Oklahoma, my friends, is hotter 'n Texas.


Had a wonderful three hour visit with my Mom on Sunday. I loved seeing the surprise on her face when I walked in...I realize it might not be too long before nothing will register when she sees me, but I hope that can be a long time from now. She was calmer and more coherent than she's been in months (at least when I've been around) and it was a joy to show her my needlework and look through hundreds of Facebook photos with her.


One of my projects while in OK was to make some simple curtains for Ava's windows from a fabric collection that was used in two separate gifts she was given, from two people who don't even know each other. (Tiffany L. and Cindy H.) CJ decided that was a sign we were supposed to use that fabric as an inspiration for the nursery, which all of us working on the room have done. Curtains are now up :-)


I've just ordered and received my copy of The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions, on the recommendation of Ann Voskamp from A Holy Experience. When I get home I'm going to work my way through it in 13 weeks per her suggestion.


Rick Perry looks closer to running every day, and it appears that Mitt Romney will be the loser. Ah well...


I believe I've mentioned YNAB budget software before, but if you're not familiar with it, here's a nice review by Tim Challies. If I swore, I'd swear by it.


My conversion to Apple gets more complete all the time. I'm now running a MacBook Pro, an iPhone4, and an iPad2. As soon as life slows down, I'll finish the conversion by getting a Windows platform on the Mac so that I can run all the programs I use that aren't compatible with Mac or that Mac just hasn't mastered yet. Like Office 2010. 


For you natural history and biology buffs, this is simply astounding.


And despite the references to evolution, here's another fascinating study:

Researchers from Oxford University studied the eye sockets and brain capacity of 55 human skulls from 12 different populations across the world and found that the further human populations live from the equator, the bigger their brains. 

It's not because they are smarter, however, but because they need bigger vision areas in the brain to cope with the low light levels at high latitudes, the scientists said in a report of their findings in the journal Biology Letters.

My summer is flying by, and it's time to start getting serious about the school year. With just two students left, my workload is not what it used to be, but I am determined to finish well. This year I will be teaching geometry to my boys and assisting in their history (still Tapestry of Grace). The rest they'll be taking at co-op or, in the case of John Caleb, the community college. I think I'll be driving more than teaching. 26 years ago I could hardly have imagined where this journey would lead!


And now, it's time for me to cool off with (another) Diet Coke. Have a great weekend, y'all!

Labels: Decorating, Devotional, Homeschooling, Money, Political Observation, Science, Technology, Texas, Weather

All of a sudden I'm looking at kitchen books and shows and web sites everywhere. But I can see myself being (uncharacteristically) patient as I work through how I want to do the remodel...there is SO much I want to do that I think I'm actually going to have to start with a designer or even an architect so I don't make any big, expensive mistakes.

"They say that breaking up is hard to do..." (Am I dating myself if I quote a Neil Sedaka song??) This week I'm hearing pundits everywhere talk about how Obama is "breaking up with the left." And though it seems that way and the MoveOn.org types are none too happy, look deeper into every single "flip-flop" and you'll see the real story. For instance: he claims he's going to keep and strengthen Bush's "faith-based initiatives." Well for the first thing, most of that plan didn't ever pass anyway. Plus, he insists that any church/parachurch org getting approved for his programs would have to agree not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. Well, there goes a huge chunk of the programs that are really faith-based enough to make a difference. At this point, I think Obama is actually WANTING people to think he's flip-flopping when he's not. No matter how much the lefties complain, they're going to vote for him anyway. And in order to get the crucial middle, he HAS to appear that he's abandoning some of the more radical positions on the war, on FISA, and on taxes. Stay tuned.

So how was your 4th of July? We had a nice group of family and friends here and we broke in the new grill. And while out shopping this week, I made sort of an impulse buy of a 10 x 10 gazebo which allowed us some extra shade and atmosphere on our deck. Little did we know we'd also need it to shelter us from the rain which hit, of course, just as the chicken went on the grill!

We decided to get XM satellite radio in time for our big road trip this summer. The kids are excited about being able to listen to Broadway showtunes and movie soundtracks, and I will be happy to check in with FOX news on the road. It was frustrating, however, to get the radio and then realize it doesn't come with everything you need and we had to go looking for the adaptor we need to make it go through the FM radio system in the car. If you get one, talk to someone who's installed one before!

