Personalized Mattes

I think this is a great way to personalize a picture in a frame. Robyn set up a table at her reception to place pictures of her deceased grandparents. She had me write something personal about them at the top and the bottom of the matte. I've also done calligraphy on a matte of an engagement picture where the bride and groom wrote a thank you note to their parents. It was really cool. There are all sorts of things you can do with this idea!

Sorry Family! This was supposed to be on my calligraphy blog! Oh well! I guess you all know what I'm doing these days!!!)

Summer Fun in Kentucky

Back in the summer months, all the cousins went to Uncle Carl's to go fishing. It's always fun. Uncle Carl was sweet to get us s0me worms, and he had the yard looking amazing!

It's always a huge treat to eat Grandaddy's hamburgers! They are so juicy and thick!



Good job Grandaddy!


Okay, so I had this grand idea that we (along with all the kids) would try our hand at geocaching while in Kentucky. For those of you who may not know what this is...well, it's like an online treasure hunt where people hide "treasures" in places all over the world. Then they try to find these "treasures" or chaches using their GPS and the coordinates found online.

It sounded like fun. I wondered if there would even be anything close to Clinton. When I looked them up online, I was AMAZED to see TWO in a twenty mile radius from mom and Dad's house. One was in Arlington and the other was on PEERY ROAD!!! How wild is that? There were some clues that we had to unscramble. The boys figured out that it said something about a tree farm. Kris knew exactly where it was. So although we didn't have the right cord to hook the our GPS to the computer to get the coordinates in, we thought we would at least try to find it since Kris knew the cache would be at the tree farm.

We got there and looked around forever - but to no avail. Even the owner of the house on the property (who knew Dad, by the way - and was on his way to Luke's Restaurant in Arlington - hee!), tried to tell us where it was but the weeds were too high for us to find the cache. We did, however, find something - chiggers. (We learned that later in the week!) The owner told us that a man placed the cache there in honor of his sister who got married in Arlington. Geocachers were told to place happy anniversary wishes inside. He would later present the cards to the happy couple! Although we didn't find the treasure, the hunt - even with the chiggers - was fun!

Update on the Villa

This last week we got really excited because we started seeing some real construction completed.

The ceramic tile was put onto the fireplace. (haven't grouted it, in this pic)
The tile had been laid in the bathrooms along with the cabinets.

We decided to change the paint color to this beautiful gold. It has a hint of green to it in the chip but on the wall you don't see it. Which is just fine with us. We like the gold look. This is the master bedroom (left), in the tray part we are painting it black. I think it will really set off the room. Either we will love it or hate it, time will tell. HA!




I absolutely LOVE my cabinets. Cherry cabinets have always been my favorite.

This week we are told that they will be installing the lighting and granite. We are praying that the wood floors will be added as well.

Just got the call that we will close on August 21st. Yey! So we are going according to plan.

This week we are at our friends, Pam & Eddie Fuqua's. They are in Dallas on vacation meeting their kids. Please pray for them, too. Yesterday they spent 6 hours in the ER because someone had rear ended them. They are all OK but really sore and Natalie has a whiplash.

Look for another update next week. Hope you all are doing fine.