Hey guys!!!!! Well here we are a week away from Thanksgiving....and believe you me I have a double portion to be thankful for this year....mama & daddy are doing so good and today they informed me I don't have to come over every morning and fix breakfast for them any more! (Actually daddy has been getting up early for awhile now cooking his biscuits and fried eggs...but I think mama like the 'pampering'! lol lol) They have finally 'graduated and are on their own again!
Yesterday Bill & I unpacked the very last box in the house!...dance with me!!!! lol lol Now I just have to decide where to put things and because I know some things have to be stored...it is hard for me to choose what to leave out to decorate with...
But because I know me...it always comes back to the little things....things that have no meaning or value to anyone else but me....
things that make me smile when I look at them because of the memory they hold for me...things that take me back to a certain place and time in my life...
I knew in this house I wanted to be surrounded by such things so that each day during all this emotional time with my parents I could be surrounded by the comforts of my heart....
You don't have to be rich to have beauty around you....you don't have to have the latest trend to make yourself happy....
You don't need the finest china made to fill a cabinet...look at me...I have mine packed full of old Hulls brown dishes and the old Wheat dishes from the Duz detergent back years ago....oh I could go out and buy 'real china' but it wouldn't do a thing for me....these call me 
...these let me see another time and place in my life...these let me see my cousin Peggy when we were young brides and mothers ourselves trying to always find ways to feed our kids and just survive when times were hard...and she loved my old brown dishes so much I gave her the whole set and then years later bought me another set at a trade day sale....sweet Peggy was only a year older than me...she passed away a year ago....these let me see my Aunt Odell setting the table with her Wheat dishes when I was a little girl and use to spend the night with her and Uncle James and my 3 cousins...
You don't have to have custom made curtains to make a room look complete...you don't have to even have skills for this easy treatment....I just grabbed some left over check fabric and hemmed the tops and bottoms (seriously you can do this....use stitch witch and iron the hems....I used those magnetic rods that you can put on steel doors...no screws...and once I got the top hems done I just pulled the bottom of the fabric tight and held it where I wanted it on the bottom rod and stuck a pin in it for measurement and then took it off the rod and made my hem...no skills needed for this at all...then just drape a napkin over the top!)
Love you guys....have a fantastic weekend and get those ovens heated up for all those pies and turkeys and casseroles!!!!!
You don't have to have custom made curtains to make a room look complete...you don't have to even have skills for this easy treatment....I just grabbed some left over check fabric and hemmed the tops and bottoms (seriously you can do this....use stitch witch and iron the hems....I used those magnetic rods that you can put on steel doors...no screws...and once I got the top hems done I just pulled the bottom of the fabric tight and held it where I wanted it on the bottom rod and stuck a pin in it for measurement and then took it off the rod and made my hem...no skills needed for this at all...then just drape a napkin over the top!)Ceekay here is the front of the fireplace just for you girl!
I am starting to decorate the bathroom little by little.....
Here is the huge window over the tub..I knew I didn't want a curtain in here cause I love the light....so I just put some old things up here and I can change them out during the year.....So here we are turning another page in this new chapter...holidays are almost here...Bill is putting up the outside Christmas decorations this weekend...I told him I didn't want to wait til after Thanksgiving....
I just know that with every little thing I hang up or set out...I feel more and more at home here...You don't have to live in the biggest and best mansion to feel love and peace...you don't even have to own your own home for a place to be 'home' to you....we are only here for alittle while...we are just caretakers of whatever place God blesses us with....whatever you do surround yourself with love....of your family and of your life...there is no price tag for the happiness of a peaceful heart filled with thankfulness and joy....you can make your home a haven...you can't control what goes on outside your door but you do have a choice about what goes on inside and where ever you go remember this saying.....it has been our Motto since we first got married...LEAVE EVERYTHING A LITTLE BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT.
Love you guys....have a fantastic weekend and get those ovens heated up for all those pies and turkeys and casseroles!!!!!
It is so good to be able to spend more time with Bill when he is off...knowing that mama & daddy can do some things for themselves now...below is Bill and I's comfort zone!
Day by day I notche out little corners that make me smile....the sun comes in so bright in the morning flooding the kitchen...it is hard to get a good pic with this old camera but this is my little work area...even found room for the little island Bill made me....yes it's small and cluttered and has no sense of reason...but ohhhhh it is so me!!!!!
