Filling the Hole

Do the things you make reflect your style? Do you set them out and display them proudly in your home? Typically, I don’t. Sad, I know.
If I had to name my home decorating style I suppose I’d call it traditional-eclectic..mostly it’s just ME though..but the majority of things I make are either country or cutsie. [...]

Cheap Art

This

Plus this

Equals this

I love how this turned out! And the best part.. it only cost me $2.67. Yea!! Much cheaper than taking a pottery class. I found the stencil online, cut it out, traced it on the plate with a sharpie, then painted it. The whole process took me less than 30 minutes. Easy, fun, [...]

Weekend Ramblings

I’d love to show you the great skirt I made this weekend but.. I didn’t make one (there’s a reason).. so now I’m stumped with what to talk with you about. I debated on posting a recipe but I think I’ll just bore you with my real life.
Saturday was beautiful and fun..and packed full with [...]

And So It Has Begun…

If you read my last post you know that my expectations for this blog have recently lead to some stress. So, after a bit of thinking I’ve decided to “take a break”…There are things that I want (and need) to do that I’ve been putting off because of this little blog… things like: striping the [...]

2009 – Make It Count

Crafting Goals for the New Year
Designate and clean out a space for my sewing
Make a quilt
Learn to knit socks
Learn to read crochet patterns
Decorating Goals for the New Year
Paint dining room
Buy a picture to go over my bed
Arrange bookshelves
Spiritual Goals for the New Year
Participate in at least two bible studies (outside of Sunday School class)
Update Church [...]

Major Undertaking! Major Improvement!

I’m back from two weeks of vacation and you’d think I’d have all kinds of little crafty things to show.. but, no. A lot of my time away was spend cleaning, the heavy duty kind. Take Goose’s playroom for example..

before (disgusting)

and after (much better – I tried to get the Clifford tent in the Goodwill [...]

What Christmas Is All About

In “A Charlie Brown Christmas” Charlie Brown asks: “Isn’t there anyone out there who can tell me what Christmas is all about?”
Linus steps up to the microphone and quotes Luke chapter two from the Bible.
“And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And lo, [...]

Christmas Pretties

Just wanted to share a few of the things I love from around my home.
The mantel

Handpainted Santa

Homemade Pinecone
Aaron’s Mamaw made this
Christmas Village
And the tree
Less than a week. Not only am I excited about celebrating with family, opening gifts, and eating until I can’t stand it.. but I’m going to be off work for 2 weeks. [...]

My Magazine Subscriptions Are Due

I’ve been thinking about letting all of my magazine subscriptions go. Don’t get me wrong, I love them, so much so that I almost feel guilty for not renewing them. But here’s the thing… I’m not reading them. I flip through them once, tell myself I’ll read it later, then piled it up somewhere. Later [...]

Out of Sight

If you were to visit my house you might open my cabinets and bowls would roll out at you…And that’d be okay. If you’re comfortable enough to be going through my cabinets than you probably know me well enough to expect a few flying bowls anyway, right? But one thing I would not let you [...]