Adding more home photos! Which took FOREVER!!!
OK, WordPress and I have gone about 15 rounds as I have been working for three stinking days to post more of the fabulous photos that you have been kind enough to send to me. I think I finally won, but we’ll see… It still may be kinda jacked up.
I hope not, because these are such fun glimpses into each other’s lives and homes!
I’ll start the festivities by showing you the BEFORE of the project I am currently tackling: painting my brick fireplace. I really don’t like the brick right in the middle of that room, so I am painting it the same color as the walls, which is Behr’s ‘Warm Muffin.’ Wish me luck, and I’ll post the AFTER as soon as I am finished– if we all live that long. Here are some of my impediments to completing this in a timely manner: I don’t really know what I am doing, I almost killed myself lifting the giant mantle off of that wood thing, I’m very disorganized, when I use the wire brush to prep the brick a distressing amount of brick dust comes flying off and Russ has no idea where the attachments to the shop vac are so I am trying to vac up the dust with just the nozzle end which is less than effective and also? DANG, those shop vacs are loud!!!!
HERE WE GO!
bettyrwoodward's Liliput Lane collection
LINDA B: "If you come to visit me, this is where we will sit and sip tea, eat banana bread, and laugh our heads off about stuff!"
LINDA B: "Carter is pointing to the four remotes required for me to play one DVD. And there's a computer now sitting by my chair. I can turn it on and switch modes on the TV remote, and the big screen TV becomes a big computer monitor! AND, hubby has rigged it so that when the phone rings, the name and number appears on the TV screen. Do you see the giant speakers on either side, the one above the TV, and the one on the floor to the left? Okay, that's four speakers. There are more to come. I think he needs serious counseling."
"I have two Thomas Kincaid prints, which I got at a garage sale, believe it or not! I love them! They are two of my very favorite Kincaid's-----Victorian Christmas and The Forest Chapel. The lady was moving and sold them to me BOTH for $180!!! That was a bargain and a half! My friend Jan has a Kincaid in her home that she paid $4000 for at a Kincaid gallery. She'll never know, will she? And YES, that is another speaker on the server and one on top of the hutch! And there's two free standing ones smack in the middle of the living room. Eight in all. See what I mean!"
LINDA B: Dining room-- "This very heavy cut glass punch bowl was a gift to my inlaws on their 25th wedding anniversary from their church. I inherited it when she passed away. It is unique, I believe. I think of my husband's mother every time I look at it. Through the door is our back deck where I can sit and contemplate the universe..........for about three minutes. That's my limit. LOL"
LINDA B: "A few of my favorite things: My late mother-in-law collected Moon and Star glassware by Smith Glass. It is now very collectable and very pricey, even on Ebay. She gave me a few pieces before she died. My husband bought these green canisters on Ebay a few years ago and I love them!!!! The big soup tureen was given to me also by my mother-in-law for Christmas before she died. I bought the tray when we were on vacation because it looked so much like the tureen. Some trivia for you-----it was said that Abraham Lincoln's favorite glassware was the Moon and Star pattern?"
TANYA GOODMAN SYKES: "In the entry there is a display that represents our faith and family legacies. The large photo is Michael's grandad (shown here preaching on the radio) who started over 30 churches in NC, the smaller photos are my family, the bibles, glasses and capo belonged to his grandparents. The bell, this is my fave, was the little bell that his granddad rang to signal the end of Sunday School time before Sunday morning services."
TANYA GOODMAN SYKES: "The night stand is mine, and above it hangs a Holiday Inn post card, I made a photo copy of the back and had it mounted as well. It's from my dad, he sent it to me from the road when I was about 7. I had cried when he left town that week and he wrote me a little note and mentioned that school would soon be out and I could, "go on the bus with him and swim in fun pools like the one on the card." It's one of my most cherished possessions."
TANYA GOODMAN SYKES: "The lamb, (with one broken wing, that I just sit on top of the good one) was made for me by my youngest daughter as a gift. It's so special to me because it's kind of the way I think of her. She's my little lamb, not perfect, but precious and I love her just the way she is."
THEMEMA: "The old chippendale style furniture was my Mom's. The lawyers cabinet in the far corner was my Dad's and is filled with relics, jewelry and linens that he brought back from Jerusalem in 1921. The brass tray that is sitting on the wood frame with the plant is also from the Holy Lands. The plant was given to my Mom on her 90th birthday in 1990. It is still alive and healthy. The drop leaf table was my Mom's first dining room table. The fireplace is made out of river rock that Mom and Dad collected when they were going together, before they were married. The chandelier is original to the house."
THEMEMA: "One might think that I love green, magnolias and dogwood. They would be right. This is my dining room."
FROM THEMEMA: ( I think this is so cool! Here is a vintage photo of her childhood home-- she lives there now!) "I"m told that the newest car in this picture is a 1939. The H shaped building was the officer's quarters on the base, and was mostly destroyed when a plane crashed into it. Yes, they flew and crashed that close to us."
I'm just crazy enough to leave my tree up all year round. This is my summer tree. Each year, I buy new flip flops for it and then use the flip flops in my Angel tree boxes at Christmas."
