First, some business: Did you guys see that my Barn Wood Head Board with Built-in Light was featured in The Nesting Place’s “bird watching” post on Saturday? This is a huge compliment and I am currently, as I type this, driving in my car to North Carolina to thank The Nester personally with a big fat hug!! (No, I’m really not, but that was my first inclination :-)
Thanks for the *fist bump*, Nester, what a fun surprise! (Thanks to Cassie at Primitive and Proper for giving me the heads up as soon as the post went up. I about had a heart attack in public and didn’t know who to scream “hooray!” with because—as it turns out, most people in my real life don’t know who Nester is. I try, I do, to educate ya’ll, but… still.) Anyway, lots of fun!
Second item of business: thanks for putting up with my randomness. Monday’s post about potty? I now simultaneously apologize to, commiserate with, and appreciate all of my readers. Sorry to put you through that story! :-) Life is fun. Life is full. Life is not all crafts, hammers, and weight loss efforts (thank goodness!)
Third: My sister and her family have gone back to Alaska now. (Insert sad face). Their visit was 10 days long, but it went by in a flash! As it turns out, when you have 6 kids between you, there isn’t nearly enough time to actually enjoy each other! Next trip? She and I both fly to a fun city and spend the weekend together without kids or husbands! The end of her trip means back to real life for me. Real life = still don’t have a dishwasher. Stairs need to be painted. Barstools. Blogging. Floors to mop, groceries to buy. Blech!
Nah- instead of doing all those things, let’s make something pretty instead! I’ve got a major itch to create some great word art using Picnik before it kicks the bucket. I want to create, print, and frame some AMAZING quotes that will inspire me and my family to reach for higher things, to choose the good way, to be kind, hard-working, and positive, etc.
I’ve been collecting meaningful quotes for a while now and socking them away in my quote clipboard. Some of them are on my Pinterest board entitled “QUOTES TO QUOTE.”
Since I know most of you are still sitting there thinking, “what is Pinterest again??” please allow me to show you some samples of the quotes I have pinned on my QUOTES TO QUOTE board:
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i voted! so far i am in the majority! :)
can't wait to see what you end up with!
I like 2. “Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley, but it's not in the clicky poll! So that's my vote.
you are so smart! i had to re-make the poll after i numbered the quotes and didn't realize i had put them out of order and changed them! i fixed that now, but your quote still isn't in the poll! however, i am thinking of you and HEARING YOU! thanks, babe!
I like the prayer quote too! Stupid is a bad word in our house. Just sayin'….