MR. PURA VIDA

We do get snow from time to time in our northern most location of Texas

and from time to time we will get huge blizzards, which most generally means that we have wind to accompany our snow

this blizzard brought us 19"

in one day

Today we are hosting a dinner party for 

my bff's mother's sorority

GAMMA GAMMA

in addition to shoveling sidewalks for these dear ladies during his lunch hour

(some of who lived in our garage apartment as newly weds)

Mr. PV thought it might be kind of fun to welcome them with 

a ....

here I am...toasty warm inside taking photos of a ....

very sweet thing!

I did select her outfit

I have every table I have "set"

we were planning to go to Amarillo for

new bowls, fresh roses, groceries

nope

the roads are still closed in some places

so I went to  Alco and bought bowls that match nothing I have

for $1.50 each

and I cut my ferns

and put them in old prayer candle jars of water 

and dug out the old pottery

and put on a pot of soup

we can't wait to see you sweet ones!

BLIZZARD 1957

We remember in our town

the blizzard of 1957

when the graduating class of 1975 graduated from the audience instead of the the stage

822 snow gauge

Miss Mermaid?  Can you see me now?

HUMMER ALERT

(see how you are...as in NATIONAL GUARD)

we are shut down folks

epic

really epic blizzard with

more expected

when in doubt

blueberry Nobilo

tussie mussie

do your part for the class of 

2030

if I can you can!

DRESSER RE-DO UPDATE

As we near the end of this part of our reno journey it is so hard for me to believe 

*this much time has passed

*this much has been taken apart and put back together

*I am still in a good mood

this is not the beginning...it is the middle

if I remember correctly---this summer I was thrilled to be here

because...this was the beginning

don't you really like that color of green though?  I sure did!

 Disaster!

here we go!

MY VISION

some random page I tore from a magazine that I can't properly credit 

because I can't remember where I got it

I remember this wonderful little thing sitting in my garage for what seemed like

E.V.E.R.

I had to talk Mr. P.V. into it for our vanity

I used the "it's free" tactic which seems to work when you near the end

DRESSER RE-DO

you can visit here to see how this started

and here we are today

let's just sigh a little shall we?

Grand le Sigh

our 3rd set of sinks

they were going to be the last even if they looked bad

(that choice was a lot harder than I expected)

The mirror is from Hobby Lobby and lighted from behind with rope light

(um...this year's Christmas lights -- I was in a hurry because 15th Anniversary is

MIRROR

nice surprise right?)

Some dear blog friend suggested I was a soap Ninja

I concur

Man I love this shade of blue

HEAVENLY 

"Sea Salt"

Remember when we went to buy our bed and bought this mirror instead?

It reminds me of when I went to buy a hat for the Kentucky Derby and bought a birdfeeder

but we did get our bed finally

and I'm telling you what...it feels nice!

these past 3 days I just lay there and look up at our view 

and over at the view

and think to myself

now that wasn't so bad at all!

BARREL CEILING

When we connected the garage apartment to the existing house

(about 15 feet)

we wanted to do something a little fantastic

our fantastic is pretty normal for most city people

but even our sheetrock crew said they'd never done this before

which kind of scared me

Have you ever gone to the prom and had the same dress as someone else?

That kind of stuff happens in small towns

so we weren't surprised when the same contractor sent the same sheetrock crew and they did the same barrel ceiling in our good friend's new custom home

Interestingly enough

their entire home was completed and they were moved in before our addition was even close to done

and the treatment they did on their barrel ceiling was EXACTLY what I wanted to do to ours

(paint it gold metallic)

I did not want to do the same thing as my good friend for 2 reasons

1.  She's my good friend and I wanted hers to be unique

2.  She's my good friend and I wanted mine to be unique

(*note the old school house light fixture we purchased at an auction for...ONE DOLLAR)

So I say to Mr. P.V.

"I'm thinking I'm going to hire a mural artist to come paint our ceiling"

he kind of looks at me funny and says...

"you're kidding..right?"

Yesterday I spent about 2 hours experimenting on my ceiling...I can always repaint it...

I've gotten pretty good at painting walls...just plain old painting...I charge Mr. P.V. about $30 per hour

so I guess I hired myself

You can't really tell, but this is gold metallic

and the rope light is tucked into the molding 

 then I coated it with high gloss varnish

to give it just the nicest little glow

do you remember that I painted some soft trees in the front entry?

with just a whisper of a bird here and there?

I thought I'd add a few here too?

the word is 

"BLESSINGS"

for those who go in and out of our home on the side of the house

well...the jury

(me)

is still out

if there are two things I have learned

1.  I don't have to decide TODAY

2.  I'm a pretty good painter so maybe by this time next week...this barrel ceiling will be 

Harlequin-ish

or clouds

but for today

it will just be

this