Of course I'm ready, Mom!

After cleaning and organizing Emma's room today, we needed to go to the store.

I came down the hall to see if she was ready. She thought she was!

I see in her future...

...a love of sewing.

(My future might involve battles for the sewing machine!)

Madhouse!

For about fifteen minutes each evening (more when it's not

tax season), we live in a madhouse!

Oh, those blue eyes

We had a little vistor yesterday afternoon.

It was so nice to have a six-month-old in the house.

Luckily he has older brothers and is very tolerant as

Emma was very entertaining!

Ceiling fan makeover

Emma and I got to play with tools today. While I borrowed Bob's

drill, Emma learned how to use the screwdriver.

I LOVE how this turned out. Em has a tiny ceiling fan in her room...the blades are just
11" long. It made it super easy to cover with three pieces of patterned scrapbook
paper and some ModgePodge.
The glow-in-the-dark stars were on the ceiling when we moved in...the one thing I'm not allowed to change in Emma's room. She loves to look at them at night.

Almost finished!

The end is in sight!

Just a little bit more pink...

We're still working on Emma's room. The walls are done, along with one wall of woodwork.

Here are a couple of pics...more to follow once everything's done and the room is put back together.

Three walls are the light pink on the left and just one wall is the darker pink (thankfully!)

This is the woodwork issue we were working with. The beadboard is white and the moulding across the top is white. But, the woodwork around the door, closet, windows and bottom of the floor is dark brown. I decided to try my hand at painting it all white. Luckily, Ryan has informed me that his can stay brown!

Here's a corner with the two paint colors and the woodwork complete. You can
see the that moulding along the floor on the dark pink wall is not yet white.
Guess what I'll be doing tomorrow! Thank goodness for rainy days....

Razzleberry and Cotton Candy - A Preview

Oh yeah! We're lovin' the pink!

More pics to follow soon.

Off to paint!

Friday Favorites

Fairies that climb trees.

That wonderful swath of sunrise that makes the perfect morning destination.

Bet you can figure this one out! Gotta be the Brach originals.

The gentle sound of the windchimes that Bob and I bought on our honeymoon...still hanging faithfully 11.5 years later.

You can't beat this sky!!

The promise of beauty soon to come.

The promise of inside...

...and outside projects.

The view from our back upper deck.

Enough wall space to fit in a few of my photographs.

Letters from school...the good kind!

A fridge covered with works of art.

Kid photgraphers

Discovery!

Emma and I headed out for a walk/ride this afternoon.

We had to enjoy this BEAUTIFUL sunshine!

Right about here I realized that we'd forgotten her helmet!

Whoops! We've forgotten a few things over winter.

Ah, that's better.

Emma and I discovered this nature area a couple of weeks ago.

It's just down the road from our house and destined to

be enjoyed for many hours this spring and summer!

The "daddy duck" was sticking his bum up in the air, so

Emma was trying it out, too.

Here are just a few of the thousands of geese that decided to stick around

this winter. We hear them at all hours of the day and night as they fly over the house.