Little Changes and 2 Big Wins

Over the past few months I have been making little decorating changes here and there around our house. I am not anywhere near where I would like to be with this but I'm getting there slowly. Last spring we replaced the furniture in our living room, then we replaced the carpet with wood flooring. We had hardwood flooring installed in our dining room and hallway when we built our house(19 years ago) but no where else. I found a great rug for our living room and then went in search for one for the dining room to coordinate since the two rooms join. I found one while I was supposed to be Christmas shopping last November. It turned out to be one of my presents from Paul for Christmas. Then we moved on to recovering the dining room chairs. I still have one chair left to recover. If you look closely you can see it in the left corner of the dining room. This one is going to have to be done by a professional we are not tackling it ourselves. When that's done it will take care of all the changes for that room.

The living room is still a work in progress. The picture below is dark but you can see that I replaced the big Federal mirror over Paul's chair with a round espresso colored one. I had to put another mirror here because the little ones love to stand in daddy's chair and look at themselves.

In the next picture you can see that we finally upgraded to a flat screen TV. According to Land this was long overdue! He said he was glad we finally modernized. Leave it to a 13 year old to think his parents are so out of the loop. There was really no place to mount it on the wall and I did not want it over my fireplace because I have an antique mirror from my mother there so we went with an espresso colored media stand. I like it so much better than our old entertainment center. I still have a few pictures to replace in here but this room is also almost finished.

Now I can tell you about the two big wins. First of all I never win anything but on Monday this all changed! I love to look at decorating blogs when I have the time(which is hardly ever) but when I do one of my favorites is Much To Do With Nothing.
A few weeks ago she posted a give-away from a new decorating blog that had recently been launched. Of course I had to jump over and take a look. The blog is Erica Le Blanc Design
and she was giving away one of her design packages worth $275 and I won! Now Erica is going to help me make our bedroom over into a restful retreat. Believe me this is much needed with a teenager and two little ones running around! I can hardly wait to get started. Keep checking back and I will let everyone know how it is going. If you get a chance check out these two blogs. They are both beautiful and very creative when it comes to decorating.

Now on to the next big win. Our baseball player had a big night at his first home game last Tuesday. He played great and we were so proud of him. Here he is up to bat.

And here he is behind the plate doing a great job catching. We look forward to cheering this JV team on at the rest of their games.
Now I have to run because we are out of school today. The weather is beautiful and the outside is calling. Later I am off to look at new counter tops for my kitchen so I can work on another, much needed, little change.

Until next time...

Remember that when we work on little changes here and there it can make a big difference!

Help us not to forget though the best works of all!

Psalms 103:22 NIV
Praise the Lord, all His works everywhere in His dominion. Praise the Lord, O my soul.