Easter Week

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Just thinking about spring and Easter today.

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Basket of Flowers

a Tisket

a Tasket

 a Big Flower

Basket

I filled my big kubu wicker basket with odds and end flowers I had in my stash.

I love the way this basket looks by the fireplace.

I don't know why I didn't put it there ages ago.

I had it for like 6 months and couldn't decide what to do with it. 

At Christmas on a whim I filled it with little Christmas trees and instantly 

knew I'd be filling it every season. 

Yesterday I made a trip to Norman to our one and only Homegoods.

I found just the right thing to add some spring and summer freshness to 

the living room.

Actually, it was so good...I'm heading there again today to pick up another.

I'll show next week!

Come see me this weekend at 

http://www.bobmillsfurniture.com/

We are running a special...all taxes off on any mattress over $698.

If you don't know about our Bed Match system....you must try it.

It will tell you exactly what sort of mattress is best for your body.

I found one I'm in love with.

It's like sleeping on a cloud.

One day it will be mine....

Now I'm off to Norman again to pick up the second thing I need for the living room. 

You'll see...it's just perfect.

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Getting Ready for Spring

Spring brings Change

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I know it's not spring yet....but it's getting very close. 

This week...the 20th.

I love spring. It's my favorite season.

Everything seems new and fresh and full of possibilities.

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Totally loving all this spring stuff.

Would love any and all of it in my home.

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Vases of spring cuttings are so divine!

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A wild willow spring wreath for the front door.

Oh....I love this so...

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Ah...the perfect rustic chair filled with pink impatiens.

I haven't been here as much as I normally am the last week and that's because

I've got big changes coming.

I've been going back and forth about a new job.

Interviewing, drug tests, background check, paperwork and now...it's final.

I start a new job on Monday.

Next week I'll have lots of training to go through.

And then the next week I start it full throttle.

I'll be selling furniture for a major furniture store.

Odd...I know for me...cause I really like used furniture the best.

But I know about furniture and I can talk furniture and design

and this just seemed like a good thing for me to try.

If it works out...I can make a nice living from it.

If it doesn't....well...I will do something else.

It's hard out there for a middle aged single woman.

Very hard. 

I've done without insurance and benefits for quite some time

and this seemed to be the best solution.

I can do something I'm interested in that has the potential to pay more

than what I'd make if I went back to doing graphics and marketing for a company full time.

Which always involved many many hours of unpaid overtime.

I'm hoping this will lead to a well balanced life.

At least I hope so.

So next week....I may be sparse with the posts. 

I have things here I am working on that I need to show.

But I'll just have to do the best I can do.

Wish me luck. I need it.

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Spring Florals

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 Pretty sunny days this week and I'm thinking of spring.

I'm making a spring project for JoAnn Fabric and Craft Stores.

I had my choice of styles to choose from -

Nautical

Color of the Year - Radiant Orchid

Geometric 

or 

Spring Florals

After wandering around Jo-Ann for hours. I finally decided on

Spring Florals.

Big surprise there...as seems I'm always drawn to florals. 

I really wanted to just buy something cute accessory and display it but it is a craft challenge.

So I must make something.

I could not decide what....so I finally just bought fabric I like and in the next day or two

I'll make something of it.

I've been browsing Pinterest for inspiration.

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The trick with florals is for them not to be too fussy.

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Or maybe they are fine..fussy because

 I love that bed above.

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Love everything about this photo. 

I wanted to do something with floral paper but couldn't find one that spoke to me.

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I thought about sewing up a duvet or a shower curtain.

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Maybe a patchwork of florals?

I really don't know what I'm going to make for sure.

The fabric I finally bought I think would make great curtains in the den...but

in order to show them...I'd have to have a new sofa or at least a slip cover.

The den sofa...is very ugly. 

Perhaps I'll have a new one soon.

Things are changing around here.

Or will be changing soon.

Hopefully for the better...perhaps for the worst.

I really don't know yet. 

I'll let you know.

But in the meantime...I'll figure out what to do with my fabric.

I've almost finished the cabinet in the living room. 

It painted up quickly but has taken awhile to distress.

Tomorrow I have the day off and hopefully nothing will come up that will keep me

from waxing it. 

I'm anxious to get it back in place and out of the middle of the room.

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Rain Boots in Decor

These Boots Are Made For

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D E C O R A T I N G !!!

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Have you noticed all the rain boots showing up in decor photos?

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They've become the chic'est of accessories.

See how Courtney of French Country Cottage recently used them when showing off her bathroom?

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They immediately bring the feeling of spring into a vignette.

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Filled with long stemmed flowers and branches...

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they create an instant sense of spring.

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Pretty yellow boots filled with daisies create the cutest of door decor.

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Fun at the front porch steps.

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They make such cute whimsical planters.

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Seems any kind of rain boots will do...from utilitarian black to pastel florals and

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hot pink!

Don't have a pair sitting around your house?

You can pick these up at Pier 1.

They are ceramic but look like a mottled green pair of boots.

They'd be so cute with forsythia branches jutting out the top.

This is the last chance to enter to win a $30 gift certificate from EpicLinen.

Just click below to enter.

Thanks for all your advice on getting well.

Sometime this afternoon I took a turn for the better.

Sore throat much better and I'm at least coherent now.

Another couple of days and I'll be out running around again.

Don't you just hate being sick? 

You have all these things you planned on doing and 

you can't do any of them because you feel so crappy.

I am glad that I at least got to be sick at home with all the weenies.

They didn't mind it one bit.

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Spring Flowers

I stayed up late last night doing some Easter decorating.

I did this and I did my mantel.

My goal was to use what I had on hand to do all my Easter decorating.

But I got the mantel all done and it just needed a new rabbit.

None of what I had would do.

So I won't show it till I go buy a new rabbit.

But I'm sharing my pretty spring flowers.

That watering can is special to me.

My Dad brought it to my house one day and said,

"Here, I thought you'd want this."

I don't know where it came from but he knew that I would want it.

That is just one of the things I loved about my Dad...he knew what I liked.

One time he made me earrings and a ring out of old typewriter keys and 

surprised me with them.

Loved those!

This whole thing is all about using what you have.

I bought that nest at Christmas on clearance and it had snow on it...I painted the snow green and 

painted the eggs blue and added a little spanish moss.

Now it's a spring nest.

I love robin's egg blue...don't you?

After I put this together last night...I decided it needed some height.

I brought a small tree limb from the yard and hot glued some silk flowers to it.

Instant....spring stems! 

Forsythia stems would have been lovely in this...but that would have required financial output.

And I was not going to do that.

I just finished painting the frame on this chalkboard.

I was very excited to find this chalkboard at a big price reduction after Christmas at Pier 1.

It was way cheaper than what it would have cost me in materials to make one.

So I painted the frame and then the other night I went to write on it with chalk 

and chalk will not write on it!

It's very smooth and shiny. I think you are suppose to use something else on it.

Anyone have any ideas?

I may end up repainting the board in chalk paint that I have here.

So much for just needing to paint the frame and it being done.

I've been listening to my Songbird's of Spring CD this afternoon.

(I'm really hip)

It really did seem like Spring today. It was so pretty out.

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