Decided to turn a dresser into a buffet and some other miscellaneous things.

I haven't been able to post any pictures for quite some time, so I hope I don't overwhelmed y'all! I hope you like what I did with the antique dresser in the breakfast eating area. John and I feel like that area is finished just right now! There will also be a little detour to the laundry room walls! Just love that saying in there! Everyone always chuckles when they see it! Then to the guest bedroom to share a few pics in there! Finally we end up in the courtyard. Just a few snapshots of what's happening out there! Hope you enjoy!


I felt the breakfast eating area needed some finishing touches. So I remembered we had an antique dresser with a harp mirror on it in the garage. I told John to take the harp and mirror off (this was just screwed to the dresser top). I told him I wanted to make a buffet out of it. He couldn't quite picture it (he should know by now to just trust me). This is how it came out! I love it and so does he!!

All of this China was John's Great Grandmothers. His Mom had it and when she passed away it was willed to him. It is a beautiful set. Shown here on the right is a hot chocolate set, in the middle is the sugar bowl and creamer and on the left is a covered vegetable dish. They are absolutely beautiful pieces of Limoge! We have plates, tea cups, saucers, 3 platters, salt dishes, berry dish and cereal dishes. We are so lucky to have such a beautiful set!






All of these silver spoons and forks were John and mine. His Mom had saved these for him too. I have to find his silver baby napkin ring too that his Aunt had given him. It is here some where!


Guess whose silver Gerber Baby spoon this was? Did you guess right-it was mine! My Mom saved this for me. It is one of my treasured possessions!


I brought this banana tree over from the other house. It is sure loving it here! It has doubled in size. I found out they sell planters with heaters in them for wintering over your banana trees. I think I will have to check into this!


This antique dresser is one of my favorites. There is a door that you open up and ladies used to store their bonnets in there! John bought this dresser for me one Valentine's Day when we lived in NJ.


Here are my little "friends" waiting for me to pluck them off the bookshelf and read them! I have only read 4 of the books on these shelves. Almost all of them are from Paperbackswap.com!


I just love these red poppies with the blue agate stone, the books by Dorothea Benton Frank and the stick lamp. These are all on the night stand in the guest room.


I love this painting-so Secret Gardenesque! I have always been fascinated by that story and when I saw this I knew I just had to have it. I put this little lovely in the guest room over the antique dresser.


This is my favorite sign that I have hung up in my laundry room. Do you think John gets the message that I don't like socks left inside out before I wash them-tee hee hee!


This is a collection of my garden/bird type prints and my little picket fence shelf. I hung them on the long wall in the laundry room. I just love to look at them while I'm folding clothes.



The New Guinea Impatient Plant I bought about 2 weeks ago really loves it here!


I love these purple/blue Wave petunias that I have in a basket on the fence in the courtyard! They just make you happy looking at them!


This is the last of the pansies in the courtyard. I am really surprised they haven't perished in this heat. They usually don't like heat at all!

We received the second offer now! We also have computers at the townhouse!!

LIFE IS GOOD!! John and I are totally exhausted with all the negotiating going back and forth. At the end of close today both offers will be given to the Bank for their approval. Now the waiting game begins. I feel we are much better off than we were on Friday with no offers at all! Tonight John has to work and I'm going to enjoy being able to go on the computer at home now that Time Warner got their act together! John said the phones, computers and fax machine are all working at the new office-YAY!! What a long time in coming. It will be so nice to keep in more constant touch with all of you! Everyone have a lovely afternoon and evening!

WE HAVE AN OFFER ON THE HOUSE AND ANOTHER ON THE WAY!

I have been doing the happy dance ever since our realtor called us on Saturday! John and I are so excited and we are keeping our fingers crossed that everything goes through and gets approved quickly! Our realtor said another offer is coming in and it is going to be a good one. Maybe there will be a bidding war-wouldn't that be wonderful! We are both so ready for this chapter in our life to be closed! Thanks for all the prayers and listening to me through this really trying time in our lives!

TGIF!!!!

SMILE EVERYONE IT IS FRIDAY!!! YAY, Friday is finally here! After 2 short weeks, this week seemed to be 2 weeks long! I saw this picture of these 2 little monkeys, aren't they cute, you just can't help but smile! Hope everyone has a great Friday and weekend.

