A few days ago I was excited to learn that I had received my very first bog award from T. Bird over at Nestled in Rosenberg! I was definitely shocked and oh-so-flattered that someone would think enough of my little blog here to honor me out of all the wonderful and inspiring blogs out there in blogland.

Did I just say blogland?

Yep, pretty sure I did.

:)

Anywayyyyy…. T. Bird is great and she has an incredibly inspiring blog….if you haven’t already, then I highly encourage you to go check her out. She did a fabulous makeover on her Craigslst hutch and I almost died when I read her tutorial for the antique spoons she laid on top of some burlap and hung in a small distressed window frame! Thanks so much for thinking of me T.bird… I am definitely honored!

here’s my award…. isn’t she pretty?

As the much-honored recipient that I am, I ‘ll play by the rules and list seven random things about myself….

1. When I am feeling really bad, and I mean reallyyyyy naughty, I like to pour heavy cream over my Death By Chocolate ice cream, there by insuring that I will almost certainly live up to it’s name.

2. Every day (except on weekends) I do a load of laundry from start to finish. In fact, the first thing that I do pretty much every morning is put a load of laundry in the wash…. how boring is that?

3. We planted onions in our little “garden” out back and I am pretty sure they are dying…. perhaps it would be a good idea to look up how to take care of them? hmmmm?

4. I am absolutely, 100% head-over-heals in love with my God, my husband, and my sweet baby girl. Sometimes I think my heart may burst with all that love. But at least Death By Love would be a better way to go than the Death By Chocolate option (which, come to think of it, wouldn’t be so bad) in number 1….

5. I was sooooo excited when I discovered blogland (there it is again). All of a sudden there was an entire world at my finger tips that had a love and passion for the same things that I did. Being a woman, a wife, and a mother are such beautiful and fulfilling vocations and I love the opportunity for creativity that they bring. All of you wonderful women out there have been such amazing inspirations to me and I am excited to get to know one another better and to learn from all of you!

6. We have two dogs in this wonderful bungalow of ours, Layla and Bowser. We got them while we were still in college and they are both 100% mutt and both 100% fabulous. It really is quite amazing how well behaved they are and how well they listen and we actually get compliments on it all the time. They follow me around all day long and you can always find them lying at my feet… whether I am nursing on the couch, switching the laundry, or making dinner in the kitchen.

7. I finally put aside that irrational fear of mine and clipped some Hydrangea to bring inside the house. I’m so glad that I did. I don’t think we’ll go a day without fresh flowers in our house for the rest of the summer!

Oh, and since we hung the chandelier redo we had an extra ceiling fan lying around, which we hung in our dining-room-turned-living-room this past holiday weekend. When we first moved into our house the layout was incredibly awkward. It made so much more sense when we switched some rooms around and turned our very over-sized dining room into our living room…. our house has a great flow now because of it. It’s not the most beautiful fan in the entire world… but it certainly beats the awkward dining room style chandelier we had hanging in there before. And the fact that it was free and that we no longer need to worry about guests banging their head on a wrought iron light fixture are definite bonuses!

And no… hanging it did not go near as smoothly as hanging the chandelier did (think more like 2 hrs and a few trips into the attic later).

almost forgot to take the before.

after.

Not the most fabulous project we’ve ever completed, but it definitely makes the room feel more like the living room it is, and it will be great for these hot Arkansas summers until we can switch it out for something more updated sometime down the road!

Oh and, for everyone’s sake, please divert your attention from the hideous leather couch (I’m dying for a white slip-covered sectional) and pillow (um, I need some Etsy in my life…. please?) in the above picture, and direct it instead to the incredibly detailed, eight inch thick crown molding that we have in this room and throughout our entire house.

Thank You.

;)

Anywayyyy….. I now have the privilege of passing this lovely award on to you, some of my fellow bloggers! Here are my picks for 15 other blogs that are must-haves on your reader! I tried to pick blogs that you may not know yet, so you should definitely check them out…. These ladies are awesome!

Joy Frameworks

Finding Great Joy

Along for the Ride

Extraordinary Love

EasyPeasy Grandma

A Moment Cherished

Gillar Girl

The Mannequin Memoirs

Decorica

Loft and Cottage

Chattafabulous

Frugal Fabulous Design

Less than Perfect Life of Bliss

Raggy Girl Vintage

Frugal with a Flourish

I am making a low-fat version of the Pioneer Woman’s Chicken Spaghetti for dinner tonight and have a few more chores to finish up before the weekend, but keep your eye out on Monday for a post that has been waiting on my dashboard for awhile now!

God Bless!

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