Tis the season...snowball bushes..

one of my first enchanting views of the house...

well...

sort of see the house

What we actually see in this picture

is a sweet farm house peeking behind some 

HUGE Snowball bushes!!

as if it were playing hide and go seek with us

after much discussion.

sometimes HEATED discussions... 

or rather LIVELY discussions

about how much I LOVED the bushes

and how much Machine Man Hated them..

what finally came out was that we were in actually

in complete agreement

we BOTH hated to see these bushes we LOVED 

(ok perhaps love is to strong a word for Machine Man's feelings)

directly in front of the house...

then more discussion on WHERE they should go... 

it was decided...

per my suggestion that they OUGHT to go all the way down the lane!

and so ..

SPRING IS HERE!

and 

'Tis the season...

and all that

digging trenches has BEGUN!

as Machine Man encouraged C.S.

"Son.. years from now when I am old and grey ...

you can tell your children, how you planted these bushes when you were a lad...

it will be grand"

and it WILL

it really really will

Walking on pretty

Floors are DONE!

I used White Semi Gloss Porch Paint

and Forgot

to take a snap of the can...

next room...

sorry

here are some shots

I LOVE the look 

I find it dreamy

and clean 

and lovely 

i do wonder...

if i ought to have gone with gloss

for better durability and clean up

but I simply adore the look..

o MY 

pretty! 

next the trim!

Annie Sloan Chalk paint!

so exciting!

and you wonder...

was I inspired by the nature all around me?

take a look at these sweet flowers I got a shot of...

tell me what YOU think ! 

would YOU be inspired?

shades of whites...

I am LOVING the Littlest Room!

Bed Bought! 

Night Stands Bought

Bedding Bought

Armoir... need to buy

Art... in works (smiling)

it's all coming together!

our secret garden... secret because it's forgotton

so the daughter told us when it was sold...

that the property USED TO BE on the garden tours...

REALLY

that scraggly old heap of a mess??

Princess and I looked at one another with eyes knowing..

no doubt in our eyes at all

we'd seen the leaves...

we KNEW there were hidden treasures beneath the chaos...

but COULD they be reclaimed?

Machine Man held out NO hope

C.S. only doubt an disbelief...

Buddy only apathy and delight in berries

the season for work...has come upon us

and work there is a plenty

from what neighbors speculate...

the fancy garden may have been forgotten for at LEAST 2-3 years...

that is a LOT of clearing we need to do... 

let me tell ya! 

but beneath it,

as we gently pull away

we find treasure after treasure! 

it's just that there is such a VOLUME of clearing that needs doing

and it needs to be done ...

gently

pretty

by my back door

here is one view..

can you grasp the enormity?

oh MY!

on section cleared away

lots of rocks..

it is layered to make the garden steeped.. 

rather smart considering the incline it is on...

should look beautiful as things fill in!

there are even strawberry plants as underbrush!

blackberries

raspberries

black raspberries

oh MY! 

another section cleared..

well almost..

looks pretty good ... 

so exciting!

what do you think? 

so much more to do...

think I need to take a break and get on with the painting

of the floors 

in the

Littlest Room

don't YOU???

just a little ORDER in the home

yes

I do like order

in the midst of

EVERYTHING

I do like 

ORDER

so we lugged up some things to help me have a little bit of it

whilst we live there this time...

home education is a blast

but it includes MORE than just books...

things like..

tiling,

plumbing,

sustainable farming, 

ecology,

painting, (house & artistic)

forestry,

scouting,

sewing,

cooking,

baking,

construction,

animal husbandry,

service,

work,

and, and ... and...ooodles of things that do not NEED "books".

Home Education also 

DOES include BOOKS

(at least in OUR home)

and they need their proper space to dwell

(at least in OUR home)

and here they are 

(for now)

happy day!

good use of the now defunct

wood burning stove ... yes?

ahhh

now 

off to gardening class!

Littlest Room...walking on...

so to START with

the floors in the littlest room were SCARY to say the least

remember this???

and this??

and how even after sweeping all that mess up

it STUCK

like THIS???

and 

???

well  friends,

CLEAN UP TIME

 HAS COME!

and try as I might

I could find no ACTUAL way to get the floors clean

other than 

a good old fashioned scrub brush

some Murphy's Oil Soap

H20 in a bucket

and

 a wee bit of elbow grease

and

 knee grease for that matter ...

 (ouch!)

yep... 

it was a LABOR of love 

I started to feel the connection one feels to Ma Engles 

of Little House in the Big Wood

that floor was FILTHY!

started remembering the Last Samuri

and how that gal shot dagger eyes at tom cruise

when he just walked across the floor with his muddy boots 

after she cleaned the WHOLE floor...

yep..

after using all sorts of fancy floor cleaning items

and owning nice shiny floors

I started feeling a kindred spirit to women of the ages

and it was good

(painful) but good...

not that I need to bond with them all too often...

just once per room it would seem...

ugh

doesn't THAT look nice..???

wash your feet before entering!

I waited till the floors were dry

and got out my SMART PRIME!

by guess who?

Zissner ! :)

I edged it out keeping with the grain

i ended up going over that far wall on the right a second time 

realizing my mistake.. the people had previously stained AROUND only the rug

leaving beneath the rug BARE! 

thus where they stained will be more difficult to cover...

so I will go over that again

there all done..

time to dry!

tomorrow..

time for painting!

color?

white!!!

this is the smallest

darkest room in the house

and I want it to be the lightest

airy-iest

most romantic

dreamiest

room in the whole house

because it is going to be MINE!

now..

to shop online for MY new bed!

bliss!

Littlest Room! Walls of Fresh Laundry!

So I was feeling INSPIRED by Nature...

not usually FEELING the BLUE color

I was indeed FEELING it

when I saw

"Fresh Laundry"

if you go 

HERE

and enter the color Fresh Laundry

you'll see why...

its white..

almost

i wanted white

but with WHITE ceiling

and soon to be wide planked WHITE floors

and 

WHITE w/gray trim...

i thought perhaps

a hint

just a hint of something 

would be nice

and these beautiful pale hues

just kept jumping out at me

no..

not the greens

the blue's

there..

can you see it?

barely?

it's SO hard to get on film!!!!!

it's SO pretty!

Littlest Room! Ceiling!!!!!

Yep...

Those Super Savvy Mamma's prepped the Littlest Room

but it's time to start finishing it up!

and I rather like going

Top down

so...

we

shall start with the ceiling

and 

as I adore Zissner products

loving how it goes ON pink

and dries white

(Can you see it?)

I decided to have Machine Man put it on...

His being so tall..

He's just naturally CLOSER to the ceiling...

it's easier for him..

sort of like my theory of having the children pick things up off the floor

because they are shorter

and the items are CLOSER to them...

works for me!

LOOKS GOOD!

when it is dry it is pink 

I am sooo excited!

Wait till you see the color I picked for the walls!

I wonder how it will SHOW on the blog though.. hmmmm 

happy painting!