A LOT TO SEE, A LOT TO DO!!! REMODEL PHOTOS LAST.....

I found this old sock doll I made around forty years ago for my Kellie.

Found hankies from my Mom and this doll I made yrs ago!! Had to do some patching!

They both hit a homerun for their teams this year!!! Big sister taking care of little brother.....ha!! Her team missed being champs by one game lost....it was close!!!

Our new ballerina!!!

A plane ride for the boys!!!

My three girls!!!

Bottle fed this miniature Zebu too, for five months on our porch in the winter.... she was a joy, Samuela, our girl .... she too went to the Kid's Camp!!!

Happy Memorial Day Mr Peck!!! Come see me at the Kid's Camp!!!!

Trying to kiss my baby goodbye!!! I raised that miniature donkey! Used to walk him on a leash ....he too went to Camp Winchester, a Kid's Camp.  They said the baby chickens sleep on his back at night!!!

Saying goodbye to our old tractor!! It is going with a dear friend to Camp Winchester...a kids Christian Camp!

Love these beginnings....would be pretty in embroidery.

Hope I can keep these blooming! Love these agapanthas!!

Now, WHO do you suppose those three faces belong to?!

My added love to the pieces.....

Little relics found in Mom's stuff!

Can't wait to tell you about these!! I learned to embroidery at the age of nine when we lived near the mountains in Leon, Spain....we had no TV, which was awesome and we picked flowers in the fields to make flower crowns and wore them all day. Embroidery has always taken me back to cherished times as a child!!!

I HAVE to be creating SOMETHING!!!

More fun..... the art supplies are packed away, so the needle and thread came out!!!

An exciting project that I will ellaborate more on later..... I am in love with this idea!!! It is an old hankie I will embellish.

Looking from the kitchen into the end of the living room in front where the old oak breakfast table of Mom and Dad's will go.... under the daisy chandelier.

Another old chandelier I have saved. Will go above the long dining table. It has crystals to add if I want....and it needs a longer chain plus the candle thingys....which I would love to decoupage with some kind of script....The color is what it was.....not sure if I will paint it....it has a nice old look now.

The lower part which now is insulated, radiant barriered, sheetrocked and ready for paint...

The ceiling of the inside of the garage we made into a sleeping loft for the grand kids and the room below will be their and MY room for whatever transpires!!!

Here we are with our first snack during work in our new kitchen!!  The old island we have will come there soon.

Our new big kitchen, where it WAS a small galley kitchen. New cabinets ready to paint in "Candlelight" white....still have my favorite sink. Had a yellow one in 1975. I want to be here soon!!

Floors are all sanded and stained and ready for furniture!!

An old light fixture I have been saving for years and now will be in my small dining with my green fire king dishes!!

Trying to find that right happy yellow for our house!

Mother's Day flowers.....

BOY OH BOY....where do I start?  We have truly been busy and still moving forward with our downsize. For those who are interested, I am going to post a BUNCH of pictures in whatever order they come in....(Actually, they loaded backwards!)  I am in a hurry as usual, but can't wait to BLOG with thought and more heart and PROJECTS as we get more settled!! The following are remodeling, grandkids, an embroidery NEW project from a class with karen from the United Kingdom (more details on that later!!!) .....and other photos of happenings this month..... STAY TUNED FOR MORE LATER..... and sorry we are so busy right now.....how very much do I miss all of YOU, my computer, my art supplies and my normal nesting place!!! AND I HAVE lost 18 pounds....soooo easy, I'll share that later too!!! AND I eat more!!! BLESSINGS!!!! HUGS....God is good....Love Him!






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WHAT'S UP??? TOMORROW ...????

 Indeed He does!!  TOMORROW at 5:30AM we leave for Austin, Texas to take Pilar, age 10, to go to STATE COMPETITION in Bible Drill, Scripture search and memorization!!!  We are excited!!! She was speech delayed beginning school at 6 and has a hard time learning at school at times, BUT, BUT she is a champion at memorizing and searching the scriptures with just giving her a few beginning words to certain scriptures!!!  She passed Bible Drill in LaGrange at the Church meet to go on to Flatonia to compete with Halletsville.... many passed and she was one and is going to compete at 8:00AM in Austin....we will let you know how she does....but I know how pleased her parents and especially the Lord is with her no matter what! She has really worked hard and does it to glorify Him!! Plus we have had fun!! Joan Baylor is our church sponsor and will go with us....so I MUST go to bed to get a few hours of sleep!!!