One more (much) smaller purchase lately: while at Lyric's two weeks ago we were shopping and I spotted something I'd seen on TV and already done a little bit of research on. So I picked it up and she and I promptly fell in love with it. And now The Papa keeps stealing it! It's the PedEgg--a little contraption that makes a pedicure, at least the dead skin part, easier than should be legal. And since nail salons are now legally prevented from doing the stuff they USED to do to make your feet nice and soft, it's nice to have a safe and effective option at home! So go get one...it'll be one of the best ten bucks you've ever pampered yourself with :-)

I just counted, and I've finished 29 books so far this year, so I'm on pace to top 50. Currently reading Three Cups of Tea, a birthday gift from Lyric, and listening to several on the iPod.

One other thing I did the math on yesterday: was it time to trade in one of our two Suburbans on a new, small gas-efficient GM car while GM is offering 0% interest? After a lot of complicated calculations that include gas prices, distances, and the patterns of use among our three vehicles/five drivers, I concluded that gas would have to reach $10 a gallon before it would pay us to take on another car payment, higher insurance, etc. So for now, we're a two-Suburban one Toyota family. Spending a lot on gas.

Beloved lyrics from this morning's service...


May God's great faithfulness be seen and acknowledged in your life this week...

Labels: Books, Decorating, Good Stuff, Holidays, Music, Political Observation, Sundays

So at this time last week I was embarked on a secret project and since the word is now out to all the folks I was trying to surprise (and did, in some cases :-) ), I can now share what I was doing. After 23 years of home schooling and living with dual purpose rooms, I decided it was time to treat my family to a REAL dining room, free of textbooks and calculators and microscopes and slides with...with...what was it on that glass slide? Oh yeah. Well anyway, I emptied the room, and with the help of my non-decorating-challenged daughter, I put down a new rug, hung curtains, moved shelves, and put up pictures which do NOT include parts of speech, bones, or Civil War timelines. No, these pictures are sidewalk cafes and lovely bottles of Chardonnay and fruit still lifes...the kind of things you can look at and still want to eat your dinner. Nothing really fancy here...still the same beat up old table we've had since before CJ was born, crying for refinishing...bookshelves repurposed to hold silver and linens and candles...a treasured dresser finding new life as a sideboard. But it signals a transition in our lives, one that I might just write about someday. We still have lots of school days ahead (six years, probably), but we have no more real need of a school room. So when The Papa returns this week, we will "christen" our new dining room and celebrate the beginning of a new season at Granny's House. Wish I had some "before" pictures, but those of you who live in homeschool land don't need any visuals for that. Take it from me: these pictures represent a huge change...










Speaking of new seasons, we've just seen the changing of one in the '08 election. The week provided several electrifying moments and breathless speculation, surely only a prelude to the next five months. God protect us.

This week, during all the working and driving and whatnot, I've discovered a new favorite author--Leif Enger. His novel Peace Like a River has captivated me as much for the writing as for the story itself; I'll be watching for his novels the rest of my life. The only way I would know how to describe him is as the 21st century Mark Twain.

As dependent as I've become on the internet in the past few years and as much benefit as I've derived from it, I've worried at times that all its charms might isolate us and keep us hidden in our houses, safe from dangers but also sterilized from all the richness of face-to-face interaction and ministry. I'm no longer worried that the internet will cause this. If anything brings us to a hermit-like end, it's going to be gas prices.

And the highlight of today: our Bethany is 18 today. Because she is usually behind the camera instead of its target, I can't come up with many pictures of her, but those of you who know her need no reminder of her impish smile and her winsome personality. Beth is standing on the edge of adulthood, pursuing many different interests and avenues of ministry and continuing to amaze us with the breadth of her talents. Pint-sized compared to the rest of the family, her heart and her wit can outdo all of us...

When Beth was two, I said, "Bethany, you have such a tiny little face!" She looked at me with a slight bewilderment and replied, "But it goes all the way down to my chin!"

HAPPY 18TH, BETHANY!

Labels: Books, Decorating, Kids, Political Observation, Sundays

My new home office furniture is being delivered today! Pictures tonight!

Labels: Decorating, Homemaking

My memory isn't great, so I won't say that The Papa preached the best sermon he's ever preached this morning...but I will say that I don't believe he's ever preached a more important one and that it was definitely one of the best...

