YOU GUYS MAKE ME CRY!
I cant even begin to tell you how much you all mean to me. Thank you from the bottom of my soul for all of your sweet comments and emails and messages yesterday. There is no doubt that I have the best readers EVER! This journey has been a crazy one and I am excited to see where it goes, I cant even try and plan anymore I am just along for the ride.
If you missed the show here is one of the segments (the other isn’t online but I am trying to get a copy of it!)
Do you guys remember in January when I talked about this super ugly entertainment center?
Well this week (hopefully tomorrow if the weather clears up so I can get a good shot)Â is going to be the big unveiling! I am SO excited and I know that you guys are going to LOVE it!
And you can still virtually slap my butt here if you feel so inclined.
Thank you again a million times, you guys mean more to me than you will ever ever know!
Love Your Guts, Mandi
I saw the Nate Berkus show yesterday, i recorded it. You were the first blog I ever read, and it inspired me to not only create my own blog, but I had never watched the Nate berkus show before. I absolutely love it, and your blog!!
I saw you on the Nate Berkus show yesterday, you did amazing as always. I read you blog all the time and I was so excited for you. I feel like I know you even though we’ve never met. Your entryway is amazing, I just featured it on my blog today! Keep you great work your so talented!
I meant keep up the great work, ugh
It’s mostly Mandi that you are just made of awesome.
P.S. auto correct insists that your name is really mandibles.
You do have a great gift for seeing rooms and furniture in a unique light! I always enjoy your reveals and tutorials. By following your blog I am learning to see things “outside the box”…and that’s a very GOOD thing! Congrats & Best Wishes for continued success!
How exciting! Your ideas are amazing, and I can’t wait to try some of them in my home!
Mandi! Congrats on another great Nate show! You indeed are an ALL STAR. And I was feeling pretty famous as I watched the whole time thinking, “I’m basically best friends with this famous person on TV because we did crafting with the stars together 9 decades ago.” Haha! We all feel like we know and love ya as we’ve witnessed your fabulous journey! All I gotta say is, you are crazy talented and need your own show. I will set it on my DVR right next to my other best friend Nate Berkus. (I’m still trying to think of an indirect way I can claim him as my best friend too). 🙂 Anyhoo. Just wanted to tell ya I watched, and I just love your projects, and guts!
What a great segment! I love all of your ideas. One of my favorites was the rope curtain rod – what a stroke of genius! I’m going to have to spend some serious time on your blog going through all of the tutorials and figuring out which ones I want to recreate for myself!
Mandi.. i love your blog and all you ideas. You amaze me with all you talent and make me seriously jealous!
I love getting on the computer everyday to see if you have a new fantastic idea…
You are super awesome!!
Hey I have this exact same unit, so I cannot wait to see what you did to it. Super ugly?? It was our first purchase as a married couple 26 years ago! LOL Where did you get yours?
YOU ARE SO CUTE!! 🙂 AHH! And I agree 100% with Nate! You are awesome and have an amazing eye! 🙂
I was just gonna write you to tell you I watched for you and you did such an amazing job. You’re so confident and it was a huge inspiration to see a blogger on a show like that showcasing your hard work. We can all only aspire to be where you are at some point. Congrats!
Congrats! You did an amazing job on the show! Looking forward to seeing the big reveal of the revamped entertainment center.
Awesome! It was nice to see a close up of your compass rug..i’ve been wanting to make that for a while. Off topic, where did you get your peasant top from? I love it! I neeeeed that top.
Just wanted to let you know how much I love your blog! It’s one of the first I ever read a few months ago and as soon as I saw the houndstooth rug you made, I knew I wanted one just like it. I finally got around to making one a few weeks ago and it looks so good in my living room! Thank you for sharing all your creative ideas!
Mandi!
Just LOVED your latest episode of Nate! I had already seen all the amazing makeovers here on the ol’ blog, but I loved seeing Nate’s reaction to it. I can’t even IMAGINE how you must feel getting a pat on the back from NATE!!!!! SOOOO awesome! I also think you should definitley consider his advice. You could be making some serious mulaw with your wicked skills!
P.S. I STILLL have not painted my wall stencil! I did buy the paint however!!!! It will be a FUULLLLL year before you get that stencil back:) I will be in SG in April and will stop it by!!!
