Let’s talk about pillows…I love pillows. Pillows are perfect and powerful. It’s amazing the inspiration I can get from one small pillow.

When I got my very first office in 2004, I was at Marshall Field’s and lucky enough to have Bill Payne, design guru extraordinaire, come in and ask how I wanted it to feel. At the time, the boys weren’t quite one so life at home was was chaotic. I told him, “calm, clean and serene” because outside of work was anything but. The next thing I knew he brought in some pillows and artwork that hit the mark perfectly. Citrus colors of yellow, green and orange mixed with shiny silver. Oh how I loved that office. I left Field’s/Macy’s in 2009 but was able to keep what was purchased for me and bring it to my next office at MSP. I knew I wanted to bring those colors into our new home office too.

Fast forward to November and I was at my fav store Homegoods and there before my eyes were two pillows I knew would be perfect accents for our new home office…even though we didn’t yet know where we were moving or what a house would look like. The power of pillows.

In December we went through a Homes by Tradition model home. They are the sister company to Robert Thomas Homes who are our builders but do true custom homes. We actually met with them last Aug/Sept with the plan of building with them but they didn’t have approval on their development in Inver Grove then, nor do they yet.

Any case, the master bedroom of that model was the pillow of my dreams–that one small pillow captured the look I knew I wanted in a new house…again though, we still had no idea what or where that might be. I hunted for that pillow with no luck. We even went to the staging company’s annual sample sale to see if it might be there but to no avail.

Fast forward to June when Ben and I went on a date that ended early. He suggested we go to TJMaxx/ Homegoods (since it wasn’t even 9:30) so I willingly obliged. So happened the merchandise assortment that night had a number of things we liked so I was feeling giddy and then…there it was…the pillow from the model. It may sound corny but it stopped me in my tracks and I just couldn’t believe it. Clearly, it was meant to be. I quickly grabbed the only two pillows they had and then saw them in green too. I had previously purchased some new bedding and thought these would march perfectly (they did) so I bought those too.

I love pillows. And i cant wait to see how the pillows we’ve got tie our rooms together. Pretty sure there will be a lot of pillow talk about it.