Ta Dah....here it is...with much fanfare and appreciation for the great carpenter and his masterpiece...


...the finished plate rack....


It was painted white and accessorized with black and white.


Look at those trimmed out corners!


One project down......1,444,000 more to go!
Have a blessed and wonderful day!

smiles, kari & kijsa

Praise God from whom all blessings flow...

Praise God from whom all blessings flow...

"Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever, his faithfulness continues through the generations"
Psalm 100:4-4

About Sisters... "She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink..." ~Barbara Alpert

Thank you Kari...for just being you!

For more pink sweetness...visit the wonderful Beverly. !

We just returned from a fabulous tip to Scotland...and at the risk of being the relative who makes you sit through hours of slides and photos...here we go!!

Unmentionables - those articles of ladies' apparel that are never discussed in public, except in full-page, illustrated ads.
~Changing Times

A little touch of bright pink color with a smile! For more pink inspiration, check out Beverly's Pink Saturday to see other pink posts!!

Interesting note: This is the painting on the Ladie's Room Door (to the Loo!) from the Elephant House, a coffee shop in Edinburgh, Scotland famous as the location where JK Rowling wrote her Harry Potter Series.

I was driving through the streets of our tiny town when I spied this.

It spoke to me.


Trust me. I have an ear for these things.

Can you think of the stories this window could tell? Of the things that it has seen...the life it has lived.


And there it sat.

Propped up against the side of the house.


Waiting.

Waiting for me.

Waiting for someone to listen and to rescue it.

So I called the owner to see if it was available.

It was.


Be still my heart.

I know what you're thinking.

What are you going to do with this window?

Isn't it obvious?

Can't you see it?

Isn't the window talking to you, too? (If it's not...don't worry. It didn't seem to be talking to anyone else in the town either).


So this window.

When it spoke.

It kind of whispered.

It said ever so softly,

"I want to be a chalkboard calendar."

So that's the weekend project.

After all, who am I to turn down the request of a perfectly respectable window.

Have a blessed and wonderful day!

blessings,

kari & kijsa

What's a girl to do?


What's a girl to do when she sees an inspiration photo like this...


And she has the perfect space for this project like this...

And her mother-in-law is coming for Thanksgiving.

Checklist for getting project accomplished.


(1) Remove vintage cupboard that used to be a kitchen cabinet to the bathroom to be used as a perfect space to store towels.

(2) Wink at really, really, really (and I am not exaggerating here in case he happens to read this) cute husband.


(3) Watch as husband uses this...


(4) And some of these...

(5) Wink a few more times for good measure.


(6) Oooooh and ahhhhh over the progress that is being made.

(7) Sit back and drink a diet coke and watch your inspiration come to life.

Have a blessed and wonderful day!

smiles,
kari & kijsa

PS I will try to post pictures of the finished project tomorrow!

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up.
The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now.
They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything. ~Dave Barry

For more 'sunshine' visit this yummy Pink Saturday site...How Sweet the Sound

When we bought the farmhouse it came with many extra buildings (one of which we discovered a month after we closed on the house...but that is a story for another time).

This little house was once a beauty shop.


At the present time we are fresh out of beauty operators, so we decided to make it into an art house for the children.

I stocked it with a plethora of art supplies. There were papers and scissors and stickers and glue...oh...and the glitter...the wonderful, life-changing, make a project out of an old-cardboard-box-and-some-tape glitter.


I added a chandelier and an old bench made out of a headboard. Next, I added pillows with damask outdoor fabric and burlap.

What an oasis I thought.

What a place to create.

What a place to spend hours cutting and pasting and glueing and, of course, glittering.


So there it sat...that wonderful art house...ready for future Picassos and Rembrandts to begin their incredible art careers majoring in glitter.


Unfortunately, the artists turned up their noses at the art house. They visited a couple of times and then they took their glitter and glue and paper and markers and stickers and decorated their room with thousands of tiny shards of paper instead.

And the art house stood forlorn.


So now it's a work-out house.

I'm sure that will get a lot more use (wink)!

Have a blessed and wonderful day!

smiles,

kari & kijsa

It was a flustery, blustery day here today. Rain poured and poured.

The kind of day that you want to stay inside, start on a really good book and fix chili for supper.

Or you could just take pictures of your fall decorations on your back door.

This post will be short and sweet because the decorations are short and sweet, but oh are they clever.

Clever you say?

What's so clever about a multi-colored, multi-leaved wreath on a black door?


Because this gynormous, very expensive looking wreath is actually an inexpensive little bit of fall nothing with a friend.

You see, underneath all that fall foliage is a much larger, much fuller, very inexpensive grapevine wreath.

Even the skeptics have to admit....that was pretty clever.


And here's some free of charge urns with pumpkins photos.


I mean seriously folks, what fall decoration isn't complete without an urn, a pumpkin and, of course, a bunny.

Hope your day isn't too flustery!

Blessings,

kari & kijsa