Creativity!

I picked up my vanity yesterday with the help of one of my new friends, Kara, and I'm sooooo pleased with it! I still need to figure out what kind of knobs I want for the drawers because the little wooden ones are a little bit too country for me. But anyway, after I got the dresser I stopped by Classic Collections and lo and behold! They had it... Exactly what I had been rigorously searching for! A little vintage wire vanity seat. It was bright yellow, but i got some antique brass spray paint and voila! It's everything I dreamed it would be. Now, I am on the hunt for a great celery green fabric to make a cushion for it. That's the plan, folks! Sorry for the really poor quality cell phone pic.

As we speak, my cool potter husband is making me my very own custom set of dinnerware. Check it out at Brown Pottery. I'm so excited about it! The set is going to be super cool. I'm so glad we're finally going to get to use our own ware.

This was the gorgeous sky earlier today. Now we are enjoying a decent rain with thunder...and one very close strike just now!

And this crazy caterpillar we picked in my sister's garden! It. Was. Huge.

And of course, all of this happened while I was trying to write a paper that is due on Monday...I really should start that now...

another day

I am happy today. Austin and I took a walk this morning in a random neighborhood, and had a wonderful conversation that was long overdue. We talked. The way husbands and wives are supposed to talk. About everything, the big things, the little things, the deepest fears and longings of our hearts. There is so much going on under the surface in people. Even my own husband surprises me sometimes. We are so together, we forget to talk.

I feel like that is such an easy thing to do. I mean, I married him to be my closest friend, my intimate confidant. And yet we've come to a place as all people do, where we forget to invest in each other as separate people. Today was a day for that. We talked. It's a nice thing.

I've been thinking a lot about what I used to have before we moved. We had a group of people who were so very strongly devoted to Jesus in their daily lives that they never ceased to amaze me. They loved us even if we had nothing in common. They taught me so much about love and living a righteous life. It's the little things that matter. They were so far beyond trying to be an attractive "church". They simply loved all around them and that was extremely contagious.

I miss that. How do I be that now? Be praying for us as we seek His will.


Later that day...

I had an absolute blast at Art Walk! If you don't go, you should. I saw some great art, great friends, heard some great music (special shout out to the amazing gospel choir that was singing all evening!) and really fed a part of my soul that I have neglected for a while.

What a great day!