wonderful bling

 

 I hosted Thanksgiving yesterday and it was a wonderful day sharing our new kitchen with dear friends.  My sons are home from college and one of my sons assembled our new table from CB2.

The light was installed two days ago, just in time for Thanksgiving.

 One of the benefits of hosting are receiving lovely hostess gifts that I call "Wonderful Bling!"  Flowers, an aromatic candle,

organic argan oil and a dvd of "It's a Wonderful Life."

 Seated next to my son who is home from University is also very wonderful.
Yes, hard to believe that I have twins in college.

Congrats to Brooke from "Velvet and Linen" - (no. 28 randomly chosen) who won the giveaway.
If you have not met Brooke and Steve, click on over for some simply amazing and inspiring work.

tweedy week

Here is a snippet of my week which reminds me of a tweedy melange.

Above is a commissioned illustration that I did outdoors of a home, that reminds me of a Swiss Chalet.

I was such a gorgeous morning, the leaves were falling and swirling all around me.

Apples were given to me which made me smile.  I enjoyed my day!

 Finally got a rug pad for this rug that I added to the kitchen by the built in pantry.

Been stocking the pantry with beverages, holiday goodie boxes for gifting and napkins.

Master Bedroom deep floors and lovely light walls and warm sun!

 My floors are stained a lovely deep rich warm stain.  The Master Bedroom walls are moonlight white, Ben Moore which reminds me of fresh egg whites.

My Waterworks .25 tub made it successfully into the Master Bath although it is not yet "bath ready" because it needs to be situated by our plumber.

 The Simply white color with the glass tile in the shower looks 

a tad warm, so I am giving Martha "Bakery Box White" a try which has a tint of misty watery blue.

 Made an Apple Pie.

 Cleaned, chopped and cooked some fresh veggies for soup.

 My daughter on the left (and her dear friend) had Colonial Day at her school this week on Wednesday which was great fun.

Thank-you for fellow friend Victoria and blogger- Art House Design, for loaning such a charming dress, apron and bonnet for the day.

I told you my week was tweedy mix of random musings!

stacked

Growing up one of seven and having three brothers added to the joy of increasing my vocabulary and not all of the words involved choice words. My very own daughter is learning some interesting words from her big brothers. So, here you have it, my "stacked" stone for the new addition.

The open door is the entry to my studio. We are aiming to be complete by mid October.

Above my studio window, there will be an arbor built to trellis a climber, a rose or some sort of blossoming flower. While we are a mere stone's throw from our completion of this project, I truly cannot wait to get to work! Thanks to each of you who are waiting for work. We take the next twin to his college this Thursday. Things are stacked in my favor for some assemblance of normalcy soon with the new school year upon us and a new home addition to settle into!