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Lessons Learned 2018

So many lessons learned this past year. Lessons that make life easy to hard lessons that hurt. I’ve learned late in this year just who I really am and who I want to be at the end of the day. I’m more focused than ever and now know the direction and path of my next journey. I have found new ways to do my work that gives me more time. Processing these pieces are a full time job that I...

Gathering From The Heart

I’ve been ask why I call my restored dining table sets “Gathering Tables” well this is why. The season of gathering is upon us. We fill our days with shopping, wrapping, attending events as the days melt away. Then comes the day we stop and gather to celebrate Christmas. In my home we celebrate the birth of Christ. We gather on Christmas eve and Christmas morning. On Christmas Eve we open our home to those that don’t have a family...

Blue Happy Is Lost

Well I’ve been MIA for about a week and a half. I feel like someone dropped me off in a forrest and drove away without any information or direction. I’m not one for staying down to long but this mess has got me in a tail spin. Here is what has happened. On Friday December the 7th I opened up my computer to blog and my world was turned upside down. When you write a blog and open your life...

Flipping My Holiday Upside Down

I have been exposed to what I call the Christmas room. At first it surprised me every time I walked in this room. After a while I expected it. Filled with years of decorations from the past, over loaded with things that bring back childhood memories and never without an ugly Christmas sweater or two. Rare is an estate sale that doesn’t have “a Christmas room”. After awhile you start to think “oh my I have this much stuff at...

So Much Drama

I came across a ratty little dresser at the last Doc Holiday’s sidewalk sale. It needed repairs to the drawers, lots of stains that weren’t part of the character and it needed a makeover in a bad way. Something about this little dresser called my name. It spoke to me so I had to buy it. Most people would look at this piece and say oh my why? What in the world would make you want to save this piece....