The same Saturday that Reynolds and I purchased Eliza Jane’s dresser, I started painting the bookcase that would be in her room. I’d gotten ideas from HGTV Magazine as well as Pinterest on how I wanted it to look. If you recall from the post where I made a bow frame for Eliza Jane, I…
I am slowly quickly checking things off my #10weeksandcounting to-do list for Eliza Jane…there are only 8 weeks left! One of the items I’ve checked off is her dresser/chest of drawers {or if you’re southern like me, it’s “Chester drawers”}. I found it a couple of weekends ago at Target. I’d not intended on buying…
For the 4th of July this year my family planned our yearly family reunion…at Hickory Knob State Resort Park. The plan was to go Friday….and be there around early/mid-afternoon. Andrew and I gotten up early and ran errands, packed the car {to the hilt} and were on the road by noon. The plan had been…
Tonight I spent about an hour and a half going thru Reynolds’ “old” clothes. It’s amazing how quickly he’s grown over the last 14.5 months. From looking back at all the Newborn clothes that he never even got to wear {because he was enormous!!! when he was born!} to flashbacks and memories of “I remember…
After the fireplace facelift, I went back and forth with what to do with this large wall…of brick. Mantle or no mantle? Ironwork? Move the TV? I think it will certainly evolve over time but for Christmas I’d made up my mind and decided that I wanted a mantle. It’s all I wanted. No jewels…
One of the projects I tackled this past weekend was making some bows for sweet Eliza Jane. As you recall from Friday’s post I went into planning (panic!) mode with my to-do list so I was energized to get some things done. First thing’s first – the girl’s gotta have bows! I can’t handle someone…
That sounds like an oxymoron, right? I don’t know that I’ve ever found JOY in doing the laundry. But, a friend has and I tried to change my perspective tonight. It all started when my friend {we’ll call her Lu} asked me to go to lunch today. I didn’t really have plans…I was going to…
