Modern House Minimalist Design

I start this post by saying my heart is heavy over the unspeakable tragedy in Newtown, and asking everyone to keep those affected in their prayers.   Absolutely devastating and frankly hard to wrap my head around. For those families left behind dealing with the most unimaginable grief, I hope God will protect, bless and guide them during this dark time and in the difficult days ahead. My heart breaks for each of them. All we can do is keep them in our prayers, which I will continue to do.  LAST DAY TO SUBMIT YOUR HOLIDAY PICTURES.......IT CAN BE OF YOUR TREE, YOUR HOME, YOUR GIFT WRAP, AS LONG AS ITS HOLIDAY RELATED! I WILL BE POSTING MY READERS SPECTACULAR IMAGES TOMORROW! YOU ARE IN FOR A ROYAL TREAT......SEND ME YOUR PICTURES TO THEENCHANTEDHOME@GMAIL.COM As you know Friday was my birthday as well. I am glad I didn't know about it beforehand, admittedly it would have been difficult to get into a celebratory mood knowing what was going on just a state away.  I fi...

As many of you know, I LOVE chalkboards. I normally just use my normal cursive handwriting and then just add some swirls and thicken some of the lines. This time, though, I wanted to venture a little more out of my comfort zone. I sketched it out on paper first and then lightly wrote with chalk on the chalkboard first and then once I got it how I wanted it I went over it with a chalk pen. I did this a few weeks ago when little Lola was sick and so did more than half of it with her snuggled up on my lap so there are quite a few spots where I don't like how my hand "flowed" for the swirls but it's hard to properly swirl when you are trying to not wake a baby. =)  Of course, it wasn't until I was almost done that I was singing the song version of this verse and noticed I wrote "Almighty" instead of "Mighty" - ahhhhh! I wanted to cry! This took considerably longer than my normal chalkboards and I just couldn't bring myself to start over! So, s...