Still Working On It!!!!

Still working on it!!!!!!! Ohhhh look I found a chicken! lol

Morning guys!!!!! This is a new week and a new month!!!! It's almost Thanksgiving! Yahoo! Got alot done last week....unpacked 6 more boxes and put up a couple of more new light fixtures ( can't live with just a bulb hanging from ceiling! lol) But my biggest project was this...... remember this when we moved in...

Now don't get me wrong...I love wallpaper...always will...but this was just the wrong pattern for me and the wrong colors..and it was glued on TIGHT!!!! It was not coming off like the bathroom one did....soooo what is a girl to do.....when in doubt PAINT OVER IT!!!!!!!

Ohhhhh I am loving it! You can't even tell it has wall paper under it! This is call Deer Path...it is a Benjamin Moore color but I had Lowes make it for me in the Valspar paint...no smell...and in the eggshell finish....remember I used Deer Path at my other home...but it had more of a brown tint....when the lady mixed this formula it had more of a blonde tint and it is like it was made for the colors in the kitchen! lol Sometimes goof ups are the best!!!!! I just have to get behind the fridge and under the cabinets and it will be done!!!!

Ohhhhh my old wheat dishes....just waiting for me to organize them......But for now I am off to mama & daddy's....he has a doctor's appointment this morning....he had new x-rays on Friday and the doctor called that afternoon and said the improvement was amazing!!!! Oh I am so thankful..they both are just getting better and better with each day....that's it for now guys...have a great week and remember somebody in Alabama sure does love you!!!!! ~Picket~ ♥ ♥ ♥

...Finding Bits & Pieces of Me....

Hey guys..just wanted to pop in and say Happy Halloween to everybody and let you know I am working my fingers to the bone trying to find pieces of 'me'! (wish I could say working my fat hips to the bone but they ain't going nowhere it seems! lol)

I am still going back and forth between here and my parents house 3-4 times a day checking in and fixing meals but it is getting better each day...again thank you so much for all the love you guys have given me...

I am slowly but surely working thru the boxes....this house is more square footage than our old one but it has some smaller rooms for some reason...especially the living room...it has no foyer just walk right in so I 'made' a foyer and this time I am going back to my old ways of having alot of stuff around me...hey... I need my comfort zone right now! lol Here is what I got so far...

The walls are soft yellow and the carpet a light blonde (which is more than I can say for my gray roots at the moment...oh sorry...focus!) I gave little Sofie all my Cherished Teddy collection and I am using that curio to hold some family photos...

I just put a lace curtain over the window and don't have to have any blinds in here because I don't have to worry about privacy at the back side of the living room so I love that!

The ceilings in here are very tall in the middle but I love how it looks...I have the two leather recliners on the opposite wall but haven't found things for the end tables yet....

I also have painted the front porch posts white and the front door entrance surround and the shutters on the front porch are now painted black...gotta paint the front door next...

Now see this horrid fixture down below...exactly!!!! That was the first thing to go!!!! I couldn't bare to even go in the kitchen because of that thing...who could even use water from that thing..I would drink water from a rusty old pipe over an artisian well before I used that thing!!!!

Here is what my sweet hubby replaced it with one day while I was at my folks house...ohhhh glory...no I don't have the glorious white sink from my old house with the beautiful faucets..
But this suits me just find seeing as how the old sink is stainless steel....I did this one in black & white so the wall paper wouldn't distract from the pic...now I can go in the kitchen!!!! lol lol

It's alot to get use to around here...it's different for sure renting a house but I am so thankful for it and for the peaceful feeling I have just being here..I will make it our home and care for it in this new chapter of our lives...take care you guys and have a safe and happy Halloween...love you so!!!! ~Picket~

I'm Home!!!

I'm home!!!!! I'm home!!!! I'm home!!!!! Oh sweet Lord I am home...daddy is home from the hospital..still on oxygen and alot of medicine for two weeks but he is so happy and mama is doing so much better so last night I came home for the first time to sleep in my own bed in three weeks....I can't begin to describe the emotions...anxious about leaving mama and daddy alone for the first time since this begin..yet overjoyed to see the expression on Bill's face when I met him at the door when he came home from work...I still will be going over every day to fix meals for mama and daddy and give all the medication and taking care of their affairs but I get to come right back to my new little home.....

and lookie here what I came home to...my new porch lights!!!!!! For those of you that don't know it yet...Bill and I have leased a home just across the highway from mama and daddy so I could be here for them...we had just moved in when all the drama begin...mama fell and daddy got double phnuemonia...all my treasures are still sitting in boxes....but sweet Bill already put up new light fixtures for me on the front porch...

the glass is textured to look like a screen....ohhhhh glory!!!!!

remember the shrubs that were as tall as the house?????

well they are all gone now....

remember the wall paper in the master bath?
ohhhhh lookie here...Bill has removed it all for me...ohhhhh glory!!!!!

Oh I am so happy...I feel like we have all turned the page in this newest chapter of our lives and I am loving what I am reading so far!!!!....I was up at 5:30 am this morning and I went out on the back porch and looked up at the stars...they had said you could see some shooting stars last night...boy did I ever!!!!! The heavens were alive with stars and within 5 minutes I saw 6 shooting stars zip across the sky...oh my heart like to have exploded...I stood there praising God for all His love and mercy and for this time in my life....

Today I got to go to town for the first time in three weeks...I just had to get these sweet little napkins and look at the napkins rings!!!!!! Little forks and spoons!!!!! How cute is that....now I feel like the old me again!!!! lol I gotta alot of work to do around here but I am at peace...love to all you guys for all your precious prayers and love....your caring support literally came thru the screen to me in a time when I needed uplifting...I can never repay you for your unconditonal love for me and my family....there are no words to express my heart...

I am home and my porch light is on.....