Another look...furniture and paint

Hello Dear Friends, I wanted to share my china cabinet now that we finished putting lights on the inside. I am still loving it so much but the only problem is I just want to switch out my table for a round one I have in the garage. It would be perfect with it. I just hate to ask my men to move more furniture. We just moved furniture about 2 weeks ago. I am trying to hold off for at least another week before I ask them.

I couldn't help but share another picture of our home as we decide on new paint colors. The top part of the house is the original the bottom is new....the red window to the right is what it would look like if I decide to leave some red. Our other option is to paint the entire house cream (just like it is now) and then remove all color and just have white trim. I might try that on the front porch.

Even though we are having a week of warmer weather, I just have to start my fall decorating...I have waited long enough. I am already burning fall candles and our bathrooms have bath and body fall scent soaps! Hope you are having a great weekend.

New Paint color????

Sometimes when the hubby goes out of town the wife just has to try out something new!!! We have been talking about putting siding on our home but I am not sure I want it to be cream, which is the paint color now. Our buildings are green and cream so it has to go with them but it doesn't have to be the same color...right???
  This is how it looked this morning. I have grown tired of so much red.

So I purchased some paint as a trial. I have kept the cream and dark green but I have added a light green. I would like to keep a touch of red but I am not sure where.

This is what it looks like if I leave the windows red but honestly, I am not a fan of it.

This is the before...think hubby will be surprised???

August: A Month of Change

Hello Dear Friends,
   I have been busy dragging out all the new fall items for the shop. I have fallen in love with this wreath so I am going to hang one of them on my front porch! I am wondering why I didn't order more than two of them! I have had so many boxes to open and sort that some times it is just exhausting! I am resting today since I had such a big day yesterday because tonight is date night with hubby and I want to be rested for it!

This is not even half of the boxes that I have in the shed....Christmas is shipping!
 

  August is such a hard month. This is the month that I lost my Mother, the month she entered the gates of Heaven.  I know she was ready and happy to go but our lives are so changed forever. I do not believe the grieving ever leaves, it hasn't for me. But it changes who you are and how you look at things, how you listen to people, how you watch events happen. Everything changes. I believe I am a better person than I was, I want my parents to be proud of the the legacy they gave me and of my choices. I know that they are just in a different dimension but are ever present in my heart and thoughts. I work very hard at my business because I want it to represent who they raised me to be. I want my kids to be proud of me as their parent and of the changes I have made to my life!

   Grief is a tool of change, it is uncomfortable and difficult. If you haven't been through it you don't understand it. There are choices that you make that changes your life! I miss my Mom every day. I have tears when I think about calling her and remember that she is gone. This week I had that feeling that I was waiting for her so I could tell her something and later realized that I can no longer wait ...she is waiting on me...she will be there to greet me and I have tears of joy when I think of that...heartbreaking tears of loneliness...oh how I miss her. We will meet again, we will be together again...but the longing remains. Those days when I feel her so close. The dreams of have of her handing me something. The butterflies that remind me of her and her love for her beautiful gardens...the gardens she planted for me. Yes, her spirit is in Heaven but her love remains here. I will go on because that is what we do. We long for Heaven but we work to make each day the best it can be. 

  August is a hard month.

Thoughts from the Heart!

As I am sitting on my porch this morning I was looking at this beautiful tree in my front yard. It has grown into such a beauty! In the fall it is a brilliant gold and becomes so stunning that it is hard not to just gaze at it!

   August is a difficult month for me and as I looked at this tree this morning I was thinking how lonely it looks standing there until I noticed the corn field be hind it and the blue sky with the puffy sky and then I realized it wasn't alone at all! 

  One of the worst things about losing my parents is the loneliness. They were at my home almost every day and the adjustment to that loss has been slow and painful! So I realized today that I am not alone, they are there waiting for me. The celebration will begin once I meet them in Heaven. So today I sit on my porch swing before I begin my day and I gaze at our tree in wonder, the beauty, the enjoyment.... And this is nothing compared to what is to come! 

New Cabinet Make-Over

Wow, seems like it has been a long time since I updated my little blog. I have so much I could share about our business but today I want to share a make-over in my home. I found this china hutch at an estate sale and I fell in love with the curved glass and the glints of gold in the glass. But the dark wood would never work in my home so I set out to put a coat of paint on it.

It could not have turned out any better. After a couple of coats it was complete. I normally distress but so far I have not on this piece. I did use a satin finish so there is a small shine but I love that about it.

I quickly filled it with touches of gold and it suited it!

Yes, you do see a little pumpkin, I just couldn't resist.
  My sister loves it...she saw the cabinet before I painted it and she wondered if I was changing my style..lol no just needed a coat of paint and then it took on a new look.
   I have so many pieces of furniture to paint, some I have stared and some are waiting. Either way, time is growing short with autumn approaching! Good to be back.