My Sad, Lonely, Little Blog

As you can see, it has been a while since I have visited this little corner of my world...

I have been seduced by the ease and convenience of Facebook : (
I need to figure out how to link "Mark of Humility" to my Facebook page, but at the moment,
our computer is in its last throes of death...
It won't even let me go back and "edit" what i am doing right now.

It has been a crazy year...
Scooter was diagnosed with Asthma,
Tilly was hospitalized & diagnosed with Type I Diabetes,
Snorkie ended Thanksgiving in the ER with a mild concussion...

We are getting through it all with the support of family, friends and most of all Faith!

Wishing everyone a Blessed Advent!

and we will see if I can spen some more time in my lovely little Blog world this year....



A slow, lazy, yucky sort of day...

My sweet little guy is feeling awful today...

fever, slight cough, runny nose, nausea...

Daddy is away on business and not feeling very well either.

Down sort of day...

Watching movies and finally nibbling on some food...

Say a prayer for a quick recovery for both of my guys, please.

Thanks : )

My Favorite Renovation: The Girls' Room

When we first bought this house in 2005

The "medium" sized bedroom

was set up for the girls to share.

It was already pink....

Very Bright PINK...

and we had been given a very solid bedroom set for them to use.

(having lost most of our furniture in flood #2)

I have never been terribly fond of a "Pecan" finish...

and the furniture was a little dated...

In the Summer of 2007,

I finally got busy re-doing their room.

Out went the wall shelves, the bright pink and the pecan finish...

IN came a peg rail, custom built display boxes for their

 porcelain dolls, an over the window shelf/ curtain rod

White painted "cottage-y" furniture and a

custom Canopy that didn't interfere with the ceiling fan!

Oh, and custom painted lamp shades with Flower Fairies on them

to put on the custom made/ painted lamps in the room : )

(New hardware for the furniture, too)

The canopy is made from @ 7 yards of light yellow chiffon that

I found at "W"mart for $1.00/ yard   : )

I used screw in supports and screwed cup hooks into them,

then used small cafe rods to hang the canopy from the cup hooks.

Easy up, easy down to wash, dry and rehang : )

The ceiling and top of the wall are periwinkle.

The walls a lovely rose with muted texture

(can't see in the texture ery well in the photos).

We made copies of Flower Fairies from a book we owned

on good matte photo paper and attached them to the

painted furniture using contact paper.

We framed others in clip frames and hung them from the pegs.

I had found the chenille bedspread at a thrift store...

used yellow and green bath mats as rugs (they don't slip)

This photo shows the colors to good advantage...

I never did take any "formal" photos in daylight.

The doll boxes were built to fit 18" x 24" white picture frames.

I glued the glass into the frame then hinged the frames to the

boxes and added magnetic latches (they are hinged at the top).

The lovely toy box with the blue cushion left the room rather quickly...

we needed two desks sooner than I thought we would : )

I LOVED this room!!!

Sadly,

The girls moved out of their joint room last saturday...

now the room belongs to the boys.

Time to buy paint!