Welcome!

Welcome to my new and not so much improved but perhaps adjusted (?) blog.  What's so different?  Certainly not the title, I'm not that creative, as you will soon find out, but my focus has shifted a little since my last post 5 years ago.  Of course, I would still like to someday write a book, albeit, not a great one, but something to leave a mark, even if it's just a tiny little knick in someone's varnish, somewhere.  For now, I blog, hopefully I will stick with it this time, third time's the charm right?  Bear with me as I embark on my journey into the world of home decor/design, I'm terrible at it and have never really been interested in it until this past Fall.  I don't really know why it all of the sudden clicked for me, but I have to think I owe part of it to Nate Berkus, as I'm sure many DIY/design bloggers do.  I'm hoping that I will be able to use this site as an outlet for my creativity, a place to organize my thoughts, share what's new and exciting to me and perhaps get some feedback, if anyone should ever decide to actually read this and follow along.  If not, at least I'll have a place to get it all out of my system instead of boring my friends and family with it nonstop!  Over the next few days I'm going to try to get some shots posted of my attempts at refinishing furniture.  I've painted just about every room in my house but I'm holding off on showing off my handiwork until I get closer to a finished product in the actually rooms, which could take a while.

A little background on me and my home:

My husband and I moved into our home 2 1/2 years ago and, as I said, I had zero interest in home design, had never even watched HGTV or DIY Network until about 6 months ago.  The first thing I did was paint three of my downstairs rooms (family room, hallway and office) using the "two-tone technique" having no clue what I wanted to ultimately see in these rooms, let's just say I painted the hallway for the fourth time a few months ago and the office is now one tone of gray, thankfully, and the family room is soon to follow (what was I thinking, right?).  All of the trim and chair rails were stained wood and the whole house had a very country theme, right down to the wallpapered boarder with roosters and hens that encompassed my kitchen.  Oh and even the pull on the ceiling fan had a rooster hanging from it.  I do live out in the country a little, we are surrounded by farms, but come on!?  We chose this house though because we could see that it had "good bones," it's a colonial style home and the only real thing wrong with it was that the previous owner had very different taste when it came to the interior design aspect.  So, about four gallons of white semi-gloss paint later, I only have one more room to paint the trim in, our bedroom, the next house I will not be using the words "we can paint that honey!"  My house is nowhere near the finished product and our budget for such things is extremely limited since I quit my job to stay home with our 13 month old son, so if you've stumbled upon this site hoping to see a "House Proud" posting, you're probably about two to three years early for that and let's face it, I'll never be completely satisfied since the dining room chairs I just spent a month refinishing I've decided need to be done over again.

Buckle up, 'cause here we go!