New Blog Look!
You like??? I know I know....it's harder to read and makes the pictures look funky. But I just loved the background picture so much, I figured I'll leave it for awhile. Then I'll change it back. :O)
I'm in love!
With our newest addition to our family....a new table.
Saturday as Arissa and I were going shopping, we passes by a yard sale on our street and my eyes were drawn to this table. A new kitchen table has been on my list of "things we so need but so can't afford" for a long time. The only kitchen table we've ever had was my parents when they were first married...that's an old table. The chairs were upholstered and were just a mess, ripped and ugly, and.....brown and orange (they were probably really stylish when my parents got them). The wobbled, we had to prop the table itself up w/ a book under one leg. It only sat 4 people, which obviously is a problem considering our family of 5!
So anyway we drove past the yard sale and I saw the table...it was exactly what I had been thinking about when I imagined what kind of table I'd like to buy. It looked kind of country, shabby chic, which I loved. And I counted 1, 2, 3,4, 5 chairs! I drove right by though because I knew I wouldn't be able to afford it.
On our way back from the mall, it was still there. I sped into our driveway and told Jesse just go look at it! Just go see what it's like and ask the lady how much. So he did, and he came back and said it was really nice.....that sealed the deal because before when I've seen things I wanted at yard sales, he just dismissed it completely. I had to borrow money from my Grandma to pay for it, we had to have a friend pick it up and bring it home. But now it's there and everytime I walk into the kitchen I smile because my kitchen actually looks how I would like it to. It's so great!
It has a nice shiny top so spills wipe up easy and it gleams in the sunlight. It came with two leaves, and Jesse wanted to put both of them in right away. I thought it was too big, but we're trying it out. It's just so perfect because it CAN fit 6, maybe even 8 people if need be. And maybe we WILL have some people over for dinner now that I'm not embarrassed to sit at my own table!
And here's our first meal at the new table....minus the family photographer (me!):
Oo la la
This is a new book I just got...I started reading it last night and could NOT put it down.
It's a huge book, the pictures are so beautiful. It makes me want to take next month's rent money and use it to buy a one way ticket to France. It's not just about Paris like lots of other books, but it's about this lady who bought a farmhouse in the south of France and moved her whole family there to renovate it. I just love it.
Everything looks better framed:
Of course the girls don't need any help looking pretty but....
I recently learned how to use "brushes" in photoshop and have downloaded several swirley ones. I love them. This picture was already photoshopped and was pretty nice on it's own, but then I added the frame and it's just beautiful!!
Mallory Boo
I miss this age....this was before she could shout "I don't like you, doh-doh!!!!" to me.
bobiah and barney
Barney used to be her constant companion....now it's just her blankey (also barely visible in the top right hand corner of this picture).
How cute is this? The title of it ("I surrender") makes it even cuter.
So something I was thinking about today:
Balancing my checkbook.
Never done it. Not EVER. So I live in a constant cycle of trying to remember my balance and what I've spent, along w/ checking online every 5 minutes to see if anything pops up that I've forgotten. Not only does it make it pretty hard to manage my money, but it also makes me a little bit insane.
WHY do I spend and never write down the transactions?
Because I feel uncomfortable making the person in line behind me wait an extra minute while I write it down. I know, I could do it after I leave the store, but I tried that before and that never worked either, I need to write it down while I have my checkbook open in the store. But I always feel like I need to rush out of there so that it doesn't inconvenience the people behind me. And today I was just thinking: that's pretty dumb.
Why do I care so much about where that person has to be or has to go, that I need to rush to get out of their way?
So I apologize to anyone who might end up behind me in line any time soon, but darn it i'm going to record every transaction I make for every store I go into.....so I can better manage the $5 I have left over for myself every paycheck. :o)
So something I was thinking about today:
Balancing my checkbook.
Never done it. Not EVER. So I live in a constant cycle of trying to remember my balance and what I've spent, along w/ checking online every 5 minutes to see if anything pops up that I've forgotten. Not only does it make it pretty hard to manage my money, but it also makes me a little bit insane.
WHY do I spend and never write down the transactions?
Because I feel uncomfortable making the person in line behind me wait an extra minute while I write it down. I know, I could do it after I leave the store, but I tried that before and that never worked either, I need to write it down while I have my checkbook open in the store. But I always feel like I need to rush out of there so that it doesn't inconvenience the people behind me. And today I was just thinking: that's pretty dumb.
Why do I care so much about where that person has to be or has to go, that I need to rush to get out of their way?
So I apologize to anyone who might end up behind me in line any time soon, but darn it i'm going to record every transaction I make for every store I go into.....so I can better manage the $5 I have left over for myself every paycheck. :o)
LOVE LOVE LOVE
My next craft undertaking: hand embroidery. So today (instead of working....shhhh.....) I'm browsing all the many ideas and patterns and projects on the web. I love the old-fashioned, heriloom, sort of childlike look of it. And it seems to me that for the most part, it must be easier than counted cross stitch.
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