Modern House Minimalist Design

This week I received the Happy 101 Award from the lovely Victoria of the Art House Design blog! She wrote me that my blog makes her happy every time she comes over! Isn’t that wonderful to hear?! Victoria, you make me so HAPPY with this! I appreciate it a lot! Thank you so much!!! For those who do not know Victoria’s beautiful and inspirational blog, please click on the header of her blog.

This week I received the Happy 101 Award from the lovely Victoria of the Art House Design blog ! She wrote me that my blog makes her happy every time she comes over! Isn’t that wonderful to hear?! Victoria, you make me so HAPPY with this! I appreciate it a lot! Thank you so much!!! For those who do not know Victoria’s beautiful and inspirational blog, please click on the header of her blog. So Victoria asked me to tell about 10 things that make me happy. Here I go! 1/My family : my husband Jan and my son Anthony make me happy. I love raising my son into a good and respectful young man. He is 14 years old now and I know that time is going on so fast and that he is growing up so fast. I have to enjoy every moment with him! My husband supports me in everything I do and together, we are managing our business in the best way possible. Watching my husband being happy with his grandchildren makes me happy! 2/ Family reunions : I so love gathering with

Flickr Well, What time is it? It's off to the Kentucky Oaks time this morning, of course....maybe hoping to see some celebs but mainly just have a great time! I decided not to wear my Amy Butler dress but just some black slacks....boring, I know! But looking at my legs they look horrible, so I decided against it. I will still have to show some photos of the dress on here though! Have a great Friday!

Both Andy and I love plants so it was natural for us to want a house full of plants. Unfortunately, we just haven't had the money for lots of plants, so we started slow. While we were visiting a good friend she gave us a cut-off of one of her plants. We placed it in our window and watched it sprout all sorts of little roots. Soon it was ready for dirt, and now it is a wildly growing little plant. Since then we have gotten another plant and babies from it. We also bought seeds for 6 kinds of different herbs and of course they are also growing like crazy. Our apartment is composed of lots of windows and just a few walls, so it is an easy place for a plant to grow. (our first plant!) Since our plants were all bursting out of their little pots we decided it was time to give them more room to grow...bigger pots! So last weekend Andy came back from the Rockingham Co-op with lots of pots, little plant sprouters of tomatoes and peppers, and a huuuge bag of dirt. I took one look at the dirt

A few of my outside whites.. Headed over to Faded Charm  for White Wednesday.

Last weekend a local charity opened up their 5000 square foot warehouse of donations for a public sale. They really had some great things and the prices were amazing.  I was able to purchase things for my shop as well as for myself. Love the large mercury glass bowl, especially for $2.00.  Ballards has very similar Santos for $79.00 each. Mine were 50 cents each. Eight foot long needlepoint aubusson runner. Great condition! See the original price for one of these mirrors?  I got two of these. I bought everything I showed you today for $32.00!!!  Now that is thrifty. I also want to show you two of the great items I won recently in giveaways. Aren't these hour glasses divine? I can't tell you how much I love these. Thank you so much Laurie for your sweet and generous gift. Please stop by and visit the beautiful and talented Laurie at Laurie Anna's Vintage Home . I also won two of the cutest flower barrettes and a key chain wristlet  from Paula at Paula Grace Designs . Paula i

I wanted to share with you some of the newer artwork that I've done lately. The first painting I actually did last summer, so it's not entirely new, but I love this painting. It just happened so easily and wonderfully. I was so happy with the way it turned out. The only problem though, was that I sold it two days after I finished painting it! That was great, but I really didn't get to enjoy it very much, so I miss it. Hopefully, I can do another painting like it some day. The little doll I made recently. She's very funny, silly and odd. I love making little dolls and little people and creatures. She's like a grandmother, a quirky, funny grandmother. Doesn't everyone wish they had a grandmother who was fun and different?! The following paintings are somewhat new. I was very happy with them as well. I love to paint. It seems like sometimes, though, I just cannot paint anything I like and then all of sudden, that goes away and I am able to do some wonderful pain