Creeping Up Behind Me

This is just beautiful. About as beautiful as my night is about to be. If you're lucky, I'll tell you about it later.

In the case that I don't get a chance to write about it (just like so many other things happening lately), just know that I'll be spending the evening with my husband and some dearly loved friends. This night is something that I need so badly right now and I'm taking full advantage of it. Love is a wonderful thing, and the fact that God brought us together! Don't get me started! This guy knows what He's doing!

Enjoy your night everyone!

Beautiful Things

Life has been much more time-consuming than I had anticipated. This season has definitely stretched me mentally, physically, and spiritually. I wish I had more time to update this blog on a regular basis, but it, among other things, has fallen by the wayside.

Fortunately, I do have a moment right now to give a little update on a few things going on around here that I am just so excited about! Like this:

Jakub and I made the coffee table of my dreams! It wasn't difficult at all, which is good for newbies like us, but it was so much fun to go through the whole process together. Plus, I think it makes our living room look so much fancier than our last "plain jane" coffee table.

We've been redecorating our house here and there and lately we've stumbled upon some great little treasures!

We found the owl money bank, butterfly pictures, and antique chinese bowl at the flea market this weekend.

And these little finds, plus a few others, were discovered this morning at an estate sale. A fancy box, old diana camera, camera filters in every imaginable color, and three fancy head scarves came home with us. We also brought home an old polaroid camera and something else that I can't quite describe--I can't figure out what it is!

I've had so much fun with Jakub, creating and scavenging for things that will make our home more "us". I especially love that my husband is the one to find the estate sales or garage sales; I don't feel like I'm having to drag him to do anything he's not interested in. I sure am blessed with this boy! He'd rather go thrifting than watch a football game--God knew what he was doing with this one! It feels so nice to have such a good fit with the man that I married, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

With everything that is going on and vying for my attention, I'm so glad that I have him by my side each day. I can't make any promises, but hopefully I'll be able to post a little more regularly. There's so much going on that I'd like to talk about. Or maybe this is a time where I need to just keep quiet and enjoy life for all that it is. I guess we'll see. Until next time, grace and peace!

A Quick DIY

Have I ever told you how much I love Pinterest? The other night it cut my work load for a project down to nothing and I thought I'd share in case any one else is having the same problem.

For some reason, our house tends to be the hot spot for solicitors. There's more salespeople knocking at my door than I can shake a stick at! The other night I had had enough and decided we needed a sign to ward off all solicitors. I looked around on the internet, at first only finding fancy signs like this one:

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This was a problem for two reasons: first, it was boring and ugly, and second, it was so boring and ugly, it might be overlooked and ineffective.

I decided I would make my own instead and went to Pinterest for inspiration. That's when I found these lovely FREE printables for such a task:

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This meant I could now spend my extra time working on some other projects we have going on around the house! After about 5 minutes of cutting and pasting, we had a sign that was attractive, would stand out, and most notably, not clash with our ugly front door! Now we wait and see if it's effective. The silence will be music to my ears!

Pinterest is certainly becoming my cure-all and I wouldn't have it any other way. If you're having any sort of problem, do yourself a favor and get on Pinterest!

I know I've been absent quite a while, I hope to be back this week with a little view of what has been going on in my life and all the lessons I'm learning!