Working on Projects....

Are you working on any projects?

I'm working on getting a lot of stuff around the house done (A lot of painting). PD graduates with a Master of Divinity a week from Saturday and we are having an open house here (at our home)...with lots of people....who haven't seen our house yet.....

...which means I better get things in order....like painting doors and trim (that haven't been painted before now)....

...and lots of decision making....

I'm very thankful for Pinterest...and friends! 

Sprucing up around here.

We moved into our house three years ago this August. My goal for the past 4 months has been making my house look more like a home. Which included pictures on wall, curtains, and just giving it a more "homey" feel. At the end of last year PD and I decided to get curtains for our windows (we have three VERY large windows in the living area of our house). I waited until I found them onsale and got some plain brown curtains. While I liked the curtains I thought they needed something a bit more to spruce them up a bit. So I went to Hobby Lobby and found some of this white and yellow damask fabric and added a stripe into each of my brown curtains (that's 8 curtains panels). I LOVE the way it turned out! It also helped to lengthen them a bit as my patio door curtains were a tad to short for my taste. PD also found this painting at Kohl's that we got for about $8 after rebates and such. I think it draws all my colors in together perfectly. It's very similar to the painting that is over my couch (same "artist').

Thanks for letting me share a bit of my excititment with you on slowly making my house into a home.

We are working on making a window bench seat for the living room, I'll share pictures when we are finished! I just primed and painted the board today! :)