For Darla

This post is for Darla.  She’s having a bedroom dilema.. Much like the kind I face.  I know you are out there.. us gals (yep, great English there Cara!) who buy something we love, then get tired of it.  I referred to this dilema I have in this post… Ode to the Nester.  I have this quilt, I bought it in 2001.. I love it, but I’m soooooo tired of looking at it every single day!  I want a room that is Robin’s Egg Blue and Chocolate brown, with gorgeous window treatments, and of course, a beautiful plate arrangement.. lets just say, I want to move into The Nester’s Bedroom!  Dang, that’s alota linking!

 Anywhooooo… Here is a picture of what I did to get me through the blah’s.. at least for the summer.  And, I still haven’t found anything that would make a good window treatment.. still have the sheers, still light in my room till 10:00pm..

You will notice, the bedskirt is cream, the down comforter is white.. I know this.. but at this moment.. its working for me.  The tag is even on the down comforter even.. oh well!  As the Nester Says.. “it doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful”  Right??!!!  And the Body pillowcase doesn’t match.. it’s okay, I can’t find another one in another color.  Its seafoam, the rest is sage/olive.  BUT!  I did get that big long shelf painted black!!  Good on me!

plates..

Here is the wall beside my TV Cabinet in my Bedroom.  I like the colored plates here, but I’m on the hunt for something to put there in place of the white platter.  I love the platter, just not in this arrangement.   I wish I could find another round, sage green and brown plate.. lol!

Here’s a close-up~ 

 

Here’s what I have in the kitchen, above the slider (I still loathe the slider.. lol)  I wish I could take down the blinds and do a mis-treatment, but housing won’t allow it.. and I’m lazy!

Not a great picture.. but I had to stand on the other side of the kitchen table to get all of the plates in the frame.. but, you get the idea. 

  I have a few white platters and plates that I want to hang somewhere else.. I just can’t find the spot where I want them.. I’m thinking of doing something on the wall at the end of the hallway to our bedrooms.  White plates on a small white wall?  What do you think? 

 Maybe a red plate in the middle?  I have red plates in my china cabinet, and there are two extra ones. Give me feedback, tell me what you think???  Maybe search out some colored plates?  Please!  This is getting crazy.. I’m becoming obsessed!!!!

I did it!

I finally hung some of the plates I bought on the wall.. whoopie!  I’m loving the look, and now I have everyone I know on the hunt for white plates with cool edging..  since my next house won’t have all white walls,  I’m following The Nester and seeing that all white plates match!

Here are the ones from my bedroom.. not white, but sage and brown.. I’m not liking the platter on top with this arrangement.. I need to find something else.. hmmm….  Well… wordpress isn’t liking me today.. and this was the whole purpose of my post.. damnit!  I will come back later on and post the pictures.. argh!!!!!!

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Just wanted to say..

I’m outa my pajamas~  LOL!  I had my pity party.. and now I’m done.  I’ve even cleaned the kitchen a bit, and started the laundry~!! 

I finally got my wheelbarrow planted yesterday~  Thanks to Rite Aid who had ALL of their flowers marked down at 75% off!  Yeah!  I bought a bunch of stuff, and spent only $16.00.  The Gerbera daisies were $1.25!!!  They do need a little TLC, but hopefully they will start looking a bit better soon~!  I’m just excited to  have something in there..

I haven’t done much with the plates that I bought last week.. I need to get some more plate holders.. some that will hold small plates.  I see a trip to our local ACE Hardware today.. Its my favorite store in town.  They have a bit of everything in there!  And since it’s locally owned, I like to go there before I go to Home Depot.  We have a couple of thrift stores here in town too.. I may hit them and look for some more plates.. I’m on a rampage!

I did get out yesterday to buy groceries.. no sence in eating crappy just cuz the Hubs is gone!  Last night I grilled Hamburgers for the kids and I.  I sauteed some mushrooms and melted blue cheese on mine.. YUM!  Tonight the kids are making Spaghetti.. I’m making the meatballs for them.. but this is the meal that they chose to cook!

  I found this blog yesterday.. Cherry Hill Cottage  and spent my whole evening going through it~  LOTS of eye candy.  She has a link to a website to buy these plates.. (I can’t get the image to post.. follow the link if you want to see them)

http://www.homealamode.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=437

they are a bit out of my price range.. but I’m thinking about asking for them for my birthday~  I just can’t decide if I want black with white dots, or white with black..  hmmmmm…  They would look sooo cute with the new Rooster plates! 

 Well.. I’m of to shower and get on with the day~!! 

Happy Saturday My Friends!

