~ Beau Bunny, Artful Blogging, One World One Heart

Although Beau Bunny is one of my creations, he has really taken on a life of his own. When I see him, he is just himself and I sometimes forget where he came from. The nice people at Somerset Studios, Artful Blogging, etc., send out copies to the people who have pictures and articles in their magazines, so I had the magazine for a few weeks. But it is still fun when you see it at the bookstore.
We went to Borders to look for some books, and as I was looking at the magazines, there was the new copy of Artful Blogging, and Beau Bunny in the article about Lisa and her vision and accomplishment of the One World One Heart Event. If you click on that link you can see over 400 blogs that participated.

I know it made Beau proud to be featured in this way as a part of something so special. The event was just amazing and Lisa worked so hard on it.

Sweet Daughter's new home is coming along. How do people ever have the energy to move? I have no idea. No, the kitchen cabinets are not painted. They will be someday, but I'm running out of steam at the moment. The master bedroom took 4 coats of paint and it has very high ceilings! Silly me, if I had known it would be so hard to cover the old color, I would have used a primer first, maybe. Maybe not. The smell of paint ,let alone primer is really awful to me these days. The newer eco paints are so much better, but they won't mix other brand colors in it, at least not at this store. The living areas all are open to each other with a medium taupe color. Not a great color, but the ceilings are too high for us (me!) to paint this area. So it will stay as it is for now. It's not terrible and the rugs and few furniture pieces go well enough with it. It's exciting to see it come together for Sweet Daughter. She sure has worked hard for it. Thank you so much for your kind & good wishes for her. You are wonderful!

~ Fairy Godmother Wanted, Apply Within

About right now a Fairy Godmother would come in real handy. You forget moving is so much work. And I'm not even moving! Sweetie Daughter is finally on the mend. Remember how your kids would bring those "bugs" home from school when they were little, and sure enough you would come down with it, too. That's what happen. I haven't been so sick in years. But not much time to rest, there's too much to do. A nice Fairy Godmother could get it all done quicker I bet.

It was Christmas in April last Wednesday. Sweet Daughter had purchased tickets way back in Nov or Dec to see the touring Broadway play "Wicked", as my Christmas gift. It just happened that the show date was on the same day as her closing. We got up early, went to the closing, got a bite to eat and then headed to the play. It was really a fabulous cast and production. If you've thought about seeing it, go for it!

I've been waiting to redo some things around here until after Sweetie Girl had her own place so she could have whatever she wanted that I am replacing. She talked me into getting stainless steel appliances, so my white Maytag Gemini stove will go nicely in her new home for now. She gave her stove to a girlfriend who needed one for her house. So that worked out well.

The movers are coming tomorrow to empty her storage unit and then swing by here to pick up the stove and all the other stuff in boxes and in her room. The fridge won't be here for a couple of weeks so we will have to do some of this all over again then. But we are moving along.


In the midst of winter, you can sometimes spot a tiny flower poking through the cold looking for the sun. Right now, all I can see is a mess as far as I can see. There are stacks of things everywhere. Books seemed to always be beautiful, stacked on the floor, a table or the midst of a mess. Still beautiful, and especially so when they are so worn like these are. How many hands have held them I wonder.

It will be all cleaned up again soon, but it will also be much quieter. Not just going away to college quiet, but she's really grown with a home of her own quiet. Bittersweet. I'm so happy for her, but you can't help but miss the little girl, too.

There's been little extra time to visit blogs lately, so I really want to thank each of your for taking the time to leave a note as you past by, and you kind thoughts. You are always appreciated.