House price drop.

Well John and I lowered the price of the house again yesterday. I hope it helps, we've already got 2 showings this afternoon! After waiting to hear from Wells Fargo since February they finally said today that they really think we can pay the full mortgage. John tried to explain that we couldn't and they won't hear of it. I'm really glad we moved out last month! That bank is just plain crazy!!

Organizing our garage tonight!

Last night John had to work so I thought I would start organizing the garage. I started out by putting all the Christmas stuff in a pile, garage stuff in another pile and little by little I had 9 piles of stuff surrounding me! Tonight John will take some of the heavier boxes out. I'm going to go through all the Christmas stuff and if we don't use it I'll either toss it or I'll give it to one of the DD's or Goodwill. I hope we can get our acts together as far as the garage is concerned. I would atleast like to put my car in there. I'm thinking if we are really organized we could get both cars in there! Wouldn't that be great!!

Sunday Stroll around the townhouse and outside.

I hadn't done a Sunday Stroll in quite some time. I thought today would be a great day to do that. Welcome to Meeting Street at Indigo Row. John and I have lived here for 1 month now and we love it! Teddy also loves it because he has all his little canine friends to visit with everyday on his walks. I have posted some new pictures of the courtyard behind our house. I think I finally have it set up the way I want it and the best way for all the plants. The picnic table finally has been levelled and can be sat at now. I had promised when the Dining Room was all together I would post pictures of that and I've done that in the post too. I hope you enjoy your stroll through our new abode and surroundings! Have a great day!


Entrance to our townhouse community.


This little bench has become Teddy and my little resting place when we take our long walk at night. I love the willow tree behind and all the grasses too.


Here is a porch over porch model. This one is for sale by the builder. We really like this style and we might be able to purchase a resale after our lease is up in 2 years. We really love our style too but the porch over porch has wonderful appeal. The upstairs porch comes right out of the master bedroom suite. That is really our style!


Here are some of the other townhomes in our little community.


This is the whole community from the entrance. As you can see this isn't a huge community, which suits John, Teddy and I just fine. It is done in the Charleston style, which we love.


This is a shot from the entrance to the townhouses. It is so lush and green now. I love the willow trees.


This is the center courtyard at the townhouse. Sometimes John and I will take a walk and then we take Teddy into the courtyard and sit on the benches for a bit. It's a great way to meet new neighbors too.


I thought this was a beautiful shrub at the townhouse, but I don't know what it is.


These cattails are growing in the middle area of the townhouse. They look so lovely just swaying in the breeze.


I originally had a large basket in the hall but I thought we needed some more color. One of my palm trees was getting way too much sun in the courtyard. I brought it in and put it in the entryway hall yesterday-much better!


My Mom painted this little group of bluebirds. She uses watercolors. I hung this in our entryway hall. We've gotten many compliments on it.


This is the dining room from the entry hall. It finally looks all put together.


We finally put the conservatory on the stand in the dining room yesterday. I really love it there!


My treasure table in the dining room is done now. I have the girls pictures (I really have to print out one with Kevin in the picture with Jenny), little houses from Ireland, shells collected while in Ireland, the little stained glass lamp I made and a little bluebird votive holder from Maine.


Yesterday John and I were finally able to get the picnic table in the courtyard level enough. It was so nice outside yesterday evening we sat out there for about an hour before the fireworks.


This is the backdoor and grilling area. I was able to put the 2 Pottery Barn lanterns out in the courtyard now!


I rearranged the grilling area and fence area of our courtyard yesterday. Now I know exactly when the sun is in what area and what plants can really tolerate that much sun.


This is the garage wall of our courtyard.


Here is the blue hydrangea and 3 rosebushes I dug up at the old house. I have to get some larger containers this week and replant them. I have places for them in the courtyard behind our house. They will look lovely there.


I had a lovely surprise yesterday when I went to the old house to dig up some plants. I walked into the backyard and I smelled this lovely lily smell. I had total forgot about the Casablanca Lily that I had planted. It was blooming in all its glory.


Closeup picture of the lily.


This is one of my favorite antique china plates. There is a bowl that matches this too but unfortunately it didn't survive the move from NJ to NC 5 yrs. ago. I have this hanging by the breakfast bar in the kitchen area.