Sunday Breakfast

I'm having just a simple little Sunday breakfast.

This is the type of breakfast I love.  Three or four little items to nibble on.

I'll be working on getting my craft room in order today.  What's on your agenda?

I hope you all  have a lovely, peaceful Sunday!

Adorable Wall Hanging

Just a quick post to show you the quilted wall hanging my daughter made me.  I love it!  The fabric is adorable!

Great work, Amy!!

A Bonnie American Lass in Scotland

My daughter is attending school in Scotland this summer in a study abroad program.

Here she is leaving on the first of three flights.

Here are some pictures taken around her school (without enough information to actually show where it is...privacy is important, ya know).

It's seems like a magical fairy tale locale when one is used to the Sonoran Desert!  I hope she'll have great fun, learn lots, and come home with a new worldly perspective on life.

The Living Room Makeover

We still have a lot to do, but we have finished the painting in the living room and hallway.  We decided to use Glidden's Water Chestnut on the walls and white on the trim, ceiling, doors and baseboards.  It's not a dramatic change, but I think it makes the room look much warmer.  Here are the before pictures.

Keep in mind that we are going to remove some more furniture, add new pillows, and put some new things on the wall, but here is the finished product. I don't have the decorating gene so I'm nervous about putting these pictures up, but I'm proud of what we've done so far.

Buy a Soldier a Cup of Coffee

For $2.00 per cup, you can provide a soldier who is overseas with a cup of Joe.

http://www.greenbeanscoffee.com/coj/

It seems like the least we can do.

I don't have experience with this organization, so I can't vouch for them.  However, I know people who have contributed with no problems and they usually get a nice thank you note from the recipient.  I'm planning to do this later today.

Let's remember the reason for the holiday.  ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL.

Living Room - Before Pictures

Well, I think my husband and I decided on Water Chestnut for the walls (see previous post), and ivory or white for the ceiling and trim.

Here are the before pictures of our living/dining room.  It looks cluttered because there's a lot of furniture, but I think we'll be moving at least one piece out.  We'll also be decluttering the walls.  The cat trees are an eyesore, I know, but my three cats love them and can sit on them and look out the large window.  So they stay, unfortunately.

I hate the low ceilings, but hopefully painting the walls a darker color and leaving the ceiling white will add the illusion of height.

We'll be starting the painting on Friday, and I'll post "After" pictures!  I'm so excited....!

Painting My Living Room

After several years of a stark white living room, we are finally going to paint it, and the hallway that runs off of it, over Memorial Day weekend.  Yay!

The first dilemma, of course, is what color to paint?  I want something neutral because we have some reds and browns in the room (furniture and a large area rug).  There's a brown leather couch, a red and gold area rug, some oak furniture, and our floor is a light maple.  Nothing really matches but I don't like matchy-matchy stuff anyway.  I want to introduce one or two more colors after we paint, or maybe just bring in more red since I love to decorate with red.

I'm leaning towards these two:

Water Chestnut and Soft Sage

I probably have a preference for the Water Chestnut.  That's what a friend has in her house, and I think it looks so nice.  Well, anything will be better than the white we have now, right?

I'd love to hear opinions or even other color options.

I'll post "before" pictures as soon as I can.