Merry Christmas!

"Maybe Christmas,"

he thought

"doesn't come from a store.

Maybe Christmas...

perhaps...

means a little bit more."

-Dr. Suess

Merry Christmas!!!

Thankful For.....

This is what I am truly thankful for!! My amazing family!!

(that and a bestie who is an incredible professional photographer. :))

I decided that I would be diligent about getting annual family photos as I watch my kiddos grow

up far far too fast. After last years success with Jen taking gorgeous family pictures, I

decided that I just had to make her work her magic again!

Well,... she did it!!.....Again!!!

THANK YOU JEN!!!!

I just love them!!

You really captured my children's personalities, which can be nearly impossible.

(Especially when they are in front of the camera. ;) )

I've said it before and I'll say it again... 

Your MAD TALENT just runneth over!!

Now,... how to make choices for a Christmas card?????

Such Talent...

My littlest and I attended a birthday party the other day for her "bestie".

She was turning the big '3'!!

So her mom (my bestie) got out the camera and just started taking snap shots...

they were all

BEAUTIFUL!!!

Given... her mom is a professional photographer...

BUT STILL!!

I feel like I should have paid a sitting fee. These are just a few

of the amazing photos that she sent me.

Thank you Jen for these...they are truly a gift!! 

The darling Birthday girl.

Easy as pie...

My son made an acrylic painting a few years back and titled it "Zero Gravity".

I thought it was so clever and cute that I (of course), immediately

stole it and hung it in our office.

Well,...

recently he decided he wanted a it in his room.

What??

He thinks he wants his own art work in his room??

The solution...

We scanned it into the computer and printed it out on nice photo paper.

He wanted to hang it over his bed so I needed to go an earthquake safe route. (i.e. no glass.)

We bought a cheep canvas and painted the edges blue.

I used Mod Podge and a paintbrush to spread sticky wonderful-ness

all over the back of the picture and stuck it to the canvas.

We flipped it over and stapled a felt ribbon right to the canvas.

And.....

Voila!!

He has a copy of his own art 

hanging in his own bedroom.

And I still have my original in the office!! :):)

Obsequious...

The word of the day is Obsequious...

...something I have been trying not to be since I painted this picture...

12 years ago.

I guess these things take time??

ob·se·qui·ous /əbˈsi:kwijəs/ adjective

 disapproving : too eager to help or obey someone important

: marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

: ready or prompt to help or obey like a servant or slave at the wish or command of another person especially to gain favor

 

 

 

Random-ness...

Been busy...

I feel like it's fall.

I know that sounds funny, because it is fall, but here in the desert where the temperatures stay high well into November fall is more of a feeling than a noticeable change in colors, or temperature.

It has cooled down,...a bit.

People have decorated for Halloween,

and there is that certain buzz.

That excitement that is contagious, and it starts to fill the air. Well it makes me want to nest.

So,...I have been nesting.

Redecorating. In colors fueled mainly by this picture. :)

sigh...

g

Got really sick of my curtains and replaced them with these.

I am in love with all things smocked.

Had a red clock on top of my cabinets. Red wasn't working for me any more, so I decoupaged it.

Put posy pins on some pillows that were in need of a makeover.

I have refinished a few pieces of furniture and started a few projects that I am excited about. I will post them all as they get finished up. Now my kiddos think that I need to get started on their Halloween costumes. Oii!!

 Wish me LUCK!!

Drooling

The French Inspired Home

by Carolyn Westbrook

My sister gave me this oober-amazing book about 6 months ago for my birthday,

and I thought it was lovely. Fun to flip through and enjoy the eye candy.

Now that we are mixing things up here at the Platt plantation and I am looking

for lighter and airier decor I find myself drooling over the pages of this book.

It has a very Victorian feel, and lots of gooey detail,

which 18 years ago I just loved. Then my tastes did a whole

eclectic voyage around the world flip flop thing, and now

...again...

I find I have come full circle and love the gooey-vintage

details mixed in with all of my other eclectic tastes.

What is a girl to do??

Fickle me!!!

Anyhoo... for any of you who have not yet flipped through a copy of

the French Inspired Home,... I thought I would just throw the idea out there.

It is a treat.