my new window

This window was flowers, then butterfly, now perfection.

I KNOW - that sounds so prideful- and Dave teased me about that because I kept complimenting my own window...but anyone who's crafty knows that you can try something 100 times and not get it right, and then something will click and magically turn out how you would have wanted it to- if you had just been able to think of it!

That's what happened with this window. I scraped off the butterfly (which was really getting on my nerves), and painted some flowers and some dots and then a thin strip of these stripes- immediately I KNEW these stripes were it. I scraped off all the rest and filled in the stripes.

Then I went crazy and put a few stripes on all my kitchen windows...

Of course that led to other moose/muffin and mouse/cookie moments- and there it is- my dining room is completely changed!

It is clean and bright and perfect for spring. I took down the dusty curtains and probably won't put them up again until winter.

It feels like my soul does right now. Bright and crisp and a little sensitive to light - but in a good way. (OK, I'll stop now, I am not the one to wax poetically about my soul.. (I only do that to God and Dave)

SIDE TRIP- I started hanging the kids' artwork up in the hallway- I think we will eventually fill every bit of wall space here and I love walking through the hall of color and wonder.

Back to the kitchen/dining area.

The lamp has stayed white for so long, just waiting for inspiration. Inspiration came! In the form of the song Jesus in My Place (Written by Matt Papa and Jonathan Welch)

We love looking at those lyrics> This is Hope! This is Grace! Jesus in my place!

I have to remember not to be prideful about my window...but as Mr. Duffy would say, I am thankful it turned out :)