Yeah..

Its 2:45 pm, and I.. yes I, am still in my pajamas.  Who cares??  Not me.. My hubs is outa town.. who do I need to glam up for??  LOL!  Seriously.. I’ve watered the whole yard in my pajamas.  Now I’m seriously giving us Navy wives a bad name.  I don’t care.  My house, still a mess!  I don’t care..  Laundry, piling up by the day… I don’t care.  Do you see a pattern here?  I’m taking the day off.  Mom’s on strike.  I know you alllll have days like this.. I’m having mine today.  I can thank my sister.. she’s seriously making me crazy.  My Dad called this morning and one of her friends had dropped off the three little ones (aged 3, 2, and 1) at 5:30 yesterday morning.  The friend had been babysitting them since the night before, but had to go to work.  Since no one can find my sister, she took them to my Dad and Step-mom.  Guess what, no one can find her still.  Ugh.. .. my kids are fed, cleaned and home.. with their Mother, the way they always have been.  Her kids, babies really, aren’t, and it makes me want to drive down to where they live and take them.  I can’t.  And that’s the hardest part.  I feel hopeless up here.. so far away, and all these kids need is normal.  They’ve never had it.. and it depresses me to no end. 

  Thats all..  I’m gonna go watch a movie with my clean, fed kids who are home with me.. and give them extra love today~

Old phone.. new found fun!

I didn’t have a clue how an old rotary dial phone would delight my daughter so much!  Hubs “inherited” his Grandmother’s old rotary dial phone.  You know the one..  Here she is in her room, chatting away.. with no one.  Its not plugged in, she thinks it’s the COOLEST thing in the world.  Who knew!  We had a phone like that.. and when we got touch tone, I was thrilled!  What’s old is new again I guess!!  LOL!  See that frame on her dresser?  It has broken glass, it’s a framed wall quilt that made it here all the way from my Mom without a scratch, one week in my childs presence, broken glass.. sigh~

   Yesterday was good.  We went to the Orthopedic Surgen.  He saw no breakage in my son’s thumb, but wants to see him again before football starts to get a good splint that he can use to play in.  So, August 13th we go back.  

  I did shop a “little” while we were off the island.  I scored a few things:

  Yes.. there are 3 boxes of dishes.. shhhhh!  You all know that I neeeeeeded more dishes, right?  They were 12.99 a box at ROSS.  They will go in my china cabinet for now.. then at the “next house” I will use them as my everyday.. unless I find something I like better!  I have grand ideas to mix and match them with my white dishes.. hmmmm…   I’m gonna paint those little birds white, or black.. and the picture frames are for the black and whites of my kids, a few monograms that I printed off the internet, and the square one, I’ll find something to put in there!  I found the birds and the white vases at the dollar store!  Gotta love the dollar store!

And 2 of these to hang with the round green plate in the picture above (it has brown around the rim) .. they will go in my bedroom or bathroom.. they are the perfect sage green!  I was on a plate search.. I wanna be like everyone else!!!

 

And this…  I saw some round red and sage green plates at the dollar store that I’m going to buy to hang with this rooster platter..   I’m going to hang them above my sliding glass door.. how I loathe the slider! 

Today, Ali and I are headed to the library.. I have a couple of books that are overdue, and need some new reading material~  Especially with the Hubs gone, I don’t get to sleep at night as fast as usual..

  I’ll post new pics when I finish up my projects!  Happy Hump Day!!

The weekend..

It’s over!  Yeah, no, not yeah.  The Hubs left today for 2 weeks of traning.. bummer!  I’m going to look at it as a great chance to get my house REALLLLY CLEAN!  It’s really gotten away from me lately, and I seem to be just treading water.  So, I started off this morning by vacuuming.. at least I tried.. then my vacuum stopped working.  Well, it still sucks, but the brush won’t turn.. ugh!  I have to go off Island tomorrow to take Jojo to the Dr. (he broke his thumb playing ball.  He’s seeing a Specialist, they are afraid its right on the growth plate)  And their is a repair store in the town where we are going.. from what I’ve read on the internet, it should be fixable.  Good thing!  It’s only a year old!  So, I went next store and borrowed my neighbor’s Dyson.  Really nice!  She is out of town and let me use her carpet cleaner this week, so now I’m using both.  Just don’t let me break anything on either one!  I have to say though, her Dyson is nice, but I love my Bissell.  It’s the pet hair remover with the turbo brush.. I love the turbo brush.. it works sooooo well on the couch!  So, I’m happy that I didn’t spend the $400.00 + on the Dyson.. I got my Bissell on sale for $169.00. 

