges) were annoyed with Nina’s lacking design capabilities and they sent her packing. She needs to stop acting like a two year old. Stop insulting others and work on herself. Apparently she has several insecurities of her own. In the mean time, I’m going to try not to find that Arkansas toothpick and put it to good use.

As you all know or most of you know we’re moving to a new home this week. We closed on the home and have been busy trying to get everything moved prior to the children starting school. School starts in early August where we are moving to which means that we won’t have much time to settle in before the hustle & bustle of school begins again. Everyone also knows that I work a full time job.

I’ve kept this blog private for a long time. You needed a password to access most of my material. I just didn’t feel that anyone would want to read my ramblings. I’m just your every day mother living a normal every day life. As normal as life can get for a wife, mother, friend, sister and employee. With moving comes a lot of standard things. You have to call and get your phone, power, gas, trash service, water, internet & cable turned on. Not necessarily in that order but you catch my drift.

I have so many things that I want to work on when it comes to the house. My house as Dan Faires refers to it is a big BLANK canvas. That scares the DICKENS out of me. I’ve learned to explain my euphemisms as not everyone understands the southern things I say. “Dickens” is a euphemism that means devil. The phrase is found in Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” for those that are interested. Contrary to public opinion the expression was very common years before Charles Dickens was born.

Dan Faires of CapsuleFurniture.com had some great ideas for my guest bathroom. That stuff on the walls is gone it was staged poorly in my opinion. He recommended enclosing the mirror with a custom frame, painting the walls and buying some nice accessories. The kicker is that my husband doesn’t really know much about fixing up a house or painting. His parents never did it and therefore he wasn’t subjected to DIY projects like me.

Guest Bathroom

Now I’m going to have to tackle a lot more than the guest bathroom. My kitchen drives me crazy. I call it the white bathroom tile kitchen. Not a fan of the tile counters. I want those gone. Another DIY project that’ll be rather heavy. I want slate, granite, marble or something. Not thrilled with the tile counters at all.

Bathroom Tile Kitchen HAHA

However, Dan Faires and my husband agree that my yard has the most potential along with Dan Faires buddy Gary Kirby. Then again if I were Dan and I knew that if I won the fan vote I had to fix something in this house I’d choose the yard too. HAHA

Backyard or Dirt lot?

I totally love my new house but there are a few things that need work. What are your opinions? What would you fix first? What DIY project would you tackle? Would you watch the DIY Network or HGTV for design inspiration. We already know that Dan Faires is the Design Star of choice that I would have fix my house with Emily Henderson running in a close second. Casey Noble is on that list too.

I must admit that I’m extremely upset that Dan Faires was sent home. It was a team challenge that at the last minute turned into an individual challenge. Dan gave everything he could to that team. It was hilarious watching this weekend. My son had to watch it. He wanted to see Emily (http://www.thebrasspetal.blogspot.com)

and Stacey and well, I would like to see Emily or Casey win it now. Dan Faires is my man to win it for the fan vote. I’m voting daily and you should too. http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv-design-star-vote-for-your-favorite-designer-results/package/index.html

Now I totally was digging Casey’s silhouette MURAL. Nina take note. What Casey did is a mural, what you do is NOT! What Casey did was AWESOME and ART what you do is CRAPart and I have coined that word. It is so going into Webster. I’m glad that the judges finally recognized that as well.

Now I’m not going to say anything else mean because that isn’t my nature. However, I will say that it was nice to see the dolphin get creative and kill that shark. “In the case of a shark attack, dolphins will defend themselves. What they lack in speed they make up for in maneuverability. Between the whip of their tail and the ram of their rostrum, dolphins can be a force to reckon with. An open mouth full of sharp, conical teeth can also prove a deadly weapon.” The dolphins got creative and maneuvered beautifully and killed that shark. Oh yes. ! It was nice to see.

I will say that I found it completely hilarious that when it came time for construction projects Dan was certainly missed. Emily did well considering what she had to work with and Alex really stepped it up. I think someone owes him an apology. Michael shooting himself with a nail gun? Dan WOULD never have done that.

