One More Picture - Living Room

I am not sure why I forgot to post this picture with the rest - but this is the view from my living room into the dining room. The "front door" that walks out onto the porch is to the right - and to the left through the french doors where you see the snowflakes on the windows is the dining room. On the wall above it hangs my "Texas" star given to me by my precious friends at our going away party. They have signed it with love and beautiful sentiments. It is truly a treasure.

Spring Fever - Almost!

The weather has been so warm the last week or so, but I have been too preoccupied to enjoy it. I have had so many irons in the fire that I hadn't even taken the Christmas tree down yet. We weren't lighting it up anymore - and it was bugging me. How is it that something that gives you so much joy and be SO beautiful only a month ago is now a nuisance and an eyesore??!? Go figure. I had the kids start taking the ornaments off the tree yesterday, and gather things from all over the house that were "Christmas-y". Four HUGE boxes later, we were packed up. This morning I had to double check what they did and dismantle the actual tree. What started as sweeping a corner ended up as a complete clean sweep and rearranging of the living room, which also bled over into the dining room. (I did the kitchen yesterday!) My friends who know me know how much I LOVE to rearrange my furniture - and what a fresh feeling it gives me. I thought I'd share some pictures.

This is my desk - a/k/a the "blogging nook" - hee hee
This isn't much of a BIG change - the television used to be to the R of the fireplace.
We moved Travis' antique radio to the other side of the room - and hopefully he'll put the knobs back on it and make it play again. The french doors behind the couch go into my dining room - the couch is out from the wall about 3 feet.
Since we moved here, the long couch has been in front of this big window. I really like it that there isn't anything blocking the light and air that come in from these windows with the new arrangement. I put the big footstool there - it'll make a nice reading spot, or a place for the cat to lounge, and can easily be moved to be used as a footstool.
This has always been my biggest challenge when it comes to rearranging the living room is this piano! It fits pretty nicely in this corner - isn't in a walkway - and doesn't block anything! Wow.
I took a picture of this to show you - it is an old sewing box that my parents got in Williamsburg, and was in every home that I lived in as a child. My mother got custody of it when my parents divorced - and gave it to me when I got older. When we moved the top got broken somehow and is in need of repair. I decided that a stack of beautiful books might make a nice table top for now. What do you think? Travis got me the little oil lamp that is sitting on top quite a few years ago - in fact we used it for a prop when we did "Scrooge" at the community theater a few years ago.

Thanks for visiting with me in my living room. I am feeling a lot less overwhelmed today and a huge sense of accomplishment is a lot better feeling than spinning your wheels in mud and digging a deeper hole!
What did you do today?

Bragging on My Man

This picture is kind of dark - but I wanted to show you what my hubby did while I was away the last four days. We bought a projector before we moved into this house, but since the house was full of windows, leaving little wall space, we weren't sure how we were going to ever use it. He used a white board to make this screen that hangs from the wall in front of our fireplace. It is going to be great. We are going to break it in sometime this week. The best part is that you can take it down and put it away when you aren't using it.
I was so proud of him when I came home yesterday. The sink was empty, the countertops were clean, the living room where he built the screen was even cleaned up and the BED was even made! Ah, it made the homecoming even sweeter!

Home Tour

I am still intending to work on adding more segments to the "video tour" of my house. I loaded the one here a while ago - but it takes a LONG time. My friend Kate suggested I use Photobucket - so I will have to check that out and see if it is any easier than Drop Shots which is what I have used.



Please only view this video if you can stand to hear me describe things in my house ad nauseam. I mainly made these videos for my friends back in WV to be able to "see" my new home in TX.

Here are some shots of some pictures I put up in my living room. I decided that instead of using actual "formal" photos of my kids, I would print some black and whites of my favorite snapshots in some black frames with white mattes - and I just LOVE how it turned out. The top picture was taken in the Badlands at sunrise by Peter Petretta on a mission trip we took with the youth group from WV a couple of summers ago. Only a handful of the kids got up early enough to go with him -and when I look at this picture I think of the faithful remnant that will seek after the Lord no matter what the cost! The one on the left was taken of my friend Tina and me with some of the same youth group laying on the ground in a circle. It is one of my all time favorite cool pictures. The bottom right picture is of my girls together. They really do love each other and I think this picture adequate conveys their sincere affection.
Just a little updated look into our home!