Author: Linda

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RESTORING STUFF FROM THE ReSTORE

How was everyone’s long weekend?   Mine was full of fun shopping at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. I love that place!!! Not only is it full of wonderful projects waiting to be done, you can’t beat the prices, and the people who work there are so friendly and helpful! Love them!! Because I’m doing […]

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REMEMBERING A ROOM TRANSFORMATION ~ happy birthday!

Son #2 is a huge UNC Tarheels fan. I’m not sure why. Maybe because his older brother is a NC State Wolfpack fan. Source He also loves the Baltimore Ravens. Source Three years ago, on  Son #2’s 16th birthday, he went to school just like every other school day. Little did he know a plan […]

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A PRETTY PINK ROOM ~ finally!

After decorating boys’ rooms for so long (we have four boys), decorating a girl’s room was fun! We adopted our two daughters from Kazakhstan in 2005. Our first trip was for five weeks, where we met, fell in love with, and spent a lot of time with the girls. Then we came home…..without them 🙁 […]

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2012 ROUND UP ~ and a sneek peak at 2013

Happy New Year!    I hope everyone had a great 2012 and I hope you’re looking forward to everything wonderful that will happen in 2013! I was reading my goals for 2012  in my New Years post last year to see if I accomplished anything I wanted to this past year. I’ve always known my […]

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BEFORE & AFTERS

We painted the staircase spindles a bright white and the railings black. Our next project….tear out the carpet and redo the stairs in a dark red chesnut stain. I painted the front door the same black as the staircase railings. Then I made the pretty wreath to break up the black. The LOML found the […]

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MERRY BELATED CHRISTMAS!!

Please forgive me for  my absence in blogland recently. God has insisted I stop and take care of myself and my family during a couple of injuries and illnesses. I hurt my back in November which had me going to the chiropractor every day and him yelling at me to stay laying down with ice […]