my home is my oyster...?

Another hot day. A good day for frozen yogurt and shopping for air-soft pellets and birthday cards with my younger brother, Trenton. Thank you Jesus for making my heart soft when it didn't want to be, and for blessing my  time with my little (taller!?!) brother. Amen.

I'm home alone now? How strange. When ten people all participate in an exodus from the house, it is quite a phenomenon.  

Well, how will I spend this short space of aloneness? First by posting these pictures I took from my room.

Over the past year I have been redecorating my room (when you buy everything from craigslist and thrift shops it really does take that long). After a year of this, I am finally tasting the fruits of my labor. And so, I will share some of my on sale, thrifted, craigslisted, handmade, and hand-edited treasures and hopefully encourage anyone who reads this that a space can be transformed without spending buckets of the green stuff... but it does take a willingness to wait. 

Account:

embroidered artwork - thrifted

dear statuette - estate sale

konica camera - thrifted 

vintage dominoes - thrifted 

bottle vase - UO clearance

 wingback chair - craigslist

red pillow - UO clearance

 magazine rack table - furniture store clearance

 ladderback chair - thrifted

 white fold-out desk - craigslist (edited with my stencil design)

And finally, my favorite clock friend, hand made for me by my favorite Bree friend (www.theartcupboard.blogspot.com) for my sixteenth. I love you Bree!

Now off to enjoy the next little while of time alone. Perhaps reading, perhaps violin, perhaps drawing, who's to say where my mind will wander...

new slang

Today - one of those days where you go to sleep the night before with no plans, and you wake up at 9:30 am with no plans, and as soon as you step outside your door you realize there is allot more to do than you had imagined when you fell asleep. Most of these things were of the minutely exciting nature, such as laundry, cleaning up the garage, etc. If anything made these tasks less enjoyable, it was not their lack of flavor, but rather the 97°F weather. Praise the Lord for air conditioning. 


There were other parts of today that were more exciting than these. First was the re-discovery of a comfy yellow skirt that I have not worn in years, and the fact that it went well with my multicolored belt from salvation army. Second was a thrift/grocery trip, listening to The Shins in an uncomfortably hot car. Third was the finding of this lovely thrifted treasure from the local thrift store. Yarn embroidered flowers on pretty yellow canvas (70's? The colors suggest as much... at least the thrift lady thought so). It will look nice on my wall.

Fourth exciting thing was hunting for the least expensive 4% fat, ground beef at the grocery store (I found it eventually. Yay!). Fifth (and final, up to this point) was arriving home to a very encouraging email from a very dear friend that built my faith immensely. 


Today was a good reminder that God is faithful over ground beef, life plans, and everything in-be-tween. Moreover, he loves me steadfastly because of is son. And my failures today (they have been many) are as if they had never happened. Praise the Lord indeed. 

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Here is the result of last nights mind milking with the assistance of the Long and Winding Road, memories of a beautiful summer, and hopes for a lovely winter.