Life's Simple Pleasures!

My husband folded the laundry for me.  Hallelujah!

That's not all, though!  My mum drove the whopping 10.5 hours from Virginia to spend the week with me!  Unfortunately, I'm working every day and was lucky enough to get Tomorrow off to take her to the artist's colony -Nashville, Indiana!


I don't need fancy things (although they do really help cheer me up...not going to lie about that one!), but I will take Joy from the simple pleasures of life.  It's good thing I'm in the mood for honey-do's because my honey has lots TO do!  :o)

Have a great day!

...And Then...

I love being inspired (only ONE of the many reasons I LOVE blogging -so much inspiration out there by awesome women!)!  I love having an idea and turning it, and turning it, until BAM!  It's perfect!  My last post was on how many ideas I had for adding an outdoor counter top to our beeeeeauteeeful deck.  I LOVE it -it's like a little vacation spot for me.  So -I bet you're curious, aren't you?  It's alright -you can admit that you were curious to see what I was going to choose!  After talking DH's ear off and calling both sets of parents, I decided on a completely NEW concept.  It's GREAT -are you ready?!?

I'm going to build the outdoor counter as a smaller version of a harvest table, meaning long and thin.  I'll be using either old (and I mean "weathered" not crusty...) decking boards, OR the pallets the ship heavy materials on that you see the cool little tractors moving at Lowes!  I haven't decided which yet, but we'll probably choose which ever one is cheaper!  :)  DH doesn't mind me improving our home, as long as it fits into the budget, you know....  *shrug*  He just doesn't get my creative genius but -ohhhh well!  hehe

So the legs of this table will be made of the balasters (? -the outdoor version of a newel post...) and will be painted and then sealed for the weather!  I'm also going to find some antique door nobs and mount them on the sides so that we'll have a place for utensils and towels! 

I'm sorry I don't have any pictures, but I'll make sure to keep you posted!

Have an awesome Friday!!!

(I'm linking to New Friend Friday!)

Epiphany!

I had an epiphany!  I realize that these are very important things, and while mine is very important, it is not religiously related (this time), however, I found that this was the best word to describe the experience I had!

Let me give you some backs story before I explain myself!  *settles in, and clears throat for story telling time*

Last may, we built this b-e-a-uuuuuuteeeful deck on the back of our home.  It WAS a sad, pathetic 9 x 9 square that seemed to be an after thought to our pretty little piece of Peace.  So I (yes -me, my poor husband...) decided that we would build a deck fit for two extreme deck lovers.  Now, I've never really "built" anything from scratch in my whole entire life, so both sets of parents, a bobcat, and 20 trips to Lowes were involved.  Just in case you were curious, they didn't let me drive the bobcat....

I kind of have this -go big or go home -thing that runs in our family that is not one of my most cherished traits, but is one that allows me to be a "get it done" kind of person.  I guess it's not tooooo terrible, right?  So our families came up for Memorial Day weekend, and we knocked this beauty out in THREE DAYS!!!  DH, DFIL, and DF engineered it for us, and then I (yes -me again) did all of the landscaping.  We've got hydrangeas, mock orange, butterfly bush, yellow knock out roses (which I actually think died...), and eccinacia's!  Everything is double the size in the pictures from last year and SO pretty, but the deck looks so bare!  You can see here that we didn't even have deck furniture at this point in time.  It was so sad.  So the summer wore on, and fall and winter came, and now that it is spring again, I'm looking to make this beeeeeauteeful deck our next "place to be".  The next outdoor extension of our home.

Enter current time -Epiphany!!!-

I have wanted to build myself a counter space for serving because we LOOOOUVRE to spend time on this beauty!  This past week, I laid in bed thinking...and thinking...and thinking until it hit me!  I need a vintage cast iron and enamel farmhouse sink!  Eurika!  Well -just in case you folks didn't know, they cost a FORTUNE, which is something that we poor college students do not have.  I checked eBay, so there is hope....

Anyway, we were at the Habitat Re-store again (and when I say we were there, I was totally there dragging poor DH along in his total post-semester state of sleep deprivation) and the real deal hit me -the ultimate non-religious epiphany!!!!!!!  I saw the folding, hinged, amazing closet doors and decided that would be PERFECT!!!!!  That way, I can expand the counter space as needed, and it will look so cute and country-chic!  In my excitement, I called my Mum to let her know how exited I truly was, and you know what she did -she said it wouldn't work!  *Gasp*

After freaking out that my closet doors would rot within one year (thank the Lawd I didn't buy them!), DH and I are back to exploring our options (and when I say we, I mean, "Babe, what do you think about metal closet doors?"  DH: "Well...hmm....", Me:  "OR!!!!  We could just get those tiles we saw!??"  DH:  "Mmmmm"  Me: "OR!!!  We could just do a "just for now" kind of thing, you know...cheap?"  DH:  *additional non-committal sounds* ).  I'm willing to wait for a little while -but really not TOO long.  Hopefully we can fine what I want sooner rather than later!

*cheers* to the out door counter top to be!