OP 2012... Completed!

Another one gone, and only memories left behind! Above is a video of some of our students sharing what the Lord has been doing and is doing in their lives this summer though Project! Please check it out and I pray that your heart will be encouraged!!

Ella's coming soon...

So the past week Brett has been out of town. He went back down to Orlando to finish everything on the Orlando Project and we decided for financial reasons that I would just stay home. Well I learned a good lesson...everything is way more fun with him around. By day two I was bored out of my mind. Now I am an introvert and I like time to myself...but everybody has their limits and i would prefer a small group of good friends over being alone most times.

So that is exactly what I did. I drove up tp Cape where my two best friends are. They are that small group that I pretty much never get tired of. And one of them is about to give birth to their first child! So I was really praying that little Ella would decide to come on out while I was there. However, she is not on Aunt Kitty's clock, and that's alright. I got to take a bunch of fun pictures with her on the inside still with momma and dada!

Back Home...

So we are back home from our many travels now. From Orlando we went to Asheville to St. Louis to Jonesboro to Memphis and now back to Jonesboro. It's wonderful being able to sleep in our own bed every night! There is just something about your own bed...the familiarity I guess.

 But if you know me, I cant sit still for too long before I get a little antsy and want to start a new project.  So the project of the week....Painting our garage stairs!! And boy did they need it!

Since they were already a dirty brown I decided to go with a brown paint and chose Chocolate pudding in Valspar Primer and Color in one for the top part of the step. But I knew I wanted a little more than that, so I painted the face of the step a cream that we had left over from our kitchen.  I think it gave it a really nice two tone look!

I will say this if  you are thinking of painting your stairs you probably wont' need a whole gallon. At least I didn't. It took me a little under 1/4 of the can to do two coats on each step.  I was really pleased with the end result, but have a lot of extra paint left over! There is this pattern that I saw on Jones Design Company Blog that I have been wanting to do somewhere and I thought this could be the perfect place to try it out in a small area before committing to do it on a whole wall. 

It is pretty time consuming and I decided to do only one step for now because I can't decide if I like it or not. What do you think? I would love your comments!

I have also been working on a few beanies for my etsy store. These are a couple of my favorites :

The Ella

The Avery

( Named after two of my sweet friends little ones :)) 

Check out the others here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/katbarton?ref=pr_shop_more