Please keep my daughter in your prayers.

Turning 28 doesn't mean that she is no longer my little girl. She will always

be and I will always want to see her smile.

My baby went into the hospital today. Please keep her in your prayers.

The Boy Likes to Fish

I miss my boy! I wish he was fishing in the lake behind the house.

HERE WE ARE TODAY

Alot of changes have been made to the Shabby Old House. Since there wasn't a laundry room we decided to take the area where the old back porch use to be and wall it up. As soon as we finish the laundry room I will show you that. But for today this is what the back room turned out to look like. I still have much to do but it is cozy for now.

This is the wall that was added.

The wall behind the old mirror is where the window use to be.

Now my guest have privacy.

And one day I hope to put a shelf running the distance of the window up and then decorate over the window. But that is going to be another post.

Hope your weekend is filled with rewarding projects.

Hugs

Becky

Renovating An Old Victorian is Messy

Straight ahead is the little sun room that was added on to the Shabby Old House. It is bright and cheery although a humble frame. The main house is just before the left side of the railing. When they added the den to the house they covered the original window. The Roof slopes and although you can't see it in this picture they left about a foot of window sticking out above the sloping roof. So when you walked into the room from outside you saw 3/4 of a window. Nice realy nice. And get this, you could actually look through that window into the bedroom. Welcome to my bed and breakfast. Don't mind that window. We keep the shades pulled. lol

These brilliant hobblers did the same thing again. They made a nice L shaped room but the window to the 2nd bedroom in the hall was open to the room as well.

Somehow I just don't think that would ever fly with our guests. lol

And you can see that we have been trying out paint samples. My hubby even got on the ladder and did a two tones green to see if we liked it. How can you go wrong with green? Or can you?!

The whole room was painted this color and very very dirty.

See that window and door. This would have been the original back door and that window is one that goes to the Master Bedroom. There is another window on the other side as well and it looked into the kitchen.. Can't you see in your mind how cute this back porch could have been. Throw in some steps a landing and some gingerbread trim and oh honey that would have been all I needed.

The roof leaked and so in fixing that we fixed the ceiling with drywall. I really struggled spending any money to renovate any portion of this room. But we couldn't leave those issues the way they were.

What a pretty thing I am. lol


So you are in the house from the back. You see we covered the window. Isn't the floor lovely too. It slopes just like the roof. lol

But the windows are cute. Except there are bee bee holes in them.

We think that Old Mr Baker may have been shooting at the Bats...

And that is another story for another day.

I will show you where we are with the room tomorrow.

Sure hope you come back.

Hugs

Becky

A Look at the Backside

I fell in love with the Shabby Old House because of all the gingerbread trim. I have always dreamed of owning a house with a porch like this one.

Ask me how I feel about it all when we start scrapping and painting it in the fall. I have a feeling it is going to be a project that I won't be able finish quick enough. Although I am certain the finished project will be such a reward.

If you live in the Historic district of Eufaula anything you do must be approved to strict guidelines. We will soon be submitting color choices and keeping our fingers crossed. I have heard from some that this board is a strict one. I think that this is good within reason. I only wished a strict board was around when they submitted a building permit for the additions that were added on.

Let's have a look at her backside. I can almost feel her blush with embarassment.

As you can see they tacked on two rooms and a horrible stoop. The room to the left is the sunroom which is off of the back bedroom bath. The room to the right with the steps leading up to it is what is suppose to be a den family room.
I was so hoping to win the lotto or inherit a fortune from a rich relative so that I could just knock these rooms off and properly add on to them, but since nothing like that has happened we have just had to make due.
I will take you in tomorrow.
I hope you will come back.

Looking for the perfect Shade

I love to find a great vintage lamp and I especially love to find them with their lampshades.

When they don't have their shade then I play a loosing game of , "Will The Lampshade Fit?"

Can anyone tell me how to figure out the perfect size shade for a lamp?

I thought this was a great idea for a great old lampshade frame.

I love how this one swirls to the side.

I love the added embellishment.

And here is what you do with the ones that you buy that don't fit.

Have a party with your friends!

I'll be passing out the hats.

Garden Inspirations from Scott's Flea Market

I have been daydreaming about the flowerbeds that I want to put in around the Shabby Old House. That must have been the reason that the garden inspired booths seemed to draw me in at Scotts. I loved this booth as well. Enjoy the pictures. .

More of Scott's Flea Market

This birdcage ivy is just one more reason to go to Atlanta's Scott's Flea Market and back to Jill's booth. I wish I had paid closer attention to where the booths were. So Jill if you are reading this, e-mail me. I would be happy to direct people to you!!

There are two mega huge buildings full of antique dealers as well as outside vendors. You will find anything your little heart desires!

A Trip to Scott's Flea Market

One of the best things about going to a flea market is meeting such talented people.

Meet Jill Clow. Jill has a darling booth. It just draws you in.

She specializes in what she terms Frenchy Garden.

Don't you just love it?

I'll post more later. Hubby's calling.

Proud as a Peacock

Have you ever carefully looked at a peacock?

Because of work, my hubby is staying in our RV throughout the week in a park in the Everglades that is home to over 30 or more peacocks. I was amazed by them.

I totally got the phrase proud as a peacock after seeing these guys strut around the park.

What makes you proud as a peacock?

And if you would like to be the proud owner of a new patio rug,

http://www.oldwhitecottage.blogspot.com/ is giving one away.

Check it out!



Romans 6:20

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made .....