In honor of sweet John Wesley's birth, I put together a room board of pictures I have been collecting on pinterest account.
I think these colors are so great. Greys, with yellow, blue and red accents. I would have the random letters spell out adventure. Mixed in with the gallery wall of those pictures. And that grey and white map, would take up an entire wall on the opposite side of the gallery wall.
The sail boats are in honor of his dad, who is the Coast Guard.
Tanner park waters are crazy. Someone's poor labrador drowned last week, and there are warnings everywhere about letting your dogs swim! Luckily Cleo isn't too fond of swimming. And Polly follows Cleo like a baby duckling.
We did find a spot where Polly could wade into shallow water. Where they are standing is 10+ feet from where the water usually ends. It was quite the winter this year!
We are now enjoying the sun to it's fullest! These two are smitten for each other!
The most beautiful house in all of Utah
At least in my opinion. Drew and I have been stalking the progress if this house. As we drove home from our vet appointment, they had taken down the giant fence that had surrounded the construction! I am so impressed with the attention to detail that this house has. Individually stained grey shingles, beautiful corbels and beautiful windows. This style wouldn't be my first pick for a house, but now that I see in person just how well it can be done, I may need to be re-dreaming my dream home.
I had fun with my new portrait lens, taking some quick shots of my sweet nephew Johnny, before he demanded to be fed.
I had to brush up on my high school photoshop classes.
It was mostly trial and error, but a lot of fun to figure them out. I'm hoping to just get better with the settings, so that I won't often need photoshop.
Isn't he such a cute, chunky/naughty baby?...... He's actually an angel!
Here is a mudroom Drew did.
As always before pictures were an after thought. Basically this was just a long room with no storage.
Drew built two tall cupboards for vacuum, brooms and mops. A bunch of smaller cubbies with individual slats, to hold stuff in, but be able to peek through and see what's in there.
The other side has different size shoe cubbies to store big boots, to little shoes. Above are more cubbies. And the middle is a bench seat and beadboard with individual hooks for coats.
All built in our garage.
A little while ago, we went down to St. George, and Drew did some work on my brothers house.
Here is the trim around the windows.
Drew also did beautiful wainscoting down their hallway, but I need Michael to send me finished pictures of that.... K Mike?
Doesn't your heart just melt seeing that picture with Caesar in it!? Darling!
We invested in a camera, in hopes of being able to further promote our work.
We purchased a Nikon D90. Wow, there are a lot of buttons. Figuring out the manual mode has been challenging and fun.
These are some pictures I took at work the other day, when we were able to go out and enjoy the awesome weather.
If anyone has any advice on camera settings, functions and lenses, I would love to hear some advice. I'm not going to be a photographer, but nice pictures of our lives and work will be needed.
Can't get enough of this dog!
So, here's to clearer, brighter, sharper blog posts!
