Lilley of the field

Well, merry christmas to me from my awesome husband. Our farmhouse table is finally finished. It was enjoyed for the first time last night at the infamous Pancakes and Ice Cream held during finals week at our house each semester. After months of looking at plans, Aaron mostly followed a plan by  Ana White . We stained it with a stain called "Dark Walnut" and used a satin polyurethane. For the legs Aaron used 4" x 4" posts from an old fence thing found in our backyard. Then he bought the rest of the wood. If I was graded on this whole document-every-stage-of-your-pinterest-projects-so-you-can-put-it-on-your-blog I would be failing. Here's the finished product only! A million other people have pictures out there of every stage of their DIY farmhouse table.  I must put a little side note here about this table too. About our dreams for it. I sat the other day staring at it wondering who would be sitting at it years from now. Little children hopefully- maybe fro...

Well I know some people are eagerly awaiting certain pictures so I thought I'd give some before and after pictures on my day off of school to celebrate MLK day. I realize it is not exactly the same to show before and after pictures in different seasons, but just check out the front door and shutters... thank you Lilley's!! We love the front door. BEFORE: AFTER: major difference. And now just imagine all the tree and dogwoods and azaleas and green grass. Next on the list: paint the blank rails, a little welcome sign, and a pot with pretty flowers. Before: It was like a regular bedroom door      After: Sunlight!!! Before: Old pool with trees growing up in the middle and pool steps covered in poison ivy After: brush cleared, ivy gone, red fence down, pool gone, pool steps disassembled! The other most significant house investment... the bathroom. There was much sweat, blood, tears, and curse words put into this thing. Before:...

Aaron and I have entered into a major phase of redoing our guest bathroom. I know why Jesus says it's hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Not that we're even that rich, but we have a home so I realize we have much more money than most people in the world by that alone. I don't want to store up for myself treasures on earth so that poses the question: since we do have money, how do we use His money to bring glory to His name? For one, we love hosting people and so we searched around in January and found our current home which has plenty of space, but also needs plenty of work. We don't want our home to be a four walled structure to serve just our needs, but to serve the needs to our community. Living in a college town we are excited to have a place where people can come for a home cooked meal, where people can feel safe, find refuge, find an ear to listen, find a quiet place to rest, find lots of laughter, and to have people stay with us for a few nights o...