What does everyone else think? I miss Dan and he would have brought a lot to that space.

We will be moving into a new home soon. I’m beyond excited. Now just to actually pack everything up and move it. HAHA This shall be interesting.

So, last night I’m downstairs working on something for work the next day. I work from home and I’m a remote employee. However, I was planning on going into the office today. I had several things to work on including helping people learn how to use Time Matters more efficiently. As I’m working on searches and quick tabs I hear a bloodcurdling cry from upstairs.

Any mother will verify that you can distinguish between different cries. I use to be the nanny to triplets and a six year old and each one of them had a very distinct and individual cry. I knew immediately it was my son EB, and I knew immediately that my princess LJ had probably done SOMETHING.

I run upstairs to find out what is going on. Apparently, LJ wanted EB out of her room. So, she kicked him.

Me: LJ why did you kick your brother?

LJ: Because he was BUGGING ME!

EB: I was not, (LOUD CRY, SCREAM, YELL) she was being MEAN to me.

Me: STOP IT! I can’t hear what you are both saying when you’re talking over each other.

EB: Still yelling (runs to the bathroom puts tissue on his mouth) SHE KNOCKED MY TOOTH OUT!

LJ: I barely kicked him and he fell and it POPPED OUT! I didn’t do it mom.

Me: Ok, (hands from hips to in the air) where’s his tooth?

LJ & EB: I don’t know.

We searched high and low for EB’s tooth so that the tooth fairy would come. Ok, we all know Tooth Fairies come with or without the tooth.

Before you ask, we still haven’t found his tooth. However, I know that all he’ll want for Christmas is he two front teeth, his two front teeth. Off to sing elsewhere. LOL

I’m still totally annoyed that Dan Faires didn’t receive any credit in the music room. Vern even accused him of saying that the guitar was upbeat. That was what Stacey said about her instrument not Dan. Dan said that his instrument reminded him of being at home lounging and playing the guitar. He has a pet pig Trudy that he played the guitar too. The video is on YouTube. My child adore Dan Faires. They’ve made videos and said several times that he should win this competition out right. On Twitter I was joking around the other day and said to @GaryEKirby – we should make shirts. He responded with I’m all for some @DanFaires shirts. I figured I’d make some and have them printed up. I doubt anyone will wear them but some people in my office that are voting, his family & his friends. Either way it’ll be fun. So, between Rebekah of Blue Ness Studios, John (lil pseudo brother) and me we came up with this.

The shirts are actually darker than this. Different shade of brown. I have the pantome colors but no one would know what they are anyway. HAHA

My inspiration was that his designs are rustic and generally have some type of wooden element in them. So, I took John’s font ideas and said I wanted the Vote and check mark but just in case earlier suspicions of him being voted off for being nice happens I want the @DANFAIRES and twitter on there so that they could find him online. We put the HGTV Design Star logo and matched it to our design. We think they’re pretty neat.

We’re going to get them printed up. If no one else wears them that is ok. I’ll wear mine and spread the word. We have a deal. If he wins the online show then Dan Faires will redo my kitchen.

So, who are your favorites? By the way, I don’t care if Emily’s table was disproportional Nina you’re still ugly and you’re still a bad designer. So, there I said it.

You can check out Emily’s blog at http://www.thebrasspetal.blogspot.com and my children love her almost as much as they love Dan Faires. Almost.

As most of you know I ♥ HGTV. I watch it religiously. What ever I’m going through in life I can turn on HGTV and tune out all other distractions. They have this new layout and new designer judges. I really miss Clive. Vern is an absolutely meanie these days. He’s not very complimentary which makes sense because as of yet we haven’t seen a lot to compliment on.

My opinions on the designers are below. In the order they’re listed on www.hgtv.com.

Alex Sanchez – He graduated from a University in lovely NC. He’s young but seems motivated and talented for his age. He has a degree in architectural engineering. People shouldn’t underestimate him.

