Things I'd like to do..

I love this gray chair and the whole decor of the room.  Gray is in a lot of our color schemes for the house remodel project.  Oh the house remodeling project. As a new year is in place I am constantly finding myself wanting to make changes, wanting to stick to my goals.  With that comes just small, fun, and simple things I want to do. Such as:

1) Continue reading lots of books. I haven't set a number yet. I think I will go with 100. I want that to be a mixture of novels as well as Christian growth/tool books. With the internet and Kindles and all the other technological innovations it's taken the excitement out of simply sitting down on the couch with a blanket and reading a book (being able to dog ear the pages, doodle in the margins, let the dogs drool on it).

2). Stay faithful in my journey to reading the Bible in a year. Today marks day 27 since the first of the year and I have had 27 days in a row of being disciplined to get in the word. It's been a beautiful thing thus far.

3) Find the motivation from above to apply to getting on the treadmill and utilizing my equipment as well as walking the dogs. Time management. Must make time.

4) Journal. I'm feel this comes up a lot and I know it's because i havne't been doing it but it's a part of me.  It's something I've always done. I just need to remember how again.

Happy Thursday all.

Meet Salem

After volunteering at the Animal Shelter I met this precious, submissive, uniquely colored dog named "Pookie" at the time.  I worked with one of the shelter workers on socializing her and doing some training with her.  I felt drawn to her and something in my gut said "I will rescue this girl".

So needless to say after talking my husband into adding a 3rd dog to the pack, and making preparations (filling out adoption papers, paying fees, picking her up from the vet, going through gradual pack introductions due to spay surgery), she is making her transition nicely into 6940. 

I introduce to you: Salem Hawk

Unwelcomed snow days

Today marks day 3 of no school. Another day lost for testing. Another day to make up. Another day of stir craziness. I love snow don't get me wrong. But when it starts robbing our school calendar of school days I become a little agitated. Sadly I cannot say I have been overly productive during my time off. I actually at times haven't known what to do with myself. The following list is how I have been spending my snow days:
1) Going to bed later than usual (school nights I am a grandma: bed between 9:30/10- snow days bed: 12:30 M). and getting to sleep in til 8 (beats 5:50 am)
2) Watching the X Men trilogy with my husband. EAch night we watched one. I am ready for 4. Will there be 4?
3) Working on a hair bow holder. Pink/White and Zebra print as well as listing a few things in the shop
4) Gradual socialization with Salem to the crew (yes we got a new dog) will blog more about her later
5) drinking coffee in large quantities
6) playing with the pups in the snow
7) napping
8) reading
9) I did do some teacher related things today such as grade a gazillion papers and look at how butchered my lesson plans are for this week.
10). Started a new devotional with my husband.

Praying that we get back to school tomorrow. Scrapers: get busy. Sun: melt away the snow/ice.

CHRISTmas break begins

Friday the 17th, was the last day of school for teachers and students for 2 weeks. I must say being a teacher does have it's perks. 2 weeks off for Christmas break, summers off, etc. I am looking forward to CHRISTmas break and I hope that it travels by slowly giving me time to enjoy and embrace each moment.

So far this weekend I have been doing a lot of the following:

1) drinking tea: particularly RUssian tea (oh so good)

2) reading books (currently I am reading VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER so that my hubby can take me to see the movie sometime this week)

3)picking back up on journaling

I plan to continue to spend more time doing these things and less time wasting on the internet.

I also have been picking up some orders with oh.lovelyoil (more so by word of mouth) which has been keeping me busy. I am not complaining by any means.

This is also the first year EVER that I will be out of town on Christmas.  We (David, me , and his family) are driving up to Indiana on Christmas Eve morning to spend time with his grandmother and uncle.  The whole process was rather emotional for me at first because I honestly just wanted to be at home for Christmas. But the Lord and supportive parents and the husband all helped me to realize that it's going to be okay. 

Looking forward to the next 2 weeks off of work.

Celebrating love, the birth of our Savior, down time, friends, family, and simply doing nothing.

The CHRISTmas trees

Christmas tree number 1

White tree

Color Scheme: purples, silver, teal/blue

Simply divine

new ornament

the infamous KEY ornament I just had to have at Garden Ridge

perfect addition to Tree number 1



Chritmas tree number 2 is petite and traditional.

golds, reds, and greens

Got new red bows for it this year

full length shot

so I have this thing for bird cages. So I had to get one for the tree.

Michaels find for 1.00 can't beat that

Tree number 3 is new this year and a work in progress. I have more ornaments on it now and presents are consuming it. More pictures later



HOpe for the HOLIDAYS 2010

Here's a little sneak peek from our 2nd annual Hope for the Holidays. We were able to fill 4 tables full of donations and raise 350 plus dollars to give to Crisis Control, the Rescue Mission, The Forsyth Humane Society, and the Children's Home of Winston Salem

it started snowing around 11 am. What a wonderful surprise

Keeping Santa on his toes

BRash nation stopped by. Yes that's my cousin and her family of 5 kids expecting a baby girl in jan

Children's Home table

Forsyth Humane Society table

Rescue Mission and Crisis Control

front of the store

The Gift Tree

Make and Take your own ornament (1.00)

ornament making in the mix.

Love blooms recklessly

Mr. Hawk

Mrs. Hawk

We rock. The end.



I promise I am still here.

I promise. Just been busy being a teacher, helping out my cohort, being a wife, trying to juggle time to get some craftiness in, loving on my pooches, serve the Lord, and still find time to breathe. I promise I will do a better job playing catch up. I'm so far behind it's retarded.

New York pictures Part 1

Yes I know we went to New York back in July and it's now September. BUT I am trying to play catch up. Here are the photos to go along with the New York posts that can be found here:

Day 1

Day 2

Dat 3

Day 4

Last Day