Showing posts with label Lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lists. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

These are not resolutions...

I have never been huge on New Years resolutions. Mostly because I never seem to be able to keep up with them. This year I decided to make a list of goals. Projects if you will. There are two separate lists: List #1 home improvement projects and list #2 sewing projects. I did also (as you can see on the right hand of the screen) set another reading goal for 2012, but upped the goal to 30 books, and for the record, I am going to try to read some more meaningful titles this year. Not that zombies, and vampires aren't meaningful...Let me rephrase...I am going to try to read some books that might enhance my family/spiritual/homeschooling lives. At least a couple more life enhancing books anyway...all work and no play blah blah blah.

On to the first list....the home improvement list...
  1. New dining room table (ala ana white)

  2. Giant Ruler for play room

  3. Paint the bell room (see laaaaarge color sample below)
  4. Paint kitchen cabinets (this is a biggie...wanna come help?)

  5. Paint boys room

  6. 5x5 shelves (also from ana white)

  7. Raised garden beds

  8. Play tent

  9. Branch coat

  10. Paint fridge (my plp just painted hers with chalk board paint!)

  11. Lace window screens

  12. Curtains for all of the living room/play room windows. This is no small feat. Right now I have full size quilts hanging on them and they are barely covering them. They are huge beastly windows and they need to be tamed.
I will share list #2 another day. If you have made it through this list...the boring picture less post...you should check out my seesters blog and see all the handmade goodies she made for Christmas this year.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

dreaming...

If a wish granting fairy were to swoop down right now to grant my wishes this is what would happen...


My family would be finishing up our modest home on the a little corner of Shamayim Hill. I would settle for a mobile home, it really doesn't need to be anything fancy. There would be a cute little fence around the yard with chickens and a kitchen garden. Our water would come from collection units with filters that clean it before it comes into our house. Solar panels would be added from time to time when finances allow.


I would be able to help my family with the gardens, chickens, goats, and cows...milking, making cheese, collecting eggs, and canning and canning and canning. I love to imagine my kids roaming around the land, tromping around the woods, and entertaining themselves with things that dont have to plug into a wall. Christian would stay home with us all day and design beautiful things and play with us. We would educate our kids together, and just LIVE.



Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Thrifting and wallowing...

I have been making myself comfortable at my go to thrift stores lately...probably a little too comfortable...I seem to have this problem with ever doing certain things (think spending, eating, internet, thinking, worrying, yep. basically everything). Anyway, Here are some of my favorite finds...


See those trays...the ones behind the owl? There are 4 of them and I am planning on letting the kids eat on them or play with magnets on them. They are so cute!


See this! I love the illustrations!! So good!


This is hanging next to the front door now!


I like saucers. A lot. I like to use them as coasters. A lot.


This quilt is so cute! It has some weak spots on it so I knew it wouldn't survive washings and the wear and tear of constant use, so my sewing room has some curtains!


Find of the century!! I paid .50 for this popcorn popper. I think it had maybe been used once maybe. This makes for a quick afternoon snack!!


Found this in Oklahoma on my visit early this month. I was so excited to find that it worked and then was completely bummed to find that it got a few bumps and bruises in my suitcase I checked on the way home.


mmmmmmmm...


Yet another Oklahoma find. I love it.


On another note...I was thinking the other day about how I need to adjust my thinking. I find myself wallowing around in the fact that my platonic life partner lives so far away...and with the recent move of Jacob and Rachel, my wallowing had become more and more frequent. I found myself thinking about Sydney the other day...hoping that she will find true loving friendship in her future. Thats when it hit me. I should be thankful for the deep bonds of friendship I have been blessed with. I shouldn't feel sorry for myself that these friends are so far away. I will be beyond happy if Sydney can have even an ounce of the friendship I have with these. Its so rare. So...here is to celebrating. I will wallow in my blessings, and be thankful for my friends.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Things to do while Vanessa is here...(aka another reason to make a list)

A few months back Vanessa and I decided that we at least needed to be able to visit each other on our birthdays. So, Vanessa is coming in on the 14th of July (her birthday is actually the 1st of July, but we decided we would like to be together for The Deathly Hollows Pt 2) and I am planning planning planning all the places we need to go/things we need to do while she is here...


Food Places
  • Breakfast with Grandma ChaCha
  • Chich-Fil-A
  • Shamayimhill Cafe

Stores



Activities


  • Benettis (at least 987698769876 trips, below is a picture of me and Vanessa 20 some odd years ago...again, stolen from her flickr)

Recipes