Question!

OK! I have a question for all you friends and followers? Please don't dissappoint me. I need you!

While coach and I are waiting oh, so patiently, to close on our new house on June 21st, I'm plotting and planning paint colors and furniture arrangements and 100 and 1 other details. After three weeks of packing, moving, garage selling, and decorating Mimi and Papa's new home, I'm exhausted! Yesterday I took a day of R & R and found 2 great junk stores yesterday in the downtown area. I was just looking really, when I ran across this:

It is a reproduction Welsh cupboard; 6 1/2 feet tall, 7 feet wide and only 17 inches deep! I got excited about using something like this! Great display possibilities and accessibility, without taking up too much floor space. I have a lot of old white English ironstone platters and plates I'd like to use.

I'm not crazy about the way it looks right now but could quickly see potential. I will definitely knock off the teapot and tea cup cut-outs on the center panel. So, back to my first question. What would you do with this?

I know you have all kinds of ideas, so please tell me!!!

Second question: Would you use it in the kitchen on this wall? We just purchased a 42" antique oak pedestal table to sit under the iron chandelier with four comfortable black rattan chairs w/ boxed linen cushions.

the walls are kind of a pale 'burnt butter'.

Or on this gray wall in the dining room? ( the furniture in the photo is not mine) I will have a long pine table with chairs under the chandelier.

I'd be so grateful for your thoughts and ideas. If you'd like to comment but never have....just click comment, share your thoughts, sign your name and hit 'anonymous'! Thanks so much!

Empty Nest!

Whew! Moving is tough! Like childbirth, you simply forget. For 2 1/2 weeks I packed and packed and packed. Almost everyday dear friends popped into help. They made it fun! They tried to help organize my move. Making all kinds of suggestions. However, in the end most boxes contained a random assortment... a lampshade, 3 large platters, an electric griddle, 2 pillows and a birds nest! We got tickled and laughed at the thought of unpacking. Last Thursday, Mr. DeLaRosa, sent 5 of his men to Abilene to load up our household. These patient men did a great job! Arriving at 8:30 am and gone by 1:30 am, I was left standing in amazment, in an empty house.

Thank you, Dianne, Boots, Susan, Jo Carol and Mary! You lightened my load and sweetened my bittersweet days.

After the trucks were gone I gathered up the leftover items and had a final garage sale.

Good News!

OUR HOUSE SOLD!!!

Thank you for praying. God has been so faithful. I the midst of life's uncertainties it brings me great comfort to know without a doubt, we can trust him always! Today, I packed all day long. Actually, I talked all day long. My friends did all the packing! We started in the kitchen. Be glad you weren't there. I like dishes.

Thirty boxes down and many more to go!

That's a wrap!

Today, I'm posting my first ever video on my blog. I accidentally took this video of my kids laughing at their 'jumping' pics Seen below in the corn field! When I played it, it made me smile and I wanted to share it with you. I hope you can tell me why is it sideways. It is straight in the file I saved it to...puzzling, indeed!

Children of the Corn...

As promised, here are the pics Jenny took last Sunday afternoon. I LOVE this one of Carter walking through the corn.

What a perfect Mother's day gift!

Beth and Carter... precious.

Heart be still.

...a breath of fresh air.

...a budding beauty.

....a rose in bloom.

The end of a lovely day!

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The beginning of some of some crazy stuff! Feel free to click onto to something else.

I hope my kids will always be silly and playful. . .

. . . and uh . . . a little scary psycho. I'm sorry if you find this disturbing. They really are playing.

I know because I was there but I didn't have a knife. My momma taught me better.