One Week Ago – Ice

We were in the part of the storm that left a lot of ice.  While my last post shared my fears, hopefully this post will share the wonder that we experienced.  It was really a beautiful storm. last fall’s rose buds, encased in ice on every tiny leaf, a heap of frozen rain

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Scenes From Our House

The gifts are all wrapped and under the tree. We’ve been talking about and celebrating the best gift; we are so, so thankful for Jesus. The cookies are all baked!  (And boy did we bake and bake and bake . . . . These are my new favorite – dark chocolate peppermint, though we’re going [...]

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Sweet, Sweet Summer

{And so I am taking the summer off.  I am thinking that I will still post some of the drafts that I have written, I will do some re-posts, and I may document some of this journey I am on; but for the most part consider this “summer vacation.”  -written June 18th, 2010} Oh, what [...]

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The Details of The End Result

Now for my favorite part: Once the basement was finished I had the distinct pleasure of making it pretty and live-in-able…and that’s all in the details. Here are some of my favorite bits. these cool little “pods” (from Ikea) hang over the “kitchen” sink, holing paint brushes, natural sponges, and other fun stuff one vintage [...]

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The End Result

If you checked in here this fall, you were pretty bored.  There wasn’t a lot of posting going on. This is why: the play area the tv area – haha!  can you even find our teeny-tiny tv? The couch folds down into a bed, and the shelves store games and school supplies. There is a [...]

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Seven Things This Summer

Almost two years ago Owlhaven did a post about the things she wanted to accomplish over the summer.  I copied her with a similar post; it’s here.  Then just recently my cousin posted her summer list for this summer, and I’m going to follow suit.  Here’s my list for this summer: Seven Things I Want [...]

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For the Sake of Contrast

When we moved here, our house was brand spankin’ new!  It was lovely. The yard was not. It was mud. Undeterred by the tons and tons of mud, right away I started planning what to do to make the mud into a yard – complete with pretty flowers to welcome us into the yard. To [...]

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