You did awesome on Nate yesterday! I thought what he had to say to you was pretty cool too…and I agree, you have a great future in design!
you are amazing. people come to your blog for so much more than to glean inspiration from your incredible design skills. you are so down to earth, so real, so fun! it is a highlight to visit your space on the internets. i like to come here, escape when life turns hellish while helping a 3rd grader with her homework. see, total bright spot!
girlfriend!!! SO happy for you! The segment was amazing, you are such an inspiration!
<3,
Adri
Dream Book Design
I found you! I saw the makeover of your friend’s room on someone else’s blog a while ago and it was AMAZING! Love your style and I am going to read your whole blog because I need some help!!!
I wish I had you here! :0) got a new home over a year after
go still plain doesn’t feel it home …..plus money is an issue
Mandi, you are just mandilicious! I’ve been a follower from the start and I’m so excited for you. Nate x 2!!! You ROCK! And I LOVE your guts too!
Oh, and when can you come to San Diego??? I have a guest room for you…not the cutest, but you’d have an awesome place to stay whilst inspiring me with home decor! ;o) Seriously though…come to San Diego!
I saw you on tv yesterday and fell in love with your designs! I am not so good at the refinishing stuff, but I love seeing other’s creativity.I was acutally wondering what I could do to our old entertainment center, thne i saw your post. I cannot wait to see what you did!
-loving you all the way from Utah (;
Mandi, I just watched your show on Nate’s show. You are adorable!!! All your projects and your excitement got me excited to do more projects around the house. Thanks for sharing your wonderful gift! ~ Linda
I predict a wardrobe/mini closet; or at least those are the plans I have for one! I can’t wait for the big reveal! Mandi, everything you create is amazingness, I wish you were my mother 🙂
Mandi, I watched the show for the first time because you were on. I didn’t even know the time etc. but I made sure to find out. You are adorable and did a wonderful job. I mad hooked on your blog and now on Nate’s show too. Gotta DVR from now on. Thanks for your creativity and for showing me the light on Nate’s show too.
I am hooked not mad hooked. Or maybe I am
So glad you are sharing this here – I missed you on the show! Congrats!!! Great job!
omg – he LOVES you! not that i’m surprised, but what an incredible experience to have Nate practically fawning all over you. WOW! so happy for you – you deserve it all.
🙂 Heidi
I miss your old header.
Seriously Amazing!!! I cannot believe that someone has so much talent!! Really your home and the homes for your friends are beautiful! You have given me so many ideas on DIY and thrift store shopping! Keep up the amazing work!!
Congrats on a amazing job on Nate’s show. I love all of your ideas, you are brilliant!! I am sure your phone will be ringing off the hook!! Way to Go!
You ROCK girl! I hope to follow in your footsteps someday but for now I’ll admire how awesome you are! I CANT wait to see what you’ve done with that “lovely” piece of work 😉
YOU ARE AMAZING!Congratulations. Can’t wait to see your designs spread over the world. 🙂
What a great show. All this amazingness could not be happening to a nicer person. Congratulations. Keep up the fun and extraordinary work.
Cheers!
Dear Miss Universe-
You are a very gifted and uber creative person.
I love your ideas. Oh, BTW, I have a very ugly half gutted entertainment center in my garage just waiting to be modified. I know what I’m doing to it now if only I can find the time and energy. Congratulations! you Rock!
What a tremendous compliment coming from Nate- to say you have a career ahead of you! Of course he is 100% right- but it probably means a little bit more coming from him! 🙂 Congrats!
Mandi, so excited for you! You really do have a gift. Love getting your blog via email every day. 🙂
robin
I don’t know where to begin to tell you how much I love your blog. I watched the show and can’t believe how calm you were. Did you find out about the show is it going off the air? I love that show. Thanks….
I just watched this clip. So amazing! Lucky girl, you’ve worked hard for it. I wish we lived close…I want to be friends. Not in a creepy way but in an I-love-reinventing-stuff-too kind of way.
OH GURRRL!!!!! how amazing to b on the show again!! u do such awesome work . and if i didnt live in arkansas i would totally apply for an assistant job for you!!!
Congratulations! You did an amazing job on Nate. And you do beautiful design work. If you do open a design business, I’m certain you will success beyond your wildest dreams!
i watched Nate Berkus with you the other day and you did an amazing job!! Congratulations on being a sensation!
I so wish I could find a great DI that has as awesome picture frames as you find. I’m so jealous!!!
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I just want to tell you how much I love and adore you!! I could NOT stop smiling during your segment. And, when Nate gave you that frst bit of advice in starting your own design business, I started to tear up and wanted to reach through my monitor and HUG him!! Also,there needs to be another get-together when you are up here in Salt Lake.
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