Casey Noble – I’ve said it all along. She’s cute. She’s charming and she’s the green horse. She’ll come out shining. She looks like Reese Witherspoon and she doesn’t get into the conflicts. Watch out for this one. She’s a star.

Courtland Bascon – I know he’s straight & I get the feeling that him trying to convince others that he is straight is going to grow tiresome. The man cleavage irks me like no other. When his paint color is on the mark it is brilliant. When it is off, it is WAY OFF! He’s from LA so, I like him what can I say.

Dan Faires – His rustic charm designs totally capture my heart. I love this table and those chairs are just charming.

Table & Chairs

Dan will get voted off because he is a true Southern Gentleman. When he needs to tell someone to do it themselves or just flat out say no he won’t. I don’t think it is in his nature to be mean. Which means everyone will be singing praises to his parents for doing such a great job in raising him. He’s my favorite. If he doesn’t win the outright show, I’ll vote for him daily http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv-design-star-vote-for-your-favorite-designer/package/index.html because I would totally watch his online show. If I had an extra 2,000 to blow I’d buy one of his tables from www.capsulefurniture.com but well, I just bought a house.

Emily Henderson – She’s a doll. “A dolphin will eat a shark.” My dear Emily no Nina can’t touch you. You’re far more creative. Your designs are far superior and you’re a true sweetheart. My children are total Dan Faires fans but they pull for you & Stacey too. I might be pulling for Dan, you & Casey but children have a mind all of their own. Do great work and you will go far in the competition. Any woman that can say my design isn’t up to par and correct it is a true woman in my book. That and you throw down the law on the YELLOW WALL! Emily rocks my socks.

Julie Khuu – you put feathers on the floor. Your dominance in the fan vote scares me.

Michael Moeller – I’m not sure what to make of this guy yet. His designs that won him a spot on the show are very urban and edgy. I like it but I’m not sure what I think about him just yet.

Nina Ferrer – Right out of the gate from the very first episode I didn’t like Nina. That’s ok because unlike most viewers I don’t like her designs anymore than I like her personality. Enough said.

Stacey Cohen – She seems to be my children’s favorite next to Emily & Dan. She said Nina was a bleep and argues with her. Can’t disagree but she seems to have a manipulative side to her as well. Her designs are good but, I don’t feel you need a degree to call yourself a designer. Anyone can obtain a degree. I have an Art Degree and I’m not out designing.

Tera Hampton – Although your gone I honestly think you did nice work. You seemed to be pals with Nina which is a huge mistake but to each his own. Your Texas sized personality and charm will take you far outside of this competition. I don’t think the yellow wall was the worst part of the room. I think Nina’s kindergarten mural was with the butterfly that looked more like a dragonfly.

Tom Vecchione – You know I like Tom and I like his designs. I don’t like men with attitudes toward each other. I hope that stops soon. His first bedroom design I thought was spectacular and I really couldn’t believe he was in the bottom.

Trent Hultgren – Same thing with Dan with this guy. He does great work but will get walked all over. I’m hoping that being from California he might be able to step it up and put his foot down. We’ll see. The competition is early still.

Who are you guys pulling for now that Julie & Tera are gone? What are your thoughts on the remaining contestants.

Four years ago today, I said I do to a wonderful man. Four years ago today, I made my husband legally obligated to me for the rest of his life. HAHA The past four years have been wonderful. Of course, every journey has ups and downs but, the most important thing is that the ups far outweigh the downs.

Unfortunately in the past year my husband had to be my rock through losses and terrible heartaches. I lost two Grandpas last year. Losing one was hard enough but, losing both was just heartache beyond words. God blessed me with a man that can tolerate my mood swings and temper.

Ray is probably the most intelligent man I know. He handles and juggles more things than Superman. He works full time, is in the National Guard, is a husband, and father to our children. I married a wonderful guy.

Ray, I love you more and more with each day. I’m so grateful that you are in my life. You are my best friend. You chose me when others told you not to. You chose me when it wasn’t the easy answer. I ♥♥♥ you so much for that.

Thank you for loving me always. God has blessed us so much in our 4 years of marriage. Happy Anniversary Ray!