Home.

Hello there!  Sorry that I went missing last week.  I'd like to say that I was busy getting things done, but I honestly don't know where the week went.  I do know that I spent a lot of time trying to find a blog design (again) that I can stand for more than a day (again) and I'm still dissatisfied (again), but I am determined not to change a thing for at least a week (again).  

While playing around with my blog design, I decided to add a quote under my Blog title.  I thought it would be nice to find something about the concept of home.  Here are some examples of what you will find if you search the term "home" at www.brainyquote.com...

• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. --Mother Teresa
• Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. --Charles M. Schulz
• Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.  --Alfred Hitchcock
• Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.   --Phyllis Diller
• A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.   --Marlene Dietrich
• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.   --Twyla Tharp
• Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.   --Harper Lee
• At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.   --Ann Landers

I love being at home.
I really love being at home with my family.

But I'll be honest--I really, really love being at home alone. 
Ah, the freedom!  The puttering!   The not-having-to-help-someone-find-something-every-two-minutes!!!  Am I the only one who feels this way?

Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home and I am off to enjoy another cup of coffee, a few yards of fabric, and some silience.  I'll let you know how it goes!

Corners of Our Home.

Hello!  I'm having a bit of a freak-out over how cluttered my house is at the moment.  It feels like Star Wars figures and Legos are threatening to take over, but I can't actually blame all of the clutter on C.  I've got my share of stuff laying around and I'm not feeling terribly motivated to do anything about it.  Any minute now (er, 15 minutes before J is supposed to get home) we'll do some straightening.

I thought that I would take a few minutes to show some of the things that aren't driving me crazy right now and, of course, that just happens to take me to the room that gets used the least:  The Guest Room/Office/Craft Room.  Don't let its busy name full you--It's mostly just a storage space for all of the things that don't have a home elsewhere.  It's also the most "girly" space in our home.  So...without further ado:


A memento from our wedding, chalk art painted by C, and Sally "adoring" her Linus

 


A thrifted floral picture.  It has a non-identical twin that lives right above it on the wall

 


Miscellaneous pretties on a top shelf



A bit of my fabric "stash"



Phil the Plant crying out for water!



Is there anything better than a shelf full of crafty inspiration?

 Just a few of the things bringing a smile to my face on this gloomy Monday.  I'm off to see if a little afternoon tea will inspire me to tidy up and plan dinner.  Wish me luck!