My Living Room

My living room has needed help for some time. When we moved in 8 years ago a man from the church came and painted it. Since I have very little "design-sense" and because all my furniture and accessories did not necessarily match each other at the time I had the walls painted white. Now eight years later my walls are very stained and some of my things match. So....Mom to the rescue! My husband and I both loathe to paint. My Mom is good at it and said she would do it if we flew her here. We were happy to do so!

We decided on a light brown for the walls. We needed to work with our couch, rug and curtains which are navy. The light brown shade was in several things I had hanging on my walls. My pictures did not come out very well but I was excited to show the improvements, especially for my sister. The pictures do not do it justice, but if you are somebody who has been in my living room you will know what an improvement this is.

Our living room by necessity is half living room and half office. That is what works for us in our situation and it is so nice that now it is pretty! It is amazing what a coat of paint, some new plants, lamps and picture frames will do to give everything a fresh look. And it is wonderful how these things have lifted my spirit! Functionality is a priority, but it sure is nice when functionality is pretty at the same time!



I love being able to display my Willow Tree Nativity Set. It is very special to me and I love the fact that my husband made such an effort to get it for me. It is another constant reminder of how very much I am loved. (It even has a small light for night time displaying!)



We rearranged our picture wall. I am going to do be doing a different size picture of the children than we had been doing so we got all new frames. On the next sunny day we will be going outside to take pictures of each child and I intend to have these frames filled soon.



I love this man! He picked out this wall plaque for us a few years ago. Isn't that a great saying?



My office corner....





We have done a LOT of projects around the house this week with the help of my Mom and some friends from our church. In the midst of it all Ricky suggested that every one of our kids put their hand print on our wall. My Mom found a perfect place in our hallway for such a project. I have to admit that I resisted a bit at first (I am a neat freak!) but am so thankful we did it! The children loved having Grandma paint their hands and then put their hand print on the wall. Later when the paint was dry I took my Sharpies and wrote their name and age next to their hand print. What a special memory we made today and I know we will enjoy our wall for years to come. (Thank you, Ricky, for such a great idea!)

Getting their hands painted....(I am sure my adorable Mom is thrilled that I took her picture while she was wearing her "paint clothes"....but she is always beautiful to me!)




The finished product...







We had boxes out to use while we were moving things around. Joshua took advantage of that! He says and does so many cute things every day...I love the age of three!




We still have all of our vacation pictures to sort through but we have been on the go since we arrived home. Next week we are doing our school order and prepping for VBS....but maybe in between the raindrops we will get to those pictures.

Have a ter-RICK-fic Sunday!

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