Fruits of Dust

a space to re-live some favorite memories with my favorite people

Ramsey Baker 5/18/20 Ramsey Baker 5/18/20

Lake Michigan | 2020

Family Getaway - Socially Distanced Style

In a surprisingly good turn of events amidst these stay home/quarantine times during covid-19, Ryan and myself found we had a long weekend off together after his scheduled drill weekend was canceled. Originally, we had plans to go stay at my favorite interior designer/nursing school bestie’s lake house in Michigan a few weeks ago and had to cancel due to Michigans strict rules of no travel at the time. Now with this new time off together, I checked with her if the lake house was open; AND IT WAS, cue the happy dance. With Michigan lifting their strict travel ban, we headed north to go spend some quality isolation/stay home time but with a change of scenery…(one with a view). Brittanys lake house sits right on Lake Michigan in an area called Lake Leelanau on Michigans famous Highway 22. We really enjoyed lounging around and cozying up by the wood burning fire while also supporting locally and ordering some of the areas best take out food. For two days in a row we went about 30 minutes north just past Northport and hiked a really easy 1 mile hike to the shoreline to go play on the sand dunes. The first day was pretty foggy with little visibility and the next day was bright sun, which made for two completely different experiences despite “doing” the same thing. We are home now and so glad we took the leap to take the long drive north.

We can’t express how thankful we are to have had the opportunity to get away while still feeling safely socially distanced. If the house catches your attention, check out Brittanys interior design services over at Will+Blu, she has always been my go to inspiration on styling my home and can’t recommend her enough.

Ramsey Baker 9/29/19 Ramsey Baker 9/29/19

Baby Knox | Nursery Edition

Baby boy is due in just a couple short weeks. His nursery is ready and I wanted to share some pictures of his space that will be only his. The girls love to go in and ransack everything and I’m sure that will continue to be a theme in his life, but for now this still images leave me excited and wondering all the things about this new little life about to collide with ours.

We live in an old house and I wanted to embrace the old charm and utilize it instead of try to hide it. All the old wood trim and small space ended up being the perfect shell to work with.. I knew big furniture wouldn’t fit well so I decided to do a smaller storage cabinet and turn the “closet” area into usable exposed closet storage.

I wouldn’t credit this room to a specific theme of any sort but I did want little pieces of myself and especially Ryan to be evident. I tried to include this by using a few vintage toys like a toy tractor ( because I grew up on a farm) and some military influence in the room with a vintage army toy truck, picture of Ryan static line jumping and a cute little US ARMY hat Ryans mom gifted us and a single little spray painted gold army man from Ryan and Is wedding. Lastly, a vintage first aid book since Ryan and myself are both nurses. I knew this room wouldn’t need a lot of knick knacks or it would quickly look cluttered but just a couple of open shelves to house these treasures did the trick.

Any piece of furniture had to serve a purpose with the space being small. So I decided the only things we needed for now was a crib, rocker and the small storage chest mentioned earlier. The crib was re-used from the girls room, I just painted it green to give it a fresh new feel. Sourced a cozy rocker and put up some hooks for all my favorite baby things to display. Obviously, embracing the fall time baby with all fall inspired colors.