Pretty Hair & House Update

The other day I came across this fun hair tutorial... so when I was getting ready for our meeting with the loan officer on monday I remembered it and was able to quickly do it up like this in time to dash out the door.  It really took about two minutes to do, but looks so sweet like I spent forever on it.  Since its been hard for me all of my life to grow my hair out (i used to always chop it off short and messy) I am learning to have fun with it long.  And Im loving it.


Our meeting went very well.  We signed about 50 papers.  Each step of the process makes us feel a bit closer to the reality of our dream.  Its hard to comprehend on some days, hard to believe it is really happening.  I wont believe it until Im handed the keys and Im standing in the house, hand in hand with my boy.  Then I will breathe a huge sigh of relief and most likely starting dancing or screaming or something wild and crazy.  I cant wait!

Now the time comes in between our work hours, to start packing up boxes of things we dont need on a daily basis.  Im going to try to be super organized about it and label everything and make detailed lists of what each box contains.  Crazy sounding I know, but I have ALOT of stuff, and it will take forever for us to get out of the boxes, so I will need to know where certain stuff is at.  Im glad we will have the next two  months to pack and organize.  I think it will make our transition much smoother.

I cannot wait to do laundry in my own house!!!!!!!!!!!

I made this treasury of things I would love to buy for our new place.  Although I most likely wont be able to get many of them, I will still dream...

PEACE,
Laura

Pain & Love

Today I feel the pain of the world around me.  Im sure its brought on simply because it is my girl time, and Ive had the house to myself all day.  As I worked on jewelry this morning, I watched Garden State.  Gosh how I love that movie.  But it only deepened the feeings that were bubbling under the surface.  I feel the pain of my family members, of my friends, of the widows, and the lost, of the ones reaching out so hard to find love but always being just shy of it, of people who are torn and beaten because of the hatred in their own families, of all the children who do not have a mother or father... I am simply sad in my heart today.

Its times like these that I feel so selfish for spending so much time and energy thinking about my dream home or my creations and such.  Not that those do not have meaning, I guess I just feel so humbled by life sometimes.  I feel so blessed and so rotten when I think of all the pain in this world.

Pain is definitely not something I choose to focus on most days.  Ive had plenty of it in my life so far and have overcome so much of it.  But I cant help but to be taken aback some days when I stop thinking about just my little family and life, and think of everyone around me.  Especially my core family members, my bestest of friends, etc.  Which then floods into the rest of the world.

My prayer for anyone feeling pain today, or any day, is that you can find a way to turn it into something beautiful.  Whether it is loving someone else the way you were not loved, which is so completely selfless and beautiful.  Or creating a work of art even if the tears are streaming down your cheeks.  Or instead of acting out in anger, to simply nurture something instead.

"behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain"
-bob dylan


(the statue in this photo traveled all the way from france to belong to my mother.  it was a gift from a dear friend.  it made it through its journey too late and she never got to see it.  you cant see from the photo, but it arrived broken and busted, but is still so beautiful.  my mom was not catholic, and neither am i, but she still collected these old weathered statues b/c she saw the beauty in them, even if she didnt believe or follow that religion.  Her heart was open to see beyond that.  And that is something I greatly admired in her.  I now have them on my mantle b/c I see the same things she saw in them)

My heart is swollen with love for those in my life right now.

PEACE,
Laura

Random Pieces of Home

Total randomness of phone pictures from around the house this week...

I scored this adorable granny square lap quilt for $2 at the local thrift store.

I wore my adorable little owl pin from Kamika. (see my last post for source)

I had an amazing all veggie dinner a few nights ago.

Ive been collecting doilies for my vests Im making for Cowboys and Indians magazine in my mother very old and special bowl.

Some of the babies hanging out in bed :)

bedding.

my layering scarfs tanks hanging up.

coffee stained doilies drying.

Today I got to attend my best friend's little girl's birthday party.  She is so sweet and getting so big!  Ill have some pics hopefully by tomorrow.  I got to do face painting on the little kids, it was so much fun!

Im honestly so out of it this week.  I feel like Im walking in a fog.  Im not sure if I just overdid myself in the past few weeks with all of this house stuff or what... but Im starting to feel nervous and run down.  Ive had a slight migraine all day long.  Im ready to just sleep for a week.  Hopefully Ill rest well tonite.

PEACE,
Laura