rain, rain, go away

can ya see the dancing raindrops on my outdoor table?
we've had nothing but rain, and wind, for the last few weeks. or so it seems. i'm sure there were a few days with sun, but i honestly can't remember them. all i remember is the rain and the grey skies. i'm depressed. time to gulp my liquid vitamin d drops.

the weekend doesn't look much more promising. maybe a hint of sun tomorrow. but i'm not gonna hold my breath.
instead i'll just plan on indoor activites. like household organization. i've been meaning to play along with lauren over at pure style home. every week (or almost every week) she's posting a household organization project. and inviting her readers to follow along and send in their photos of the completed project. fun!

week 1 was this.

image from pure style home

pour small samples of paint in jars, label, and place with brush in room where that color is. then it's sooo simple to reach for that jar when you need to do a quick paint touch up. brilliant! and i've been going to the garage, searching thru 47 paint cans, digging for a paint brush each time i needed to retouch the paint. silly me! this i will do this weekend. promise.

week 2 was this. organize your coat closet. i'm feeling pretty good about my coat closet. so i'm gonna pass on this one. (although i may take her up on her suggestion of matching wooden hangers.) but check out what lauren did. this is her coat closet before.

and ta-da, after. what a makeover! from aqua paint to the door hanging caddy to shoe shelves. awesome.

images from pure style home

head over here to follow along with lauren and her readers.

and hopefully i'll squeeze in some sofa time with a book or a movie.

what are your plans for the weekend?

we're running away.

to escape the heat. it's gonna be in the mid-90s today. we don't have a/c. i'm hot. therefore i'm cranky. we're going up. to snoqualmie pass. to a lake. maybe it'll look like this.

via here

we're taking this little one. she's not so little anymore. i pulled out her baby picture which always make me smile. makes me less cranky.

see ya tomorrow.

Rusted

Wow. My first blog post. A little scary for a gal who had trouble with creative writing 101 in college. I was more of a math geek and writing always through me for a loop. I think it was the big blank white page staring back at me. What scared me was that fact that you could put ANYTHING on that page. I preferred always having a definitive answer. Like 2+2=4. Never changes. Can't be anything else.

I thought I'd start by introducing you to some local scenery here in my town, Snoqualmie, Washington. There's a graveyard of defunct railway cars in historic Snoqualmie. Rusted through and through... and absolutely beautiful. My header is also an image from these train cars.













(photos by me and available for purchase at pixelimpress)