I Know, because I KNOW!! ALMOST done!

I know that without God's inspiration, I am nothing - but there are many times when He SHOUTS His message.
This is one of those times.
I am decorating a "new" office for Counseling Associates of West Texas (Leann Hicks) in Sweetwater.  Did I mention that Leann is one of my favorit-ist heroes??  As I was praying about what to do and gathering my treasures, this print that Nathalie Kelley worshippinggodwithallmyart.blogspot.com made landed in my hand.  She had come in the real estate office one day and saw a tray  of door knobs.  She asked to take a picture of them. For Reals??  A few days later, she brought me a copy of her creation.  Amazing - I just hadn't found the perfect place for it.  But God....  He showed me that He is providing the keys - thru Leann and others- to unlocking and opening the doors that we have built - but we have to turn the key and open it ourselves.

Before

After - looks like home!

My Beautiful Model, Marlee - she even shares her candy!!! (check out the "key" chandelier!)

   

Children's Waiting Area

The "boss" Miss Marlee - in Momma  Leann's office

appetitizing!!!  Not

Action Shot

ahh.... Leann did most of this herself.  I showed her how to lay in the mosaic tile, but she grouted it  AND  put the new sink in.  Is there anything she can't do?

 Garage Sale finds that I was able to tie into our new kitchen.  I was sure glad they like to drink coffee!

New life for a shiny brass chandelier.  I simply spray painted it white, then  modge podged coordinating scrapbook paper around the "candles"

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Leann and Marlee put down sticky tile on the floor AND Leann put up fresh ceiling tiles!

Just DO it!

I think the hardest part of starting anything is the challenge of taking on the unfamiliar.  I have had a desire to blog for a long time, but wasn't sure how to start.  I think it's kinda like waiting to buy a Christmas gift for the hardest person on my list.  I wait until the last minute thinking that the perfect gift will fall into my lap - and guess what!  Of course it never does - and I end up buying another gift card (which I love to get, by the way... Hobby Lobby thrills me every time. haha).  So, Here goes my first blog.  What an introduction.

I found 2 beautiful cabinet doors at a yard sale  for $1.  Of course they didn't look like this when I bought them - and I had no idea they would end up being the object of my first blog so I didn't take a picture.  This is where the concept of "Just DO it" comes in.  The logical mind says "those are pretty wood, but what the heck will I do with them?"  The Creative minds says "Wow!  Just a dollar!  Don't know what I will do with them, but I gotta have them!"  Then they sit in my garage for a few months until I go to one of those really good sales at Hobby Lobby - you know the kind that has you racing for the corner with your basket.  I bought these two wall plaques with absolutely no idea what I would do with them... and voila!!  Inspiration!  


I have a word of instruction about gluing these suckers on, though.  There exists no glue strong enough to hold them onto the slick wood.  Just trust me on this one.  You can guess why.  My redneck remedy is to put a nail thru the wood where the holder is on the back of the plaque - THEN put your glue on.  Gives you extra insurance that your creation will not fall apart.