THANK YOU! THANK YOU! and BIG HELLO

A COUPLE PHOTOS TAKEN AT THE CABINS

Its 1am and for some reason major insomnia has kicked in, darn its frustrating, ecspecially when i need to be up early as we have to leave town for an appointment at the college my daughters going to attend. It has been a crazy busy summer, I have tried to stop in and read some blogs here and visit my favorite forum House and Home, but that is about as far as it gets. We just returned home from a 3 night stay at a rental cabin, it was a great time and the first time we were able to get away this summer, aww it was so relaxing! I miss reading what all my blogger friends are doing, i bet i have missed so many fun and exciting blogs. I would like to thank everyone that has stopped by to visit me while I have been gone, I really love your visits and soon I will get over to visit your blogs. Two of our daughters return to school Tuesday and our oldest moves into her dorm on the 6th of September, so hopefully things will quiet down a bit so I can do some serious blogging. In the mean time, I send out a big HELLO to all and hope everyone is having a safe fun summer.

hugs

janet

MY OWN LITTLE CORNER

I am a firm believer that we all need our own little space where no others can invade our bubble. In our home (which is rather small) every inch is occupied, so this corner is my own space, mine, ALL MINE!!! lol I have many ideas for this corner but budget just won't allow those ideas to put into play at this time, so with the inspiration I gained from reading over at Angela's blog called "ImagineCozy" (you can link to her blog from my list at the right hand side) I feel I did a achieve my special corner. As you can see in the before picture the corner lacked coziness and felt so uninviting. Off shopping I went, "yep" shopped in my own house and came up with these items with the exception of the cream drum stool that sits under the old sewing table, I decided to return the blue\green one when I fell in love with this little cream drumstool, the detail on this little baby just told me I had to have it. Even though I wasn't able to do what I had originally planned for this corner, I must say that im pretty happy with how it turned out and rather proud of myself for not spending a dime to do it, actually I came out ahead when I returned the blue/green drum stool as the new one was half the price. My corner is now an inviting cozy spot for me to visit, read, watch tv, blog and just sit and have a quiet moment.
HUGS
JANET

BEFORE


AFTER

I HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING A GOOD SUMMER!!

Taking a moment to stop in and say hi to all you great bloggers, i really miss reading all your blogs. This summer has been ecspecially busy, so many things to get done for our daughter to head off to college in September. We are really looking forward to our family get away, which is when we all rent cabins near the end of August. Im sooooooooooooo looking forward to that break.

take care all and enjoy the summer

hugs

janet

BENCH IS DONE!!

The previous post below shows the before of this little freebie stool, which I believe actually belongs to a sewing table. We didn't do anything fancy as you can see. A quick slap of paint (left over from tv cabinet) and some new fabric. (total cost around 3 dollars) Our entrance is long but very narrow, we had no where to put a seating spot so our visitors could sit to put on thier shoes. Its not an obstacle in the entrance as this section of the entry opens to the living room. In between the closet and the garage door was about 20 inches and the stool fits perfect.

IM ON THE HUNT FOR A NICE GREEN APPLE COLORED BASKET TO SLIDE UNDER THE STOOL FOR HATS AND MITTS IN THE WINTER

SHOWING YOU THE FRONT DOOR STRAIGHT AHEAD AND OFF TO THE SIDE IS THE DOOR LEADING TO THE GARAGE. THERE REALLY WASN'T ANY OTHER POSSIBILITIES. YOU WILL SEE A TINY BIT OF A WALL STICKING OUT, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT WALL IS WHERE THE TV STAND IS, GIVES YOU AN IDEA ON HOW CLOSE THE LIVING ROOM IS TO THE ENTRY.

Thanks for stopping by, and if I don't get by to visit you often its because summer can be crazy busy around here, but Im doing my best to keep up on what all you fantastic bloggers are up to, so don't think for one minute I have forgot any of you. P.S. THE MAT AT THE ENTRY WILL ALSO BE CHANGED.

hugs

janet

I AM AT IT AGAIN!! a mini project

The old stool already for a makeover

The seat adorning its brown vinyle (before)

We have a very narrow entrance and I have been trying to find something for our guest to sit on while putting thier shoes on. Being narrow isn't the only challenge, we also have two doors in this entrance, one is a coat closet the other is the door to the garage, so the only available space is a little bit of a wall in between these two doors as you can see in the picture above. So when dh asked if i wanted this old stool that was just going to be tossed in the garbage, I couldn't have been more thrilled. ITS A PERFECT FIT!!! wahooo!! Stay tuned, in a couple more days the makeover should be complete.

A happy belated Canada's Day to my Canadian blogger friends and a happy belated 4th of July to my American blogger friends. I celebrated on the first of July and had a great day that ended with watching the beautiful fireworks.

hugs

janet

A FEW THINGS I ENJOY LOOKING AT

found the ceramic ball and silver pear at
family run shops on our drives

I love my shell balls placed in this beachglass

colored bowl

A girl can never have enough magazines

(my addiction) and the sweet little birds add a summer touch

and the light adds a much needed glow

Im not a hugh fan of lots of ornaments in our home, (call me the lazy duster) but I have a few things that I enjoy in our space, after all I think things personalize a space and add a homey feeling. I removed the end table from the end of the sofa and added this shelf to house these items. I now have an area to play around with on my bored days, im sure it will constantly see changes, the shelf has been in the corner for two weeks and Im still not done. Summer tends to be a busy time, and I may not get here as much, as Im sure many won't, but when time allows i will be checking in to see what everyone is up to. Enjoy each day of our short summer!

hugs

janet

FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS...HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Our 13 1/2 year old sheltie, Mr. Sandy! "our sweetie"

Just a quick hello to my fellow bloggers, i hope you all have a fantastic weekend. We are having our daughters family and friend grad gathering saturday night, nothing fancy, just having a BBQ. My girlfriend is also arriving tomorrow evening from New Brunswick, (which is about a 12 hour drive to us) she will only stay one night and head off to spend time with her mom. However we will still have a bit of time for chit chat. Im hoping things will slow down a bit after this weekend so i can catch up on all your blogs, i really miss you all and i don't like missing what you are up to. Thank you all for taking time to stop by my blog, i really enjoy your beautiful comments and each and every visit. I will be around real soon, have a safe fun weekend!

hugs

janet