I'm sure you were all relieved to wake up this morning and read that North Korea is going to dismantle its nuclear program. I feel safer already.

The sad spectacle of Sen. Craig dominated the news this week...I thought about blogging on it, but what in the world do you say? Everything that could be said was heard on the networks from all sides of the political spectrum...everything except how ugly and tragic sin is.

Speaking of the Senate. Did you ever hear that old joke about the the best illustration of "mixed emotions" being when you see your mother-in-law drive off a cliff...in your brand new Cadillac? (Obviously the joke started making the rounds back when GM actually produced a much-envied vehicle). Well here's my new version of mixed emotions: hearing that Sen. John Warner of Virginia will not seek re-election, in a state that is turning blue faster than you can say Rappahannock.

And the rain pours on. Those of you in states with hotter, drier summers than usual are welcome to come and soak up some San Antonio soupiness. How often can THAT be said?

Our plans to start school, already delayed a week, have just been delayed again. The death of a dear uncle of John's means we will travel tomorrow to Fort Worth to be with the family and attend the funeral on Tuesday. We may get started, then, on Thursday, but you veteran homeschoolers know how difficult that can be, so for all practical purposes we've probably lost the week other than to assemble notebooks, go over schedules, etc.

I'm happy to report that 99% of the visitors to the IRL Granny's House have loved the color and decor in our "new" bedroom. And for those of you who heard this morning's sermon at COG, I must clarify: the color scheme was selected IN CONJUNCTION WITH the other occupant of the room, and he has exclaimed many times how much he likes it and, specifically, that it is "so soothing." So there ;-)

Is there anything better than guacamole?

Saddest sports event of the week: Notre Dame's MORE than dismal showing in its opener yesterday.

Happiest sports event of the week: Michigan's loss was even more embarrassing.
I know, I'm pathetic.

Thanks to The Papa for restoring the ability to print directly from my laptop. No, I am not too lazy to get up and walk to the desk computer to print something, but many times I'm working on a document on the laptop that I then have to email to myself and pick it up on the other computer, which is notoriously slow and unreliable even though it's newer than mine. Have I warned you that if you use Edu-Track, you pretty much have to have a computer dedicated just to that? A real downside to an otherwise good program.

I'm hoping to see September Dawn sometime this week. It's too bad that the event chronicled in the movie as well as its far-reaching implications haven't been taught to our children as carefully as other American tragedies.

Snip, snip, that's all folks :-)

Labels: Decorating, Family, Food, Homeschooling, Movies, News, Political Observation, The Papa, Theater of the Absurd, Weather

Okay, so yesterday I spent ten hours working in my room, replacing the rest of the furniture and hanging pictures, decorating the shelves that Dirk so expertly installed, and cleaning as I went. I even climbed a ladder several times, which should be a strict no-no for me but sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. And even though today I've had to stay off my feet to recover, it's sure been worth it.

Here are a few pictures. The wall color in some of the shots is truer than others. It really is not the bright purple that it looks in some of these!

The picture over the bed is just sort of a "placeholder." I am going to frame two very large pieces of cross-stitch that I finished in 2005 and hang them over the bed.

The picture below is a much better representative of the wall color!

And this is on the wall with the darker color.

These milk-glass lamps are treasures from my mother's home...not sure if they were also my grandmother's but they are certainly her "style" and make me feel as if I were at her house. I've just now brought them to mine.

Another treasure I brought home from mom's is this old kerosene lamp which I simply adore. It sits on the chest of drawers that John's grandparents bought when they first married, around 1920.


And the bathroom...again, not quite the true color but in real life the new towels go nicely :-)

Still trying to find the right light fixture for the bathroom, so that part is yet to come.


So...that's all the pictures for a while. The house will be a work in progress for years, I'm sure, but we've made genuine headway this summer. A special thanks to Dirk for his hard work, patience, and willingness to work around our schedules and his mother-in-law's color-challenged decision making.

This week on the trip to Fort Worth, I finished the audio book A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, the heartbreaking autobiography of a young boy in Sierra Leone who is captured and forced into service as a child soldier in the civil war there. Despite a rather unsatisfying and unceremonious ending, the book was more than worth the time and gives a painful window into realities that are far removed from our own.

