where to start

I found this picture in one of my forwards and thought I would share, because it is how I feel when I am at my house right now.

I am in the process of purging, packing, and moving, and I am totally overwhelmed!

How do you begin to combine two households to make it fast and efficient, and keep everyone happy?  Is that even possible??

I walk into my house and immediately get dizzy.  I don't know where to start at times, and other times I get started and wonder if I am cleaning and packing up the right things.  I think I might be a procrastinator perfectionist! (hehe) 

come and gone

Another Valentine's Day has come and gone.  I hope everyone had a love-filled day!

I saw this youtube clip a while back and thought of it on Monday, thinking of all the people that feel as though they are alone.  I just thought I'd share it and say... I think it takes courage to be "alone" and to be happy with who you truly are in life and know what makes you happy.

I believe everyone could benefit from this kind of quality alone time.

" just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. take silence and respect it."


 

friday quote:

"We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."
-Omar Bradley

ideas galore

The middle of 2010 I really started to become a blogaholic.  I started out just following a few, but then I would follow the links on blog pages to other blogs and I just keep on adding blogs to follow! (Let's see how many times I can type the word blog, lol)  I scaled back a few but there are so many fantastic ideas on blogs that I just love to read through them all.

Take Christmas for example.  In December there seemed to be an overwhelming plethora of ideas coming at me from so many directions.  Sewing ideas, baking ideas, handmade gifts, wood gifts...you get the idea.  Well I came across this one on Shanty2Chic, and I thought it was such a cute twist on a picture frame that I had to try it.  I made a few and loved them!  I gave them to a few family members, and unless they were giving me one of the old Christmas lines of how much they loved it, I think they really liked them.  Unfortunately, I only got a picture of one of them....didn't think I would ever be blogging about it, but will try to get pictures of some other ones.

Sorry for the not so great pictures but I had to take it with my phone and I have an ancient phone.  (I promise future pictures will be so much better!)

So, this was my fist project that I actually tried off of one of the blogs that I read, and if I do say so myself....they came out great!  I plan on being inspired and trying out many more this year!


*2010 I did attempt to work on a couple other projects, like a worm compost bin and refinishing a metal tv cart.  I will be posting and adding pics of those projects later. :)  Stay tuned!

a little history

The past year, or actually the past 3 1/2 years, have had the highest highs and the lowest lows in the whole 33 years of my life.  The past year especially has been hard, but it has also been the most rewarding on a very personal level.

Sometimes it becomes very difficult for a person to keep moving forward when all of a sudden HUGE changes bombard their life and their momentum.  They kind of just halt, and basically become a robot moving through the daily motions of life.  That was me at the end of 2009.

And then I got a HUGE wake up call!

I figured things out about myself in the last year that if I hadn't hit rock bottom I probably would not have ever searched for.  Instead of looking for everything around me to make me happy, I needed to take a look at myself and find out how to make myself happy.  I am not talking about in a selfish way, but in a way that you take care of yourself first and in turn the people around you benefit cause you can be there for them 100% in a loving and caring way.

Although I need to remind myself throughout the week where my priorities should be, I am in a much better place, and am going down a much happier path.  I love life and am very blessed...and that is where this blog comes in.  I get very inspired by a lot of different things, and this will be my way of jotting them down and sharing them with anyone that wants to follow along.