Making it Home

I am home again after a wonderful trip to visit some of my most favorite people!
I spent ten days with Laura and her crew and it was wonderful!
I love going to the homes of my girls. Each one has a different flavor, but they both have such a confident grasp on what they love.
Laura has a strong sense of what goes together and how to make a statement with color and placement of the things around the house. She is very well organized and finds ways to make the running of a very busy home quite painless. Her kids are all a part of the process, pitching in and participating and very willing for the most part!
Nina has such a love for her space and her personality shines through in the rooms and the way that she loves to do projects and make it her very own.
The art of homemaking is not just how to keep it together, but also how to live in the home, how to be welcoming and make all who spend time there feel relaxed and comfortable.
That is not an easy balance to maintain.
I don't do it very consistantly, but I think both Laura and Nina pull it off very well.
I do love my home and I enjoy everything about the daily keeping and the projects that we do on it.
I think I probably enjoy doing home projects more than anything else that we could put our money toward, which is tough for Tim, because he has to do all of them!

While I was in Texas, Laura had all the floors in the downstairs replaced and we painted her bedroom. the new floors look so nice, and it is such an improvement as far as the work in keeping them up. Carpet is less than ideal with an active family.
I love the floors in our house and I think we have a good balance.
Tim has done a wonderful job of putting them down, and so far they are lasting forever!
We will probably do our bedroom as our next project, and the floor will be done because it is the old damaged wood floor.
I have found some amazing new products that are available at the local project stores.
Laura will be here in June and I hope to get her input on the walls and decor.

I am so glad to have this place where we have created our home.
It is truly "us" and it gets a little better every day.
The art of making it the home that we love and cherish is one that I still try to develop and improve.
I am not much of an artist in the classical sense, but in the sense of expressing who I am and what I treasure, I am fully devoted to the art of Homemaking.