Our Tiny Mudroom

Hello Peeps, today I want to share our tiny mudroom. Actually, I shouldn't' even call it a room, it's really just a little area you walk into as you enter the house from the garage. It has been driving me crazy for a while now. It's mostly a big mess of shoes and coats. So I finally started cleaning up and decorating a bit. We actually have another coat closet just around the corner, so I moved everything we don't use on a daily basis in there, let's hope we can keep this area a little less cluttered for a while.

I actually forgot to take a BEFORE picture..sorry! I was too excited to start de-cluttering....

Our Play Room

Hello sweeties, fist off I need to thank each one of you who left such sweet and heartfelt condolences on the loss of our Newfoundland Brucie last week. If you missed that post you can click here HERE to catch up. It was truly touching to read all of the sweet words and sharing your losses with me. I miss my little bear lots!

So today I want to share our Playroom with you. I don't think I ever shared the bonus room here before. Mostly, cuz it's always a mess...lol

Having To Say Good Bye

I've been taking a break from blogging these past few days. My heart is heavy. We had to say good bye to our 11 1/2 year old Newfoundland Brucie this Friday. He was an old boy for the breed, but I don't  think you are ever ready for the final good bye.
Last Friday morning his stomach bloated, totally unexpected and we had to let him go.
 I wanted to share some of my favorite pictures of our gentle giant over the years, celebrating each season with one lucky Baby Boy who got to grow up with him.

2013 Posts In Review

Wow, I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. I have been blogging for 10 month and it's been such a blast. The fun people I have meet (even if not in person), the sweet comments I have received and not to mention the inspiration I get every day from all the wonderful blogs I now follow. My house is improving a little at a time and it' because I actually make an effort to improve something each week and blog about it. Your visits and sweetness are what gets me going!!! So let's take a look back at my most popular posts of 2013. Here they are, listed in order of "most viewed"

The absolute winner with over 13,000 views...WOW'sers
Rusty Buckets

 

A little Christmas Tour

Hi and Happy Weekend to all....so before Christmas is over, let me share a little more of our home decorated for the Holidays!

Make Your Own Christmas Card Back Drop

The other day I ran across this cute idea on making your own Christmas Card Back Drop with things you already have laying around the house. The source of the AWESOMENESS was from Carmel over at Our Fifth House
 After being inspired by her post I hung up a large table cloth on the wall, gathered some Christmas Decorations I already had, and plugged in some string lights....

My Replies To Your Sweet Comments

Hello to all of my readers, as most of you know I haven't been blogging for a very long time yet, so everything is still a learning process for me. It just now came to my attention that most of you haven't been getting my replies to your comments. I assumed that by choosing REPLY to your original comment, you would get notified. But it seems that I need to be replying to you directly via email, which can also be difficult since a lot of you are NON-REPLY Bloggers.
So, that being said, please know that you have NOT been ignored if you have not gotten my replies in the past. I have made an effort to reply to each comment no matter how small.
It is Called "Operator Error", what can I say? LOL
So from now on you should be getting my replies unless you are a NON-REPLY Blogger.
Thanks to each one of you for all of your sweet words over these past 10 month.

So here is a little CUTENESS for you today, this should put a smile on your face!

Finally, A Christmas Porch

Hello sweet friends, I have been outside all afternoon working on getting my porch decked out for Christmas. It was a very beautiful but COLD day here in Olympia today. 

I am in a bit of a hurry this evening, still need to catch up on my laundry before it's back to work tomorrow. 

So I will let the pictures do all the talking!