There are houses and then there are HOUSES. Houses (lowercase) simply provide basic shelter. On the other hand, HOUSES (uppercase) are built and planned with love and care. They provide shelter, but also enrich the lives of those who live in them. These two kinds of houses are symbolic of an ordinary job of mothering […]
Lighting Help, Please
We are in the process of designing a new addition that will be built on our house. I am so VERY excited! The addition will include a new kitchen and laundry room. Both will be about twice the size of their current rooms. Yeehaw! I’ll go into detail about those rooms in other posts. When […]
Meet Argyle
Argyle is one of those things. You either love it or hate it. When looking for ideas to paint the girls’ bedrooms we came upon one room with an argyle type design and Bon Bon fell in love with it. Fudge, who will be sharing the bedroom, is so easy-going it didn’t take much to […]
Two Bedrooms are done!
Two of the girls’ bedrooms are finally done! We did all the painting, installed new carpet and have moved all their furniture in. The third bedroom will done today (Thursday) and it looks very cool. Here’s the finished paint jobs. I didn’t take any before pictures because they were just white walls. The first room […]
Fall Yarn Leaves
All week long we are making decorations to use in our autumn celebration next week. (More on that later) Today’s craft was different than one we’ve ever done before but the results as you can see were beautiful! These can be made into magnets for the refrigerator or strung on a string for garland (which […]
Planning Bedroom Paint Colors
We are seeing progress in our redecorating/bedroom rearranging/repainting project. The two downstairs rooms are cleared out and ready for paint. Here are the girls’ paint designs, paint colors, and quilt fabric choices. We started Monday painting the base coat of Truffle’s (8) and Cookie’s (4) room. The base coat is the light Musk Melon color. […]