 Pilar and Tito at Vacation Bible School last summer....

 The whole gang of kids at VBS!!

Pilar and her siblings....on the day of her Baptism!.....Enjoy! Blessings to you and I will catch you up on our "moving" lives a little later....still packing and painting in the remodel....taking forever but slowly we'll get there!! Hugs!!! sherry
A new note........Pilar placed fifth......and got an official certificate with a seal.....she was excited and we and God were so pleased with her sincere heart to even try to do what she did! She is a winner no matter the place....especially in the Lord's eyes!!! 

FEBRUARY TRIMMINGS & PROGRESS

Archduke Charles antique rose with one from the Mutabulis rose bush. The white roses are called Ducher The before picture in grey of our future house and with a little work done in yellow below.... The big fat rose bud below is a different rose, salmon in color when bloomed....can't think of the name. The progress on our downsizing has been slow, but the growth of February roses, Ducher antique rose bush to be exact, was progressing like a burst of Spring! We always trim all of our antique roses around Valentines and Labor Day. These roses were what I picked up from laying in the yard before they cleaned all the extra growth they trimmed over the warm winter. I put them quickly in a vase and photographed them for future art or painting, BUT they are too beautiful like this to try and duplicate in a drawing or painting!!! I took the photos inside that evening as they sat by my chair where I work on the computer....the smell was glorious. The pink/red ones are the antique rose bush Archduke Charles, hedge we have in front of the small cottage. They bloom almost all year!!
THEN a quickie photo of the "before 1960's house" on one third of an acre, we purchased to remodel and to downsize to 20 miles away....and "a recent house picture with the addition in front changing the front profile", plus the doors and enclosing of the big garage for my studio! The house is not painted as that is the primed color of the hardy panel....but I am thinking a soft light buttery yellow with white shudders and trim would be so happy looking, especially when I get roses around it!! We will eventually add a nice big porch and other things including a garden in the back...plus the children's play house will go back there. More photos later. We are working madly to get enough done to move into it. We rented a storage unit as we can't seem to throw away enough old goodies.....and are putting people off for a while longer who are wanting to see and possibly purchase the beautiful big house on three acres we built/restored and have lived in for thirteen years ....we don't even have it on the market or appraised yet! We are getting tired and have had two garage sales and will have a bigger moving sale during the Antiques Fair in Round Top.....whew!!!! I am definitely ready for less work and stuff and a little more relaxing!! Blessings to you all. Sorry I haven't blogged...we have been too busy to breathe!

TRAINING IN WAITING....by TRUSTING

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEYTON!!!!! ARE YOU HAVING FUN TODAY!!?? Maybe my new banner for the blog.....or am I too attached to the old one? All with a ball point pen....fun doodling and some color.....bliss!! Who knew?! ...Alisa Burke did!!! Love her class! More ball point pen doodling....such fun!! I discovered this on the chalkboard after the children went home .... Pilar drew this !! She is 10 and going to be baptized in two (weeks) Sundays.... I would say she is excited!! I would love this on an invitation..."Today is Sunday!" There are a lot of activities for the youth on Sunday at our church....so happy when the kids look forward to going! Waiting is not one of my pluses .... and I am learning to accept someone else's (God's?) timing. Actually, I am at peace with the timing of our "downsizing" progress .... sort of up in the air until the next project is finished and we move on to the following item that usually we are tripping on! And in between I sneak in a little doodling and drawing with a ball point pen, pencil or micron pen and some water colors added ... my joy is doing SOMETHING creative....it is the fuel for my being along with the THANKSGIVING of a true God who is soo alive in our daily lives. Even in the tough times, he must be by my side in my soul like life blood for me to continue each day. There is so much more good than bad about this world if you see it from His perspective! Anyway, things are good right now and I am loving the process of the progress!!!! No matter how slow!! One exciting item to mention is that they have built a sleeping loft in the big garage that I am turning into a studio in the new old house we will be moving to! I needed another bedroom for my kids and family when they come and the sleeping loft is what the kids are sooo excited about!! It will have a railing around it and they can see below.... kind of like being on the side of a mountain!! For a four year old, that is wayyy up there!! Blessings to you today!!!