I'm dreaming.....

of when its finally warmer so I can enjoy my cup of coffee in the morning sitting on my front porch!!!

I am well aware that it is only the beginning of March and in Ohio we can still have snow, but there is no harm in dreaming is there?

I absolutely LOVE where we live.....funny thing is hasn't always been this way, but over the last several years I am appreciating the fact that we have freedom to do pretty much anything we want here. We live well away from the road, no one real close to us, but close enough that if we need something, Mike's parents are just through the woods and we are only 5 minutes from town. I also love that we have land, to stretch out to play, a pasture for our beef cows, and plenty of room for my flower and vegetable gardens....

I am busy planning out my garden and am excited to plant those little plants in the ground, watch them grow and then having fresh ingredients straight from my garden to cook with.

We are planning on expanding our garden this year, so I have been scouring websites trying to come up with a cool design.

Last year we had wood snow fence around the outside,(sorry don't have any pics from that) but we ran alittle short and so if we are expanding it this year we need a new idea...

We will see if Mike has time to help with this idea...he has been working many crazy hours lately!!!

Cure for the hiccups

I thought that I would leave you with a quick blog post.......
This is my kiddos trying to take care of a case of the hiccups...They saw on the show "Little Bear" that if you have the hiccups that you should take a drink while your upside down, so they where trying it. It didn't work.

I have been spending my time trying to clean/organize my house(was all prompted by not being able to find my cable to download pics from camera to computer,so frustrating!!!!!!) and the everyday chores!!

We have also had a good number of 2 hour delays and snow days. I love those days when I get to have both of my kiddos at home all day with me!!!!

And the walls came down......

Hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas....I enjoyed mine immensely!!! I spent lots of time with family and some scrumptious food.

My Christmas gift from my husband was to tear a partial wall down that stood between our kitchen and dinning room.....this wall has been an issue with me ever since we moved into this house 8 years ago. We live in an old farm house and the rooms where very small and boxy and that just doesn't work for us. Whenever we would entertain, I always felt out of it or we where trying to cram 6 people into a kitchen that really only has room for 1 or 2. Because it is a load bearing wall, it was a project he was dreading. He had vacation days to use, so we thought it would be a perfect time to tackle this job.

Before....

I love him so much!!!! :)

There's still painting to do, sealing the top and getting several outlet covers, some bar stools are needed, but I LOVE IT!!!!!

More Christmas Decor

So I know that I said I would be back to post "this week end", well that didn't happen, obviously. I am trying to enjoy this wonderful time of the year, but it is going by WAY TOOOOOO Fast!!

Today was a snow day here. The fireplace is on, the candles are lite and the coffee is oh so good with alittle bit of eggnog creamer and my kids are home from school, I am enjoying my day!!!!

I thought that I would post several decor pictures from around the house.

The dining room tree, very simple with lights, dried oranges and cinnamon sticks. An arrangement right outside our front door

Tree in the master bathroom....if you look closely you can see the snow stacking up on the window.

My old grain scoop....

My fireplace mantel in our bedroom....minus the fireplace.

My old railroad lantern....

The entry....

Have a wonderful evening!!!!
Jenelle

O Christmas Tree....

I love how you sparkle......
I am enjoying this time of year so much. I love the lights, the sounds and the smells that go along with the season! I am not done decorating yet, but I am taking my time and enjoying every minute of it.

I'll be back this week end to post more....

Domino's

So my next post was supposed to be on what rooms I have been painting, but I thought that I would show you what my latest craft project has been......my domino's
I started off with 3 boards cut the same length.....

Cut out the size circle I wanted with a card stock paper....

.Painted my circles....

Let them dry and then finished them up with sand paper

Again.....

I am busy painting. I will post pictures sometime soon, I'm trying to play with different ways to edit those pictures and I'm struggling alittle bit on getting them onto my blog. When it comes to computers, they frustrate me!! So if anyone has suggestions that are kinda simple, please help me!!!
This is one of the rooms that I've been working on.....

Have a wonderful week!!!

Jenelle

Paint, Paint & more Paint

I have been inspired to paint..... and my subject has been the laundry room.

This is what it looked like before.....very primitive colors.

Several weeks ago, I painted the trim white. Looked better, but was still not what I wanted,it was still too dark. I wanted light, bright and airy, so yesterday, while it was raining and feeling very fallish, I grabbed my paint brush and roller and got busy.

The paint color is called Khaki Shorts from ACE Hardware

A few fall touches

Next is the master bathroom....this is what it now looks like. I haven't found one that I like. I want a gray with a very light touch of blue in it, but still want it to be light. Any suggestions??

Have a wonderful day!

Jenelle

Its a chilly, cloudy day here and is feeling very fallish.....Oh what a wonderful time of year. One of my favorite!!!!!!

One thing on my wish list has been a coffee table for the living room and so when my husband asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I knew that it was my chance, but there was a catch...I wanted it made out of some old wood from the shed. He kept telling me it would be so much easier if he could just go buy some new lumber, but I insisted.
After several hours this is what he created. I LOVE IT!!!!


The lantern is an old Railroad lantern, that was a birthday gift from my mother.

Thanks for stopping and have a wonderful, relaxing week end!!!
Jenelle

School and Curtains

SO this week school started for us.....sigh. Hailey is in 2nd grade and Jace is in preschool three mornings a week. Where has the time gone???? I thought I had awhile until this day would come, I know Jace is only in preschool, but still, it has come way to fast.
School is going well for both of them and they are up in the morning ready to go before its time to leave. I am praying that continues all year. This year we started a new routine and our mornings are going so much better and we are not rushed in morning like previous years.



Hailey has been wanting new curtains for awhile now and so while I was killing some time while Jace was at school, I stopped in at Joann Fabrics and browsed. I found some cute striped fabric that I thought would go well with her room colors. She has green and pink circles on her walls, pink bedding with circles, so I thought that the stripes might add some nice contrast.

Here is what was on her windows before, kinda plain
(I hate window air conditioners!!!)

I made just a simple valance and kept the sheer curtains under the valances. (she wanted me to take a picture of this window since the other window was ugly with the air cond. in it. She is very much like her mom) I need to hack off some of the rod, its a tad long.Little miss princess all snuggled in her bed. She was thrilled with the change.

Thanks for stopping and have a wonderful week end!

Jenelle