The River...

is a risin'!

I snapped a couple of photos yesterday

If you look through the trees, all you can see is

 water.

So? What is the big deal?

Well, all that water is normally land.

Land NOT covered by water.

Now this is bottom land, the flat land at the bottom

of our bank but usable, picnic area land that

is lush and green in the spring and summer.

Maybe not this spring tho, as it will take a while

for the grass to fill in where the mud caked soil

will harden once the water recedes.

Good for our local farmers, not so good for picnics!

Random Thoughts

I am not sure how the girls in my life have so completely influenced me,

but it seems that I have

a pink phone cover...how has this girl who

has always been a sea blue or bright red kind of gal

gone to the pink side? Girls!

Our dogs. Susie is the one "looking" at me in the top photo,

Ernie is the one at the end of the sofa in the bottom photo.

I believe that they are pretty spoiled, considering that they require a pillow to sleep on while on the sofa. They will literally stare you down until you give in and place the pillow for their use! REALLY!!????

Sigh...really.

Again, we can blame this one on our children being the influences

that they were while living in our home.

I guess that is why we spoil our children,

so that they

can spoil their pets....or at least that is my story,

and I'm stickin to it!!

 

I have once again started playing with my camera on a more urgent basis.

I am heading to New Orleans and then on to Austin Texas at the end of the month

and I am going to take tons of pics while there...

so I am warming up now!

And We Have.....

A Mantle!!

Yes, we have a new (old) mantle.

The wood is old. Found in my Mother's storage area of her falling down garage.

Cleaned up, sealed with a couple of coats of

sprayed satin poly and the results are....well,

here! You can see for yourself!

 

I choose this type of bulky old wood mantle to be in

between the pristine white built-ins because

I love the jeux-a-position of the very old and rustic

with the new white painted wood.

 

I find it to be amazing!

Just Too Cute To Not Share!

It must be the color of the cork that makes

me like the gold. Maybe it's the "bubble" look.

Maybe I just like polka dots....

I think it is all of the above.

 

But I just had to share this link with you!

My Sister's Suitcase has taken something quite

simple to something quite amazing!

All info is at this link.

 

http://www.sisterssuitcaseblog.com/2013/03/diy-gold-confetti-cork-board.html



A Crazy Week

This has been a crazy week for me.

We had a snow storm (9 inches)

I got a stomach bug (24 hour)

I have a Dr. appt. on Friday

Took my Mom to the antique mall,

and the stomach bug reared itself again.

Mom's are soooooooooo understanding!

I did get to work a couple of days this week,

but things have gotten done.

Our son called and I am now driving their

moving truck from New Orleans to Austin TX

the last week of March...excitement!

I picked up a couple of things at the antique mall

They will be turned into something quite different

for our [one week late] Easter Dinner table.

Can you guess??!!



Please Tell Me You Do Too!

Tell me that I am not the only one who has one of "those" places,

that I clean and straighten and then over the weeks and months,

it just gets dumped on,

cluttered up and pretty much ignored.

I probably have more of those "places" than I care to admit, but the one that I look at day after day is my make-up table. I wish it were exclusively my make-up table, but it is not. My husband uses it for his "pocket cleaning" & alarm clock table.

We have our change jar on it also.

But it becomes sooooooooooooooo cluttered.

I decided to "get after it" and organize.

Here are a couple of before pictures....

 

 

And after.

 

I took an antique candy dish from my cupboard using it as my costume jewelry dish. I like it!

 

My necklaces are hung on the mirror.

 

I believe that it will be a much better morning tomorrow as I sit to put my make-up on!

 

 Don't you think!?!

Shelves In The Working

I am slowly working on adding decor to the

built-ins that we recently put in the living room.

I have a few vignettes,

 

    but still alot of empty space.

I do not want to just throw something up there

and then have to re-do everything later.

So slow and steady wins the race.

Or something like that?!!

 

Yesterday I covered a few books.

 

I had bought a book of scrapbooking paper for the

girls night a couple of weeks ago and

that night, used very little of it.

 

So I pulled it out of the cabinet andchoose a few fun papers!  Covering books that we will never read again

(yes, we all have books like that!) making them useful again by giving them a face lift with some cute paper!

 

It adds a pop of color to the book shelves

and I really like the ease and inexpensive way to

add such prettiness to our built ins.

With a couple of pieces of paper, some tape and

a pair of scissors, I turned some un-used books

into something wonderful!

 

And nothing is permanent. The paper is very

easily removed and all can be as it was before.

Color is a wonderful thing!