Good morning!

Blizzard of 2014

It just isn't stopping! 

All schools and a lot of businesses are closed tomorrow...even the University of Notre Dame is closed. Lisa was supposed to go to jury duty tomorrow and thankfully that was cancelled too. Emergency vehicles on the roads only, so John will be staying home from work tomorrow also. Wonder what we will wake up to in the morning?

Winter in Indiana

Looks like the weathermen knew what they were talking about this time!

All these pictures were taken before noon...we have gotten at least another 6-7 inches after the pictures and it is still coming down hard and has started blowing. Glad to be inside!

Post Christmas at E-Six

The holidays are over and it was time to pack away the decorations at E-Six. I normally don't look forward to taking things down after Christmas because everything looks so plain afterwards, but I was actually looking forward to taking them down because I was adding Lisa's hand painted signs and I knew they would be the perfect way to keep things bright and fun after the decorations were gone!

I told her she needed to come up with a name to make it a little side business...and Quotespirations by Lisa Miller was born! I love these signs and I hope she does well with them.

I spent an entire day in the booth taking things down, moving furniture around....and then moving the furniture again....and then again, until I got it how I liked it. John also dropped off a storage cabinet that he got me for Christmas to keep in my cubby space. I lucked out when I got my booth space because there was an extra area that I put drapes in front of that I'm using to store stuff. I wanted the cabinet so I can lock some things up. I can now keep extra things like tools, extension cords, light bulbs, table cloths, step stool, etc. there and not have to carry it all back and forth. And I love the drapes I found at Target to hide it all!

Now it is time to get back to work on some furniture. I'm almost done with a chair. I'm waiting on the paint to dry so I can put the newly recovered seat cushion back on...and so 2014 at E-Six begins!

Christmas 2013

I'm sitting here Christmas evening and feeling grateful to have spent the past 2 days with the people I love.

Christmas Eve, Lisa, Ty and my mom came over to our house and we enjoyed a great meal. John made is famous ribs and a turkey breast on the grill and I have to say my homemade dressing and mac & cheese turned out pretty good too! I also made fudge, mints and peanut butter cup cookies...

John and I spent Christmas morning exchanging gifts to each other...

This is what I got in my stocking...yes, those are snoring strips!

John was pretty happy with his main gift...

and I got some Annie Sloan Chalk paint which was on my wish list....

Then we headed over to John's mom's to spend Christmas with his family....

So another Christmas has come and gone. It seems the older I get the faster they come and go, so I'm trying to enjoy each one I'm given!  Merry Christmas!  

Ideas

I had an idea....so I bottled it!

B4 & After

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