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I'm playing around with different blog backgrounds.
I forgot I had that Holstein Countryfolk Keepsakes logo.
This is what happens when I drink coffee after 7pm.
((giggle))
Don't be surprised if the background changes yet again.
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For some reason, my blog background graphic has disappeared.
I hope nothing happened to the sweet gal who hosts it.
If it doesn't reappear I will have to find another background.
But for the moment it has to be put on hold because I am getting ready for some company!
Tomorrow I will meet in person, some very dear internet friends for the first time!!
YAY!!!
I'll be sure to share photos.
Have a terrific weekend, all!!!
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but tough people do."
~Robert Schuller
Evil thrives on fear.
Be strong.
Not fearful.
Prayers to all in Boston.
♥
My hubs only request was to have them long enough to hit the top of the shutters for privacy issues. I prefer them shorter but I do have to agree with him.
I even have enough fabric left over to make a few throw pillows. How I love happy accidents!
It's supposed to hit 60 degrees this week!!!
YIPPEE!!!!
If I knew how to do a cartwheel...
I would do one right now!!
Wishing everyone a fantastic and productive week!!
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it made you laugh uncontrollably?
I did today.
Ready????
Someone penciled eyebrows on their chihuahua and the caption read:
"Draw eyebrows on your dog and laugh until his next bath."
Man, there's nothing like a good belly laugh!
You know what else? He kind of looks like one of my aunts. But you didn't hear that from me.
((giggle))
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It's April 2nd and we woke up to...
Over the weekend we were so happy to see the snow had finally melted.
Not anymore. Sigh.
It's funny how the good Lord above works.
Yesterday I felt the need to paint a small sign to hang out on our post by the road for passersby.
Looks like today I'll need to take my own advice.
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Happy, snowy icky poo-poo Tuesday.
17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was Jesus Of Nazareth The King Of The Jews.
20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
John 19:17-37
Wishing you and your family a blessed Easter weekend.
♥
Whether it was 200+ years ago or the present, that expression holds true.
Yesterday I spent a good portion of the day searching the internet for the perfect daybed set. Unfortunately, there is no such thing. Unless of course you count the set I found for $495.00.
Ummmm. I don't think so.
Thankfully, I've always been an old soul at heart. Even when I was young. Back in the 80's when everyone was furnishing their homes with mauve and gray or peach and blue; for my bedroom, I went with the basics like ercu. Although my nose would grow like Pinocchio if I didn't fess up to the fact that I had mauve carpeting in my first apartment, by choice. Shhhh.... but no one has to know that.
Since I am my mother's daughter, I save everything. That includes pretty croqueted bedding I bought at either Spiegel's or JC Penney's back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Since it's not made for a daybed, I had to do a little pinning and tucking.
But I think it looks pretty darn good.
I will continue to search for the almost perfect daybed set. But until then, it suits me and this old farmhouse just fine.
♥
Happy Thursday!!
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How did I go from sketching out a Countryfolk Keepsakes rooster at my kitchen table to taking apart a daybed and dragging it into my keeping room? Like I typed... I am riddled with A.D.D.
But hear me out. I have been trying to make our small keeping room more comfortable. I love the room because it has a cozy wood stove in it. But hate it because there are three doorways on three walls and the fourth wall has a wood stove. So to set up furniture is next to impossible.
It looked great as a dining room, but it was useless. We never used it.
Back in the 1800's when this old farmhouse was built, I'm sure they didn't think, "How am I going to decorate this small room?" I know! The nerve!
So, I thought about buying a loveseat for the room. But a loveseat is just about the size of a daybed. Which leads me to why I dragged the daybed from one room to another.
I bought the daybed two years ago and it basically has turned into a gigantic dog bed for Gracie. Sorry, Gracie. Not anymore.
Now, I've got to paint the walls. Yet again. I've painted this room 5 times in 12 years. I want to go light to make the room appear larger. Like "Parchment" by Behr. It's an appropriate color since our Founding Fathers portraits are hanging on the walls.
But then again, I do love Benjamin Moore's "Swiss Coffee." Decisions. Decisions.
I also want to get new daybed bedding but man, there's not much of a choice as far as my taste goes. I would love a postage stamp quilt style but there is nothing like that out there.
I found this set I really like on the Bed Bath and Beyond website. But the colors are all wrong. Sigh. Maybe I need to drive over to the store and see it in person.
There are some pretty white daybed sets BUT:
2 dogs + 1 wood stove + anything white = NEVER
When my hubs came home yesterday and saw what I had done, he uttered his usual three words, "YOU ARE CRAZY!" I can't help but smile.
When I was little, I can remember my Daddy uttering those exact words to my Mama when he'd come home from work and she had changed rooms around or knocked down a wall. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Ya gotta love genetics!!
Feel free to throw in your two cents about paint color or bedding choices. I'm always open to suggestions. Except from my husband. ((giggle))
Oh and I'll also need to make new curtains... have the glider cushions reupholstered... Get a new braided rug...
Ummm. Does anyone have some "Money Tree" seeds I can plant????
Happy Wednesday!!
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