Blessings

This has been year of transitions for my husband and I. We are going to have a grandchild next year!!!! As much of a blessing that this is ,it brings up emotions of the past. We are young parents with two boys(age 9 and just turned 14) still at home and two grown up kids. I had my two kids very young and my daughter will be the same age as I was when I had her(when she gives birth).It brings back some emotions in me that I haven't felt for years. To say the least,

my family was not happy with my choice to have my baby before I was married .I was fortunate to have friends that accepted me and my kids as a package deal.I was blessed that I met my husband and he raised my two kids(who are 19 months apart) since they were young as his own. Our family grew with the birth of our boys and we have been ONE family ever since.We never used the term "blended family" or "stepdad".Those words were not in our vocabulary ,we are one family.
We are excited for our next chapter to begin.I am determined to make my daughter feel special at this time in her life.My husband and I are going to be young grandparents and starting that journey younger than we thought but happy never -the- less.So this holiday season we celebrate a new life to come and many generations of blessings !!!!!!

Christmas cheer!!!!

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Vintage pink tinsel tree

A client of ours gave me a vintage pink tinsel tree. I think it is from the 1950's. It is very unique. It came without a stand so I had to get creative about finding something to hold it, next year I will look for a proper stand but what I came up with is cute. I placed the tree in a large pink bucket that I already owned (I

put styrofoam inside to hold it up and covered the styrofoam with spanish moss greenery. It is not the most stable but it worked!!!! I put the tree on the porch with the other pink tree so my porch looks very pink and festive!!!!! I am at Farmhouse friday http://laurieannas.blogspot.com/

Clean up!!!!

Getting ready for xmas around here!!!!! The other day I started cleaning up my dressing room and dusting off my shoe/boot collection!!!! I have quite a collection of boots and already have my eye on some more ,lol!!!!! My favorite print is leopard and since it is currently in style I am stocking up !!!!! Here are a few photos....

Rearranging

Yesterday hubby had the idea to turn the dining room table to the center of the dining room/study and the parlor room. So we rearranged and so far I love it!!!!! Since we keep our computer on the table I am liking seeing the wood burning stove from this angle !!!! It opened up the space. I also can now enjoy my victorian leopard sofa that I had on the other side of the table. I was trying to hide it from our big dog(Scruffy) but instead I didn't get to enjoy it and he still snuck up on it.I have it covered in a million pillows and throws so I know when he sneaks on,lol!!!! I took some photos to show you the change...

It is giving us more room since it was hard to walk around the table before and the parlor room basically was just wasted space if the kids weren't using their desks. I left their vintage desks so we still do school in both of these combined spaces.

Tissue pom poms

I finally made some tissue pom poms!!!!! I have seen them all over blog land and I always thought they were cute and I should try to make some!!!!! I finally did, they were a little time consuming and a little messy since I used glitter tissue paper but I love how they turned out!!!!! We had a small birthday party for my son Trent( turned 14)

so I had the tissue pom poms for decorations. The boys actually liked them so I was happy here are some photos of the set up and the big day!!!!

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