Happy Things

Here are just a few of the things

that made me happy this week: 

Author's Note:

My happiness is not limited to nor

is it completely defined by this post.

There.  Having clarified that,

let's begin.

"Clean Up Crew" - turned out to be

me and Doc ...

I'm fairly certain a clean-up crew other than

me and Doc showed up,

but only because I couldn't account

for the missing sawdust inside

each drawer and cabinet.

Otherwise, the build-out was

a complete white-hot mess and here's

what Doc did about it:

He mopped!

He mopped up the cement dust and washed

away the chalk lines and 

just look at the technique!

I don't care one whit about technique;

I'm just so dang excited that I had help

getting this place cleaned up!

I think if more men knew just

how incredibly attractive they are

holding a mop,

more men would mop

on a regular basis.

I'd bet on it.

;)

(sniff)

Just. So. Dang. Happy!!!

 

I wanted really old-looking rustic hardware

for my cabinets.

We found these - lots of these! - in

 an old rusty cook pot

on the bottom shelf of a bookcase

that had seen better days

in the deep dark spider-web covered

corner of a fall-apart flea market.

Score!!!

Seriously, there were

exactly enough for the cabinet doors

in my studio and the

barn kitchen.

Wait til you see the cup pulls

I've found for the drawers!

They're new, but they look really

old and I can't wait to get my hands and my

paintbrush on them.

Doc hung two mirrors for me -

which makes me very happy -

but I'm not sure about this mirror

in the bathroom.

First of all, since he's 6'2" tall,

he wanted to hang the mirror very high.

I'm only 5'3" but if I stand

on a stool I can see myself in the

bathroom mirror.

just kidding

The curtains have a bird print on them,

and I'm planning to make some

great curtain tie-backs with nests and

fun decorative birds,

so I'm thinking I'd like to go with

a vanity mirror that fits

my whole "bird" theme -

like branches and birds on

the mirror frame.

We'll see.

And, some random pics 

of a few other happy-moments 

this week:

The super-cool, awesome, and unexpected

ceiling detail in the barn ...

(like, like, LIKE!!!)

The boys reading a passage

after Religious Education this Wednesday.
(LOVE!)

Friday night when Amelia's fever

finally broke (it'd been 106 - yikes!)

Please note:

we ran out of Kool Strips,

so she devised her own cool pack

to keep her fever down.

I don't want to squash her

creativity or anything,

but I'm investing in more Kool Strips.

And, of course, Kitty Blu.

She's discovered climbing this week.

Her favorite resting spot

at the moment is on a bar stool.

She's also been known to chillax

on the back of the sofa,

the flower arrangement on the

kitchen table,

and I've found suspicious tiny

white cat hairs on my

freshly washed and folded

blanket on the laundry room cabinet.

I think it's time to invest

in some sort of kitty climbing apparatus,

because I canNOT have Kitty Blu

on my cabinets or my clean laundry.

Even if she IS the cutest kitten

in the whole entire universe.

peace out