Then on the way back, I listened to the first half of God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe by Amir D. Aczel, an author I've read before (The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity; The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World; Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science; Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem--all fascinating and well-written). A combination of astronomy, theoretical physics, mathematics, and philosophy, God's Equation has thoroughly captured my imagination and attention. I hope I don't die before I get all of Aczel's books read (or listened to!) Well, okay, he has some on obscure areas of business statistics that I may skip, but...

Bethany starts her first college classes Tuesday. Never mind the fact that we just brought her home a year or two ago and that she just lost her first tooth last week I think, here she is getting her first checking account and buying college texts. You'd think that on #6 of 9 we'd have gotten used to it. Nope.

And our forecast shows rain for the next seven days. When I opened the water bill last night and it said $29, I once again smiled at all the ways this very gentle, wet summer has benefited us. It's nearly September, and I never really felt summer hit us. No complaints...unless it decides to come late and steal our fall...

Whether you're starting school this week, already in the middle of it, waiting until after Labor Day, or whether your late summer is spent in work and other pursuits, I hope the coming week will be one full of God's mercies and loving surprises. Have a lovely Sunday evening!

Labels: Books, Decorating, Kids, Sundays, Weather

I'm home.

Got here yesterday afternoon at around 4, dog-tired but thrilled to have had such a good visit with Mom. She looks and sounds better than I've seen her in two years and this was a tremendous encouragement to me! The progression of her Parkinson's seems to have been arrested somewhat by the right combination of medications and physical therapy. Earlier this year when she had a mild stroke, I wasn't sure that she'd ever be out of bed again, but Wednesday we went out to lunch and did a little shopping...she was feisty enough to insist that a shop owner take the shirt out of the window so she could buy it since it was the last one in her size! Go Mom!

I stayed on an extra day so I could go with Mom and my sweet sister-in-law to Mom's neurology appointment. Her doctor was very pleased with her progress and glad that Mom is doing so well in following her recommendations. Parkinson's is a hard road

The extra night also gave me some quiet time in the lovely guest room to do some work. I've been doing a lot of business writing lately and it helps to kind of pull away and have some uninterrupted time. I have much to learn in the field of writing for fundraising...and while I'm on the steep side of the learning curve it really helps to have concentrated hours of solitude. My business partner can do this in her sleep; all I can do while I sleep is....sleep :-)

While I was gone, DIRK FINISHED THE HOUSE PROJECTS! I came home to shining trim and shelves over my windows, spotless doors and all the paraphernalia cleared away. We are totally done with this year's redecorating phase and I will be spending some time in the next few days getting pictures up, shelves stocked, and everything plugged back in! A GREAT BIG PUBLIC THANK YOU TO DIRK FOR ALL THE GREAT WORK and to Aubrey and kids for sharing him with us all summer :-) More pictures later, but here's a shot of some of the trim on the bay window side. The color is not coming through accurately at all, but at least the contrast is visible:

Labels: Business, Decorating, Family

Yes, the summer heat is back. I don't like it. It saps my energy. But I am so very grateful for the real winter, rainy cool spring, and temperate summer we've had so far. It makes it a lot easier to bear knowing that fall isn't far away. It's the years when the heat starts in March that I feel as though I'm going to explode by June.

Tomorrow morning Dirk will start the last stage of this summer's projects: painting and installing baseboards, crown molding, and decorative shelving in our bedroom. As soon as that's done (and I'm about ready to have it all done!) I'll be ready to get a few more pictures up. But did I mention that I love it?

The week was a busy one, with another busy one to come. I'm glad I didn't push myself to start school in early August this year as I do some years. With the big family vacation, the massive redecorating, and getting in a groove with some business projects, I needed to leave myself a little breathing room. It's taken me a lot of years to know myself...I'd have saved myself a lot of grief earlier in my life if I'd taken care to pace myself better. But then, perhaps your fifties are an appropriate time to be taking advantage of the lessons learned in previous decades. Whatever, I'll take them...

What I DON'T want to have to take is the inch of gray roots peeking out under my highlights. That part of aging I could do without! Time to get the hairdresser on the line.

I've missed reading lately...other important things have crowded it out temporarily. Once my school planning is complete I hope to get back to a few books, my iPod books, and my Netflix list. I've been seeing some great reads reviewed on other blogs and I have got to move fast!

