Shout Out #3

I have always wanted to try my hand at flipping a house.

Finding that hidden pearl wrapped in a ugly shell.

I don't see this dream coming true any time soon,

but have run across the next best thing!

Let me introduce you to

Michelle

Chan

Sarah &

Austin

over at House Changers!

This family of four is has not only taken on a flip,

they are also doing a step by step blog about their experience!

Here is what they started with...

The outside has gone from...

to this...

finally to this...

And that's just the outside!

Here is a peek at the kitchen before...

to this...

and in current process...

and they haven't posted the final product yet!

They have done almost everything themselves,

including making these wonderful cabinets!

see here

If you have ever wanted to flip a house,

or just watch someone else try it,

I highly suggest a visit to Michelle's site

at House Changers!

Art Work Friday

Happy Friday!

Thank you for visiting with me today.

With our day off on Monday, I have been scrambling the

rest of the week to catch up with life!

Man in Park (oil painting)

If you have a piece of original art you would like to share

please link below!

Our Day Off

What does homemade ice cream, cows, mini golf, hiking

and window shopping have in common?

Our Day Off!

Last Friday was the end of the trimester for the kids,

resulting in a teacher's work day today!

With the kids at home and a rare 50+ degree March day,

we decided to get out of dodge and visit someplace

we've never been!

I'm not sure if I mentioned this before,

but our family LOVES ice cream.

Several years ago I had heard about Young's Dairy

about 40 minutes north of us in a place called

Yellow Springs.

We will travel just about any distance for good ice cream!

And, can you believe that I forgot to pull out the camera to take

a picture of our delightfully yummy, rich, ginormous ice cream cones!

We'll get one next time!

Now, Young's is a working dairy farm, so that means they have

on site, up close and personal, one of

my most favorite animals of all times...

Baby Cows!

Obviously, not one of Madison's most favorite animals!

Madison, preferred the mommy goat with her nursing

little ones!

Madison took this photo of her favorite baby goat!

It was feeding time for the dairy cow, who had just been

brought in to eat at their troughs.

 Tweens and teens need to burn off energy

so they climbed on tires and played mini golf!

Even with 50 degrees we still have that white stuff on the ground!

We left the dairy to continue our adventure to a local state park.

John Bryan State Park!

We found a nice place to park the car headed down a trail.

The kids enjoyed hiking in the "snow".

We found...

A large square stone foundation...

A fantastic fallen tree, that was great for bouncing...

Beautiful moss...

and this nut that reminded me

of Edvard's Munch's "The Scream".

 We hiked as far as my none hiking shoes could go.

Off to the nearby artsy town of Yellow Springs...

Zac checked out the interactive art piece

housed in an old telephone booth.

We enjoyed the knitted and felted graffiti "littering"

the street signs, trees and benches...

Thanks for hanging with us on our day off!

Sand Art Reposting

Happy Monday!

Today I am revisiting a post from back in September

I called Sand Art.

These are  Mom's sands that she has collected

from her trips both in the United States and around the world.

To view this posting click here!

Art Work Friday

Happy Friday!

Welcome to Art Work Friday!

I want to show you a photo that has

recently surfaced on my Face book home page.

Many comments were being tossed back and

forth among the those in the photo.

When was this taken?

What were we doing?

Where were we at?

We don't look like we've aged a bit!

You get the idea....

Here is the photo...

 Now, I could answer these questions...

This was the night of my Birthday.

These are my wonderful college friends.

This was in the ground floor of my dormitory.

And no we haven't aged a bit!

But another reason I knew this picture was

because all those many years ago

I recorded the same photo in watercolor!

Now before you get onto to me...

I left it unfinished on purpose.

( I was a suffering perfectionist,

always afraid to finish projects

for fear I'd mess up!)

I titled the work "Us".

I've introduced you to Elyce(far right) and Ken(bandanna back).

I think you can tell it's me at the bottom!

Wayne (my hubby) is second from the right!

Thank you for all those sharing you work today!

I am inspired by both your visits and your posts!

Lilac Tea

Welcome to Tablescape Thursday!

Thank you to Susan at Between Naps on the Porch

for hosting us each week.

Today I decided to share a tablescape

I created for a ladies' tea

several years ago.

For this tea our church rented a local

reception hall and asked each

hostess to provide china, stemware,

flatware and a center piece.

My Table

Mom so graciously provided the lilac's

from her stunning bush.

I used a family set of china

with an acorn motif.

Since it is trimmed in silver

we carried the silver theme

throughout the entire table.

From using a silver coffee pot for a vase...

...to the silver rimmed stemware...

to the silver water pitcher!

The small gift consisted of a variety of tea bags

wrapped in a matchbook style!

I apologize about the lack of photos...

This was well before my days of blogging,

even before I own anything beyond a 36mm.

Thankfully, Mom had beaten me to the digital age

 and took three fabulous photos for me.

For the close up photo's I simply cropped

the larger photo to try and give you

a better idea of the details!

As creative as I tried to be...

blowing them up any larger will further

distort the pixels!

Thank you for joining me today.

Please join me tomorrow for Art work Friday.

Shout Out #2

I started and finished a project today!

See my sweater pillow below!

Wait to you check out the blogger who inspired me!

Allow me to introduce you to Wendy at

Relatively Unique.

Wendy has such a wonderful eye for thrift store finds.

She paid just $6.00 for this dreamy iron stone pitcher.

See Here...

Wendy creatively transformed this...

into ...

this!  See Here...

Looks like it came straight from the Pottery Barn!

And if you want to see how I made my little project today..

(my sweater pillow)

See my inspiration...

Wendy's Pillows! 

She has a fantastic tutorial here...!

Another interesting fact about Wendy...

She is married to a chef, Tony.

Lucky Wendy!

Tony is so gracious each week to share some of his

amazing recipes....

From Petite Chocolate Espresso Gan aches

see here..

to

mouth watering paninis!

See Here...

One last look at one of Wendy's splendid creations!

I am sure you would enjoy your visit at Relatively Unique!

Wendy (& Tony), thank you for inspiring me each week!