Office/Family Room Make Over

If you've followed my blog for very long, you know what my office/family room looks like. It's the room with all the bookshelves that I used as a backdrop for photos.

These are from 2012. You can see that there's a cabinet, two bookcases of books, a bookcase of games and a game table in the room.

I donated a couple of hundred books to a fund raiser and moved the rest to my closet. We folded up the ping pong table and replaced it with a card table for games. This was at Thanksgiving. Then I didn't do much else.

There's nothing wrong with bookcases and cabinets all around the room, but I've always wanted a couch and a table in the room so we could all work on projects, homework, music, writing together.

I bought this. And added our initial.

This started out as a plain frame and burlap. I painted the letters, glued them onto the material and added the flowers. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted on my walls. I wanted either something about dreams or something about your mountain is waiting. If Felicia of  Stare If You Must was here, she could have painted a mountain across the whole wall for me. But since she's not, I went with this.

The cork board will hold my book timeline. I was very tempted to put a clothesline across the wall for the timeline. I even have cute painted clothespins, but for now I'm using the cork board.

I bought a plain wooden crate and painted it. It's now a book box.

I got my couch and coffee table, and the books are sitting on an ottoman.

I bought "believe" and "family" unfinished and painted them. All the kids signed the family board. I took all but three of the photos on this wall. I have six news ones to go up.

These are all from portrait studios. I think mine are more interesting :)

It's taken me so long to write this blog post that I have the new pictures up. There is one empty frame at the top right. I am missing both Jeff and River from the wall.

Jessica

It was really fun walking Jessica to the teen building last night. I had her take her glasses off because it makes her look totally different. Her SS teacher walked by and Jessica said, "hi." The SS teacher said "hi" but in a way that you could tell she didn't think she knew Jessica. A few yards later she stopped, turned back and called, "Jessica? Is that you?" We had this happen at least six times where people didn't recognize her at first but then all of a sudden they figured it out. It was too fun!!

Jessica's New Look!

First, Happy half birthday Ty on the 23rd.













Jessica before:












At SuperCuts:




















Hair going to the place that does the wigs for kids with cancer.