I'm also getting the "hankerin' " (sorry, a word specific to southerners over 40 years old) to do some sewing, cross-stitching, crocheting, quilting, something with my hands again this fall. Okay, well,scratch the cross-stitching. I already gave the majority of my eyesight to 22 count Hardanger and I probably can't afford any more losses on that score. But looking through my scrap drawers this week had my mouth watering and wondering where I could fit that in.

Speaking of fitting stuff in, I'm still looking for a day this week to do our chicken freezer meals. Need to get that done before I forget how good Monday felt!

And because I'm rather shallow today I leave you with this: is it a sad world when the courts have to decide who's the better parent, Britney Spears or Kevin Federline? Sheesh...

Happy Sunday night!

Labels: Aging, Books, Decorating, Homemaking, News, Weather

Granny's been a bad, bad blogger. I have lots of excuses, none of which really matter, but I haven't gone away forever! I'm hoping to be back in a day or two with some new pictures of my GORGEOUS bedroom...or at least, the WALLS are gorgeous! Several things need work on but oh, how I love my walls. My instincts (well, helped by the advice of people I trust LOL) were right and I think I have a new favorite color...

My niece Courtney (Mark's daughter) is here visiting us for a few days and keeping Shelley occupied during the last few days before school starts. I'm stunned by the fact that she's 15! Never mind that she's just four days younger than Shelley and so I should have known this--she is supposed to be six!

I have a few more things to do to get school ready. I know the kids probably wish I'd forget, but I won't. I'll treat myself after one more week of work to a trip to Lyric's to rest and watch movies for a few days and then I'll come back and we'll dive in.

Summer is back. Boo-hoo. Probably until November....

Labels: Decorating, Family, Kids, Weather

I've mentioned before that I'm not a good visualizer of how color is going to look once it's on the walls. But so far, I think I've done a pretty good job of selecting things I'm going to love and rejecting the ones I instinctively know I can't live with.

Well yesterday, my luck ran out.

I didn't just BUY paint I hated, as with the green I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. I had Dirk actually put it on the walls and ceiling of my bathroom, and when I walked in last night I knew I was fried. The lighter shade of the same plum color I intended for our bedroom walls ended up looking sort of, well, lilac. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice color, but not up against the tan tile and not with the bathmats I'd just spent so much money on and not next to the bathroom cupboards. Certainly not up against what I had feebly envisioned.

Oh my, I was devastated.

I thought about posting the pictures here and I couldn't even bear to ask you what you thought. And I shuddered at the thought of having to tell Dirk we were starting over.

So I spent several hours hemming and hawing, peeking in the bathroom door and then squeezing my eyes shut, emailing pictures to Aubrey and Lyric, pining to John, then trying to psych myself up to think I could get used to it. I went to sleep last night hoping I'd wake up this morning with a completely different outlook on my purple bathroom.

Nothing doing. In fact, in the morning light I hated it even more. I was actually thrilled when CJ walked in and said, "I hate it!"

So...with Aubrey here for moral support, at 8:30 this morning I broke the news to Dirk that I wanted the whole (large) bathroom repainted with the color we had bought for the bedroom. If he wanted to wring my neck he hid it very well, and by 4 this afternoon we had two coats of the most beautiful shade of plum I've ever seen. And now that my former indiscretion has two coats of loveliness slathered over it, I finally have the courage to show you what I mean. You may not agree with my strong feelings against paint #1, but trust me, I could not have lived with it.




Oh, I get the willies even looking at the photos!

Okay, well now for the "after" pictures. Trim is not done yet but will be glossy white-white like the rest of the house.

Dirk starts over:
The light fixture will be the next thing to go, btw...



More pictures when I eventually get everything rehung and accessorized.

Moral of the story: Admit your mistakes, cut your losses early, and most of all, get yourself a great son-in-law that will love you anyway :-)

(Oh, and the next decision is whether I'll now use a yet darker shade for the bedroom or go with the same color that's in the bathroom!)

Labels: Decorating

It's been a quiet week in Lake Bexar. I say quiet because there's not much that can go on with the kind of weather we've been having...it just goes on and on! And another week of rain ahead. The Papa was glad that he took half of Friday off and did yard work Friday and Saturday, because there'd be no mowing today or tomorrow!

My week was varied...getting Tim to basketball camp in the mornings...school planning...business tasks...reordering part of the house...answering emails...researching some options for a new range (yes, GAS)...all in all, a pretty productive week.

