Tuesday Ten

 

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I almost didn't make it with a post this week. I have been suite busy cleaning and planning school!

1. Piles and piles of recycling and trash being removed from my scrapbook room!2. Brother and sister working together on a project.  3. Little girls who love to dress up!4. Hot enough to fry an egg? We tried but despite temperatures over 100 the asphalt was still not hot enough. 5. Eating Rita's while we had house showings on Sunday. 6. Little girls who are starting Kindergarten!  7. More piles of things being organized. I am determined to finish the entire project despite having to clean it up for house showings and then getting it all out again! It sure makes the process take a lot longer! 8. Sneak peek at my new organization system. Love this and how functional it is! I hope to be done with the space later this week.    9. New school books!10. School planning, with erasable pens! I love these things, they make scheduling so easy and I can color code with them!

The Living Room

Kitty says welcome to the living room from her favorite spot. Right where she can keep an eye on everyone while napping in the sun streaming through the window. See, I'm here, someone pet me please. :)The gallery wall. I decided not to remove the family photos from the shelves as I couldn't come up with something quick and cheap to replace them with. Since they are not seen until you have walked through most of the first floor, I don't think they are a distraction and no one has said anything.This is our game cabinet, and the time-out chair. Although most of my children are getting to big to fit in it. :) I used an old ironing board behind the sofa to pull it off the wall, and to keep little fingers from pulling things off the shelves.  Old suitcases form a side table. This table is another one of my unfinished projects. It is useful incomplete so it gets to stay. The two bibles were my grandparents. This little corner will remain unfinished. I had visions of a large stuffed chair, but I never found the perfect one. I also took down all the window treatments in preparation of replacing them and that's when we decided to sell.Looking back toward the kitchen and the door to the laundry room and garage.

The Kitchen

This is the view looking out of the dining room into the hall. I thought this shot gave a good idea of how the kitchen is tucked behind the corner. This is one of my favorite aspects of this house. you can not see the kitchen from the front door! All the mess is in the more private spaces. :)

Looking into the Kitchen from the dining room.

The breakfast nook.

Another view looking back towards the hall way.

This apple crate shelf unit holds my i-pod, cookbooks and some enamel ware.

A broom is not just functional it can be beautiful too!

The working area of the kitchen.

The cooking area. I am left handed so this works great for me.

Looking into the kitchen from the living room.  

Pony Party!

My Fiona turned seven on Saturday. Seven! Sometimes I have a hard time believing that! This year she wanted a horse party as she is interested in all things related to horses. So I found this cake pan from Wilton and we picked out the colors she would like. For the centerpiece I just used my boots and some flowers. Simple and easy since we had two house showings the day before the party.Thank-you Omi for my Rescue set! Getting ready to blow out the candles. A new doll with hair that she promptly named Elizabeth.Happy Birthday Ladybug!

Tuesday Ten

 

1. A special dinner to celebrate my husband's birthday. lamb chops, roasted potatoes, green beans, and carrot cake.

2. Starting on the last organizing project in the house. Hello scrapbook room, it is finally your turn. 3. Cleaning out the truck, as we seem to live in it when we have lots of house showings. 4. Pumpkin muffins for breakfast to make the house smell good for a prospective buyer. 5. Closing the bridge into town, not a big deal unless you commute to work, like my husband. He now adds 10 to 20 minutes to his hour and a half of driving each way. 6. A pony party for my favorite 7 year old! 7. Water gun fights to cool off.8. Evening runs through the sprinkler to cool off. 9. Lego stories to pass hot afternoons. Are you noticing a trend? It's been hot here and getting hotter as the week goes by. 10. Just when you think you got rid of everything you could... There is always more!

The Dining room

Welcome to the dining room.I love the old dough bowl filled with Japanese fishing lures and other decorative balls.  

Don't you love the vacuum in the background? I was getting ready for a showing when I took these photos. I didn't even notice the vacuum until I started writing this post.   I added the botanical prints at the beginning of the year. I decided that having them hung up and finished would be easier to move that stored away in various places in the basement. I love the finished look they give to the space.   Remember this? I bought it back in January of 2010.  It now looks like this. I finished painting and distressing in back in July last year. I am still waiting to find something to line the back with before I call it complete. I love all the storage it created!My goal is to find a lovely farm table that I wouldn't have to keep covered all the time. This table is a very large cherry gate leg table. The top is damaged and the legs make it difficult to sit around, but it works and until I find the perfect table it stays.

My mother made the tablecloth for me years ago. The table is so long and so wide that no one makes a covering to fit. To give you an idea the dough bowl in the middle of the table is 28 inches long and 16 inches wide.  So we always have room for company!