Good but busy day, bloggy friends! Here's seven:
1. Mary and I hosted a '31' party this morning. We (Mary especially!) really like this company. :-) The theme was mother/daughter Valentine. We invited Mary's friends from school and church and their mothers. It was a good morning full of shopping, laughing, coffee, donuts, and bagels!
2. Matt was reading a local magazine (Pinestraw) today and he showed me an article that he thought I would enjoy. It was about a home in Pinehurst and I was IMMEDIATELY smitten with the artwork. Turns out the artist is a Louisianian - Ida Kohlmeyer. You can read more about her and see more of her work here. Below is just one of her prints that I adore. So happy to find another artist to admire!
3. Matt has been a busy bee today - he finished the tile around the tub in the upstairs bathroom and laid the tile on the floor. Then we were off to Lowe's to get a porch door to replace the one Dingo ate last year. And it's already up! Now he's back in the bathroom grouting. All this and he's cooking me a steak dinner tomorrow for V-day! :-)
4. So while we were at Lowe's getting the door, I picked up a ton of color palettes with the hopes of finding something we both liked to use as a guide for future painting projects. (Yes, Matt usually has very strong opinions about house decor decisions!) Our color selections for painting rooms in our house up to this point has been pretty much... well... random. And you can tell when you walk from room to room... Nothing flows. I wanted to find a color scheme we could use to choose future paint colors from in the hopes that there would be some cohesion in our house... at least in the downstairs. Flipping through about twenty different options, we were both drawn to the Olympic Audubon "Brilliance" collection. So, maybe we're on the right track... At least 75% of the house is in bad need of a coat of paint.
5. E has gotten pretty domestic lately. For Super Bowl Sunday she made some really yummy brownies topped with marshmallows, chopped peanuts, and peanut butter plus an awesome seven-layer dip. Today she spent most of the day baking - brownies, super-deluxe rice-krispy treats, and red-velvet cupcakes - as a surprise V-Day gift for her boyfriend. She still has these chocolate chocolate chip cookies yet to make. She's a pretty good little baker! :-)
7. I started reading a couple of new books: Unbroken (Kindle edition) and Bonhoeffer (Hardback edition).
So, now I think I'm off to do a little reading! G'night!
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Ah, a friend told me that Unbroken was a real page turner and she is not a non-fiction fan. Let me know how you like it. I thought is sounded like an intriguing story.
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