AND...for those of you following the color saga, I made the color decisions for the master bedroom and bathroom. While I was presenting The Papa with some options, he said, "Don't you think you'd like to paint it a nice rose color?" Do I have a wonderful man, or what?? Well, I didn't choose rose, but we did settle on a deep plum color for the bedroom and a lighter shade in the same family for the bathroom, with the same bright white glossy trim we've used throughout the first floor. This is really the most daring choice for me so far, because it's one I'll be looking at quite a few hours a day! Dirk will start in the bathroom tomorrow morning and then move to the bedroom, so I'll be posting pictures soon...

And after choosing the wall color and having a good excuse to buy new bedding, I chose a new quilt in coordinating colors. We've had our current bedding for twelve years and it's showing its age. I'm ready for a change. I think.

Another improvement Dirk and I handled this week was putting a new light fixture in the front hall where my built-in bookcases are. The sad little hallway light fixture has never been adequate in that space since Dave built the shelves there. I have to look for books in the daytime, because once the sun goes down the books are all the same size, shape and color and there's no way I can locate anything. Well now we have a large flourescent light right in front of the shelves and it floods light right where I need it. Far from looking like a shop light, the one we picked is very similar in style to the molding on the shelves and so looks right at home.

Having linked to this story yesterday, I cannot resist walking you over to hear Scrappleface's characteristically twisted but hilarious take on the mentally ill mice. This guy is too funny!

School at Granny's House will be starting a little later than usual this year--Aug. 28. I like to start early in August but I'm not going to push it this year with all the house upheaval we've had. And early in the month Shelley and I (and anyone else who wants to come over and help!) are going to do a Mega-Cooking day and stock the freezer with meals for the first few weeks of the school year. I'm hoping that this will make our transition back into the fall schedule a little smoother, the evening meals being already planned and mostly prepared.

Waving at you from my drippy windows this Sunday afternoon...

Labels: Decorating, Homemaking, Homeschooling, Theater of the Absurd, Weather

So...I'm back after a pretty lengthy blogging break! It will take me a while to organize the 4-500 photos from our mountain vacation, but I'll post a few a day for the next few days to give you an idea of our beautiful surroundings, the fun-loving group we were a part of, and the variety of activities we shared. It was everything we expected and more, and it made us wonder why it had been ten years since we joined in on this annual gathering!

As we drove up the mountain to an eventual altitude of 9500 ft, we stopped at about 7500 ft and started taking pictures:



Here's a shot of about half of our group...


ATV's increased the fun (and risk??) for the hardier members among us.


My brave husband. Log rolling is a lot safer without water :-)

The gazebo and slightly dangerous deck where we ate each night. We shared the cooking responsibilities, with one family being in charge of the meal each night.

I missed blogging! I had a very spotty, finicky internet connection stolen from a wireless around the corner, but it was nowhere near reliable enough to write a whole post or transmit photos. It was frustrating, but it also gave me an enforced break to do lots of other things and to clean out all my files, organize three years' worth of pictures, and de-frag my computer, all things that sorely needed doing...

As soon as I get through the vacation photos, I'll post some pictures of the completed stage 1 of our redecorating project. We still have more to do before our contractor returns to his full-time job, but the really big jobs are done!

Labels: Decorating, Vacations

Project UPDATE:

The carpet folks didn't just fail to BRING enough carpet, they failed to ORDER enough carpet. So a reorder will go in on Thursday and hopefully be installed while we are gone on vacation. In the meantime, every last one of us is nearly giddy with how wonderful things are looking!

Labels: Decorating

The carpet guys ran out of carpet before they ran out of floor due to a couple of mistakes in the measuring. They will have to return next week to do the back staircase, but the front one is done, and the master closet as well. The house is still a mess from all the moving stuff around, but it the floors and walls looks so fresh and clean that I am in absolute heaven tonight. And our toes are enjoying the new carpet...



I'm delighted with the combination of the wall, trim, and carpet colors. Here's some of the effect:

Labels: Decorating

We are currently "chilling" while the workmen take a meal break. Some of the furniture is already back in place and soon it will all be! Living room, front hall, and master bedroom are done; family room in process; stairs yet to be done this evening. I AM LOVIN' IT!!

Labels: Decorating