Spaces

Loving this space

This is probably one of my favorite places in our home right now. I bought this cabinet at Goodwill right before I had the baby. It was a whopping $35! I adore it. I'm working on keeping our house clean and as uncluttered as possible. A real challenge with 4 little ones.  I find it is easier for me to think clearly when things are neat & tidy. When I keep up on the house I don't feel as guilty working on projects for myself.

Before

Speaking of projects, here is my new art space.

After

Here is the after I finished cleaning it last night. There are still a few boxes in the garage of things to put away in this area. I'll be putting the last of it away tomorrow. I also have about 6 bins of fabric that will stay in the garage & can be taken out as needed. I am so excited to use this space. It is in our breakfast nook. We have a huge dinning room and this space was unused. Dean & I thought it would make a great place to work until my studio in the 4th garage is finished. It will happen eventually but for now this is an amazing space to work in. The drafting table was FREE! It was in an abandoned home and the new owner said I could have it before they hauled it to the dump. It's like brand new. The other table my mom found at the Goodwill Bargain Bin for $5! I'll be using it for all my paper crafts and sewing projects. 

I'm slowly taking pictures of the rest of the house. I will post as spaces become a little more put together. We still have soooooo many projects to do before the house is completely where we want it but this is a start. 

Counting

I'm thinking that maybe I should start a list of all the things I need to do. However I'm a little afraid to. Why? Just worried it will be ten pages long. I'll be back very soon with all the fun stuff I'm working on. Just taking me a little longer than I thought it would.

P.S. Just finished writing a list of goals for this month. Doesn't seem quite so frightening now.

Vintage Finds

Vintage Silk Threads

Aren't they beautiful? I spent a good two hours today photographing items to put into my new vintage Etsy store. Can't wait to share the rest of the treasures I have found! Hope you all are having a great week!

If Wishes Were Fishes...

Have you ever visited the lovely shop of Flora & Henry? If not you should. I adore everything they sell even if I can't afford it. I was however able to buy these darling little Flora & Henry pants at a yard sale. For $2! Squeal! Aren't they the cutest? When my little man gets a bit bigger I can roll down the cuffs on the bottom.

Seriously, how cute is he? I just can't get enough of this little man! 

Disclaimer

My little beach bum


So I think that my last post was a little misunderstood. I hope I didn't come off as sounding like I have it all together. Because I don't. Seriously, when I said we are back to some sort of normal I meant it. Only our new normal is not like the old kind of normal. It hit me super hard yesterday how un-normal my life is these days. I spent the better part of the morning crying. Mostly out of self pity. A portion of it was due to the fact that our house looked like a bomb had gone off. Some of the tears were due to the fact that we have had so many major changes in our lives over the past two months. A major move, a new baby, Dean breaking his ankle, Dean not working, trying to fit into a new group of friends, & well the list goes on. I really don't chalk this cry fest up to hormones. I think sometimes we just need a good ol' fashioned cry. Yesterday was one of those days.

Today I woke up and felt much better.

I cleaned our home & spent time with the girls. I even worked on stuff for my new shop. Everything just happens slower. Turtle speed is what I like to call it. I'm just trying to keep positive and share the happy moments with my family and friends. Those are the moments that seem the most special and worth the mention.