Excuses, Excuses...

This is a recent picture of my feet. This was actually taken on the trip home from Iowa. Most days, my feet look like this...


Last week, while my children were at Grandma's house, I worked on a couple of projects. This is some art we did for my daughter's room. There are actually three canvases, each with a different design. I think this one might be my favorite...




Finally, this project was the big one. I had this dresser from way back. (I think it was actually a family antique from a long time ago, but it had seen much better days.) After much deliberation, it was decided that we would just spray paint it and put it in our daughter's room. I am thrilled with the color choice (peacock blue), and it makes me happy just to walk in her room and see it. I would not recommend spray painting a large piece of furniture in the middle of July, while you're 8 months pregnant, but I'm glad it's finished. The two photo boxes on top of the dresser were purchased at Michael's this week, and they are going to go in her bookcase.


We are trying to prep old plaster walls for paint, a process that is taking much longer than we expected. Cheer camp and football practice are starting next week, so our evenings will be crazy for a while. Hopefully we can make some progress on the walls this weekend. It would be nice to have it done before the baby is born. Funny that I'm decorating an 11 year-old's room and not a nursery.

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Friday Happenings

This is hubby's first official Friday "off". They have implemented a new "flex-schedule" at work, and he is taking advantage of having every other Friday off. With as many honey-do's as we have at this old house, it will be nice to have three day weekends on a regular basis. He's off to pick up some supplies to finish running a new plug in for my new washer. He's got all three daughters with him, so I'm sure he'll come home with his legs talked off.

#1 is gone to see the Dark Knight with a friend. This leaves me entirely home alone. Spent a few minutes checking the blogs I read, and now I'm off to sort the massive pile of laundry that is taking over my bathroom. Hopefully in an hour or two, I'll be washing enormous loads of laundry in my new washer. Did I mention that I have a new washer?!

Have a great day,
D

You know it's been too long...

Since your last post, when every time you decide to "blog", you have to recover your password...

I had great hopes to keep this up, but things have been very busy.

We went on vacation to Iowa. I know, most of you are thinking that's a strange place to vacation, especially when you don't really know anyone there, but we had a great time at family camp. The kids loved our family staff helper, and were so sad to leave. (Thanks Elisabeth - if you read this.) The strangest thing happened while we were gone. Being 8 months pregnant, I swelled terribly while we were away from home. Once we got back, my ankles returned to normal. I'm thinking it's because we didn't drink tea while we were gone.

We are getting ready to start back to school. I've been working on our schedules, and dropping off business at the copy center. Hopefully before this week is over, we'll have a few early days done. The kids are going to Grandma's next week so mom can nest a little. When they get home, we'll jump back into things so we can get a couple more weeks done before Cinco gets here.

I've been nesting a lot lately. Cleaning out drawers, shelves, cabinets, etc. I love seeing the progress I've made. We've taken about 7 sacks of stuff to Goodwill, and I've got a couple of rooms left to go. Today, I've been painting furniture. (Probably not the best thing to do since it's spray paint...) Been taking lots of breaks though. The worst part is - the paint is peacock blue, and with the overspray, I'm beginning to look like Mama Smurf. The paint is a great color. Will post pictures of the finished product.

Two great finds at Goodwill today. A small mahogany end table $3, and an oak card catalog for $10. It has twelve drawers and will work great in my sewing room. I love getting a great deal!

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