Eulalie's Sky Milk Paint and a New Booth

I'm back in the saddle again!  After not painting furniture for a couple of months because of the move and closing my booth in Raleigh, it felt good to work on new project with a new color.  I'm sort of a product junkie when it comes to paint and supplies.  I love to try new colors and brands of paint, wax, etc and when Miss Mustard Seed came out with the Eulalie's Sky color for her line of milk paint, I knew I had to try it since I gravitate to blues.

The New House

If you've been following my blog you'll know two things:  1.  I haven't posted in a long time!  It's difficult to blog without having the Internet and I haven't had consistent Internet since last June and it took six weeks to get the cable company to come out to the new house to hook it up.  Yes, it's been torture :)  2.  We have finally, finally, FINALLY settled into a house!  I was going to go crazy there for a bit... I'm definitely a "put down roots" kind of a gal - a real nester.  I have a whole new appreciation for military families.  To cut to the chase, this is my last year of moving in review:  Last October - Spokane, WA to Sandpoint, ID, June - Sandpoint, ID to Fayetteville, NC, August - Fayetteville, NC to Raleigh, NC.  We had to live temporarily at a family member's house with the bare minimum while everything else was crammed in a storage unit in Raleigh until we could find and close on a house.  This was our summer....

Life's An Adventure, Right?...

Wow, what a whirlwind it's been the last few months!  My family had just moved to Sandpoint, ID for my husband's new job and I had even went back to work full-time when our lives were once again turned upside down when husband received an incredible opportunity to be part of a brand new tax division in Raleigh, NC for the CPA firm that we had both worked for in Spokane.  Before I knew it, I was scurrying like crazy trying to find housing in Raleigh, wrapping up the last projects at work, packing our house, and get all my projects done for my favorite show ever, The Farm Chicks Show.  
As soon as the show was over, everything went into boxes and was loaded into the biggest U-haul truck we could get and an additional trailer and off we went...almost 3,000 miles away from everything we've ever known. 
It's been quite an adventure to say the least...  There are stories of our "travels" that I'm sure our kids will tell their kids like attempting to drive across South Dakota during tornado weather, a 5 year-old with the stomach flu, and me driving a large trailer for the first time and trying to keep it on the road in the wind.  Needless to say, we got stuck in a rundown hotel in the middle of nowhere for two days.  It rained so hard that the walls in the room were leaking!  Slowly, but surely, we finally made it to North Carolina and we all cheered when we finally made it across that stateline.  My undramatic husband even wanted to kiss the ground when we got here and declared that we were never doing that again!   

Now that we're here, I'm so excited to explore the South! There is such history and a unique beauty here!  True to form, I've already buying been buying up some fabulous antiques that I can't wait to share with you. I hope you'll join me on my new "Southern Junkin' Journey"!

 

Welcome!

The dust has settled a bit and I'm finally coming back to getting the blog going. I've been discovering and following so many great blogs the past few months and I am completely inspired by them. I'm so excited to finally get started on mine. I only hope that I can provide an ounce of that same inspiration on my blog!

A little bit about me - I'm a stay at home mom with three little girls, Gabrielle-8, Lily-3, and Summer-2 months. I live in Spokane, WA and I love anything vintage! Although, I went to college and majored in accounting and started a career in that field, I have fallen in love with junkin, creating, decorating. I always savored my mom's decorating magazines and books, but the passion was kicked into full gear when I attended my first Farm Chicks show in 2004. I went crazy and practically furnished my whole house in the first few shows that I went to out in Fairfield. After the decision to stay home and raise the kids, I tried my hand at creating and have had the priviledge of being a vendor at the last two Farm Chicks Shows.

I look forward to continue creating, finding great finds, and sharing great junkin' adventures with you all!

Sophia's Blog is Coming (finally!)

Sophia's - Live Beautifully

Ok, I started this blog last Fall and REALLY want to get this completed! The trouble is - I'm not quite sure what I'm doing. I know what I want it to look like, but not sure how to get it to there. I've seen so many gorgeous and inspiring blogs out there. I will continue to learn and add when I can. Pics and more information to come!