White Country Farmhouse

Almost finished!!

I have it sitting in my foyer so it can be seen from the road, but I just love the front of the house and want to stare at it all day myself.

Guess I'll have to ride up and down the road several times a day so I can see it myself!!

NOT!!

We still have to put the roof over the porch.

I love love love the porch too!

A garden bench, croquet set, galvanized tub, rubber garden/barn boots and garden tools.

Just like my real front porch!

I crocheted the rug for the doorway, I have to be able to wipe my muddy boots, right? Love this veiw!

Be still my heart!

Always loved these sinks!

How do you like the pastry tray?

Walnut bedroom suite, the bed looks just like mine that Danny made for me for our first Christmas!

Still waiting for the other pieces Danny!

I have decided that I will have to paint the ceilings in all the rooms!

Isn't one house enough to have to paint? Or Two? (home and The Fairy's Rest)

I love being able to sit and admire the dollhouse and see my plum tree in bloom!!

Spring has finally sprung here!!

Is it wrong for a grown woman like me to dream of owning a big white country farmhouse?

To play with a big white country farmhouse dollhouse?

Nah!!

Na Na Na Nah Nah!!

I bet you've always wanted one too!

We have finally took the time to work on this dollhouse that has been started for what 2 years or so? I am loving it more than I thought I would too!!
Like the walnut stained door?

How about my vintage farmhouse kitchen sink?

I even have a to scale dollhouse for my dollhouse!!

This is so the dollies can play dollhouse too.

I will let the dollies decorate this one all by themselves!

Emma is getting pretty excited about getting this thing finished before she goes off to college.

Go check out Amy's dollhouse over at duringquiettime.blogspot.com.

This is the link to her kitchen but the rest of the dollhouse is in previous posts.

SOOOOO CUUUUUUUUUTE!!

The girls at work said I needed to have a dollhouse play party and invite all the women I work with. Now how fun would that be? No kids, just adults! LOL!!

Sorry Emma and Lillie you will have to wait your turn!

"Lillie" is my 4th grandchild who is coming next week.

They are going to induce labor on Tuesday if she holds out that long!

I can't wait to meet her!!

Cook. Clean. Sew. Repeat.

That seems to be the norm around here. Just not enough of the third step and way too much of one and four. I need to learn some time management skills. Understatement! Yesterday I vowed 15 minutes of internet time would be it until after supper was over and the kitchen cleaned up. Worked well....for the most part. 15 minutes spent checking blogs and emails and my facebook. Ya know I am an important person with all of these ways for people to contact me! LOL!!

I cleaned and laundered and did my haircolor and showered and dressed and paperwork and etc etc etc all before noon. Sat down at noon to check on a recipe for supper. Got up and made a sourdough starter and out the door to run errands. Such a good feeling with so much accomplished! Came home and made Sour Cream Enchiladas
with my own homemade tortillas too!! I am impressed with myself!

Please don't look at how dirty my new oven is already......and it's steam cleam and self cleaning. Don't judge me. Danny does enough of that for all of you! If he didn't make me cook so much for him it wouldn't get dirty now would it? anywhoooo......Delicious. That Suzanne over at Chickens in the Road knows how to cook!!! I will never get to go out to eat at mexican again he says.

After supper....like I said... was blogging time and I found a new blog with this little frog. Went upstairs and made my version. She has the tutorial and pattern that you can download but I couldn't get it so I freehanded one similar to hers. I stuffed him with polyfil and decided that he looked like a pincushion to me. He has been in the watermelon patch and the evidence came home with him.

I made another much bigger pattern for another one. I plan to get several of these made today. You see I am not crazy about frogs but I had some just like him when I was a wee little tot. A neighbor made me one and then my mom made some more like him for me too. I have planned on trying to make a pattern for him all my life it seems and never attempted it. So when I saw this one posted I had to do it. I am in love with him. Not so much that it bothered me sticking pins in his back though. I think he will be happy sitting on my ironing board or anywhere in my sewing room watching me. Maybe he will keep me focused on the project at hand. Ya know my ADD!!!

Speak of ADD? This is what the dollhouse looks like now. The foundation is laidout on the coffee table...hahaha....Danny got a kick out of the fact that it has to be on a foundation. Of course it has a foundation doesn't your house?

Wish me luck on getting anything accomplished today cause it just ain't a lookin good

yet ;-)

33rd wedding anniversary weekend!!

(the above photo was taken only about a year after we were married, hey I made my shirt pin tucks and all! you can click to enlarge)

Yep 33 years he has been married to me! Boy does he deserve a medal! We were married when I was 14 and he was 21.......no kidding! Lots of people were making bets back then on how long the marriage would last and it made us soooooo mad. Now we understand fully why they would be making bets on the two of us. The age difference and the fact that I was a wee tot of only 14 years old.......why my grandaughter is 14 years old now. OMG Her married?????? No way!!!





We spent a nice long weekend at The Fairy's Rest..(TFR).....him resting.....me working!! It was raining buckets and buckets of rain so he could do nothing outside. He had no TV inside, only a portable DVD player that I thought to take for him and a couple good man flicks.....being the good wife that I am!!! He was happy til he watched them all. Guess I shoulda thought and took more for him to watch!





Friday we started with breakfast at IHOP YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY too!!!!! Ran a slew of errands. He left me at TJMAXX my favorite store in the world!!!! I found a lot of goods too. On to the home away from home. Saturday I did a lot of hanging things at TFR and making curtains more cleaning etc etc etc......then he said "I am bored. Let's go somewhere." Sure I had wanted to go into Danville to The Hobby Lobby for a while now..........OMG Another favorite store right up there with TJMAXX Found several great little things in there for TFR and he bought my Christmas present.................. drum roll Please............a dollhouse!!!! Yes a Vermont Farmhouse Jr. Oh Boy Oh Boy I have always wanted one of these. I have to say that he did not have to pay even half of the price shown on the link either!!! I have had so much fun with decorating TFR that he even commented to me the other day that it was my dollhouse....yes it is. This one will be a lot of fun too. I just have to get it put together now and then let the fun begin!!!