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Working Hard

It is a quiet house here this week.  Both my boys are on a local mission trip.  They gather with a few other churches and fix up houses in one area of our city.  I went out to see what they were up to yesterday.

Mr. C is on a crew that is painting a stucco house.  He is not loving stucco and is covered in yellow paint.

He said they had to clean the gutters on Monday and he found a dinosaur and part of a barbie.  I guess they were shooting a video that day of “unusual things found on site” and he got in the video.  Looking forward to seeing that!

The girls and I then headed over to Mr. J’s crew at another house.  They were also painting.  Like how they have the kid with a broken arm on the roof holding a ladder?  He is holding it for a friend of his… she said she only trusts Mr. J.  He said he has been able to paint and do other things.

They are both having a great time.  Today will be a little hard on Mr. J as they are going to a local park with a lake to swim in… which with a cast he can not do {it is water proof but sand and dirty water are NOT on the approved list}.  Luckily there are other things to do there and it is not supposed to be very hot.

They come home late Friday and will find a spotless room thanks to me… and a freshly painted dresser with drawer knobs {which the dresser was missing since we bought it}.

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Sewing Space Surprise

While my girl was at camp I was planning a surprise for her.  We had set up a little sewing corner in our room for her and it was pretty uninspiring.  We had yet to paint our bedroom so it was still a weird pinkish white.

I spent time looking through Pinterest ideas, asking some friends for ideas, and, of course, my Mom who has taught and encouraged my girl to sew.  My brain was on overload and I was set to start on Monday.  Here is the before… so sad {taken with my phone}.

We have on odd room.  It has two doors and this archway that opens between the “main bedroom” and this little sitting room that the city states is a bedroom because it has a door and closet {guess it doesn’t need four complete walls???}.  It is the sitting room that she got a corner in and the only part that Rich painted.

Next I had Rich cut a crate I had in the basement in half to turn into shelves which we attached baby food jars to the bottom of for storage/decoration after they were painted brown.

I found little baskets that fit perfectly on the shelves.  They have dividers inside to hold some of those little things a sewer must need.

I added some decorative items like an owl my Mom found for her, a box of vintage threads, and a dress form Ms. S picked out with my Mom.

My Mom gifted a nice light for the space so she could see what she was sewing.  I also wanted to add a bulletin boards but was wondering how to hang them creatively and thought of using pant hangers.  I love how that looked.

 

The last touch was the scissors.  Found those unfinished at Hobby Lobby.  I did a base coat in brown and then painted a little darker blue than the wall on top.  Did a little sanding to make it look worn out.

The finished project…. which my husband was amazed I pulled off in four days.   The frame is a certificate for a sewing show she entered.

I still need to find a chair and some sort of storage piece for next too the table.  If you have any suggestions, I’ll take them!  Can’t be too big and needs to be inexpensive.  The “mess” on the “bench” there is things I need to store {and the paint}.  I’m also planning on having her make a seat cushion for that bench.

Oh, and Ms. A… well to say she loved it is a true understatement.  I think this is one of her highlights of her life.  She has talked about how much she loves it daily!

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Review: How Do We Know God is Really There?

My girls love to read books so I was excited to review this book for Apologia.  As soon it came in the mail we gathered on the couch and opened it.

First we flipped through the book to look at the pictures… we are like that.  The girls and I agreed that the illustrations were wonderful.

As we settled in I started to read the book.  With a treehouse building project going at our house we loved how the Dad and boy meet up in their treehouse to spend some time together.

The story surrounds them looking at the stars and the planets and brings Thomas to ask his Daddy questions about God and how do we really know that God exists.  The Dad begins to give Thomas scientific evidence of why.  But he doesn’t just tell his son, he asks Thomas questions to lead him to see for himself. Both my girls enjoyed hearing his reasons and it opened a discussion for us to talk about this reasons also.

It is a well written story and according to Apologia it is the first in a series of books to be published.  How Do We Know God is Really There? would be a great addition to your library!  We love Apologia for their science curriculum and now we can add these to our collection.

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