  Anywhoo.. so, after I finish vacuuming I’m going to run the steam cleaner in the living room.  Which means my children need to find something to do..  on second though, I think I’ll wait till this evening and do it before I go to bed.  That way I can have Jojo help me move the couch.  Why the Navy decided it was a good idea to put cream colored “shag-type” carpet in Navy housing is beyond me.  I do like it, it looks nice with my furniture.. but it is hell when you have two kids, two dogs, and one messy Hubs!!  So.. Tomorrow I will have clean carpet in the living room and hall.. maybe my bedroom tomorrow evening.. it has a few stains from the dog getting sick last winter that never truely came out, yuck!  I did scrub them, its just that when you scrub one area, it tends to get dirty.. dumb dumb dumb~!!

  Then, over the weekend, I’m hoping to get into the backyard and get that gigantic china cabinet I posted about a few months ago painted.  I’m going to move it into my MESSY laundry room to use as a pantry.  I will have to do some moving around in there.. but we measured, and it will fit perfectly, plus give me some much needed storage space.  I also am on the hunt for a table/writing desk for my living room.  I don’t have a lot of money, but the desk we have now is falling apart, and its UGHLY!   Yep, I spelled that wrong, but that is the way I feel every single time I look at it.  Maybe I’ll dig out that free hutch that I had to hide in the garage (yep, it was found within an hour or two) in the spring.. if I can find a table or desk that it would fit on, I would love to use it.. since it’s on the verge of being thrown out by the Hubs when he gets home.. its SOOOO in the way!!!

  Other than that.. nothing, absolutely nothing.. I plan on staying up late, catching up with the shows I like, sleeping in a bit.. and making it through the next two weeks with a little bit of my sanity!  Can you tell my kids are BORED???  Why is it that they think I need to entertain them???

  Enough Rambling.. Happy Monday everyone!!!

another meme

Outside my Window...it’sBeautiful!!!  The sun is out, the sky is blue.. and it’s nice and warm!

I am thinking… about what to cook for dinner..hmmmmmmm

I am thankful for…the ability to let go

From the kitchen... a cook kitchen to bake some muffins later

I am creating…  a lot of laundry!

I am going…nowhere today.. Thank goodness!

I am wearing… jeans and a t-shirt

I am reading… The Shell Seekers by Rosemunde Pilcher

I am hoping…to get that laundry caught up and take apart my vacuum.. its not working well

I am hearing…the wonderful sound of quiet!

Around the house…the kids are gone out to play, the dogs are napping, and it’s nice and peacefull!

One of my favorite things…talking out on the back patio in the evenings with my Hubs

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week…Get Hubs organized for him to leave next week!

What else we’ve been up to..

Here are some assorted pictures.. mostly from a day at Deception Pass Beach.  I wanted some good candid pictures of the kids.. I’m going  to blow a few of them up in Black and White and frame them for my living room.  Hopefully I can get that done before the end of summer!!  

.. A couple of pictures of the Hubs.. He went out crabbing last Thursday morning.. he caught two HUGE crabs!  So of course we cooked them and ate them for lunch!  Don’t mind my messy kitchen!

Then, of course, both my kids Graduated.  Ali from 5th grade and Jojo from 8th.

Mrs. Anderson and the 3 Musketeers!

Jojo and his best friend

 

So.. that gives you a glimpse of what’s been going on around here.. at least the fun stuff!!!

Pictures of my flowers…

It seems like the only thing I’ve been REALLY able to keep up with is my flower beds.  It seems to be the one thing that I can do without even thinking about anything stressful.  Hmmm.. maybe a future career.. I doubt it, but hey, at least I can enjoy the benefits of my work!

Coming up the driveway, looking at Jojo’s bedroom in the front.

Here is the complete front of the house.. see how big my flowers are getting.. not bad for the 1.00 a piece 4 packs!   Ali and her friend painted the little blue birdhouse, and then the Hubs screwed it onto the piece of driftwood. 

This is the side of the garage.. notice the lovely metal Bumper leaning against it.. Thanks Hubs!  Don’tcha just love it w hen they store their stuff wherever it’s handy for them?

Like my “new” wheelbarrow?  I got it from Freecycle.. Next week (payday) I’m gonna fill it up with flowers!  Some things don’t have blooms yet.. I don’t think they are getting enough sun.. maybe some moving around is in store for this week!

This is one of the hanging baskets I got for Mother’s Day.  They are fuchsias.  The hummingbirds LOVE them!!

 

That’s my garden tour.. Nothing like Donna Lynns!  Her garden is GORGEOUS!!  Check it out~