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Black And White and Loved All Over
www.blackandwhiteandlovedallover.com
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I'm a 28-year-old wife, mother and writer living in Nashville, TN. This is a daily blog about what I'm writing, reading, making, wearing, cooking, and shopping for. It's also a blog about my little family and our adventures together. You can reach me at ellen.mallernee@gmail.com.
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A Southern Summer.

This picture of Tessa and me from Saturday: It sums up exactly where we are. I want to eat her, inhale her. And she? Shes already thinking of what path she can scamper down next, of the green balloon...

21 may 12

Baby Love.

I realized I was pregnant with this one on March 20, three days before Tessa turned two.My period was only a week late, I estimated. Though I wasnt used to keeping track of it really, I knew that the...

20 may 12

Terrible Two.

Oh, hey, two weeks ago I wrote a post about how awesome two-year-olds are. This week Im going to retract that and say the exact opposite thing, OK?This week with Tessa has been terrible. Shes made me...

18 may 12

Barefoot ... and Pregnant!

I have the best excuse ever for my absence from blogging, from my friendships, from my housekeeping, my hobbies, and my life over the past two months:Nekos and I are expecting a baby at the end of No...

17 may 12

On Loving a 2-Year-Old.

I love her, I love her, I love her. But it’s different now. Different than it was when she was a baby and I was a new mom. It’s so much better now. I’m so much better now.When we brought her home and...

02 may 12

Tessas Favorites.

This video is proof that Tessa and I have actual conversations these days. It is soooooooooo fun, and shes just at that age where she sometimes says completely ridiculous things that make me die laug...

23 apr 12

Out to the Ballgame.

Thursday night we took Tessa to her first baseball game to see the Nashville Sounds play. Im not a sports person at all, but have always like baseball on account of the little plastic baseball caps t...

23 apr 12

Some Happys.

This is the worst Ive ever been about blogging. If you care, Im sorry. I have missed it. Weve just had a lot of big stuff going on, which I will talk about later. But in the meantime, I am anxious to...

19 apr 12

Easter Tessa.

These are pictures from Tessas first-ever Easter egg hunt, held at our neighborhood community center on Saturday morning. She was easy like Sunday morning when it came to hunting eggs--in no particul...

10 apr 12

Insta-Life.

Its been a long while since I blogged, but Ive been feeling under the weather lately and not up to it. Blogging can stop but taking care of a two-year-old never does. There have been lots of fun mome...

09 apr 12

Stuff I Love: Tessas Baby Book.

I lost focus on Tessas baby book once she got mobile and I started this blog. And as much as people say that their blogs are their baby books or their love letters to their babies, do I really think ...

03 apr 12

Stuff I Love: My Veggie Chef.

Sloppy Jane WrapsI dont love to cook, but I do love having cooked. Especially now that Nekos and I are parents, it seems more important to sit down to real meals, even if Tessa thumbs her nose at the...

02 apr 12

One of Those Days.

The very day after I posted about how Tessa takes my breath away, I feel compelled to write about how she also infuriates and exhausts me. Yesterday she threw roughly 10 tantrums, each epic in its ow...

30 mar 12

Stuff I Love: Dandelion Daughter.

This was from last week, when Tessa massacred every dandelion in our backyard, one by one. The seeds kept floating off and then settling into her curls, which took my breath away. Because I am her mo...

29 mar 12

Its Her Party. She Can Cry If She Wants To.

We threw Tessa a second birthday party on Saturday afternoon, with all the fixings: two massively decadent cakes, pin the tail on the donkey, 70 balloons, little friends and big friends (including my...

27 mar 12

Stuff I Made: Spray-painted Necklace.

I got this piece of costume jewelry not long ago, but never could find anything to wear it with because its so dressy and I dont do dressy very often. Dressy is just not my thing. Plus, the bottom be...

26 mar 12

Tess Turns 2!

Tessa is two years old today. Two years ago a stork delivered her to earth and threw everything into focus for me and Nekos. And not just, "Woah, we have a howling baby to take care of,...

23 mar 12

What Would Karen Wear?

Sometimes, getting dressed in the mornings (when I do actually get dressed in the morning), I think, "What would Karen wear?" and it totally helps. Karen from Californication, you know. ...

23 mar 12

Stuff I Made: Flower Power Shower Wrap.

Yeah, I said it.Flower. Power. Shower. Wrap.Thats its name, and Im sticking to it.So ... not sure if anyone else except me thinks a "shower wrap" is rad. But this guy has been on my To Make l...

20 mar 12

Spray paint on a Sunday.

There are few things in life more gratifying than a successful spray painting project. Here is my most recent transformation, taking a vintage Cosco stool from blah to badass. This has actually ...

18 mar 12

The Way We Were.

"I heard once that the average person barely knows 10 stories from childhood and those are based more on photographs and retellings than memory. So even with all the videos we take, the two boxes...

12 mar 12

Stuff I Love: Our Guest Bedroom Makeover!

Our guest bedroom is done! Well, you know, as done as anything ever is at the Barnes house. Here are the rooms the Internet delivered at my doorstep to get me thinking yellow, sunshine, patchwork qui...

11 mar 12

Stuff I Made: Yellow Walls & Hand-Sewn Invites.

On and off for the past week, Nekos and I have been painting our guest bedroom a pale yellow called "Pismo Dunes" by Behr. He does the rolling, and I do the detail work, standing on...

08 mar 12

Our IKEA Loot!

I wrote earlier this week about losing our IKEA virginity and the haul we brought home when we got back to Nashville. So heres what we got! I had been pinning bed canopies for little girls rooms...

07 mar 12

Atlanta, Radiohead, Ikea + a Pink Wig.

Id only been to Atlanta once before this weekend. It was years ago and for only one night and though I was with a great girlfriend all we had time to do was go to some lousy nightclubs and get grinde...

04 mar 12

Stuff I Made: Embroidered Burlap Runner.

I think there was something about working with aida cloth for that family cross stitch recently that I started looking at the burlap runner on our dining room table and envisioning it as ripe for emb...

01 mar 12

This Day.

Shew. Today it was just me and Tessa all. day. long. Nekos had some social obligations after work, and it just happened to be one of those days when Tessa made me want to throw myself down a flight o...

29 feb 12

Stuff I Love: Seraphine Designs.

One of my best gals, Brooke Seraphine, has just officially launched her Seraphine Designs necklace line, and Im over the moon about it. So is she, as she should be; it takes a tremendous amount of co...

27 feb 12

Wild Geese.

Yesterday I had barely any lunch and was starving an hour before we were due to meet friends for dinner. I plucked a box of raisins out of the pantry to tide me over and went upstairs, eating raisins...

25 feb 12 1 person likes this

High on Thrifting Thursday.

Mandy at Harpers Happenings launched a "High on Thrifting Thursday" link-up party on her blog and since Im currently in the prime of my thrifting life, I thought Id join in. Today Tessa and I...

23 feb 12

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