You're listening to a beautiful mess podcast, your cozy comfort lesson.

This week we're talking about birthday traditions.

You know we love holidays, but what about birthdays?

Plus, we're answering a listener's question about being self-conscious about your home.

So, this is my first time to record in Missouri.

We're recording right now in Emma's office, and I am looking at her brand new ghost wallpaper,

and I just want her to tell us a little, before we jump in, a little bit about the ghost wallpaper.

And we can link it in the show notes because it's really a cute, it's kind of like a subtle,

you know, pattern like, yeah.

Well, yeah, I mean, as far as ghost, I don't think you like look at it and think ghost.

It's not your first thought.

You just think wallpaper, like it looks like a nice pattern.

Yeah, and honestly, our house doesn't have very much wallpaper.

We only have two spaces in the whole house that have wallpaper.

And it's this like half bath that's like on our main level, and it has this like marbly

wallpaper.

And then my office, I decided to put wallpaper and I put it on three.

If my office is like one of the bedrooms in our home, it's just a bedroom that I use

as an office.

But three of the walls, I have wallpaper, and then the wall that's right in front of

my desk, I decided to do a solid color that matches the wallpaper, just so it would be

a little bit less busy.

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