Great New Book and a Wonderful Magazine

I don't need one more book or magazine are the words that go through my head everytime I go into my favorite bookstore. Just wait, I tell myself and soon it will be in the library. But when you pick up a book or magazine like the two above that are so filled with great pictures and ideas for decorating, your head starts to say something different. Like, ooh and ahh, and I love this, or what a great idea and finally, I gotta get this!! One can only stand so long at a magazine rack until the managment starts to give you "THE LOOK." One store I go to actually has the air conditioner vents pointed straight down on you as though they think by freezing the customer they will keep them from looking. I have just learned to wear a nice jacket. In my defense, I don't spend my money on every magazine or book I see until I have looked it through and made sure that there are pictures, ideas, recipes, and stories that I can't live without. I go back to my magazines and books often so I purchase them with that thought in mind. I spread them all out on the floor several times throughout the year and go back over the pages to stir myself up when I am in a creative slump. The magazines they put in plastic, well, I just don't buy. I would rather spend my money on the ones that I am sure of. I will not throw away my money on an unknown. I catch enough heck from my hubby and children for the magazines and books that I do have. Some people spend their money on cigarettes, some on booze, and some on lotto tickets, and fishing lures. My addiction is magazines and coffee table books. I feel as though I have only spent what I would have spent if I had gone to school for interior design. I have been schooled by the best of decorators through the pictures of my wonderful vice. The magazine and book above are worthy of your purchase. They are wonderful books filled with so many ideas a girl could get lost for days in them. These will be like a good friend that you love spending time with. They will send you to dreamland, not the sleepy kind of dreamland, but dreamland of all the little cottages in you head that you will decorate someday. So girls, if you haven't picked up your copies you had better do so before they are off the shelf. And I won't lend you mine! Call me selfish, but these are the books that won't come back after your girlfriends have borrowed them. But you are welcome to come and sit with me and we will talk about them as you look through mine. But I am checking your purse before you leave because I know you will try to take them from me.

Yes, They are that good!

Thank You For Your Prayers

I am so blessed and amazed by this caring community of blogging friends that I have.
Thank you so much for your prayers and comments concerning my daughter. Thankfully she is feeling so much better. Prayer works and God is good.
And your friendship means so much.
Hugs
Becky

Please keep my daughter in your prayers.

Turning 28 doesn't mean that she is no longer my little girl. She will always

be and I will always want to see her smile.

My baby went into the hospital today. Please keep her in your prayers.

The Boy Likes to Fish

I miss my boy! I wish he was fishing in the lake behind the house.

HERE WE ARE TODAY

Alot of changes have been made to the Shabby Old House. Since there wasn't a laundry room we decided to take the area where the old back porch use to be and wall it up. As soon as we finish the laundry room I will show you that. But for today this is what the back room turned out to look like. I still have much to do but it is cozy for now.

This is the wall that was added.

The wall behind the old mirror is where the window use to be.

Now my guest have privacy.

And one day I hope to put a shelf running the distance of the window up and then decorate over the window. But that is going to be another post.

Hope your weekend is filled with rewarding projects.

Hugs

Becky

Renovating An Old Victorian is Messy

Straight ahead is the little sun room that was added on to the Shabby Old House. It is bright and cheery although a humble frame. The main house is just before the left side of the railing. When they added the den to the house they covered the original window. The Roof slopes and although you can't see it in this picture they left about a foot of window sticking out above the sloping roof. So when you walked into the room from outside you saw 3/4 of a window. Nice realy nice. And get this, you could actually look through that window into the bedroom. Welcome to my bed and breakfast. Don't mind that window. We keep the shades pulled. lol

These brilliant hobblers did the same thing again. They made a nice L shaped room but the window to the 2nd bedroom in the hall was open to the room as well.

Somehow I just don't think that would ever fly with our guests. lol

And you can see that we have been trying out paint samples. My hubby even got on the ladder and did a two tones green to see if we liked it. How can you go wrong with green? Or can you?!

The whole room was painted this color and very very dirty.

See that window and door. This would have been the original back door and that window is one that goes to the Master Bedroom. There is another window on the other side as well and it looked into the kitchen.. Can't you see in your mind how cute this back porch could have been. Throw in some steps a landing and some gingerbread trim and oh honey that would have been all I needed.

The roof leaked and so in fixing that we fixed the ceiling with drywall. I really struggled spending any money to renovate any portion of this room. But we couldn't leave those issues the way they were.

What a pretty thing I am. lol


So you are in the house from the back. You see we covered the window. Isn't the floor lovely too. It slopes just like the roof. lol

But the windows are cute. Except there are bee bee holes in them.

We think that Old Mr Baker may have been shooting at the Bats...

And that is another story for another day.

I will show you where we are with the room tomorrow.

Sure hope you come back.

Hugs

Becky

A Look at the Backside

I fell in love with the Shabby Old House because of all the gingerbread trim. I have always dreamed of owning a house with a porch like this one.

Ask me how I feel about it all when we start scrapping and painting it in the fall. I have a feeling it is going to be a project that I won't be able finish quick enough. Although I am certain the finished project will be such a reward.

If you live in the Historic district of Eufaula anything you do must be approved to strict guidelines. We will soon be submitting color choices and keeping our fingers crossed. I have heard from some that this board is a strict one. I think that this is good within reason. I only wished a strict board was around when they submitted a building permit for the additions that were added on.

Let's have a look at her backside. I can almost feel her blush with embarassment.

As you can see they tacked on two rooms and a horrible stoop. The room to the left is the sunroom which is off of the back bedroom bath. The room to the right with the steps leading up to it is what is suppose to be a den family room.
I was so hoping to win the lotto or inherit a fortune from a rich relative so that I could just knock these rooms off and properly add on to them, but since nothing like that has happened we have just had to make due.
I will take you in tomorrow.
I hope you will come back.